scaling-down

Part of that scaling-down will involve cutting $25 per week from unemployment checks and shortening the amount of time Medicare doctors are protected from the 21 percent pay cut.

Jobs Bill Bombs In Senate, 45-52 2010

Social media hype desperately needed a scaling-down, and Carr's righteous attack provided an effective humbling.

Adam Elkus: Fort Hood and Social Media: Between Two Extremes 2009

"We aren't stopping our operations, but we're scaling-down to regroup and understand what is happening," he said.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi leaders warned on Monday that an early U.S. troop withdrawal could tip Iraq into all-out civil war after the New York Times said debate was growing in the White House over a gradual scaling-down of forces ...

One Move and Iraq Gets It! 2007

And probably also a serious scaling-down of my immediate ambitions as a literary scholar--I think it adds up to much the same thing in the end, but the academic career--like so many others--is heavily front-loaded, meaning that you are expected to do a great deal of work in your twenties and thirties, and if you're on a slower clock due to a mix of different responsibilities, it can be very tricky to recoup afterwards.

Archive 2004-11-01 Jenny Davidson 2004

And probably also a serious scaling-down of my immediate ambitions as a literary scholar--I think it adds up to much the same thing in the end, but the academic career--like so many others--is heavily front-loaded, meaning that you are expected to do a great deal of work in your twenties and thirties, and if you're on a slower clock due to a mix of different responsibilities, it can be very tricky to recoup afterwards.

This complicated and controversial question Jenny Davidson 2004

In general, a scaling-down of government involvement in the economy would make the South African investment environment more attractive.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

They said early indications were that workers whose services were about to be terminated as part of the scaling-down of construction operations, which was understood by all involved, initiated the disturbances.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

The Eastern Cape government is to begin a massive scaling-down of the region's public service, premier Raymond Mhlaba announced on

ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

He said the lay-offs brought to 482 the number of employees retrenched since 1992 because of a scaling-down of the company's space-related activities.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1994