Santa takes too long to trim his beard or sort through the mail.

It is also working to trim employees through attrition and early retirement to reduce costs.

Late last year it said it expected to trim 48,000 of its 233,000 employees worldwide through 1999.

Westport's voters can legally force the government to trim the overall budget through a referendum.

The budget package, which calls for trimming about $12 billion from the deficit through increased taxes and spending cuts, passed the Senate earlier this month.

The other is trimming energy use through conservation and more efficient appliances and cars.

At the same time, there was clearly ample scope for trimming the cost base to its feasible minimum through the provision of common services.

After trimming costs through dismissals, companies need to encourage their remaining workers to improve productivity, he said.

With each worker collecting more garbage, the city hopes to trim about 600 sanitation jobs through attrition.

Then, when fiscal hard times came along, it trimmed the faculty through several seasons of induced retirements.