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If it weren't for this, the government would be unable to borrow as much as it is, and would have to slash public services right now.

So one might have thought that companies would have had less room to slash payrolls, since they were already relatively slim.

But if the money must be accounted for in the federal budget, Bush would have to retreat from his pledge to slash the deficit in half.

It is not as if he needs the tax to repair damage from a deep recession or to slash an embarrassing budget deficit.

Yet this year, Republicans in Congress have been trying to slash investments in family planning.

Policymakers who slash rates at the first sign of danger will quickly run out of "ammunition" , he said.

SLASH: Do not give the label complete control of your material or let them do anything with it that you don't want to do.

That would enable the bank to slash its regulatory capital, as well as parts of the bank that service the loans.

When stock markets fall, as they did a year ago, cautious executives slash spending on everything, including share repurchases.

I would chop off his fingers, slash his throat open, carve numbers in his chest, gouge out his eyes, I swear to God!

The second slash was low on the abdomen. This wound had not been meant to kill; it had served an entirely different purpose.

SLASH: I knew that I was doing something risky, but I also knew what I was doing. They're cool songs, not pop at all.

But an incoming government would then have to map out a credible plan to slash the deficit over the next four- or five-year parliament.

His campaign calls her a "slash-and-burn" operator, representing the sort of old politics that he wants to change.

To help combat these losses, Toyota is trying to slash costs by around $8 billion.

If I'm a company and one of my competitors is slashing jobs, I'm going to slash jobs too.

When he took over during a banking crisis in 2001, he promised to slash government borrowing.

[color=#000000]Schwab was one of the first to slash the price of equity trades in 1975, when fixed brokerage commissions were abolished.

The teahouse is modern, filled with youthful energy, and beside us, a snappy waitress with a slash of pink in her hair holds a digital pad.

Such a move would slash dependence on oil, create thousands of jobs, and reduce emissions that contribute to global warming.

That's so far from reality now that the current Bush administration wants to slash funding for research on human exploration of Mars.

Employers continue to slash jobs at a rapid pace, and economists expect severe job losses to continue at least into the summer.

Sticks are not to be used to cross-check or slash opponents, these fouls will be penalized with a strict enforcement.

The company plans to slash unprofitable routes, along with a third of its workforce.

But it will be able to slash spending and raise taxes without hindrance, albeit at the cost of staggering unpopularity.

"A slash of assistance is not on the cards, unless there is another big surprise [like bin Laden's whereabouts], " said the US official.

If the value of the url attribute starts with a forward slash, however, it is interpreted as an absolute URL within the local JSP container.

you know, i got a good mind to slash you open right now.

Efforts to slash national debts are at the heart of fierce debates in United States and protests in other nations.

Some tar variants include support to strip off the leading forward slash, enabling you to extract the files anywhere.

Investment banks have been able to slash costs more quickly than commercial banking rivals by cutting bonuses and firing staff.

We're seeing right now that states and localities are beginning to slash budgets for conducting elections.

The company said it would slash its dividend to fund the expansion in digital colour printers, cameras and medical imaging.

Crude is now at its lowest level in four and a half years despite Opec's recent decision to slash production by record levels.

Neither man had taken up a shield this morning, so it was a game of slash and parry, back and forth across the deck.

Legalising marijuana will slash cartel profits while providing annual savings and taxes of $43bn a year to the US economy.

They would have to say to their shareholders, 'We're going to slash our prices and, by the way, it is not [looking] pretty.

The leading and trailing slash shown in the code simply indicate the start and end of the regex.

Mark this point (A) on the underarm seam and connect this to the bust point (B). Slash along this line.

But continued, and widespread, gloom and plans to slash investment underscore the fragility of any recovery.

Pin the side and center panels together along the gore seam lines. Slash the muslin beyond the seam, where necessary.

Either action can be re-kill to kill the ball, light to kill, to kill a long, deep to kill, straight smash, smash slash.

When in the Address bar, move the cursor right to the next logical break in the address (period or slash).

And he would slash the horse on the neck with the little whip he had asked Uncle Oscar for.

In the tag, the query expression "team" doesn't start with a forward slash, so the first token, "team" , is taken to be a variable name.

Just as bad, a sharp global slowdown would slash the value of the kingdom's hundreds of billions of dollars in overseas holdings.

Republicans want to drastically slash what the federal government spends this year. Democrats and the White House do not.

Note that the actual Technorati API function is the word that follows the final slash (search).

