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Brazil's benchmark interest rate of 12 percent — which was slashed in August from 12.5 percent — remains among the highest in the world.

16 December: Italy's highest criminal court upholds Guede's conviction and prison sentence, which was slashed to 16 years in his first appeal.

The charge against her was not blocking traffic, as it might have been, considering the size of the crowd that was attracted when she appeared in the principal street in a skirt which was slashed several inches above the knee, blue stockings showing at every step.

A little farther in is the original couch on which Maj. Henry Rathbone and his fiancée sat before he attacked the intruder after Lincoln was shot, deflecting the sweep of Booth's knife blade with his arm, which was slashed, gushing blood over everything.

The stadium, which Japanese architect Arata Isozaki said looked "like a turtle waiting for Japan to sink so that it can swim away", has been highly controversial in Japan, partly because of its huge form rising 70 metres above the low rise buildings close to the historic Meiji shrine, but also because of its £1.8bn budget which was slashed by the government last year to £970m.

After the shooting on Jan . 8 members of Congress proposed safety measures ranging from a plexiglass barrier over the House floor to additional funding for security for members, which was slashed when the House voted to cut its operating budget by 5percentt.

Under the previous ownership, which was slashing payroll, the Marlins acquired Mike Piazza in 1998 and traded him to the Mets a week later.

But the most swingeing cuts were to pensions, which were slashed by as much as 55%.

These include a return of generous government fuel subsidies, which were slashed in July as a desperate austerity measure.

When a model appeared in an abbreviated, stonewashed bluejean jacket, the sleeves of which were slashed and frayed from biceps to wrist, skepticism flickered across Rosen's face.

Many on the left would concede that the high marginal rates of income tax in the 1970s which were slashed dramatically in the Thatcher and Reagan era were excessive and discouraged entrepreneurship.