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Google is scaling back in a number of areas and cutting 100 jobs as the internet giant begins to feel the impact of the recession.

"It will be Apple's last keynote at the show, " said the statement. "Apple has been steadily scaling back on trade shows in recent years. "

In an effort to mute that criticism, he's scaling back his plans in such a way as to guarantee that they'll fail.

If the cost of the protection rises to a certain level that would trigger a scaling back of Morgan Stanely commitments to hedge funds.

EarthLink told investors last month it was losing money on wireless networks for cities and was scaling back its plans nationwide.

must begin scaling back foreign commitments and deployments. Japan would be a good place to start.

If that's not bad enough, this expansion of corporate rights comes at a time when the court has been scaling back the rights of people.

To avoid collisions, studios are rapidly scaling back the number of films they're releasing, particularly smaller specialty movies.

The government is scaling back its massive monetary stimulus, prompting a slow-down in the growth of activity.

It is important too that governments do not just spend today but have credible, explicit plans for scaling back tomorrow.

Even many Tea Party conservatives are not on board with Mr. Paul's beliefs about scaling back the United States military worldwide.

Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Immelt is scaling back some of the cash-saving steps he adopted in 2008 as the financial crisis deepened.

The Reuters poll also showed money managers scaling back their exposure to bonds for a fourth consecutive month.

Rio officials have said various gangs came together to intimidate authorities into scaling back their neighborhood peacekeeping initiative.

On August 5th, TransCanada announced that it was scaling back its expansion plan after running into resistance from state regulators.

Google has taken some steps to accommodate carrier interests while scaling back on its original vision of unprecedented freedom.

The calm General Petraeus later confirmed in a TV interview that some scaling back of the surge was probable.

The crash will have reinforced the scaling back of these ambitions.

Banks had been scaling back their plans to invest in carbon markets before Copenhagen.

Meanwhile, Tim Geithner, US Treasury secretary, warned against prematurely scaling back efforts to support the global economy.

Mr Bernanke also announced that the Fed might soon start scaling back its remaining financial liquidity crisis measures.

These changes may take time, but a commitment to scaling back can pay huge dividends over time.

For example, a meaningful choice might be scaling back the time you spend at the office and devoting those hours to volunteer work.

City officials also say that some Expo participants are scaling back their plans for the event.

Sensitive, as ever to the fickle wind of public opinion, the Queen has been scaling back the scope of the list for some time.

S. envoy said Saturday, marking a major concrete step by the communist country in scaling back its atomic program.

We are at a time when many news enterprises are shutting down or scaling back.

He pointed out that analysts' current growth estimates for Baidu don't factor in any benefit it may get from Google scaling back in China.

However, Mr. Bush deferred on more severe sanctions including scaling back U. S. diplomatic relations with Syria.

Washington must begin scaling back foreign commitments and deployments.

Non-OPEC producers are scaling back investment, which should tighten supply eventually.

And those tighter financial conditions are part of the reason why there is a scaling back of expectations for growth.

Since then, Safe has been dumping US agency bonds and scaling back its purchases of riskier assets, including global equities.

Developers are frantically scaling back projects, or even mothballing them.

Facing a slowing domestic economy, scaling back expansion has become a popular theme for U. S. Airlines.

Worried about slowing growth and falling exports, many Chinese are scaling back plans.

Few expect China to begin scaling back its huge military build-up on the coast facing Taiwan in the near future.

This has prompted a scaling back of expectations that China will let its currency strengthen.

Investors are scaling back expectations of further ECB rate increases.

Italy is also scaling back incentives for solar energy, looking, like Spain, to trim its budget deficit.

Once China started scaling back, however, Molycorp saw the opportunity to start up its Mountain Pass mine again.

In March 2008 Perth showed support for scaling back the effects of climate change by turning off its lights for Earth Hour.

The government could reduce that debt by cutting spending more sharply after the recession and by scaling back other ambitious programs.

Ford and GM have not yet gone as far, but they are scaling back leasing in an effort to reduce future liabilities.

A big factor that could precipitate a slowdown is a scaling back of government stimulus.

Other western European firms active in eastern Europe suffered during the crisis and are scaling back, for example KBC and Dexia.

General Motors is scaling back plans to produce Cadillacs in China.

Your workload has increased, so have your boss's expectations. But scaling back could mean losing a job.

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Plenty of professionals dream of scaling back on their workload or ceding management responsibility, here's how to do it:

We would do well to begin the process of scaling back our business with and dependence on China