Concerning the city's finances in early 2009, Rupright has stated that the city is preparing for a 5 percent cutback across the board.

He said there would be a 5 percent cutback in the use of oil and an unspecified increase in the price of gas.

A 4 percent cutback in the $279.5 million budget for the community colleges would be $9.1 million.

And greater flexibility would be permitted in the mix of products used to achieve the 21 percent cutback.

Norway said Friday that it would extend until the end of the year its voluntary 7.5 percent cutback in the planned growth of petroleum production.

But the Blair House agreement stipulates that the reference point for the 21 percent cutback would be average sales in the 1988-90 period.

He said, however, that studies indicated that a 50 percent cutback on garbage was possible.

The layoffs represent a 6 percent cutback in the hourly work force of 9,000 at the Louisville complex, which also has a salaried staff of 2,000.

"We are planning about a 25 percent cutback in personnel, which first of all will affect the approximately 1,000 people in administration," he told Nepszabadsag.

Yet the Administration's 1993 budget calls for a 90 percent cutback in new construction of these apartments.