Sentence examples for trimming research from inspiring English sources

He said the company was trimming research and development spending and focusing on projects that had a nearer-term payoff.

Cordis will cut 900 to 1,000 positions by closing its Cypher stent manufacturing facility in San Germán, Puerto Rico, and its Nevo stent plant in Cashel, Ireland, and trimming research, sales and marketing, a company spokeswoman, Sandra Pound, said in a telephone interview.

First, this is an industry where expertise is sometimes shared to trim research budgets.

Pentagon plans to trim research spending could hit universities hard.

consultancy for Whirlpool, expects to trim research time by a month and expenses by at least 30%.

They think that the legislation is a way to apply a political litmus test that would allow Smith and other Republicans to trim research by social scientists and those studying climate change.

► "The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, one of the world's largest collections of plants and fungi, has had to prune itself, trimming 47 research jobs and focusing its science on its own holdings," wrote Erik Stokstadt in this week's Science.

Pfizer will also trim its research facility in Groton, Conn., by 1,100 people, to 3,400, while adding jobs in the university research hubs in Boston and Cambridge, England.

Pharmaceutical companies such as Merck trimmed their research departments.

Entitlements are at the root of the problem and need to be trimmed, and research has shown that although spending cuts weigh on growth in the short run, they hurt less than higher taxes.

As the pace of discovery for blockbuster new drugs has slowed in recent decades, all of the big pharmaceutical companies have come under pressure to trim their research budgets and pursue more effective ways of developing products, such as teaming up with innovative startups.