11.   Budgets were slashed, expansion plans were shelved and company executives wondered just how deep the abyss might be.

12.   But as culture budgets are slashed in the United States, Germany, with its ambitious program of theater subsidies, is looking more attractive.

13.   But today the government acknowledged defeat by slashing the budget.

14.   By slashing the budgets of the Interior Department and its agencies, critics are trying to dismantle the parks system and gut the Endangered Species Act, he said.

15.   City officials also said that, at a time federal and state budgets are being slashed, reducing the size of the foster care system is necessary.

16.   Companies are dumping people and slashing their budgets to cope with lower military spending in the wake of the end of the Cold War.

17.   CUTTING THE CENSUS BUDGET The Census Bureau asks too many questions, say some congressional Republicans who want to slash its budget.

18.   Faced with a downturn in the economy, the government is attempting to slash the budget and satisfy campaign promises of no new taxes.

19.   Faced with a hostile Congress determined to slash its budget, the EPA lacked the heart to fight a Republican state government.

20.   For an archdiocese that just slashed its budget, that is not good news.