One theory about why the prime minister cut short his visit to China is that he rushed home to forestall a military coup.
His first stint as prime minister was cut short in 2007 by ill health, but Abe's now riding high in the polls.
Then he hears of plans to invite the king of Tonga, not the prime minister, to cut the ribbon at a store.
Nor were investors impressed by this week's promises by George Papandreou, the prime minister, to cut the deficit to under 3% by 2013.
It may have been reached in Japan, where Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi has cut the top corporate income tax rate from 48% to 41%, the highest individual rate from 65% to 50% and even slightly cut social security taxes.
The plan, which bears the fingerprints of Jan Bielecki, a former prime minister, aims to cut the budget deficit from 5.6% of GDP today to just 1% of GDP by 2015, and to reduce public debt from 55% of GDP to 47%.
The man in charge of welfare has told him and the prime minister that unless they cut benefits for the elderly like winter fuel payments, free TV licences and bus passes - which the PM refuses to do - that sum will prove politically impossible to find.
Bulgaria's prime minister called for a sharp cut in electricity prices and revoking the license of the country's largest foreign-controlled power supplier.
Since no dinosaur fossils have ever been found in sediments dating from after this point, conventional wisdom has it that the largest creatures ever to roam the earth must have been cut down in their prime - victims of an asteroid impact that sparked firestorms, acid rain and a nuclear winter that blotted out the sun.
Ya'alon, whose tour of duty as chief of staff was unceremoniously cut short by former prime minister Ariel Sharon in June 2005 due to his trenchant opposition to Sharon's planned withdrawal of IDF forces and Israeli civilians from the Gaza Strip, has written a book that sets out the facts of life clearly, credibly and passionately.
But if he really wants best execution, he should take care not to cut off innovation in its prime.
That might be one reason why Mittal has come out sharply against what appears to be a chicken-running-with-its-head-cut-off government of Prime Minister Monmohan Singh.
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The prime minister is now Dervish Eroglu, a man cut from the same cloth as Mr Denktash.
This may cause your card provider's computer algorithms to single you out as a prime cash-strapped candidate for a spending limit cut.
The Italian caretaker Prime Minister, Mario Monti, has promised to cut labour taxes in an interview seen as the launch of his election campaign.
The price cut had also been demanded by former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League when it held emergency talks with Mr Gilani's Pakistan People's Party this week.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the new centrifuges could cut by a third the time Iran, one of Israel's fiercest opponents in the Middle East, needed to create a nuclear bomb.
So Zagreb does not need to take a legally questionable short-cut through the constitutional maze that Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic opted for when he transferred the former Yugoslav leader, Slobodan Milosevic, to The Hague last month.
Prime Minister Mario Monti has introduced severe austerity measures to cut its debt and reassure markets that it is a safe country to lend to.
The prime minister again promised to honour his pledge not to cut universal benefits for pensioners - such as free bus passes and winter fuel payments - effectively ringfencing this part of the welfare budget.
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The large underground economy is starting to show signs of shrinking, as Greece's top marginal tax rate has come down from an impossible 63% to 45%, with the current socialist prime minister, Constantinos Simitis, even talking of another cut.
Just months after opening his first eatery in Europe, a branch of CUT, serving high-end dry aged prime beef, in the revamped and luxurious 45 Park Lane Hotel in London, he has made an even bigger impression in the City of Angels.
On Wednesday, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government was forced to cut short the budget session of Parliament by two days as opposition members disrupted its proceedings repeatedly, accusing the government of being corrupt and demanding the resignation of the prime minister and two of his cabinet colleagues.
As the CPS point out, both the prime minister and the chancellor like to boast that they have cut the overall budget deficit by a quarter.
Mr Haughey retired from active politics in 1992, and in the witness box he no longer cut the swaggering figure seen in his years as prime minister.
Kim's meeting with Obuchi Keizo cut through clogged official channels, prompting the Japanese prime minister to offer the most forthright apology to date for Japan's transgressions in Korea.
Lionel Jospin has just been elected prime minister of France on a programme that called for a cut in the working week, the opposite of what labour-market flexibility requires.
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