Renewed weakness north of the border this month has prompted economists to slash their forecasts for Mexico as well.

You can also slash calories by drinking water with a tiny bit of juice added.

However, you may wish to drastically slash the yellow of the winter clothes, you will have to update the discovery of surprising, hey!

A slash-resistant shirt developed by a Japanese company has sold much better than usual after several stabbings in the country lately.

We asked him to slash a third of each day's activities and allow more time for the kids to ramble.

A turning point came when Mr. Jha decided to slash jobs and focus on creating phones based solely on Google's Android operating system.

By doing so, many have been able to slash their costs, but they have not necessarily been able to increase their competitiveness.

Mr Obama vows to slash it in half within four years, but that will still leave it bigger than the deficits for which he once lashed Mr Bush.

The unit emits a thin scream as steel teeth slash laminated plastic and the rose is shredded into a thousand fragments.

The trick is to slash spending without hurling America back into a recession.

To hear the G-20 tell it, the U. S. and other top countries had better slash those budget deficits before the world comes to an end.

In March Ontario said it would slash the ratio of generic to branded prices from 50% to 25%, saving over C$500m a year.

Whenever the mute be active, an icon of a microphone with a slash through it will appear on the screen.

SLASH : This was more a record that I made on my own from top to bottom without a band or a record company.

As for policies, the alliance is no longer proposing to slash taxes, nor to dismantle the welfare state.

With inflation higher than they would like, the central bankers are in no hurry to slash interest rates.

S. opposition. Washington's main weapon: its threat to slash financial support for London, whose economy had been battered by World War II.

Washington has until the end of this month to resolve differences before taxes raise and spendings slash.

If you are familiar with UNIX-based operating systems, you know that the forward slash represents the absolute path.

To move to the root of a document, precede your path with a forward slash.

While traveling to a newly logged area to burn slash piles I wanted to take a picture of the forest floor.

To meet this goal, industries will have to slash fossil fuel consumption, and low-carbon power sources will have to massively expand.

The desire to avoid loans being called in is helping to drive companies to slash dividends and hoard cash.

At the EU's insistence, the peripherals' priority is to slash their budget deficits regardless of the consequences on growth.

GSK, he pledged, would slash prices for a host of medicines, share patents for dozens of compounds and invest in health infrastructure.

In 2008, the global financial crisis drove businesses all over the world to slash spending or cancel Christmas parties altogether.

He thinks the U. S. Federal Reserve will continue to slash interest rates, which would help the economy swiftly recover.

If cellular transfers could slash that figure, mobile banking would prove to be a good call.

Mr Cameron's desire to shrink the state belongs to more than the immediate imperative to slash a huge fiscal deficit.

Some people believe that the continuously heating slash fever is activated by the financial independence of women.

An hour later he sighted the first shark. It was a fierce Mako, and it came in fast to slash with raking teeth at the dead marlin.

A slash is usually overgrown with bushes or trees.

Will the banks slash credit later this year, tipping the economy into a downturn?

It's also important not to slash everything that makes you feel good. After all, you'll need strong morale to stick to your plan.

The report said unless nations slash carbon emissions, the world would warm by an average 2 deg C in less than 40 years.

If the literal slash mark exists at the end of the virtual path , the virtual path is not modified .

Blank spaces may be filled in with "NA, " slash, dash, or other recognizable symbol.

Tibet spent only more than 30 years to turn its agriculture from the primitive stage of slash-and-burn cultivation to modern production.

A slash in a term is an integral part of it, e. G.

The room was decorated with a large red, black and green rebel flag and a framed photo of the Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash.

The USPTO could instantly slash the number of applications by compelling inventors to submit working models whenever feasible.

One way in which family-firms have differentiated themselves during the crisis is by refusing to slash their workforces.

He grabbed his sword and with one slash chopped off both of the geese's heads.

They would almost certainly sell off the Asian assets and slash all but the most central operations of the core business.

Electrifying vehicles could slash petroleum use and help clean the air (if electric power shifts to low-carbon fuels like wind or nuclear).

If he casts Crystal Slash again while empowered by Crystal Energy, he deals bonus magic damage and slows all targets hit.

In farm trade, for instance, America wants rich countries to slash barriers by an average of 66%.

Among the latter is the eastern voalavo, a rodent endemic to Madagascar, whose habitat is threatened by slash-and-burnfarming methods.

In Europe, slash-and-burn techniques for clearing forested land allowed the farming of crops that had spread from the Fertile Crescent.

