It too incarcerated its contestants and obliged them to whittle down their own numbers.
The opposition's best hope in the next election may be to whittle down his majority.
The working groups were also told to whittle down their suggestions to 35, then 21, then nine.
It also included a final consolidation intended to whittle down the number of schools to a solid base.
Still, even in a grand bargain (or theme park), you eventually have to whittle down the ideas to a manageable few.
Often the easiest way for these folks to whittle down their estates is by making annual gifts to each child and grandchild.
When she first started out, potential clients balked at her fees and did everything they could to whittle down her bottom line.
Indeed, we had to whittle down our options on HP's site from about a dozen before picking out something comparable to recommend.
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Deutsche had started to whittle down its industrial assets some time ago.
Scammers would rather not deal with the vast majority of people on the web, and so they use strategies like this to whittle down to the whales.
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Business leaders at the time called it a mere "business recession" to whittle down excess capacity and high inventories built up in response to rising commodity prices.
The majority faction, which holds 68 seats in the 128-member parliament, has been the subject of assassinations over the last two years that many have ascribed to Syrian attempts to whittle down their slim majority in the legislature.
Congress could either provide guidelines to the executive on how default spending reduction is to occur or it could give the president authority, after paying all interest on the debt and Social Security payments, to whittle spending down as it sees fit to squeeze it within the debt limit.
"Wyeth has taken the 'Napoleon's retreat from Moscow' approach, by continuing to whittle claims down 10% to 15% a month, " Pruner says.
The intent is to free up valuable bandwidth that the federal government can sell, presumably to help whittle down the budget deficit.
There are so many questions that it's hard to whittle them down.
"This list is a good place to start, and then you can add criteria to help you whittle it down to a few names, " says Stovall.
The Center expects to whittle the count down to fewer than 100 suspect genes in about six months.
Today, the challenge is how to whittle that debt down, how to create an economy where finance does not necessarily come first.
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Ministers and their negotiators are supposed to whittle it all down into something they can sign off at the end of the week.
The National Association of State Budget Officers expects the current year's spending spree to whittle those reserves down from 6.9% of annual expenditures to 4.6% less than half the level before the recession.
Convergence involves a reductive process whereby you whittle the list down to only those ideas with the most potential.
Tablet makers selling a complete range at that break-even level could ultimately whittle down the market to those who either produced a winning formula at the right time (Apple) or have deep enough content stores and bank accounts to willingly give up large parts of their potential hardware profit (Amazon and Google).
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Popstars: The Rivals features ex-Spice Girl Geri Halliwell and industry gurus Pete Waterman and Louis Walsh who will whittle down thousands of wannabe singers to form two groups.
Whittle the group down from 41 businesses to a more manageable nine--in autos, trading and finance.
Blakely aims to whittle 65 billing and 23 accounts-receivable systems down to a much smaller number.
The new regulations will whittle down the list of approved manufacturers to ten for 2003.
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