31.   The plan to cut the size of Columbia is still in development.

32.   The Treasury responded last week by cutting the size of the weekly bill auction and suspending sales of securities to state and local governments.

33.   To protect profit margins, some companies are freezing salaries and cutting the size of their workforce.

34.   Other retailers have closed some stores, or cut their size.

35.   Particularly difficult will be steps like seizing illegal weaponry, cutting the size of Palestinian security forces and halting incitement against Israel.

36.   A central question, apparently still unanswered, is whether Rumsfeld will decide to cut the size of the military as a way to pay for the improvements.

37.   Beijing already has planted such barriers on a smaller scale, cutting the size of gritty dust storms that smother the Chinese capital each spring.

38.   But Clinton said Congress needs to pass an education budget that provides the means to continue to cut class size and increase teacher quality.

39.   Gnodde said the Singapore government decided to cut the size of the issue rather than the price.

40.   He said it may be necessary to cut the size of the uniformed services through attrition.