Yet now, in a world of excess saving, the last thing we need is for creditworthy governments to slash their borrowings.

Slant ( slash): The oblique line used to separate one element from another. Also called Solidus .

This will significantly increase the price of legitimate and locally manufactured cigarettes which will slash their demand, " they added. "

Other recent studies suggest a daily coffee can ward off depression in women and even slash the risk of a stroke by a quarter.

The trend back then was to slash the budgets of cultural institutions, no matter how respectable. The moon had to go.

Agency guarantees slash about 65 basis points off typical mortgages and quantitative easing at least another 30.

While Gamorreans have been introduced to modern blaster and weapon technology, they prefer to hack and slash with axes, swords and macs .

Do NOT add a slash at the end of the directory path .

For your kids, your dog, your video game character, your Harry Potter slash fiction, whatever.

Republicans vow to slash line items in the budget, but the nuclear issue has not been their primary target, yet.

The directory must end with a slash or backslash as appropriate for the operating system .

A blue arrow represents a trace, and an arrow with a red slash represents a suspect trace.

Brown took office released a week from 2011 to 2012 annual budget, plans to slash public spending.

Objective : to enable three or more of the same fruit in the same horizontal or vertical line , the slash is not yo .

How can we slash funding for education and clean energy before we ask people like me to give up tax breaks we don't need and didn't ask for?

'I'm in a mixed state of aggression-slash-excitement-slash-exhaustion, ' said Mr. Kim.

Dust the top with some wholemeal flour and slash them several times with a razor knife at an entering angle of about 45 degrees.

We do not allow slash and burn [agriculture] and growing opium anymore.

Much of the area is home to ethnic minority hill tribes, living in thatched huts and practicing slash-and-burn agriculture.

She rocked a various-shades of green cameo-ish-slash-tie-dyed-ish maxi dress along with her golden glow.

These particular Republicans see themselves as revolutionaries determined to slash down big government.

Microsoft Corp. said it will slash up to 5, 000 jobs over the next 18 months.

There is a steep drop-off in consumer spending. The only thing retailers can do now is to further slash prices.

Analysts said GM needed to slash its debt to have a chance of riding out the brutal downturn in sales.

These capture most of the heat from the fuel, greatly reducing the amount of wood required, and they slash soot emissions too.

Five of the six grey squares had vertical lines on them while only one had a tilted slash.

Welch said Apple informed Intel that it better drastically slash its power consumption or would likely lose Apple's business.

Its estimated increased use of the long lasting bed nets alone could slash child deaths by as much as one fifth.

I only slash at heads and throats aim for the eyes no man will stand for that!

The bank has been forced to slash interest rate .

Back home, tea parties clamoring for the debt-ridden government to slash spending say nothing should be off limits.

If you'd saved _footer. gsp in the trip directory, you'd leave the leading slash off as well.

Always good value, Vegas hotels have had to slash their room rates by 30% to fill beds.

And the eyes, bright in a slash of sunlight. Golden irises like a cat, in a feral blue face.

When lenders suddenly decided that they had lent too much, that debt levels were excessive, debtors were forced to slash spending.

The notebook manufacturers are turning to vertical integration with their component suppliers in an effort to slash overhead.

Its estimated increased use of the long-lasting bed nets could slash child deaths by as much as one-fifth.

He maintains that the Conservatives would slash spending, lay waste to services and look unmoved on lengthening dole queues.

That may take on added revalence since the Obama Administration is expected to slash the Pentagon's budget.

Other industry chiefs, confronted by a similar crunch, regard big mergers as a good way to replenish pipelines and slash costs.

When you want to restrict access to only the specified directory, end with a slash.

The price collapse of the 1980s forced companies to slash investments and prompted a wave of large mergers through the industry.

Use the Identity parameter to specify the GUID, or by specifying the details template type and language separated by a slash.

Slash prices, though, and you could tarnish your brand's image permanently.

If the source has a trailing slash, the contents of the named directory but not the directory itself are copied.

Their habits of hunting, fishing, and slash-and-burn cultivation often have been harmful to the habitat.

Twelve years ago, Newt Gingrich and his Republican foot soldiers swept to control of Congress by promising to slash federal spending.

Skype, launched in 2003, lets users make free phone calls over the internet, forcing traditional telecoms operators to slash their prices.

This has allowed the central bank to slash interest rates from almost 17pc a year ago to an all time low of 6. 75pc.

Cassandra uses the Dust Eater, bending her body, barely evading the slash but is hit to her side.

