The airline also plans to prune its flight schedule by just under 4% during the first three months of 2003.
Another is the need for European banks to slim their balance-sheets: trade finance, because of its short-term nature, is easy to prune.
If Mr Tusk can dump his coalition partner, the smallholders' People's Party, he will find it easier to prune wasteful subsidies for farmers.
It should be able to prune vines at about half the cost of manual labour, says Derek Morikawa, the chief executive of Vision Robotics.
Its directives include one to prune the dealer population, now 6, 246, by more than the 35% GM had planned--and to do it much faster.
The government has begun to make spending cuts, but these fall far short of what may be required to prune an overgrown public sector.
Some firms have moved to prune their plans, by shrinking benefit amounts or lowering caps that limit retiree payments to a certain percentage of profits.
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It promises to prune the public sector and to slash regulations.
And British Airways plans to prune its European network drastically.
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Canadian teams are working to reorganise Bangladesh Rail, to prune its staff and minor routes and improve financial and accounting systems, in the way that Canadian National Railways was restructured.
After years of trying to oust ineffective teachers by reforming the system, the Bloomberg administration is turning to options it already has available to try to prune the weakest educators from its ranks.
The biggest, an effort to prune the country's dreadful thicket of indirect taxes into a tidier form, an all-India Goods and Services Tax, has been pushed back by a year, to April 2012.
Until the electronics makers are willing to prune their businesses to concentrate on a few targeted areas rather than stock a bit of everything on their shelves, they will continue to flounder as the world passes them by.
The recent round of consolidation in the financial industry has given them another excuse to step up this process: merger partners need to prune holdings so that banks' combined stakes do not exceed 5% of a company's stock, the legal limit.
They were even able to use a stone of the wrong size to release one of the right size, which they then used to get the waxworm, and, more remarkably still, to prune twigs off a stick to make it fit the tube.
Clorox deploys cross-functional teams to continually prune its product portfolio, insuring that remaining products meet their volume targets.
Robotics: Six presenting firms offer robotic and software systems to maximize yield and productivity including Energid Technologies that has developed a robotic citrus harvesting system that automatically finds and removes fruit at a lower cost than manual harvesting, and Vision Robotics that will use stereo vision-based robots to pick, prune and other tasks on specialty crops.
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College leaders must prune the dying parts to allow the young, growing buds to thrive.
Despite the fact that millions have eaten prunes and drunk prune juice in order to lighten themselves of their internal burden for centuries, the European Union has now ruled that prunes are not in fact laxatives.
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Prune the trees closest to your house.
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