Sentences with phrase «drastic cutbacks»

Earlier, financial shortfalls had forced the counties to propose drastic cutbacks in the hours of registry operation.

Mountain reservoirs look like nearly empty bathtubs and federal and state officials have announced drastic cutbacks on how much water they will be able to deliver to California's 80,500 farmers and ranchers, who use 80 percent of the state's water to produce crops, livestock and dairy products worth nearly $ 45 billion in 2012.

And since the remedy, drastic cutbacks in fuel production, was so extreme, many of these people went way out on a limb with their concerns, precipitating a veritable firestorm of anxiety — since nothing less than a form of sheer hysteria could be powerful enough to produce the necessary changes.

That's why the Brooklyn legislator made it a point to be one of nine area senators who met with concerned UFT members and parents on June 5 to discuss the potentially drastic cutbacks facing New York City schools.

Mayor Bloomberg blames a statewide slash in education funding for the drastic cutbacks.

He even maintains that his most serious mistake, presenting one budget with drastic cutbacks and another fully funded via a new sales tax, stemmed from the failure of GOP legislators to back him.

Not exact matches

As weeks pass, your happiness levels out and are affected only by more drastic events — layoffs or cutbacks, for instance, or bonuses and awards.

It is that «U.S. policymakers will prevent the drastic automatic tax increases and spending cutbacks (the fiscal cliff) implied by existing budget law, raise the federal debt ceiling in a timely manner, and make good progress toward a comprehensive plan to restore fiscal sustainability.»

Drastic regional cutbacks of banana production in 1984 led officials to save the town's economy by establishing a duty - free zone in the northern end of the city.

Without this drastic USA cutback, IPCC estimates that we will reach 600 ppmv CO2 by 2100 (average of cases B1 and A1T, both assuming no special «climate initiatives», population growth rate slowing down reaching 10.5 billion by 2100, with medium and fast economic growth rate).

The cutbacks have been so drastic in some places that they virtually guarantee injured workers will plummet into poverty.