Brzezinski's book was born from personal experience and her admitted failure of not cutting herself a fair deal and getting the money she deserved.

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This is not entirely fair: much of the cost-cutting was done before he arrived, and the current crop of hits was greenlighted by Mark Canton, Mr Calley's unloved predecessor.

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Malaga were unavailable for comment when contacted by CNN, but the official line is that the sudden cost-cutting is to ensure the club complies with Financial Fair Play regulations, a set of rules implemented by European football's governing body aimed at ensuring teams live within their means.

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To be fair though, many of these banks have only announced their cost cutting measures within the last year or months in some instances.

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And that's why we're cutting programs that don't work, contracts that aren't fair, and spending that we don't need.

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