"But the retrenching has allowed us to get very focused."

Even this retrenching is seen as a temporary state of affairs.

This year has seen mergers, layoffs and a general retrenching.

Some of the governments' retrenching has been striking.

The latest retrenching, however, has more to do with an atmosphere of caution, many of those interviewed said.

He called the whole program "extremely valuable for kids" but said the district might have to "look at retrenching to basics" for financial reasons.

"That will cause a retrenching in their businesses," he said, "and that will ripple through the supply chain."

The simple truth is that, rather than retrenching personnel as we are led to believe, the KGB has taken on additional recruits during 1990 and 1991.

"It is difficult to characterize last term's decisions as the product of anything other than a deliberate retrenching of the civil rights agenda," Justice Marshall said.

The decline comes amid a retrenching by auto manufacturers that began last year when the Government raised interest rates to prevent a rapid depletion of foreign currency reserves.

This week, during a meeting with analysts and investors, the company's new chief executive, Jeffrey B. Kindler, announced that Pfizer was going to do some serious retrenching.

G.M.'s retrenching, combined with gains in market share for some of its new models, are behind his "buy" recommendation, for investors who have the patience to wait for the auto industry to turn up.

To some extent these drawings, mostly in pencil, delineate a retrenching of realism that is quite at odds with the descriptive and painterly liberties taken by the German Expressionists, who were these artists' contemporaries.

But after the opening, we discovered issues in the West that we could see we share: women suffer in economic retrenching, female university graduates find it more difficult to get positions, girls get jobs only as secretaries."

The hint was immediately taken up by Mr Shepherd, whose interest was involved in the reality of Sir Walter's retrenching, and who was perfectly persuaded that nothing would be done without a change of abode.

Newspapers across the country are retrenching, redeploying their employees and resources while they try to ride out what they hope is a temporary slump but one made all the more worrisome as readers and advertisers migrate to the Internet.

Jane K. Stahl, the deputy commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection, said the department permit stipulated that no retrenching could be performed before October to avoid environmental damage to oysters and hard shell clams.

Indeed, in addition to the retrenching, Whirlpool also said that it would assume control of Brasmotor S.A., the profitable Brazilian appliance company that has been its longtime partner in South America, by paying $217 million to increase its stake to 66 percent from 33 percent.

Her father is one of the men we are retrenching.

The company were able to retrench and hold on for some time.

Other members of the press added to the call to retrench.

He'd probably had to retrench his scale of living a good deal since the war.

He simply had his forces retrench while a new strategy was considered.

Most jobs have been lost because small businesses went under or retrenched.

But rather than retrench, the country turned a disaster into an opportunity.

How do most people need to retrench their thinking about spouse choice?

He was retrenched after five months, an experience that eventually led to him opening his own business.

The problems could force the company to retrench in many neighborhoods, both rich and poor.

"A lot of retailers saw that the hard way and retrenched."

The No. 1 auto maker has been retrenching for months.

They must retrench; that did not admit of a doubt.

The sites have been forced to retrench and may find it difficult to survive.

But then the bottom fell out of the credit market and the company was forced to retrench.

Short sellers have, after all, been retrenching since 1991, when the market's long bull run began.

"But sales did not rise, his costs were too much and he had to retrench on wages."

Those remaining are retrenching to meet the new demands of a changing market.

They have lost focus and should probably retrench around their enterprise offerings.

Department stores retrenched, focusing on fashion, but not even that worked.

Any enterprise that failed this test would be forced to retrench.

Companies that make goods for sale abroad have retrenched the most.

They tried to retrench, but the chain wound up in bankruptcy.

While the domestic market began growing, export-oriented companies were retrenching.

Since then the government has increasingly retrenched from a position of generally allowing more political freedom.