Sentences with phrase «dramatically scaled back»

Then, when people didn't like that idea they could have countered with a dramatically scaled back half - measure of a protected bike lane and improved pedestrian safety redesign of Clinton Ave.. It'd have been so mundane and low - key compared to the highly disruptive plan on Vanderbilt that maybe, just maybe, all the NIMBYs would have gone for it.

It's also important to know that most media outlets have dramatically scaled back their «staff» writer positions, and instead rely on freelance submissions for content.

Social Security could be dramatically scaled back in such a crisis, to the point where it no longer resembles the current program.

You leave your job only to shortly find you've got to «unretire» or live a dramatically scaled back retirement lifestyle.

After more than two and a half years, Barnes & Noble (BKS) and Microsoft (MSFT) are ending their partnership in the money - losing e-reader and tablet Nook business the bookseller has dramatically scaled back in the last year.

Trump dramatically scaled back two sprawling national monuments in Utah, cutting Bears Ears to 220,000 acres from 1.5 million and slicing the 2 - million - acre Grand Staircase - Escalante in half.

Due to a clause in Puerto Rico's constitution stating that Puerto Rico must pay its debts before it can pay for anything else, social services on the island have been threatened and Medicaid has been dramatically scaled back.

Earlier this month, Facebook said it was dramatically scaling back the number of advertising options it offers to marketers in an attempt to simplify the ad - buying process.

The reason for this is that many countries in Asia used the prior period of falling crude prices to end, or dramatically scale back, their fuel subsidies.

But then Gingrich, who hasn't won a state since February, announced he was dramatically scaling back his campaign.

The DN's Ken Lovett reported earlier today that the governor might dramatically scale back the number of last - minute appointments he's seeking to have the Senate approve, since the Democrats are singularly uninterested in helping him out.

The new education law, ESSA, dramatically scales back Washington's ability to tell states how to gauge acceptable performance and eliminates Washington's prescriptions for low - performing schools.

If the market suffers a major meltdown, you and your wife could find yourselves having to dramatically scale back, if not postpone, your retirement plans.

But the idea is to gradually shift to a more conservative portfolio, so you don't find yourself with such a large exposure to stocks as you enter retirement that a market downturn would require you to dramatically scale back your retirement plans or even force you to postpone retirement altogether.

But the episode highlights the financial difficulties that have plagued the company from the outset — an issue that's noteworthy ever since Faraday's main financier, the Chinese tech - conglomerate LeEco, announced last month that it was slashing its U.S. workforce and dramatically scaling back its operations in the nation.

Not exact matches

The investment tap ran dry; Griffith says, «We had to scale back pretty dramatically to survive.

He made a biting sinker the centerpiece of his repertoire, throwing it 61 percent of the time and scaling back his four - seam fastball usage dramatically.

Chicago Tribune: Blagojevich plans to take witness stand at his corruption retrial, sources say Rod Blagojevich's retrial on corruption charges has been mostly a scaled - back repeat of last summer's first installment, but that could soon change dramatically if the former governor testifies in his own defense and calls Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel among his first witnesses.

The administration may soon issue a dramatically scaled - back version of Obama's Clean Power Plan

Sources tracking the regulation say they ultimately expect the administration to issue a dramatically scaled - back version of Obama's plan.

After striking out big time with the blockbuster misfire «The Lone Ranger,» director Gore Verbinski and screenwriter Justin Haythe are reuniting and scaling things back dramatically for the new psychological thriller «A Cure For Wellness.»

Barnes & Noble last year scaled back its Nook business dramatically to stanch losses that were in the hundreds of millions per year at one point, and now only works with a manufacturer, Samsung, to sell new devices: in August, Barnes & Noble launched its first new tablet in almost two years,

Just last year, Swiss giant Xstrata PLC scaled back operations in Timmins dramatically, axing 670 jobs.

In 20 years, most long - term public entitlement and private employee benefit schemes that promised fixed payments / reimbursement will be scaled back dramatically, and most retirees will be very disappointed.

So when the oil industry was forced to scale back dramatically, regular Albertans were hit hard.

The only monkey wrench is when some perterbation gives snow / ice the upper hand, slowing the water cycle dramatically, which can cause long - lived snowball epsisodes which only end after millions of years of volcanoes belching snow - darkening soot and insulating CO2 gas to tip the scale back towards domination by liquid water instead of frozen water.

As consumers were ready to upgrade from their Galaxy S3s, the mobile landscape had dramatically changed — HTC was building beautiful phones completely out of metal with scaled - back software, LG had its revitalized G series, Motorola was back with a fresh take on smartphone design and software, and a cavalry of small manufacturers was pushing everyone to do better.