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The plans could still be dropped, scaled back or executed in stages, people familiar with the matter said.

White House budget officials have already scaled back estimates of how much money they might need to keep the financial system afloat.

Yet even though wedding budgets have been scaled back, the cuts are less than you might have expected.

The Bank's economists have also scaled back their estimates of how much trade reduces poverty.

With the threat of contracts being torn up in bankruptcy, the United Auto Workers might accept scaled-back staffing and benefits.

Brandt felt vindicated but unhappy that the claims for remedies had been vastly scaled back by the Bush White House.

Up until 2004 Mr Groenink had tried to turn ABN Amro into a top global bank. Then he scaled back to the group's core businesses.

Oracle has also scaled back support for the open source PostgreSQL database, a competitor to its own MySQL database.

Two sources said that Australian bank Westpac had scaled back plans to increase its carbon desk in London.

Some bond traders suspect that the central bank has scaled back its purchases of these securities, as have China's commercial banks.

A multi-billion-pound hole in the budget for military equipment means new systems have to be scaled back, delayed or hollowed out.

Programs like Head Start would be cut, and lifesaving research into diseases like cancer and Alzheimer's could be scaled back.

In Singapore, Concordia recently shut its office, while Tantallon Capital has scaled back with the closure of a small-cap fund.

High unemployment is considered the biggest hurdle to a stronger recovery because people worried about jobs have scaled back their spending.

Other companies that are more sensitive to changes in the economy have already scaled back capital expenditure plans.

As he has scaled back his company's plans, he has been forced to cancel some orders for wind turbines, forfeiting the deposit.

The president had promised to veto the 106-billion-dollar war funding and hurricane relief bill, unless it was scaled back.

He now expects the amount to be scaled back given indications demand is fading for the debt.

The order was scaled back after being criticized as a heavy-handed attempt by the government to control its citizens' Internet use.

The company has scaled back their expenditure.

Facing both shrinking audiences and news budgets, US networks scaled back their foreign coverage after the conclusion of the cold war.

It has since been buffeted by competition and by the economy, and he has scaled back.

Evacuations will be scaled back to include only aware ground crew and maybe a few others.

They complained, and since Nokia mainly sells its handsets to operators, rather than directly to consumers, Club Nokia was duly scaled back.

One thing that has been scaled back in Shanghai, though, is Friday's opening ceremony.

It has now scaled back its US consumer finance operations, closing much of them to new business.

It has also cut short a 20-year licence agreement with Thomson and scaled back a subcontracting agreement with the French company.

The ambitious economic goals of the 2000 Lisbon agenda have since been significantly scaled back as reforms needed to meet them stalled.

Consider what would happen next year if the Obama administration gave in to the deficit hawks and scaled back its fiscal plans.

But the year saw great struggles for both the UK and global car industry, as sales plummeted and production was scaled back or halted.

Most banks have already scaled back the fixed-income businesses most directly affected by the credit crunch.

Buyers are breaking contracts, bankers are pulling financing and projects are, inevitably, being scaled back.

It scaled back its ambitions in investment banking to only providing products and services required to support its private bank.

The company is closing 100 American stores because of sluggish sales, and expansion plans have been scaled back.

Banks had scaled back staffing across Asia amid a dearth of merger and acquisition activity, and stagnant capital markets.

Analysts have scaled back their expectations for Lenovo, which reports its quarterly earnings on Thursday.

News of the decision saw sterling tumble as investors scaled back expectations of recovery.

In response, OSHA scaled back many of its original rules, and focused its safety inspections on the most dangerous workplaces.

These instances can be scaled back during low-volume periods and scaled up as needed.

Japan is among countries that have scaled back their plans to invest in Iran's oil and gas industries.

Institutional orders could be scaled back, depending on eventual demand, with trading scheduled for November 26.

Fancy birthday parties, music lessons, sports leagues and gifts are being scaled back or eliminated.

The administration has scaled back the workplace raids that were so controversial during the Bush years.

On nearly every substantive issue, Obama scaled back American goals and expectations.

Currency traders have also scaled back their bets in the forwards markets on the pace of future appreciation.

W. Michael Brown has scaled back hiring plans in his Virginia auto-parts stores.

Access to credit has been curbed and public spending on infrastructure scaled back, reports the BBC's Chris Hogg in Shanghai.

Mr. Ma later that year scaled back operations at Yahoo's China website and focused more on fast-growing Taobao.

The technology-transfer provisions could be changed or scaled back before the plan is finalized.

Total foreign ownership in a bank has also been scaled back to 25 per cent, the standard rule.

Plans for the first full-scale facility, in Saint Lucie, Florida, were recently scaled back.

More broadly, government incentives instituted in 2009 because of the financial crisis were scaled back in 2010 and are now mostly gone.

His administration released a 51-page report detailing rescue programs that are slowly being scaled back.

Obama's much-touted tax break for middle and working class Americans survived but was scaled back.

Plans for running around the moon could then be scaled back by future budget cuts.

Generally, it is smaller museums that have scaled back more often on loan shows.

In Bremen the ugly turn in the debate makes it harder to achieve even scaled-back integration.

After the attack, the UN scaled back its operations in Iraq, but its presence is growing once again.

He scaled back new mortgages to home buyers in Aspen, Telluride and other luxury Colorado ski resort areas.

The London Olympic stadium will hold 80, 000 people during the Games but will be scaled back afterwards to a more compact 25, 000-seater.

Its plans to merge with Morgan Stanley's Japanese unit were also scaled back.

Capital spending plans are being scaled back for the third quarter in a row.

Our noses aren't nearly as important as our visual sense in the daytime, and so our noses are scaled back and smaller.

He scaled back spending promises and proposed doubling consumption tax to 10 per cent.

The Chinese service will be scaled back, with all radio programming in Mandarin Chinese closed.

The bill was repeatedly scaled back as Republicans and some Democrats balked at its cost.

There is also concern that growth will slip backward once China's recession-fighting stimulus is scaled back.

That scaled back goal, like many of Mr Obama's ambitions, faces a daunting obstacle: money.

Various supporting industries, such as advertising and shipping, scaled back their operations as demand for their services fell.

Loan aid that has paid for airports and railways in China is being sharply scaled back, as is general grant aid.

But last year, the Department of Energy scaled back FutureGen, a major capture-and-storage demonstration project.

In the original bid submitted by Citigroup last year, Carlyle agreed to take a 10 per cent stake. This was later scaled back .

For the third-quarter, many economists have scaled back growth estimates to around 2. 5 percent from 3 percent.

Use ofthe system was gradually scaled back until 2003, when the tunnels andrails were abandoned because of cost constraints.

However, last year, the funds management arm of Natixis scaled back its hedge fund operations.