His party colleague, Peter Weir, asked if this was an example of being "half cut".
By 1982, inflation had been cut in half to 6%, and by 1983 it had been cut in half again to 3%.
Those queuing up for beer have to remove their sunglasses to prove they are not half-cut.
The Irish held the Cardinals without a field goal for nearly six minutes early in the second half to cut the lead to 45-40 on Pat Connaughton's 3-pointer with 12:42 left.
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.
In this case they've really had six months to figure out how to avert this 10 and a half percent cut to doctor pay that will otherwise take effect next Tuesday, July 1st.
After pulling it back to 18-12 down at the break, the game appeared to be turning Leeds' way when England winger Ryan Hall took Keith Senior's pass to grab a third try 10 minutes into the second half to cut gap to just two points.
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.
The bank could easily cut half the jobs in its headquarters.
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.
In the first half the Seasiders cut out final balls to Meireles, one of Liverpool's best players, on two occasions and after the break the brilliant Craig Cathcart got enough on his headed clearance to prevent Torres from planting into the net at the far post.
Life spans have almost doubled since 1900, and over the past half-century the percentage of humanity living in extreme poverty has been cut in half.
Walking half an hour a day can cut premature death rates in half.
His 32, 000 Dow call, cut in half, was not far from the 14, 000-plus Dow of 2007.
But trouble appeared on the 24th, when the amount appropriated was cut in half.
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The frequency of strong-to-violent tornadoes has been cut in half during the past 40 years.
When Andrx launches its generic version, the value of Prilosec will be cut in half.
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