1.   A new asylum law was passed, slashing the number of refugees allowed into the country each year.

2.   By banning multiple handgun sales, officials hope to slash the number that enter the black market.

3.   For one thing, he wants to slash the number of strikeouts.

4.   Hype or history, the key question is whether the heat generated by this contest will significantly slash the number of disengaged voters.

5.   Political pressures for slashing the number of warheads have begun to grow here.

6.   The extra hand-holding is possible because the fees let doctors slash the number of patients they see.

7.   The institute and the Clinton administration have called on the health care industry to slash the number of errors.

8.   The new government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu formed a committee to find ways to slash the number of foreign workers.

9.   They can slash the number of brochures they publish and not worry about constantly updating printed information because changes can be made directly on the network.

10.   Tiny Sunkus, for example, had to slash the number of books in the store to make room for the video game display.