Mark S. Tulis, a former legislator and one of three members on a special panel appointed by the Board to study the pay issue, said the panel wanted to reduce the overall compensation to legislators to reflect general cutbacks in county government.

That's because the court's central finding would seem to make it virtually impossible for a college to drop any women's sports as part of a general cutback in athletic funding.

Since 1989, the industry has been battered by the loss or contraction of corporations within the state, by a general cutback in business travel, a decline in tourism and the brute force of the recession in New England.

The heavy expenditure on submarines, poor materiel condition of the fleet, and general cutbacks in naval expenditures in the wake of the war made it clear about this time (mid-1921) that the flotilla would have to be reduced to reserve.

Now, as part of its general cutbacks, the company has announced that all internal renewable energy work will stop, although outside investments will continue.

The United Nations is studying a general cutback to only "life saving" activities, which could gut already modest programs in health, narcotics control and other areas.

Further study and lab tests of GVT were suggested, but these were not funded, and were a casualty of a general cutback in Federal funding for most forms of advanced rail transit in 1969.

Charles Cranmer, an analyst at Shearson Lehman Hutton, said a general cutback in lending was already noticeable.

As part of a general cutback of art subsidies, the visual arts budget has now been slashed from $60 million to $15 million.