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"Even cutting the F-35 entirely would not yield" the kind of savings it takes to retrench to a $500 billion annual defense budget, he said.

They must retrench; that did not admit of a doubt.

Wall Street firms, which often retrench in downturns, have been nudged down the rankings.

World exporters are increasingly relying on China as consumers in the U. S. and Europe retrench.

This suggests that governments wanting to retrench, but worried about social instability, should consider tax increases, first and foremost.

Next, we need to retrench, to reconsider the direction of research on this disease.

Fearful consumers, businesses and markets will retrench further, causing economic decline to accelerate.

If Japanese companies and investors retrench, selling some Treasuries and investing fewer yen overseas, the pain here could grow.

Leadership changes at other banks coincide with big questions about their future strategy: will UniCredit retrench?

Hopes of a U. S. -led recovery have faded as American consumers retrench.

The more they do so, the bigger the burden of Japan's debt becomes, and the more households and firms are likely to retrench.

But, certainly, there is plenty of supply in the system so prices should retrench back to the $75 to $85 range .

Even as Chinese stock markets retrench, two purchasing-manager surveys out Tuesday offered fresh signs of China's growth.

Reliance on Chinese and other emerging market growth could hardly be guaranteed if their main commercial markets started to retrench.

It is not a conservative and passive policy, still less a policy to retrench money supply.

While private banks retrench, state ones are expanding their lending vigorously.

Credit will shrink, businesses will wait to hire and expand, and consumers will further retrench.

Households will retrench as unemployment rises and those with jobs fear they may lose them.

"Historically, many firms see the challenges and retrench. We see opportunities. "

As a result, Southwest can profitably add flights to attractive markets, even as other carriers are forced to retrench.

It is not obvious, in addition, who would act as the world's "borrower of last resort" , should US households retrench.

real wage rises when technology deflects to retrench capital.

Demand for credit is lower, as companies and consumers retrench.

Fiscal default is nigh, insist the doomsayers: repent and retrench before it is too late.

Is the credit crunch forcing firms to retrench directly?

As business is bad these days, we have to retrench.

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We must retrench to keep out of debt.

Growth in China, for instance, will undoubtedly slow, as its major western customers retrench.

Assume that many of the latter now retrench.

Sure, consumers have lost a good part of their wealth, and this is reason enough for them to retrench.

That means they don't need to retrench.

But is it already time to retrench?

They had to retrench in order to buy a new house .

Since a clean default is impossible, governments will have no choice but to retrench, however painful the consequences. Martin Wolf

Refrigerated Van which can Retrench Energy

retrench v. cut down , make economies

retrench : to reduce or diminish, esp. so as to economize