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Some may be at risk of approaching this in a crude way, or so called "salami-slicing".
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It is worth spelling out – as the IFS does here – the changes announced by the government that affect families with children, because it is a classic case of salami-slicing.
Tax cuts for high earners make no sense – give them to those on low incomes 2011
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That's why far from simply salami-slicing numbers coming here with no thought to the impact that will have on business, we have thought incredibly carefully about how we can select and attract the world's brightest to our shores.
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So it would not surprise me at all that when the GOP starts saying ‘vote for us to keep the Bush tax cuts permanently’, the Dems drift into salami-slicing and maybe-later-isms, instead of letting them expire.
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Thus there is a crisis, which cannot possibly be resolved by efficiency savings, salami-slicing or the familiar expedient of distributing pain between all three services.
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Thus there is a crisis, which cannot possibly be resolved by efficiency savings, salami-slicing or the familiar expedient of distributing pain between all three services.
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Thus there is a crisis, which cannot possibly be resolved by efficiency savings, salami-slicing or the familiar expedient of distributing pain between all three services.
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The next group to fall foul of this Labour governments 'salami-slicing tactics will be those working in airport restricted areas.
Archive 2008-09-01 Not a sheep 2008
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Thus there is a crisis, which cannot possibly be resolved by efficiency savings, salami-slicing or the familiar expedient of distributing pain between all three services.
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He is concerned the coalition may simply focus on "salami-slicing", with the result that the state does pretty much what it did before but with less money.
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