That reflects action by China, which controls 97 per cent of rare earth supplies, to slash exports to meet its own internal needs.

An additional 4. 2 million barrels a day in future oil-supply capacity has been delayed by at least 18 months as companies slash spending.

Global Network reporter Li Zongze reported to reduce the fiscal deficit, the British government since 2010, will slash spending.

In addition to the left of the Democratic party, many Tea Party Republicans would be happy to slash defence.

Transitional arrangements are in place to ensure that banks cannot slash their capital reserves precipitously.

More than half of middle-class Americans in the Wells Fargo survey said say they must slash their current spending "significantly. "

Their core message is: slash taxes; cut spending; scrap regulations; and sack Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Fed.

And Friday's employment report suggested that, while companies continue to slash jobs, the pace of the cuts is slowing.

The dislocation in Detroit this year and efforts by the likes of Ford to slash bloated inventories have helped curb supply.

Black Friday traditionally marks the kickoff to the key holiday shopping season as retailers slash prices to lure consumers.

With this system, plants can slash expenses by a third by essentially eliminating their water bill.

The credit crisis has long since moved beyond the woes of investment banks forced to slash the market value of exotic securities.

Always add a trailing slash, even if you're setting up your CodeIgniter application in a subdirectory.

The value of the element is a forward-slash-separated string that identifies a hierarchic location in the indicated taxonomy.

This week, shipbuilder OSX Brasil SA (OSXB3. BR) was forced to slash the size and price of its initial public offering.

Last month Mr Kan promised to slash five percentage points off the tax in the 2011 budget, which goes before parliament in March.

Her first LBD was a slash-necked, short silk dress with only diagonal pin-tucks as decoration.

This file must contain the full directory path to wherever this source directory exists (with hanging slash but all spaces trimmed).

More often it's not pranksters who slash art but self-promoters with a supposed cause.

Mainland and Taiwan aviation authorities have decided to slash cross-Straits airfares by 10 to 15 percent to boost tourism.

Ireland, Greece and Portugal, in particular, are offering what amount to fire-sale prices as hotels and tour operators slash rates.

But new software that identifies fraudulent callers on mobile networks is helping some operators slash their losses.

Outputting a slash, the node's type and name, and a position predicate.

In extreme cases companies have moved their headquarters to a tax haven to slash tax bills.

In addition, the thermal lining of these fire gloves contains 35% Kevlar for additional slash and puncture protection.

And firms have been unusually quick to slash payrolls. Some may be husbanding cash more carefully because of the credit crunch.

The worst thing you can do in these circumstances is slash government spending, since that will depress the economy even further.

And last month Hearst said it would close or sell the San Francisco Chronicle if the newspaper couldn't slash expenses in coming weeks.

the threat from the bond market was supposed to be the reason that we must slash the deficit now now now.

Meanwhile, they order the governments of the grasshoppers to raise taxes and slash spending.

If you want to include a backward slash, it must be preceded with another backward slash.

Laughing can slash bias and bring people together, which strengthens our work, home, and school relationships.

Businesses that depend on government purchases would slash payrolls and cancel investments.

He says he would slash wasteful public spending, leaving room for interest rates to fall (the Central Bank's benchmark rate is 10. 25%).

The trains are also putting pressure on country's domestic airlines forcing to radically slash their ticket fares.

Car makers could be forced to slash prices after being accused of overcharging yesterday.

Turn on your TV and you're very likely to find some pundit declaring that if America doesn't slash spending we'll end up like Greece.

Gates also expressed fears in his letter that rich countries will slash or freeze aid budgets.

As mentioned previously, Domino uses slash separators, whereas LDAP uses comma separators.

We've decided to slash our costs by making the products in Fukien instead of Taiwan.

Other retailers are also preparing to slash the prices of players to lure cash-strapped consumers into their stores.

A path expression in XQuery consists of a series of steps, separated by slash characters.

Worse, the adverse trends look set to continue next year as a result of the government's plans to slash the budget deficit.

China's central bank has just cut interest rates, and the European Central Bank is likely to slash rates next week.

The technology can slash consumption of water during drilling thus to reduce drilling costs. This method already widely . . .

These elite units are equipped with long pikes and wear their distinctive and elaborate slash and puffed shirts and hose.

General Motors announced plans to slash second quarter production by 34% as it reported a whopping 53% drop in year-on-year U.

Mr Obama should also broaden the tax base and slash the number of exemptions and loopholes.

