Word: cutbacks
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...Nobody expects overall troop numbers to be boosted any time soon. On the contrary, a January report by defense analyst Professor Malcolm Chalmers for the Royal United Services Institute predicts cuts of 20% to military personnel over the next six years. Political leaders justified the last cutback of this scale, the replacement of the British Army of the Rhine in 1994 by a standing force of less than half its size, as a "peace dividend" arising from the end of the Cold War. But with failed states on three continents giving cause for concern, the chance of a new peace...
Young said he hopes the administrative cutback will shed light on why Cambridge spends more per pupil than the average Mass. school system...
...protesters carried posters that read “Harvard Gambles, Workers Lose” and “Layoffs Are Not the New Crimson” and chanted mantras such as “they say cutback, we say fight back, they say layoff we say back off, they say furlough we say hell...