manpower reductions

In addition to manpower reductions, other efficiencies have been achieved.

The West would be wise to press for an early treaty but with staged implementation of manpower reductions.

The budget cuts and manpower reductions that followed forced the Navy to decommission 376 ships.

More than half the 5,300 tanks had been removed, and about half the manpower reductions had been achieved.

Both National Westminster and Barclays said earlier this year that there would be significant manpower reductions when their annual results were published.

There must be other ways of supporting the Customs who work with great efficiency and integrity despite manpower reductions and an increased flow of goods.

And any manpower reductions could affect Police Commissioner Bernard B. Kerik's plan to increase the number of officers on patrol.

This bundle of competing commitments is complicated by manpower reductions that the department faces, due to a recent surge in retirements as well as looming budget difficulties.

Remaining in Tenochtitlan, however, reversed this situation, leaving Cuauhtemoc all his soldiers while forcing his enemies to bear the manpower reductions involved in coming to him.

The close of World War II and subsequent manpower reductions left the island-hopping Defense Battalions without a legitimate peacetime role.

In response, Hamlet implemented a cost-cutting plan which called for decommissioning of vessels, closing of Coast Guard stations, manpower reductions, and a 25% reduction in expenditures.

Rarely able to skip out to golf, what with an incessant lineup of squabbles with the city over contracts, firehouse closings and manpower reductions, he practices his putting right here.

The campaign incorporated work organization themes; inventory reduction, improved quality through self-inspection, and maximizing automated process efficiencies by manpower reductions and more flexible manning practices (Willman, 1986: 210).

The recommendations of a study especially conducted in early 1992 have been largely implemented - involving manpower reductions, factory reconfiguration and the acceptance of a vital cost improvement agreement by the Waterford workforce.

The manpower reductions mandated as part of the build down had been disproportionately concentrated among experienced personnel, particularly in the senior noncom and enlisted grades, which helped explain some of the problem, but it certainly didn't excuse it.

He "initiated a determined programme of cost and manpower reductions, fully backed by the Prime Minister, Gladstone described him [Childers] as 'a man likely to scan with a rigid eye the civil expenses of the Naval Service'.

The budget has yet to be taken up by the House Appropriations Committee, but the Senate, led by Senator Lloyd M. Bentsen, Democrat of Texas, has already voted for spending levels that would not require the proposed manpower reductions.

For these reasons, the committee will closely scrutinize proposed manpower reductions, and will also continue oversight to ensure that the Armed Services - Active Guard and Reserve - can sustain themselves while minimizing the negative effects of fighting two wars simultaneously and be adequately manned to fight future contingencies.