The budget cuts were left teetering, a decision that did not bode well for a pending effort to trim current spending across the board.

Fear that consumers will trim spending is likely to produce vigorous price-cutting during the holiday shopping season.

Many Senators, including me, have offered suggestions of ways to trim federal spending.

How can the nation strike a balance between modernizing military forces and trimming military spending?

Conservative efforts to trim spending, below levels negotiated before the election, have infuriated Democrats.

The executive branch, though, is reviewing major Government contracts and has ordered each agency to come up with ways to trim spending, she said.

The district trimmed spending and did all it could to avoid layoffs.

In the last year, the Dinkins administration has been repeatedly forced to trim spending and press for tax increases.

An independent central bank, with its power to raise interest rates, can trim private spending to offset a government's inclination to profligacy.

But they also demanded proof that he intended to trim Federal spending enough to justify the tax increases.