Rushing into adoption of hastily conceived scholarship and personnel cost-cutting proposals is a mistake.

Workers at Waterford Crystal glass works in Ireland ended a 14-week strike today after agreeing on cost-cutting proposals with management.

This approach was credited with forcing the government to introduce bureaucracy reduction and cost-cutting proposals of their own.

The consolidated account is estimated to total about $170 million to $180 million in revenue, reflecting the cost-cutting proposals Omnicom made to land the business.

But leaders of the United Steelworkers of America said Bethlehem rejected the union's cost-cutting proposals for the Johnstown division last year.

BBC local broadcasting staff have launched a campaign against what they call the corporation's "Destroy Quality Forever" cost-cutting proposals announced last week.

USAir's pilots plan a $2.5 billion cost-cutting proposal, including $750 million in pilot payroll cuts over five years.

Now the Pataki administration maintains that the stripped-down budget will drive spending up to $84 billion without any new spending or programs, because it lacks the governor's cost-cutting proposals.

Some of the governor's cost-cutting proposals would sharply reduce the benefits for poor and working-class New Yorkers.

Pressed lately to come up with $80 million a year in savings to remain solvent, the employee-controlled board eschewed layoffs but asked the company's 5,000 workers for cost-cutting proposals.