But cutting fees can set up a chain for other troubles.
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Writing in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Prof Halligan said the cultures of "target setting and corner cutting" were set higher up in the health service.
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He inherited a club he claimed was on the brink of administration and set about cutting the wage budget before controversially sacking long-time boss Fallon in January.
"It was a result of this reduced central oversight, giving contractors more responsibility for supervising themselves, and that's an invitation of corner-cutting and complacency to set in, " he said.
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Or we could set, by cutting legal corners, policies that will come back to haunt us.
Just then a server set a rectangular cutting board on our table.
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Negotiators are struggling in The Hague this week to hammer out rules on implementing a pact sealed in Kyoto, Japan, three years ago that set targets for cutting greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide implicated in climate change.
President BUSH: We set a goal of cutting the deficit in half by 2009 and met that goal three years ahead of schedule.
Since the President set a goal of cutting the deficit in half from its projected peak in 2004 of 4.5 percent of GDP, the deficit has come down markedly.
He spoke about his desire to see a new type of university for cutting edge research that would be set up with international partners and funded by business.
When Nissan (nasdaq: NSANY - news - people ) said it would cut 20% of its costs during its turnaround effort, Toyota set a goal of cutting 30%.
These include trying to boost domestic demand with higher wages and lower taxes for the less well-off, to bully the Bundesbank into cutting interest rates, and to set target zones to stabilise currencies.
But last week, the Senate blocked a law that I had supported to create a bipartisan fiscal commission that would come up with a set of recommendations for cutting our deficits in the long term.
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The President has set a goal of cutting that number by one-third by 2025, with a plan that includes a range of steps to produce more oil domestically while reducing our dependence on oil through cleaner fuels and greater efficiency.
In the 2009 speech, Mr. Bloomberg said he had cut overall crime by 35% and set a goal of cutting it another 15%, so that by the time he left office, the rate would have been reduced by half over 12 years.
There are exceptions: Mauritius set a proud example of cutting its defence spending and redirecting money to health and education.
In 1967, six years after Pop emerged in the most cutting-edge galleries, Roy Lichtenstein set a billboard work in a Sears parking lot.
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The firm has set itself the target of cutting costs by the 90% needed to make fuel cells competitive in vehicles by 2003.
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We are set to miss the target for cutting under-five mortality by a margin equivalent to 4 million additional deaths.
It has no alternative, he says, if it is to meet the rules set in Kyoto in 1997 for cutting carbon emissions by 2010.
Name any fad taken up by the cutting-edge, clued-in global-finance set, and the chances are he has thought about it and passed by.
According to the Wall Street Journal, India is now looking to set price-caps for 348 medicines, cutting across all therapeutic areas and not just cancer.
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They have set up protection rackets against the utilities companies by cutting power lines, damaging water pipes, destroying cellular telephone antennas and breaking into businesses, and then offering their "security services" to the firms and owners they have robbed in exchange for promises not to rob again.
The firms, recognising that they have done little to help the herders, have set up an institute to deal directly with them, cutting out middlemen.
Schorr says the latest set of cuts, while smaller than recent cost-cutting programs at peers including the likes of Bank of America and UBS needs to be considered in light of the overall efficiency improvements Citi has shown over the past two years.
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