Press was put on the market as a profitable company, and slimmed down to increase its profitability.
This responsibility was retained by slimmed-down local health authorities who were re-invented as, in some sense, the collective representation of the ' purchasing power ' of the local population.
It has been not fattened up but slimmed down to prepare it for privatisation.
I heard her say this on television recently; industry is being slimmed down; it is being made leaner.
The challenge to achieve self-sufficiency in food has produced a slimmed down, highly mechanised industry.
They re-equipped and slimmed down their work force almost to non-existence.
I believe that it can be slimmed down considerably and still give acceptable protection.
It has continually slimmed down the number of people working there.
