71.   Nugent has sold assets and slashed costs.

72.   Over the past two decades, U.S. companies have been slashing costs to survive in an increasingly competitive marketplace.

73.   Other industries are benefiting from capital investment that improved productivity and efficiency while slashing manufacturing costs to compete with other factories at home and abroad.

74.   Others lifted earnings by slashing costs and pushing out local competitors.

75.   Pharmacia and Upjohn are betting that combining will enable them to slash costs and increase sales using a larger distribution network in the U.S., Europe and Japan.

76.   Pharmacia and Upjohn are betting that combining will help them slash costs and increase sales using a larger distribution network in the U.S., Europe and Japan.

77.   Refiners, beleaguered by years of low refining profit margins, have been pressed by shareholders to slash inventory costs.

78.   Raymond and Noto have both been lauded for their willingness to slash costs and boost performance.

79.   Rather than boost prices for goods and services, hard-hit employers must slash labor costs -- the largest single expense for businesses, Schlossberg said.

80.   Republic has found that after it acquires a bank, it can slash costs and increase business.