NLB will also
scale back operations in Austria, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany, Italy and Serbia and sell its 41 percent stake in Banka Celje, the seventh biggest bank by assets in the former Yugoslav nation.
Tough trading conditions in the pub sector have forced the Hartlepool business to
scale back plans to expand its pub estate from 75 to 200 by the end of 2009.
Cowbridge and Llantwit Major police stations, in the Vale of Glamorgan, are currently under review as South Wales Police look to
scale back their estate.
US Department of Defense (DOD) may
scale back Future Combat System.
is set to have more room to develop its own ready-to-drink (RTD) tea brands in the United States after the company said it would
scale back Beverage Partners Worldwide, its venture with Nestle.
Additionally, House Republicans who had signed on to a 2006 bill to
scale back some of the law's most costly provisions were all re-elected to office.
Fit & Pregnant also covers which specific exercises are best avoided particularly in the second trimester onward, how to lift weights safely, and how to
scale back particularly intense regimens--pregnant women are advised to train not for professional competition, but rather specifically for the "event" of delivering a healthy baby.
The discounter says it plans to
scale back growth plans in 2007 and 2008.
The Port Authority has announced it will take on responsibility for the construction of the World Trade Center Memorial, the Memorial Museum and the Visitor Orientation and Education Center, a decision that Manhattan developer and memorial construction czar, Frank Sciame, recommended along with his recent cost saving redesign of the memorial as a way to further
scale back the project's price.
Nevertheless, the new study "tips the
scale back toward uncertainty" about saw palmetto, he says.--N.S.
The ALA, which has pushed to
scale back the government's powers to gain information from libraries, said its study was the first to examine a question that was central to a House vote in July on the Patriot Act: how frequently federal, state, and local agents are demanding records from libraries.
Two days after the administration released the $724 billion estimate, President Bush threatened to veto any bill that would
scale back the prescription drug program.
As a result, he says, states will "have an incentive to
scale back programs, and that's the safety net, that's what is keeping people alive, keeping people out of emergency rooms."
But speculators looking further ahead are reportedly concerned that tighter credit limits in China will
scale back that nation's construction boom--and ultimately its demand for metals.
Since the government implemented energy rationing in March, hundreds of companies have been forced to
scale back production.