Budgetary waste-cutting work under way

Budgetary waste-cutting work under way

TOKYO, Japan - Members of a key waste-cutting panel discuss targeted projects in budget requests for fiscal 2010 in Tokyo on Nov. 25, 2009. The panel recommended two anti-global warming programs be scrapped on the seventh day of its nine-day schedule.

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