31.   This week the local electricity company has threatened to cut of the power supply to the base because it is almost a year in arrears.

32.   When visitors had overstayed their welcome, they were liable to confront a lesser cut of meat, often a leftover haunch from the kitchen cooler.

33.   With profits restored, Delta is trying to rebuild a service reputation that suffered amid the growth and cost cutting of recent years.

34.   Analysts said the market also got a boost from an interest rate cut of half a percentage point by the European Central Bank on Thursday.

35.   At noon on Friday, water and electricity to the compound were cut of, surprising the diplomats.

36.   But they softened their stance and accepted the mediation of neighboring Angola after the United States and the European Union threatened to cut of vital development aid.

37.   Citing reports of layoffs and cutting of wages and benefits, he said the situation was worsening.

38.   Cutting of immature cane created a vicious cycle in recent years as the sugar industry, pushing to meet harvest goals, sacrificed production from future harvests.

39.   Environmentalists say the government must step up measures to stop cutting of the dwindling tropical rain forest or risk destruction of its fragile ecosystem.