The added costs of the global recession have now forced them to do the politically unthinkable : chop social spending and raise taxes in trying economic times .
It was designed to train low-income people to chop wood and distribute it to other poor people to burn in their stoves .
根据计划,这个项目要培训低收入者学会砍木头,然后把木头分发给其他穷人做燃料。
Vodafone in april said it would chop its carbon dioxide emissions in half by 2020 ; the company plans to do so largely by improving the energy efficiency of its global mobile-phone networks .
The generics business faces " phenomenally high cost pressures " , he explains , not least because " some government somewhere will always be ready to chop prices . "
仿制药业务面对“可以感受到的高成本压力”,他解释说,特别是因为“一些政府将随时准备削减价格。”
They seem ready to cut their agricultural tariffs by about half on average , but still want to spare too many " sensitive " products , such as beef and poultry , from the full force of the chop .