Recently it had to cut back to two days.

The 180-day school year was cut to 175 days.

Now, most branch libraries have been cut back to five days.

Already, he said, that has been cut to 21 days.

By last December that average had been cut to 1.2 days.

Two years ago, after a heart attack, he cut back to three days a week.

Executives first asked: How do we cut that to 10 days?

The laboratory's officials hope to cut its turnaround time, which can now take months, to 30 days by next fall.

The shows, which usually draw about 70,000 customers annually, have been cut to two days a week from five.

Under the new regulations, the average time to process a case has been cut from six years to 105 days.