• What is also clear is that people do not want to use cut-down PCs.

    BBC: The future is at hand

  • It is a small plastic tube with 20 holes cut into it in which are inserted cut-down cigarettes, some ringed with lipstick.

    ECONOMIST: Damien Hirst

  • Many of the tools currently used to do this are cut-down versions of similar programs used in TV stations and can be expensive to use.

    BBC: Nokia and Google clash on web video tech

  • It can't delete mail from the inbound server, either, but it can display Word and Excel attachments with the help of cut-down versions of the programs included in the package.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Windows XP, released to consumers in 2001, was also granted a lifeline to ensure that it could be used on so-called netbooks - cut-down net-capable laptops that are proving very popular.

    BBC: Downgrade plan for Windows 7 PCs

  • Sure, Intel already dominates in MacBooks, Ultrabooks (by definition) and in hybrids like Surface Pro, but the chip maker readily admits that the processors in those portable PCs were just cut-down desktop chips.

    ENGADGET

  • Instead, it's better to just come out and say it: while watching the swimming event and cut-down highlights of the opening ceremony, there were moments when we could almost have believed we were looking not at a projected image, but rather through a window direct onto the Olympic Stadium or Aquatics Center itself.

    ENGADGET: BBC shows off 33-megapixel Super Hi-Vision Olympic footage, we ask: why?

  • By providing a specific list of procedures to question -- and to cut down -- the medical community hopes to push us in the right direction.

    CNN: Doctors and patients should talk more, test less

  • Trees - once cut down at will - are now nurtured and cared for by local people.

    BBC: Atlas shows vanishing landscape

  • This week's half-point cut went down badly with share investors, because they wanted a three-quarter-point cut and interpreted Mr Greenspan's more modest offering as a signal that he will do only what the economy requires, not what the stockmarket craves.

    ECONOMIST: Rates going down

  • With some good business sense and a strong dose of help from some up-and-coming technology, however, public radio could easily cut on-air fundraisers down to just a few days and, for listeners who do pay, could eliminate them altogether.

    FORBES: Public Radio Goes Begging

  • People with severe symptoms appeared to gain more clear-cut benefit - but this might be more down to the fact that they were less likely to respond to the placebo pill, rather than to respond positively to the drugs.

    BBC: RELATED BBC SITES

  • And the few remaining strands of tabloid journalism are being cut, as slimmed-down newspapers focus on local fare.

    ECONOMIST: Life in the global gutter

  • Therefore, while e-commerce cut down the costs, it also shifts all the risks to the producers as the windows for distribution keep getting smaller due to over-crowding.

    FORBES: New Rules For E-Commerce

  • For the first time, most courses this year were taken in bite-size chunks, although coursework has been cut down and replaced with school-based controlled assessments.

    BBC: GCSE results: Gender gap widens in record-breaking year

  • That explains recent speculation about a multi-coloured rainbow alliance voting with David Cameron and company to cut the Commons down to size - an alliance that would probably have to include unionists, nationalists, independents and a Green.

    BBC: Maps, maths and boundary changes - MPs digest details

  • Firms are starting to use internal social-networking tools, such as Yammer and Chatter, to encourage collaboration, discover talent and cut down on pointless e-mails.

    ECONOMIST: Schumpeter

  • The list of high-and-mighty companies cut down or brought low by market forces is a long one.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The mayor will be talking about how governments and business can help cities cut down their climate-changing effects.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | England | London | London 'to lead climate research'

  • The move is designed to cut down on short-term dollar lending in Brazil.

    FORBES: Barclays: Brazil's Currency Powering to 1.50

  • It believes that eurozone governments will have to take a hair cut and accept a write-down on their loans.

    BBC: Breathing space for Greece

  • Lose weight, stop smoking and cut down on booze--it's always the same advice, alas, and it's never very much fun.

    FORBES: On The Cover/Top Stories

  • The winger took Bosc's cut-out pass to touch down on 18 minutes and then wrong-footed Kevin Penny for his second.

    BBC: Catalans Dragons 46-8 Warrington

  • Other recent victims have included bids to stem global warming, establish an international criminal court and cut down on gun-running.

    ECONOMIST: A running feud

  • The problem is that the government has to cut the assisted-areas map down from covering 34% of Britain's population to covering 29%.

    ECONOMIST: Regional aid

  • But for cheap generics, which have already had their prices whittled down by cut-rate competition, sometimes there is only so much more Express Scripts can cut.

    FORBES: The Express Scripts Lane To Drug Savings

  • Now new computer-guided systems cut down on collateral damage by molding the radiation beam to the precise contours of the prostate, reducing side effects and boosting cure rates.

    FORBES: On The Cover/Top Stories

  • Strangely, visitor numbers have gone up since the opening hours were cut - something Streets partly puts down to the allure of a current visiting exhibition of Andy Warhol self-portraits.

    BBC: Museums Sheffield: After the cuts

  • After all, chancellors always say they are going to close loopholes and cut down on avoidance - Mr Osborne promised to raise a billion with such measures only a year ago.

    BBC: Budget 2012: A big debate about small numbers

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