Word: cuttingly
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Hartford, Conn. – Question 1: Connecticut needs $8.8 billion to balance its budget. Should the state A) raise taxes or B) cut spending? Democrats, who control two-thirds of the legislature, say the answer is both of the above. But Governor Jodi Rell, a Republican, says raising taxes is the wrong choice. On prudence, Rell scores high: Raising taxes will slow the recovery, so the state should cut spending instead...
...Furthermore, he said, when SEIU organizers meet with human resource and academic administrators, Harvard officials are uninformed and fail to communicate openly about their specific cost-cutting needs and goals. He said that the union routinely asks Harvard how many staff will be cut and how the University plans to accomplish the same workload with fewer staff, but each time the response has been unclear and unsatisfactory...
...Harvard says we're going to cut these services, it's what you do," DeLuca said. "[The union] has nothing to say about the cuts. If you're running a business and you want to cut somebody, you don't have to ask the union's permission. That's the way America runs...
...Ellwood said that the School has frozen salaries for faculty and exempt staff, implemented a "hiring frost," reduced the faculty budget, and trimmed expenses for travel, food, rent, and outside services. But a roughly $2 million "long-term structural gap" remained, he said, forcing the School to cut staff...
...cut other non-personnel costs, the Kennedy School has also indefinitely postponed many of its capital projects, sought new sources of revenue through donors and research grants, and participated in the University's voluntary early retirement incentive program, Ellwood wrote in his e-mail...