Richard M. Daley, mayor of Chicago, after he announced a plan to dramatically slash emissions of heat-trapping gases.

But they vowed to reject any fund structure that might slash incentives for U. S. companies to develop new technologies.

So its supporters were surprised when the state decided to slash Homeplace's funding by $750, 000 some months ago.

We pretend to slash the throat with a finger to show that a certain kind of trouble has occurred or is soon expected.

Instead, all our leaders do is slash interest rates, print money and rack up public debt. History will judge them harshly.

The companies would slash duplicated functions from engineering to marketing.

The issue is that Kyoto is the only legal treaty compelling rich nations to slash their greenhouse gas emissions.

It says consumers will benefit from the airlines' misfortune as leading airlines slash fares to woo customers.

Relative paths do not include the slash in front.

Still, it warned that market conditions remain challenging as competitors slash prices.

What about process control lines and equipment? How should they be shown? You can either draw the lines lighter or slash them.

Atkins is effective at short-term weight loss, as slash-and-burn managers are effective at short-term earnings growth.

It will shed half of its eight brands, slash a third of the hourly work force and halt production at 14 plants.

At some point, the government would have to slash spending in other areas to make room for any further sales of Treasury bills and bonds.

If VW's share price falls, it could slash profits on Porsche's options and reverse gains from other derivatives it holds.

Casino operators, electronics retailers, and auto-parts suppliers saw revenues fall faster than they could slash costs.

The double-hyphen and the slash-asterisk comment styles are compatible with Adaptive Server Enterprise.

Feeding garlic and oats to belching cows could be the answer to slash global warming.

Germany's government has adopted its own slash-and-burn austerity plan.

Quality supplies can cut down on injuries, save time, and slash your stress.

It says consumers will benefit from the airline's misfortune as leading airlines slash fares to woo customers.

The House resolution would slash support for international family planning and reproductive health care.

Now advertisers are fleeing to the internet and being forced by recession to slash their spending.

"To decimate" means to reduce by one-tenth; it does not mean to slash.

In here, from the slash-and-burn cultivation to the high tech agriculture, obtains the demonstration.

Britain's coalition government has launched an ambitious four-year plan to slash its massive deficit.

The Maya are thought by many to have used slash-and-burn agriculture.

The economic slowdown has led business to slash prices in hopes of kindling demand for goods and services.

Employees were fired immediately after promotional drives to slash costs.

Hiring talent fresh out of college is one way to slash personnel costs.

CIDR notation is an IP address, followed by a slash and a number from 0 to 32.

Home appliance sales are sluggish even at Mid Autumn Festival, forcing vendors to slash prices.

Slash is the open source software system that drives the hugely popular Slashdot web site and many others.

The name is invalid because it contains more than one slash or backslash. Type a valid name and try again.

China produces about 90 percent of the world's rare-earths, and announced in July that it would slash exports by 40 percent.

Method ignores a slash mark occurring at the end of the path .

He had decided that if ever caught he would slash his wrists before go to prison, but he was determined to never be caught.

Forests, too, are regrowing in rich countries, though still being lost in poor places where slash-and-burn is preferable to starvation.

Note that in HTML, you should lose the trailing slash at the end of the meta tag; that's an XHTML thing.

But there is still heated debate within OPEC over how severely to slash output now.

Being working class can slash several years off your lifespan, new research suggests.

Presidential hopeful Ron Paul's new proposal to slash federal spending would wipe out large chunks of the government's research portfolio.

Then worries about credit ratings led some nations, such as the U. K. , to slash budgets quickly.

Whoever won the election would sooner or later have to slash the deficit.

In this case, you either have to remove the slash or specify the directory with D.

The July tariff cut represents yet another severe reduction following the tariff slash of 600 commodities earlier this year.

look , what makes me . us . uncomfortable is the fact that a rapist - slash - murderer.

The recent trade data led economists to slash growth estimates for this year.

If this base URL starts with a forward slash, then a servlet context name will be prepended.

In Report Path, specify a forward slash, followed by the folder path, and the report name.

Zandi expects the Federal Reserve to slash the federal funds rate, currently at 3 percent, by another percentage point this year.

This method trims excess slash-mark characters to create a properly formatted path.

Most will have to slash spending, or increase taxes, or do both.

They plan to cut local taxes by 10%, slash salaries for elected officials, and shed overlapping public services.

The economic slowdown has led businesses to slash prices in hopes of kindlingdemandsdemand for goods and services.