On Wednesday, thousands of public employees in Greece held a strike to protest cost-cutting measures.

VOA: special.2010.02.12

It used to be a big, broad sheet and they made it smaller in 2005 and they started--they keep cutting out data.

曾经是很宽大的报纸,在2005年被缩小了,并且开始不断减少数据

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"The budget that would have no tax increases, a budget that is cutting spending we deal with the entire twenty-six billion dollar deficit, around fifteen billion dollars in cuts that we are making."

VOA: special.2009.07.31

"And that cost-cutting is resulting in higher unemployment, and of course the higher unemployment is creating lack of demand.

VOA: standard.2009.07.02

But Mr.Obama's critics point out that the $100 million in cost cutting is miniscule - just a tiny fraction of one percent of the federal budget deficit.

VOA: standard.2009.04.20

This year's report focuses on how well countries are doing in reaching eight-stated Millennium Development Goals, including cutting poverty by half and reducing child and maternal mortality.

VOA: standard.2009.05.21

Late this year, scientists and politicians are to gather in Copenhagen for a key global climate-change summit in an effort to thrash out a consensus on cutting heat-trapping greenhouse gasses.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

on a path to long-term, sustainable fiscal health. But he told reporters that achieving another objective, cutting the deficit in half as a percentage of gross domestic product within five years, would require "modifications,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.24