When Fujitsu, a Japanese computer giant, introduced a performance-based pay scheme during the 1990s, it proved so unpopular that the company had to scale it back.
Even officials at the Treasury and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. sided with the banks, saying the proposal threatened to add risk to the system rather than scale it back.
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Given that Citibank's footprint is about one-fifth the size of some other giant banks, analysts said it had little choice but to scale back in areas where it lacks market share.
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The company said it would scale back its overseas operations to concentrate on the project.
Earlier this year, more than a hundred signed a letter to the World Trade Organization, urging it to scale back subsidies to the fishing sector.
Sister Catherine recently learned that her main donor is being forced to scale back the assistance it provides.
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Iran denies this and, despite increasingly severe economic sanctions, has shown no sign that it intends to scale back its project or halt its contested uranium enrichment drive.
The agency has said to reduce its headcount, it would need to scale back operations, including changes to Saturday delivery and closing processing plants.
Cisco announced last year that it had decided to scale back its ambitions of diversifying into 30 new businesses and will instead focus on those areas that add value to its core routing and switching businesses.
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Soccer should hope that Santos won't need to scale back just yet and if it takes Barcelona as a model, then maybe Santos can come back even stronger.
As a result, it will soon need to "scale back life-saving support", Ms Mercado said.
It has told our correspondent that it wants the Burmese military to scale back its operations throughout Kachin state and not just around Laiza.
One UN agency, Unicef, recently confessed it was "broke" and said it would soon need to "scale back life-saving support" at the camp.
If the Obama administration decided to scale that program back dramatically, for instance, it would affect Raytheon.
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The investors and directors McKinsey surveyed want companies to move toward separating the roles of chief executive and chairman, to make directors more independent and accountable, and to scale back and restructure executive compensation so that it is aligned more closely with the creation of long-term value.
So after weeks of unproductive squabbling and with a deadline looming, Senate Democrats and Republicans agreed late last week to scale back the payroll tax holiday and pay for it with spending cuts and a new fee on mortgages.
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The kid finally came back to the dock with a scale, but it wasn't a certified one.
If venture is going to return to the cottage industry it once was, the LPs will have to scale back their investments.
It seems clear that Mr Obama is willing to scale back or scrap projects that are of decreasing relevance to America's 21st-century security requirements, or have become embarrassing money pits.
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Raise money when you can, be prepared to pay a premium for your capital and scale back your plans if necessary, but do whatever it takes to get your business up and running and your product out the door.
In negotiations held in March between Steven Rattner, the investment banker who leads the task-force, and Sergio Marchionne, Fiat's boss, Fiat agreed to scale back its initial stake to 20% and not to increase it beyond 49% until Chrysler had repaid American taxpayers in full.
It also allows you to delay taking Social Security benefits and to scale back, or even discontinue, contributions to your 401(k) retirement plan.
Huawei announced plans to scale back its business in Iran this month as a result of what it called an "increasingly complex situation" there.
He said the government was wrong to blame the eurozone crisis for slow growth - it was the "scale of shrinking domestic demand" that was holding growth back.
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It offers both a bold street presence and pleasing scale, but is intentionally pulled back from the street for privacy.
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Many Republicans oppose the bill, arguing that it gives too much power to regulators and would force financial firms to scale back their size and put them at a disadvantage.
France, which has posted troops in many locations in Africa, had said it wouldn't send combat troops to Mali and had pledged to scale back on intervening in local politics and conflicts in Africa.
It doesn't dictate whether agencies must furlough employees, cut grants or scale back purchases.
In 2006, GreenHumter announced it would scale down the development to 150 megawatts, then agreed in 2007 to scale back again to only 50 megawatts.
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Described as a "mega-scale free form printer" by its makers, the massive aluminum structure uses sand, which it forms back into a material that's like marble.
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