"I have spoken to my employer who is ready to reduce my working week sufficiently to bring my salary under the £40,000 threshold," he tells me.
Gordon Brown stood before the UN general assembly to say that Britain might be ready to reduce its nuclear arsenal from four to three Trident submarines.
And we will work tirelessly with all those in the international community who are ready to reduce the threat of nuclear proliferation.
However, economists speculate that the Fed may be ready to reduce the 0.25 percent rate paid on reserves and see what happens.
The operator of pipes and pylons said it had enlisted power stations to provide extra capacity and asked companies to be ready to reduce usage to help it meet peak demand.
They are predicting that the Fed policy makers will, instead, send a signal in their post-meeting announcement that the central bank is ready to reduce rates in the near future, especially if economic indicators continue to be weak.
But last week, I made a deal with OPEC to cut our production by a symbolic 150,000 barrels a day, and we're ready to reduce our output much more to help our Arab friends push up world prices.
One was the signal on Tuesday from Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, who indicated that the central bank was ready to reduce short-term interest rates if the economy slowed drastically.
Mortgage rates have risen in recent months in anticipation that the Federal Reserve was ready to reduce its $85 billion monthly purchases of Treasury and mortgage-backed securities, which it has been buying to keep interest rates low and stimulate the economy.
In testimony to Congress, Ben S. Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, signaled that the Fed was ready to reduce interest rates yet again, pointing out that problems in housing and mortgage-related markets had spread more widely and proved more intractable than he predicted three months ago.
