The food tastes better—it's fresher and organic—and the garden handily fulfills its original purpose: cost cutting.

食物味道更好——更新鲜、更有机——菜园也轻松地实现了它最初的目的：削减成本。

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Cost cutting lay-offs in the 1980s reduced the professional and managerial ranks leaving fewer people to get the job done.

20世纪80年代削减成本的裁员减少了专业人员和管理层的人数，留下更少能完成工作的人。

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The company also embarked on a desperate cost-cutting program, which included the elimination of thousands of jobs.

该公司还启动了一项孤注一掷的成本削减计划，其中包括淘汰数千个工作岗位。

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On Wednesday, Chrysler members of the United Auto Workers approved cost cutting measures.

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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.

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

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Voter preference for cost cutting over tax raising was pronounced in two other questions.

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First, most cost cutting is easily matched by competitors, thus offering little or no competitive advantage.

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As appealing as cost cutting sounds, it can't improve returns except within the shortest time frame.

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