Earlier forest blockades, by Greenpeace and others, showed up the logging companies' destructive practices, such as over-cutting, too-large clear-cuts, and damage not only to the forests but to salmon streams.
Public unease has been heightened recently by several high-profile battles between the managers of some big German firms and unions and workers' representatives over cost-cutting plans.
They know they are heading for possible rows over deficit-cutting.
The move arose out of a dispute over cost-cutting measures that American was attempting to obtain through reorganizing the way that flight information is distributed from the airline to the consumer who shops on websites like Orbitz.
The dispute at the company over pay and cost-cutting has dragged on for almost a year.
BBC: NEWS | UK | Northern Ireland | Shorts pay dispute resolved
Last December, about 4, 000 members of the Amicus and Transport Workers unions began industrial action in a row over pay and cost-cutting.
BBC: NEWS | UK | Northern Ireland | Shorts pay dispute resolved
Negotiations followed industrial action by about 4, 000 members of the Amicus and Transport Workers unions earlier this month in a row over pay and cost-cutting at Northern Ireland's biggest manufacturing firm.
They want borrowing powers, control over company taxation (perhaps with a view to a tax-cutting strategy) and control over the Crown Estate in Scotland (which has implications for what goes on in coastal waters and harbours).
The company and union had been in talks at Acas during the day to try to find a way forward on disagreements over BA's cost-cutting plans.
Nonetheless, 21 ADAPs, including seven with current waiting lists, have instituted additional cost-cutting steps over the past three years and two ADAPs are considering new or additional measures by March 2013 ( read here).
Nonetheless, 21 ADAPs, including seven with current waiting lists, have instituted additional cost-cutting steps over the past three years and two ADAPs are considering new or additional measures by March 2013 ( you can read more here).
The International Cricket Council's plan to revamp the 50-over World Cup by cutting it down to 10 teams, while increasing the World Twenty20 to 16 teams instead of 12, has drawn criticism from Kenya, Ireland and Canada and the Netherlands.
So the choice is not really between austerity and growth, but over the timing and speed of deficit-cutting and the right mix of structural reforms.
One is how to improve margins sufficiently to make a healthy real return in a world where over-capacity is running at 25-30%, and car makers are cutting prices either overtly or by offering extra features.
That seemed very possible when Clarke attempted to loft Fidel Edwards over the off-side field but ended up cutting him straight to Sulieman Benn at third man.
David Cameron's plans to help those of the over-governed persuasion in a small way by cutting the number of Welsh MPs from 40 to 30 bit the dust this week - and so too, therefore, did any ideas about changing the way Assembly Members are elected.
At a time of rising competition from India and China--not only in manufacturing but also in high tech--and of concern over jobs creation at home, we're about to seriously handicap our own cutting-edge technology companies and domestic startups by crippling an instrument that's key to their survival and success.
Cutting-edge businesses from all over the world are deciding to build here and hire here.
Yorkshire Electricity says it is cutting 350 jobs over the next year - almost 10% of its 4, 500-strong workforce.
Merseyside Police is to cut more than 250 officers over the next two years as part of cost-cutting plans.
Over the last four years, we have brought new economic growth by investing our people, expanding our exports, cutting our deficits -- creating over 11 million new jobs, a four-year record.
But Malone, from a fine pass from Nick Walshe, dribbled a neat kick in behind the Sale backline and ran on to scoop the ball up and dive over, his conversion cutting the deficit to 9-7.
And to the disappointment of the greens such as the UN's secretary-general Ban Ki-moon, the rich states' undertaking did not specify any short- or medium-term goals on cutting emissions, over which their leaders could have more control.
But a Congressional Budget Office analysis of the financial impact of a 50-cent-per-pack increase in cigarette taxes shows that while cutting the number of smokers trims government outlays over the short run, the increased longevity and higher end-of-life expenses of non-smokers eventually would cost taxpayers tens of billions of dollars more from Medicare and Social Security.
FORBES: Fewer Smokers Means Higher Taxpayer Costs, Study Finds
When attacking discretionary programs, zero-ing out entire programs should be favored over cutting programs but leaving them in place.
Over 30 have already had two rounds of Medicaid cost-cutting.
Let's ask them if cutting the budget deficit in half over two years -- over four years is a lot of money.
Over the past decade, Brazil has cracked down on clear-cutting, especially in the biodiverse Amazon rain forest, reducing the rate of deforestation by 80%.
And we're cutting waiting times and waiting lists - down over 200, 000 in a year, and now over 60, 000 lower than when we got in.
Nigel Edwards, director of policy at the NHS Confederation, said he accepted the report's findings and blamed the hygiene problem on a cost-cutting culture imposed on the NHS by politicians over the past two decades.
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