Which all gives new meaning to the sale phrase "drastically slashed".
Hemmings drastically slashed the £11.6m staffing and player wage bill, bringing in trouble-shooter Maurice Lindsay, better-known for his rugby league links, to cut it to £6.5m.
"Manufacturers have drastically slashed labor costs, but those expenditures are still dragging down profits," said Hiroaki Muto, a senior economist at Sumitomo Mitsui Asset Management in Tokyo.
In the last two years, Chrysler has drastically slashed its work force through buyouts, most of which were aimed at specific plants or departments.
Zakelius traced the poor performances to the lack of investment in Olympic sports: One of the main reasons has to be that the Australian government has in recent years drastically slashed funding support for its Olympians.
If guerrilla cease-fires continue to hold, the R.U.C.'s total numbers will be drastically slashed, in line with reform package proposals of the Patten Commission which was established as part of the 1998 Good Friday peace accord.
This year, however, the festival's budget was drastically slashed, by 37 percent (from $869,000 in 2011 to around $556,000 for the next three years) in a round of nationwide cuts made by the British Arts Council, the central source of government funding for all the arts.
This sounds like a dash of optimism, given that it launched itself and received funding just moments before estimates for telecom capital expenditures were drastically slashed.
Also, these subsidies will be drastically slashed, meaning they'll be useless for millions who can't afford to make up the difference.
Most countries now accept that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions must be drastically slashed in order to avoid environmental catastrophe.
