It was reduced in scale, merged with the engineering department and told to concentrate on oil and chemical research.
The Port Authority has now put forward a new blueprint that would see two of the four towers conceived for the Ground Zero reduced in scale and ambition.
Even after it was reduced in scale to placate critics, the design by architect Gareth Hoskins has horrified conservationists and heritage campaigners, including the Edinburgh-based author Alexander McCall Smith.
Some of the map depictions are also reduced in scale, which makes their copious text virtually illegible.
Some residents say that scuttling or reducing in scale a giant power transmission line could ultimately be a good thing, if it encourages smaller-scale development.
Those liabilities are expected to have reduced in scale and the company can reduce them further by subletting the properties, but it may still have to seek money from the City Link administration process to cover the liabilities.
In deference to the public mood, the festivities were reduced in scale, and a note of repentance was added to a dignified cathedral service.
The Lilliputians' utterly serious wars, civil strife, and vanities are human follies so reduced in scale as to be rendered ridiculous.
An 18-month inquiry into claims of tacit coordination and profiteering will be undertaken by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and could end in the big six firms having their businesses broken up and reduced in scale.
PARIS — A proposal by the United States and New Zealand to create a huge ocean reserve in Antarctic waters has been sharply reduced in scale after opposition from Russia and other nations with large fishing industries.
If the human element is reduced in scale (Faust himself is stripped of metaphysical rhapsody and becomes merely frustrated), Goethe's cosmic element is Murnau's triumph: the director conjures grand-scale conceits that set the drama firmly between Heaven and Hell.
