He would wear trousers made of green billiard cloth, a pink coat, a blue shirt, a tie hand-painted by a Japanese friend, an immense sombrero, a flaming beard cut to a point and a single large blue earring.
"What we're talking about tomorrow is children in families where the welfare benefits have been cut to a point where they are less than Parliament actually has said they should be, because that's what a cap does, " he told the BBC's Sunday Morning programme.
Ironically, it succeeded in keeping its options open by threatening to pick a single final design, which led contractors to cut prices to a point where continued purchase of both versions became feasible.
In Serie A, Juventus' lead was cut to a single point after being held to a 1-1 draw by 10-man Lecce.
Jenkins converted to cut the deficit to a point at half time.
Treviso managed to cut the lead to a point when Benjamin de Jager went over but the Tigers ran riot in the last 30 minutes and scored six more tries.
Mulligan pointed the resultant free but perhaps crucially, Brian Roper swung over a great long-range effort to cut Tyrone's lead to a point at the break.
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Trailing by 17 in the second half, Strickland scored 10 of 12 points in a run that cut it to a five-point game.
Bath then suffered a blow as Abendanon was sin-binned for taking out Tom Varndell as he chased his own chip ahead and Cipriani hit the post when he attempted to cut the gap to a nine-point margin.
The Ospreys quickly cut that lead to a point after Hook kicked a penalty and they really piled on the pressure in search of a try.
Confederation chiefs called for a cut of half a percentage point cut in interest rates to support UK industry, the first time for three years they have demanded such a big reduction.
But a decision by the Federal Reserve to make a quarter-point cut, say, would do little to help Russia, Brazil or Thailand.
He found the money by dropping the government's plan to cut company tax by a percentage point, a promise linked to a new tax on mining profits.
Harris' third successful goal cut the deficit to just a point and he gave his side the lead for the first time with a penalty.
Any threat of Mahendra Dhoni blasting his team out of trouble ended three balls later when he cut to point for a duck as a total of five wickets fell for two runs in 10 balls, which left India 159-9.
Smith finally made a 3-pointer to end his drought, and then another cut what had been a 15-point Boston lead to 88-83 with 1:05 remaining.
So I think that it's you know, at the end of the day, you've got to get a cut off point and the question is, where there's a reasonable cut off point.
Mushfiqur Rahim revived the innings again by first lofting Tredwell for a sublime straight six, then backing away to cut through point for four, but was reprieved on 29 when Prior could not get his gloves to a thick edge that deviated appreciably.
Recent votes to cut pension benefits in San Jose and San Diego point to a growing reformist mood among some citizens.
The bond markets expect Mr Greenspan to read recent inflation data, unexpectedly high, as a statistical blip, and to cut interest rates by at least a quarter-point, perhaps even before the next scheduled Fed meeting on March 20th.
The RBI is widely expected to cut its key lending rate by a quarter of a percentage point Tuesday to stimulate an economy growing at its weakest pace in a decade.
The Bank of England has delivered a stunning 150-basis-point cut to interest rates, as the British economy seems headed toward a potentially long and painful recession.
The Federal Reserve cut a key interest rate by a quarter-percentage point Tuesday to 4.25 percent in an effort to buoy a U.S. economy battered by tighter credit and a continuing mortgage crisis.
However, the main focus on Thursday will likely center on developments in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, where the European Central Bank is expected to cut its main interest rate by a further quarter of a percentage point to 0.5 percent.
Just before he announced his intention to relocate the government, his vice-president, Boediono, unveiled a 17-point plan to cut the jams in Jakarta.
Half of City economists expect a quarter-point cut by the end of 2008, according to a Bloomberg News poll on August 22nd, compared with a quarter of them on August 8th.
The dramatic, and what some saw as a panicked, reaction by the Federal Reserve, to cut interest rates by three-quarters of a percentage point sent mixed signals.
The European Central Bank cut rates by a half-point to 3.25%, to give a boost to the ailing euro-area economies.
Boston cut a 26-point deficit to four points twice down the stretch, but failed to pull off one more improbable run.
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