Other firms say they are also trimming investment and reviewing projects.
Whether trimming a debt burden or preserving a surplus, politicians often do best by tying their hands.
Markets are looking for signs the Conservative-led coalition will act quickly to reduce the deficit by trimming public spending, initially by 6 billion pounds this financial year.
Some hotels are reacting to this by trimming non-essential spending; using potted plants as decorations, for example, instead of fresh flowers that have to be replaced every day.
The children are trimming up a Christmas tree.
Clumsy nail trimming is the top cause of ingrown toenails, which can cause pain, swelling, and infections.
Through judicious all-round trimming, including spending less on buying in programmes from other producers, the corporation should avoid serious damage to the quality of its output.
One day in the afternoon, in the garden of the famous Giant Elephant Group Headquarter Building located in Manhattan, New York, a gray-haired old man was concentrating on trimming low shrubs.
Yoshida originally worked in a pet shop trimming dogs' hair.
Moe, a six-legged Styrofoam sheep was busy roaming and trimming the grounds at the city's conservatory several miles away.
'I sometimes fib about trimming limbs off the trees in the yard,' says a small-business owner in Kentucky, who admits he's been known to go overboard with a handsaw.
Companies - and potentially consumers - throughout the world are reacting by trimming spending.
Now that time is in hand, we need to be the best doctors in our fates, trimming those negative energy that is not conducive to fate.
Do you want me to give it a good trimming?
American money-market funds, a big source of short-term funding for European Banks, are already said to be trimming their exposures to French Banks.
I started with a big list of life lessons, then I started trimming until I was left with 31.
But now that foreign orders have dried up, firms are trimming their own capital spending.
Among the expensed items: moat-cleaning ($3 000) hedgerow-trimming ($930) toilet-seat fixing ($320) garden improvement ($2 000) and dog food ($5.64).
drawing and trimming die
Everything was good, well made, and little worn, but Amy's artistic eyes were much afflicted, especially this winter, when her school dress was a dull purple with yellow dots and no trimming.
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