They attacked a regional headquarters of the state security service, cutting off the head of the commander and killing a large number of policemen.

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In December, Prince unveiled a cost-cutting plan led by investment banking head Robert Druskin.

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The law was a pistol Congress pointed at its own head in order to frighten itself into cutting the deficit.

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Meanwhile, the head of the Institute of Fiscal Studies told MSPs at Holyrood that the spending squeeze has a lot more cutting to do.

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An engineer who joined Toshiba in 1953 and rose up the ranks to head the heavy equipment division and later to oversee finance and production, Sato embarked on a cost-cutting exercise and moved to restructure the sprawling company.

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