His first stint as prime minister was cut short in 2007 by ill health, but Abe's now riding high in the polls.
Then he hears of plans to invite the king of Tonga, not the prime minister, to cut the ribbon at a store.
Nor were investors impressed by this week's promises by George Papandreou, the prime minister, to cut the deficit to under 3% by 2013.
It may have been reached in Japan, where Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi has cut the top corporate income tax rate from 48% to 41%, the highest individual rate from 65% to 50% and even slightly cut social security taxes.
The plan, which bears the fingerprints of Jan Bielecki, a former prime minister, aims to cut the budget deficit from 5.6% of GDP today to just 1% of GDP by 2015, and to reduce public debt from 55% of GDP to 47%.
The man in charge of welfare has told him and the prime minister that unless they cut benefits for the elderly like winter fuel payments, free TV licences and bus passes - which the PM refuses to do - that sum will prove politically impossible to find.
Bulgaria's prime minister called for a sharp cut in electricity prices and revoking the license of the country's largest foreign-controlled power supplier.
Since no dinosaur fossils have ever been found in sediments dating from after this point, conventional wisdom has it that the largest creatures ever to roam the earth must have been cut down in their prime - victims of an asteroid impact that sparked firestorms, acid rain and a nuclear winter that blotted out the sun.
But if he really wants best execution, he should take care not to cut off innovation in its prime.
This may cause your card provider's computer algorithms to single you out as a prime cash-strapped candidate for a spending limit cut.
The Italian caretaker Prime Minister, Mario Monti, has promised to cut labour taxes in an interview seen as the launch of his election campaign.
The price cut had also been demanded by former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League when it held emergency talks with Mr Gilani's Pakistan People's Party this week.
So Zagreb does not need to take a legally questionable short-cut through the constitutional maze that Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic opted for when he transferred the former Yugoslav leader, Slobodan Milosevic, to The Hague last month.
Prime Minister Mario Monti has introduced severe austerity measures to cut its debt and reassure markets that it is a safe country to lend to.
The prime minister again promised to honour his pledge not to cut universal benefits for pensioners - such as free bus passes and winter fuel payments - effectively ringfencing this part of the welfare budget.
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Just months after opening his first eatery in Europe, a branch of CUT, serving high-end dry aged prime beef, in the revamped and luxurious 45 Park Lane Hotel in London, he has made an even bigger impression in the City of Angels.
Mr Haughey retired from active politics in 1992, and in the witness box he no longer cut the swaggering figure seen in his years as prime minister.
Lionel Jospin has just been elected prime minister of France on a programme that called for a cut in the working week, the opposite of what labour-market flexibility requires.
On Wednesday, the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, accused the Conservatives of planning to cut "vital services" by 10% - a charge David Cameron rejected.
The tinkering the prime minister was complaining about was the offer made last night to cut funds to the EU's poorer regions (so-called cohesion funds) a little less than originally proposed and cut subsidies to farmers (as ever the key concern of the French) a little less too.
Accomplished though they may be, prime time's newest masters of the universe will have their work cut out for them.
Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Saenz de Santamaria said the government was now aiming to cut income tax in 2015 as a stimulus measure to boost the economy.
But Malaysia cut off gasoline exports ahead of the bilateral meeting between Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak and U.S. President Barack Obama during the Nuclear Summit in Washington early in the week of April 11.
The difficulty for the prime minister is that it will be hard to argue against an absolute cut in EU spending when he is making the case for the same kind of cuts at home.
Back in 1978 the centre-right prime minister of the day, Raymond Barre, raised social-security contributions and cut hospital spending.
Prime lending rates have fallen one percentage point since June, including a half-point cut Nov. 2.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has been among those who questioned the government's decision to cut capital spending when the coalition took power in 2010.
Newcastle's plan to cut all funding for venues including the Theatre Royal attracted widespread attention with deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg calling it "shameless political opportunism and cynicism".
This will be claimed as a significant victory by UK Prime Minister David Cameron, whose demand was "at worst a freeze, at best a cut".
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