21.   He cut editorial staffs, slashed budgets and offered deep discounts to choice advertisers.

22.   How much the government will continue to spend on helping the poor depends on how much Congress slashes anticipated budgets and which programs are counted as basically antipoverty.

23.   If the FDA is not careful it could find its budget slashed to pieces.

24.   Its budget has been slashed.

25.   Many of its biggest advertisers went out of business, and the rest slashed their budgets.

26.   New hotels came on line just as corporations slashed travel budgets and laid off employees.

27.   New York has a new mayor who is slashing budgets and talking a lot about tough times.

28.   Nobody slashes the budget or axes a proposed new work.

29.   On the minus side, she slashed the budget for environmental law enforcement and stopped levying meaningful fines against big polluters.

30.   On Sunday the government slashed its budget for the third time this year.