11.   So privatization creates a financial hole that must be filled by slashing benefits, providing large financial transfers from the rest of the government or both.

12.   The sweeping new laws slash benefits to hundreds of thousands of legal immigrants, expedite deportation proceedings, and crack down on illegal immigration.

13.   The union counters that a withdrawal would hurt workers by making it easier for the company to slash benefits in the future.

14.   Their pollsters have warned that the public understandably reacts negatively when told health benefits may be slashed.

15.   Overregulation by the government must come to an end, taxes and social benefits must be slashed, Kaltefleiter wrote.

16.   Her effigy was regularly burned on the streets as she slashed benefits and charged into reforming the public health sector.

17.   Some are fleeing provinces where conservative governments have recently slashed welfare benefits.

18.   WORKERS fortunate enough to keep their jobs in the economic downswing fear their wages and benefits may be slashed.

19.   MAV general manager Zoltan Rigo said that in case of a strike, the company would slash new benefits the company has paid out since the collective contract expired.