Some, like Siemens, Deutsche Telekom and BT, reaped the benefits of stringent cost cutting.
But Schweitzer points to the Agenda 2010 initiative of Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, which would liberalize employment practices by methods as stringent as cutting jobless benefits for those under 55 to a maximum of 12 months from the current 32.
The failure at Copenhagen also makes it less likely that Europe will adopt a more stringent target for cutting carbon emissions by 2020 than the 20 percent reduction that it has already pledged.
Stringent cut-offs were used.
Hand cut and hand polished to precision by master cutters, the process adheres to the most stringent diamond cutting standards set by the Gemological Institute of America GIAA).
North Hollywood-based APSB, the parent company of American Pacific State Bank, attributed the improved results to two years of stringent cost cutting, and a dramatic improvement in the bank's interest margin--the difference between what a bank pays for money and what it lends it for.
While advertising rules are much more stringent in the UK, cutting budgets for Change4Life (a long-term healthy living campaign) and school sports suggests the Government is moving closer to the American model of "lighter touch" regulation.
Late in 2018, the European Union adopted several stringent measures aimed at cutting back on single-use plastics, and more governments with jurisdiction over markets where Qantas operates are sure to follow.
Greece's government has imposed stringent austerity measures, including cutting civil servants' salaries, trimming pensions and hiking consumer and income taxes.
Without stringent safeguards, hopes of eventually cutting the big powers' warhead numbers from the thousands to the hundreds could falter.A burden worth bearingSo why the delay?
