"It was identifying fat and with a very sharp scalpel cutting it out, " says Singh.

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In a statement, BP said its cost-cutting should be seen in the context of the sharp fall in oil prices in 2008, which squeezed all oil companies' profits.

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Sharp has embarked upon a major cost-cutting drive that could see it cutting 5, 000 jobs - around 15% of its workforce.

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This reflects a sharp drop in house prices and sales, cutting tax revenues and pushing the budget deficit close to the stability-pact ceiling this year, and probably over it in 2009.

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Guarisco says typical injuries after a storm include people falling off roofs and ladders while making repairs, people hurting themselves with saws or chainsaws as they try to clear away trees, people cutting their hands and other parts of their bodies on sharp or broken objects and people injuring their eyes.

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The Swiss National Bank surprised markets by cutting its key interest rate target by 0.25 percentage points, citing growing economic uncertainty amid sharp plunges in global equity markets and a reduced risk of inflation.

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The blade is sharp on the inside of the curve, allowing the user to swing it through crops, cutting and gathering them at the same time.

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Ministers have been pressing hospitals to concentrate on cutting the waiting lists for non-urgent operations, so they may not have made sufficient preparations for the sharp rise in emergency admissions that winter often brings.

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