Those queuing up for beer have to remove their sunglasses to prove they are not half-cut.
The cut Wednesday comes less than one month after another half-point cut, that time coordinated with central banks around the globe.
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Since the start of 2001, the Fed has cut its interest rates 12 times, to 1.25%, whereas the ECB's half-point cut, to 2%, on June 5th was only its seventh in the same period.
Prime lending rates have fallen one percentage point since June, including a half-point cut Nov. 2.
MPC's half-point cut in interest rates last month, is now calling for a repeat performance on December 10th.
In effect, Mr Paulson engineered the equivalent of a half-point cut in interest rates targeted at the mortgage market.
Wall Street, which had been hoping for a sixth half-point cut, was disappointed.
Last month, the BoE joined forces with the U.S. Federal Reserve and European Central Bank to make an emergency half-point cut in interest rates.
His half-point cut in short-term interest rates was designed to avoid a recession, but it may have bought him only a postponement of the inevitable.
Having delivered a half-point cut rather than a quarter, Mr Bernanke is not yet free of the suspicion that he will follow Mr Greenspan's path.
Speaking after the European Central Bank's (ECB) half-point cut in interest rates on November 6th, Jean-Claude Trichet, the bank's chief, allowed that inflation could fall well below the ECB's target ceiling of 2% next year.
The Fed's half-point cut in mid-September showed that the central bank is worried about the effect of the housing market on growth but also that it hopes speedy action will limit the extent to which that infects the broader economy.
This week's half-point cut went down badly with share investors, because they wanted a three-quarter-point cut and interpreted Mr Greenspan's more modest offering as a signal that he will do only what the economy requires, not what the stockmarket craves.
Meanwhile, the Highways Agency and councils have cut their use of salt for gritting roads by half - up from the 25% cut agreed last week - to protect supplies.
The names of those who died are inscribed in inch-and-a-half-high letters cut into bronze panels that surround both pools.
The Federal Reserve said Friday it has approved a half-percentage point cut in the discount rate - a dramatic move aimed at calming markets roiled by a widening credit crisis.
Both teams were playing with real ambition and when Cipriani landed a penalty either side of half-time to cut the gap to six points it looked as though a cliff-hanger was in the works.
All nine members of the Bank of England's monetary policy committee voted for this month's half-point emergency cut in rates to 4.5% because of a "sharp deterioration" in the UK's economic prospects, according to minutes of the meeting.
Jones kicked his third penalty deep in first-half injury time to cut Glasgow's lead to 26-14 at the break, but the Scots hit back immediately after the restart.
The original plan was for a two-and-a-half-minute test tomorrow, cut last week to the 30-second length.
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Flanken-cut beef short rib (short rib cut across the bone into half-inch thick strips you may need to ask your butcher to do this) is a wonder, but hangar steak, skirt steak, even flank steak (marinated overnight) will work well too.
Scotland captain Darren Fletcher should have made it two on the stroke of half-time when he cut inside and shot over the top from only 12 yards.
The first came on 24 minutes when, straight after McGillvary had cancelled out Holdsworth's early score, Williams took the Salford scrum-half's pass to cut inside David Hodgson to make it 12-6.
The ultra-cautious ECB is expected to cut at least another half-percentage-point Thursday following the BoE verdict.
During the first sin-bin period Paterson and Parks exchanged penalties and into stoppage-time Paterson added another to cut Glasgow's half-time lead to 14-9, after some heroic defence had kept the home side at bay.
Elford touched down just half-time, but Tigers coach Terry Matterson's half-time team talk had little impact as the Giants cut loose in the second half with four tries in a devastating eight-minute spell.
City's top scorer Paul Dickov had been well marshalled by the home defence in the first half-hour, but he cut free after 35 minutes only to volley wide.
Jordan sold his half-court, backdoor-cut style Princeton offense as the way to turn Philadelphia into a contender, but the style never meshed with the talent on the roster.
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