Hotels are facing a difficult time as consumers and businesses tighten spending on vacations and scale back on conventions and business travel.
The question is whether to increase defence spending, reallocate existing resources or scale back national ambitions; and that raises the deeper question of what kind of country Britain wants to be.
And other service contractors not yet taken over may scale back their investment in Venezuela.
If firms loosen their purse-strings to hire workers and to invest, that will allow governments to scale back their borrowing.
Carmakers in Japan and America have had to scale back production.
The summit made no breakthrough on the Lebanese political crisis, the main issue that prompted so many countries to scale back their representation at the meeting.
Israel fears the Arab state won't scale back off its nuclear ambitions unless consequences are feared.
The breakdown in lending is forcing businesses to scale back plans and cut jobs at an alarming pace as they worry whether the downturn will be deeper and longer than they had anticipated.
But they will also be quick to scale back their green ambitions if efforts to set up broader trading schemes founder.
After the emerging-market crises of the 1990s many rich countries were keen to scale back the fund, for fear that a big IMF would tempt poor countries to run reckless policies.
And he promised new cost controls that could scale back his plan if health-care inflation isn't brought under control.
Even so, Mr Charney says he has no plans to scale back these benefits.
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