Sentence examples for slash about from inspiring English sources

But one board official said the chancellor might slash about $100 million from the program's $176 million budget as part of an overall belt tightening.

Merck had about 100,000 employees at the end of the year, and plans to slash about 2,500 vacant positions as part of the initial phase of the cost cuts.

The next day — unless Congress agrees on a major deficit-reduction plan — a fiscal discipline known as sequestration will slash about $100 billion a year from federal spending, divided between defense and nondefense.

LaSalle Bank on Tuesday told 160 Chicago workers that they'll be losing their jobs as part of its parent's previously announced plans to slash about 3,500 information technology positions worldwide.

The company said on Monday that it would slash about 11percentt of its work force in a move to combat a nearly two-year-old slump in microchip demand.

Mr. Obama would slash about $5 billion in the coming year for direct payments to agribusinesses and farmers with more than $500,000 in annual revenue, and $4 billion in annual subsidies to private banks that make college loans.

The officers approached the suspect, who was wanted in a Memorial Day weekend slashing, about 8 p.m. in front of an apartment building at 99 Terrace Avenue to arrest him, said Lt. Michael McGowan.

This revision slashes about £50m of TV ad spend from its previous UK forecast for 2012.

In the UK, it has slashed about 600 positions as part of a programme of 1,500 planned job losses.

And while they called for quickly slashing about $100 billion in "nonsecurity" discretionary spending, they did not specify how those cuts would be carried out.

Wonga is slashing about a third of its workforce to cut costs as it responds to a wider clampdown on unfair practices in the payday lending market.