Some council members have called for broader cuts in light of the city's estimated $4.4 billion budget surplus.
Both the Administration and Congress want to avoid those broad cuts.
The blood had come from a broad but shallow cut across the temple.
The proposals are part of broad cuts to close an estimated $5 billion budget gap through the end of the next fiscal year.
Even some Democrats are pushing for a broader cut than the President is proposing.
But a couple days later came broad cuts in expenses, with incentives for white-collar employees to retire early.
He had a wound on his temple, a broad cut sliced deep into the greasy flesh there—as if made by a boomerang.
United's unions have promised labor strife if United attempted such broad cuts.
Among her first acts on taking office in 2001 was to order broad cuts in state spending.
American Airlines has spent two weeks trumpeting the broad cuts it has made in air fares.