We are all prepared to take pay cuts but when it comes down to dismantling everything you've worked for the situation cannot continue.

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To survive, he laid off 10, 700 workers and began shutting down stores and dismantling the nonretail misadventures his siblings had overseen.

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But dismantling the welfare state, or even slimming it down, is not on her agenda.

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The first phase of the plan was supposed to have ended by now: it involves Palestinians reforming their government and cracking down on terrorism, and the Israelis withdrawing their troops from Palestinian cities, dismantling new settlement outposts and freezing further building in the West Bank and Gaza.

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Officials considered detailing their goals for the next round of arms talks with Russia, including controls on battlefield tactical nuclear weapons, dismantling mothballed warheads and reducing total deployments to 1, 000 warheads a side, down from the 1, 550 limit in the new treaty.

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Right now, police are cracking down on organised crime while members of the Icelandic parliament, Althingi, are considering laws that will aid in dismantling these networks.

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