The expected reduction to 18,000 from 21,000 troops will be announced next week in Brussels.

The difference arises because the expected reduction in research income, a trend affecting many universities as a result of a move towards greater selectivity, has not been matched by a corresponding increase in teaching funding.

The yield on the Fed funds futures contract for January is 1.74 percent, reflecting the expected reduction.

Even with an expected reduction of interest payments after the offering, the company said it did not expect to earn a profit in 1996.

Instead of the expected reduction of environmental and traffic problems the axing will cause more traffic problems.

Beyond the expected reduction in extreme and destructive behaviors, the therapied proved more facile and adaptable, effectively more intelligent, and therefore more skeptical.

The main item on the agenda was Israel's diversion of water from the north to irrigate the south and the expected reduction in the water supplies available to Syria and Jordan.

The plant has received an energy conservation grant under the EC's Thermie programme in recognition of the expected reduction in CO2 output.

Lawrence O. Kitchen, Lockheed's chairman, said the consolidation reflected the expected reduction in major military contracting projects in the next five to 10 years.

Also, an expected reduction this year in the excess supply of natural gas - the "gas bubble" - is expected to help the gas pipeline industry.