Sentence examples for slashed about from inspiring English sources

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

The cuts follow a similar action by the Nasdaq stock market, which slashed about 140 jobs, or 10percentt of its work force, in June because fewer companies had been listing their shares on its market.

Since being elected in September, the Abbott Government has also defunded its independent Climate Commission (which has re-emerged as the not-for-profit Climate Council), scrubbed the climate change department and slashed about $700 million from an agency to fund renewable energy research, development and deployment.

The even greater challenge is nation-building at home at a time when funding for schools is being slashed, about 7,000 high school students drop out every day, and there are long waits to get into early-childhood-enrichment programs like Head Start.

Aaron Wilson of Ravens Insider noted that Baltimore slashed "about $18.6 million in payroll".

Air pollution and greenhouse gases will be slashed about 50%, but the real figure is much greater when you look at the lifecycle of the product compared to the extraction, refining, and combustion of petroleum for the same purpose.

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.

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.

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.