cutback

The bumper financial figures fly in the face of grumblings over the current economic backdrop, tough business environment, and household cutbacks on the types of big, one-off purchases Roberts' firm sells.

The “survival of the fittest” agenda permeates the cutbacks in food stamps, housing and heating assistance, which are based on beliefs about the “undeserving poor” — those who are supposedly lazy, or unmotivated, or greedy.

The federal government is in cutback mode, including Head Start.

County’s health services are anticipating federal cutbacks in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

The cutback in federal funding for the arts in Austria sounds a little too close to home.