He pruned the portfolio, selling unprofitable food brands to distributors and bulking up on personal care.
In the five years after the introduction of the currency board, Argentina pruned spending and subsidies dramatically.
Ideas bloom and get pruned as they are edited out or refactored more efficiently into the code base.
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Cisco is one company that pruned subsidies as part of moving to BYOD.
Great features (or actions) get rewarded, sparking the development of new great features, and non-productive ones get pruned down.
We took few and pruned even those, so that only the best remained.
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The statement said they had "pruned" their programme for next season, cancelled their Dublin series and were looking at salaries.
How many people can honestly say that they have never pruned their e-mails to put off tackling more demanding tasks?
An elderly, heavy-set woman pruned the banana trees, while an enormous cauldron filled with the fruity tipple bubbled over a nearby open fire.
On taxation, for instance, they demand that the muddled system be drastically pruned, leaving just three main rates and no exceptions.
Instead, it is a rare link to others before me, who pruned the same vines and painted the same barn that I have.
If tones stay neutral and discussion stays pruned by moderators, then very deep, detailed conversations result that hash out issues to their fundamental cores.
After his death, Brasillach's brother-in-law published an edition of his work that was called complete but which was carefully pruned of his anti-Semitic writing.
Toshiba's ten major operational groups were pruned to just four: power and industrial systems, information equipment and consumer electronics, communication systems and electronic components and materials.
The Germans believe troubled countries have to be fundamentally reformed - deficits cut, spending reined in, borrowing curtailed, public finances pruned, working practices made more flexible, and industry made more competitive.
Not surprisingly, however, a Grenache vineyard that will produce dense, tongue-blackening wine when pruned back to yield 3 or 4 tons per acre makes pale, character-free, generic plonk at 10 or 12 tons per acre.
One Green Party councillor in Solihull told us that this extra money was being offered with tight government strings attached, while spending on other local services like adult day centres were having to be pruned radically because of the budget cuts.
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