"All Londoners are going to end up paying for the most expensive bridge in the world, with austerity-squeezed budgets having to be slashed further to cover this.
Public defenders who had long depended on a highly unstable source of funding – traffic tickets – now saw their revenues slashed further.
Mr. Antivasis has had his salary reduced by 35 percent in the past two years, to $1,150 a month, and will see his income slashed further under the new measures.
Others fret that in common with many of the BBC's international ventures—World Service radio schedules will increasingly feature ads.And the World Service's budget might be slashed further.
The ratings agency warned that its debt grade could be slashed further if the government's commitment to austerity measures and reforms, demanded in exchange for its €110bn (£95bailoutlout waned.
As if that were not challenge enough, her growing worry is that the partisan stalemate in Washington will linger, the Pentagon budget will be slashed further and extensive layoffs will result.
But he was at it again today in the first fully Conservative budget for a generation: inheritance tax is to be abolished on homes worth up to £1m and corporation tax on company profits is to be slashed further, while benefits and tax credits for the sick, large families, the working poor and the young are to be cut or ditched altogether.
But for belated cost-cutting measures and falls in raw-material prices, the forecast would be worse.Some analysts think that is conservative, because sales in America and Japan appear to be recovering slowly and costs are being slashed further (the company says it is shooting for "emergency profit improvements" of around ¥1.25 trillion).
A strong dollar and an anemic economy left the Japanese chip giants no choice but to cut back on their capital expenditure budgets, which were slashed further when the semiconductor business went through a three-yearlong downturn beginning in 1996.
Customers have been limited to about $67 a day in withdrawals from ATMs, an amount that some fear will be slashed further as the crisis drags on.
