Likewise, Ford has closed five American factories in the past three years, cut production for the past 11 quarters and will go further still to lower stocks of unsold cars.
The biggest cut over the past few years has been in the number of council workers.
But 69% said their travel budgets had been cut over the past six months.
Those factors, combined with the financial pressures of the Great Recession, have led companies and government agencies to cut jobs the past five years, yet continue to operate just as well.
The Warwickshire village of Preston-on-Stour has been almost completely cut off during the past few days.
Other multi-level marketing (MLM) firms, like Avon Products, cut off the payments past a certain level.
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We are quite optimistic about the iPhone line up overall, and the introduction of the 4S allows Apple to cut the prices for past devices and thus bring some more cost conscious users to the iPhone family.
The frequency of strong-to-violent tornadoes has been cut in half during the past 40 years.
Julian Hunt of the FDF said many companies had "dramatically" cut trans fats over the past two years.
Prestwick has relied heavily on Ryanair flights, which have been cut back sharply in the past two years, as the airline moved business to Edinburgh.
In addition to Google, 11 technology overachievers returned to this year's list, including three companies that have made the cut for each of the past five years.
Murphy notes that the stock has been cut in half over the past four months, and asserts that it now looks like a buying opportunity for long-term investors.
Maduro's big lead in opinion polls was cut in half over the past two weeks in a country struggling with the legacy of Chavez's management of the world's largest oil reserves.
Past efforts to cut hospital queues have been based on the false assumption that they are a simple backlog, and that increasing the rate of treatments will eventually clear the backlog.
The pain has been even more acute in energy stocks, with the Energy Select Sector SPDR down 17% and shares of the widely reviled BP have been cut in half in the past six weeks.
He mentioned that 400, 000 jobs have been cut from the industry in the past year.
The Cabinet Office said the salary bill for top-earners had been cut by 18% in the past year.
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Although the pupil-to-teacher ratio has been cut nearly 40% over the past 40 years, millions of our children have not benefited.
The bill eases limits on deforestation and extends an amnesty to some developers who cut down trees illegally in the past.
They soon found that much of the rain forest that would have harbored coffee trees in the past had been clear cut to grow corn, bananas and grass for livestock.
The central bank has already cut interest rates several times in the past few months.
But more than 40 states have cut funding for higher education over the past year.
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For the past 30 years Copenhagen has cut the number of parking bays by 3% a year.
Both ICE and Nasdaq have made acquisitions in the past and were able to cut operating expenses significantly.
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In the past month, analysts have cut their estimates for three of the four, with only Citigroup getting an upward revision.
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The government has cut interest rates three times in the past year.
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