1.   Other options open to the council include reducing the opening hours of all libraries or cutting back on the money it pends on books.

2.   Many assistance programs have begun to run out of food and are cutting back their hours or preparing less expensive, meatless meals.

3.   The Saudi ruling family, once answerable only to itself, is now following IMF prescriptions and cutting back on lavish state spending.

4.   When it agreed in June to back legislation cutting severance payments, it won a general promise from business leaders to raise wages, but with no percentage targets.

5.   Lubbers said that would require creating a Chechen police force, reducing the number of federal troops in the region and cutting back on federal checkpoints.