Many states have taken the easy step of reducing benefits for new employees.
"It is now clear that we must go beyond belt-tightening and take the additional step of reducing the size of our work force".
Several firms, including Mirage Resorts, have even taken the unprecedented step of reducing the credit that they extend to big spenders, instituting financial reviews of dozens of customers.
All told, we will take the difficult but necessary step of reducing our work force by 7,000 — including some 1,500 salaried and management staff by year end, and 5,500 front-line employees by the end of next year.
Colorado, Minnesota and South Dakota have all taken the unusual step of reducing the benefits they pay their current retirees by cutting cost-of-living increases; retirees in all three states are suing.
The city had already taken the unusual step of reducing pension benefits by 8.5 percent for current retirees, after it declared bankruptcy in 1999, yielding to years of dwindling money, mismanagement and corruption.
When the bank's governing council meets on Thursday, the hopes of recessionary Europe are pinned to its doing something to stimulate the regional economy — even if that is only the largely symbolic step of reducing its already historically low benchmark interest rate a quarter-percentage point, to 0.5 percent.
The general strategy for data processing consisted, as a first step, of reducing the extreme complexity and variability of the dataset by identifying more homogenous groups of plots.
Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter said the film "takes the bold (for Marvel) step of reducing CGI spectacle to a relative minimum in favor of reviving the pleasures of hard-driving old-school action, surprising character development and intriguing suspense".
In nitrogen fixation in certain bacteria, the nitrogenase enzyme, which is involved in the terminal step of reducing molecular nitrogen, usually contains molybdenum in the active site (though replacement of Mo with iron or vanadium is also known).
Several potential steps to reducing the number of vertical HCV infections may exist.
