cutback

The past few years seemed to be following the familiar road to a recession: reduced job creation, cutbacks in hours, and reduced reliance on temporary workers.

And to hear businesspeople tell it, the shutdown cutbacks are making air travel, already a challenging proposition on the best of days, a new nightmare of uncertainty.

As schools scramble to make cutbacks, they face broader questions about what kind of university they can be in this new era of financial constraint.

A head teachers' union said the transport played a "crucial" role in getting many children to school but councils were having to make cutbacks.

Her research indicates that it's not just low-income households that are making considerable cutbacks on their heating, as evidenced through the "record levels of energy debt" in Britain.