Some prestigious universities, like Harvard and Yale, are reportedly slashing some of their admission costs.
Guardian Money is aware of at least one bank that has slashed some of its savings rates for new customers by more than 1%.
About 750 retired managers of Lucent Technologies, angry that the money-losing telecommunications equipment maker is slashing some of their health benefits, yesterday told Henry B. Schacht, the former chief executive, that the company should reconsider, especially if business improves.
To get the bottom line to work, states are slashing some of the most critical positions in society: Teachers, cops and firefighters are being laid off.
Already reeling from two previous rounds of job cuts in the past three years, the 1,050-member staff recently staged a one-day strike to protest another series of cuts that would slash some 150 jobs, about 14percentt of the work force.
As a consequence, Boeing will have to slash some 20,000 jobs on top of the already planned workforce reduction of 28,000 through 2000.
Libraries campaigner Pru Coleman said: "Our libraries will have their opening hours absolutely slashed in some of the most deprived parts of the city.
For instance, Britain's order of the Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft could be slashed, and some of the army's main battle tanks retired, to be replaced by a new, middle-weight land vehicle that can be transported by air.Mr Hoon is also unlikely to spell out the implications of the strategy in terms of personnel.
A pair of giant, U.S. government-funded studies could drive changes in psychiatry that could slash sales of some of the world's biggest drug companies.
