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The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the leading university sport organisation, is fighting a class-action federal lawsuit from former players seeking a cut of the billions of dollars earned from live television broadcasts, memorabilia sales and video games.

His party seeks a cut of 25percentt in the government bureaucracy, tax cuts and more support and autonomy for the police.

The agreement seeks a cut to 22percentt of the United Nations regular budget, from 25percentt -- and, on the peacekeeping budget, a cut to 25percentt from 30percentt.

Mr. Cuomo will also seek a cut in state operations of roughly 10 percent, a move that would require reductions of as many as 15,000 jobs, through layoffs, attrition or early retirement incentives, unless other savings can be found.

At a hearing held Wednesday by a subcommittee of the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee on the state of newspapers, James M. Moroney III, publisher and chief executive of The Dallas Morning News, said Amazon was seeking a 70percentt cut of subscription revenue if the paper was made available on the Kindle, according to numerous published reports.

Mr. Bush had sought a tax cut of $1.6 trillion.

When Republicans in Congress sought a tax cut of that scale several years ago, it was derided by Democrats as fiscal folly.

This rules out any change in the government-wide spending round to be completed in June, in which George Osborne is seeking a further £11.5bn of cuts in 2015-16.

US Airways is seeking a total of $800 million in cuts from its employees, the third round of concessions it has sought in the last two years.

Lately, the major labels have in effect tried to move into the talent management business by demanding that new artists seeking record contracts give their label a cut of concert earnings or T-shirt and merchandise revenue — areas that had once been outside the labels' bailiwick.

Faced with a cut of 34percentt, he may seek higher insurance contributions from union employees, among other actions.