The unions called on Greeks to join them in protest rallies in Athens and other cities on Wednesday to oppose "dead-end policies that have squeezed the life out of workers and impoverished citizens," slashing average incomes by a third and pushing unemployment to 27 percent.
"This scheme excludes 50% of asbestos victims, pays 'average' compensation only to victims dying from the cancer mesothelioma and then slashes average compensation by 30%.
Thailand, for example, slashed its average tariff from 41% in 1989 to 18% in 2000; Indonesia cut from 25% to 8%.
The 1986 law flattened federal rates and, as a result, slashed the average marginal rate faced by such wives to 38percentt.
What happened to the rest?Some have died of AIDS, which has slashed the average life expectancy from 61 years in 1990 to 34.
For instance, the cash portion of the executives' salaries will be slashed on average by 90percentt, and the rest will be replaced by stock that cannot be sold for years.
Since 1990, HIV/AIDS has slashed the average life expectancy in Zimbabwe from 61 to 33 years (2003; source: SOWC, Excel format), and there are now 1 million children in Zimbabwe who have been orphaned due to AIDS-related deaths.
Or: remember when the rise of online price comparison services promised to slash the average costs of air travel, or car insurance?
As a result of a deeper understanding of carbon impacts, GNM was able to slash the average greenhouse gas emissions of its paper supplies by 29% to 294kgs per tonne in the financial year ending March 2011.
The cuts will slash an average of 25% from all department budgets – save for the NHS and overseas aid, which the coalition has protected – and that average figure will only be reduced if more than the target of £11bn can be cut from the welfare bill.
