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The bottom line is that the state should have had regulations in place to have a 20 percent reduction of these emissions in five basins by this year.

The budget should put the country's deficit reduction effort back on track.

The budget is an all-around good thing. It's a reduction of 100 jobs over last year, no toll increase, and all our operation spending has been flat over the last four years.

The big question is whether hospitals will demand a price reduction on their supply costs. They might ask for it, but it doesn't mean they will necessarily get it.

A workforce reduction of 10 to 15 percent (3,800 to 5,700 people) now seems more likely, but may not be enough to satisfy current investor expectations.

A work force reduction is always a difficult decision, but we are confident that our overall cost reduction plan will help us emerge from Chapter 11 and make us more competitive in the marketplace in the long run.

That should be the peak because there was a large increase in June a year ago. So that should imply that the rate in June in this year comes down. I think this will open the door to a reduction interest rates from the ECB.

That should be the peak because there was a large increase in June a year ago, ... So that should imply that the rate in June in this year comes down. I think this will open the door to a reduction interest rates from the ECB.

All across the country, cigarette taxes have gone up, and I think that's led to a reduction in smoking. It's a little unclear whether that's caused people to trade down from premium cigarettes or just smoke less.

The mistakes of the trial chamber justify the reduction of the sentence.

Your characterization of it as being a significantly different threat environment, based on what we historically have heard, is absolutely correct, ... So there certainly is a diminution, reduction in the amount of intelligence, and the decibel level is lower.

This is because the negative contribution from (weak) rice prices is likely to dissipate and the effects of a reduction in electricity and telephone charges are also expected to ease.

This is not a spam reduction measure. It is a way for a legitimate merchant to avoid getting a false/positive in an AOL spam filter.

The welfare system, up until now, has encouraged illegitimacy by punishing recipients with reduction or elimination of aid if they marry.

The upgrade reflects the company's reduction of parent level leverage and resulting improved parent-level financial metrics.

This cost reduction initiative is absolutely critical to our reorganization, ... We had no alternative but to take this action. The company continues to take the steps necessary to return to financial health and regain the confidence of its many stakeholders.

This bill takes fiscally responsible steps to reduce the deficit, reduce spending that is on autopilot, and strengthen our economy, ... It is the first deficit reduction package in almost a decade, and probably the most important legislation to be considered this year.

This announcement addresses three major industry trends organizations' focus on cost reduction strategies, organizations' need to find measurable value for IT investments in a very short order, and organizations' need to allow their staff members to collaborate with one another from wherever they are, using whatever network enabled device they choose. Customers deploying open source software in a virtual machine can reduce their software and hardware costs, and simultaneously enhance their agility in addressing future computing needs.

This action is part of Dana's continued effort to improve cost competitiveness throughout its operations. The company expects to achieve this reduction predominantly through normal retirements and attrition.

This is a more realistic way to address the reduction of material costs, to take it down to the part level, ... We hope it will be significant.

This increase combined with a reduction in overhead expenses allowed us to build our overall profitability while still investing in even stronger levels of advertising behind our global brands.

Although we should get a boost from the reduction in tax withholding along with tax rebates to lower-income taxpayers, the fear is that the persistence of poor labor-market conditions and continuing geopolitical risk may end up tempering economic growth conditions during the third quarter.

Although our cost reduction efforts will position Kodak for an improved 1998, the growing strength of the U.S. dollar, continuing competitive pressures and the phased implementation of the cost reduction program will make it likely that results during the first quarter of 1998 will be below those of 1997,

A merger of the second and third largest suppliers of architectural and decorative paint has the potential to lead to a significant reduction in competition and increased prices.

This ordinance guarantees that we will have continued reduction in water quality, so I can tell you it's not a good ordinance. If you really want to clean up water quality, which is what we all agree on, then attack the current problems that already exist.

This means that a reduction in fine particulate matter levels should provide health benefits in terms of lower hospital admissions for the elderly.

This means that about 35,000 men of the non-combat personnel will be laid off within the next five years, including some staff members of military chairs and other dual-purpose structures. It is also planned to do away with three hundred high-rank command posts, after which the number of generals and admirals in the Armed Forces will not top 1,100 men, meaning their reduction to the optimal proportion of one per thousand servicemen,

There was some evidence when we filed the update last week that there was some question as to whether even the revised reduction was appropriate, given what's going on in the energy markets.

There was simply this bullying, reduction of 25 percent, which most of us in the community was malicious, and petty, and the sort of thing that most of grew out of a long time ago.

There will be no reduction in public housing units. If they recommend a reduction in units, we will cancel the deal. It was never my intention to have a reduction in units. If anything, we want more units.

There were 39 fatalities in 2005, which was a slight reduction from the 41 fatalities that occurred in 2004 and a 40 percent reduction from 1998's 65 fatalities.

There needs to be a reduction in the amount of mercury people are exposed to whether they're in Nevada, in Idaho or in Utah.

This is very important ... We have two main objectives. One is to promote the safety of schools and other educational institutions and the second is to introduce risk reduction into the school curriculum.

They have the opportunity now to make real progress toward the reduction of tensions and a resolution of their differences through peaceful means.

There's been no reduction in the intensity of efforts of us looking at transactions, but transactions have to create value for shareholders. We do want them to be in existing categories or adjacent to them.

The relationship between exchange rates and poverty reduction is not so direct, but a more flexible Chinese exchange rate would benefit Asia. It would make a difference.

As we seek to increase profitability, we are undertaking a comprehensive program designed to streamline our corporate-wide support organization and reduce SG&A costs. Fourth-quarter SG&A expenses included a charge of $3.3 million associated with employee reduction and separation expenses, which we expect to yield annualized savings of around $8 million. We intend to continue this process during 2006 with the goal of not only reducing costs, but also improving operational effectiveness.

As we build new schools, the classes will be constructed to adhere to the class size reduction targets. And as we build additions those classes must be built to adhere the class size reduction targets.

As we anticipated, the strong U.S. dollar and the Asian economic crisis had a negative impact. What we did not expect was the level of reduction in inventories at dealers in the United States and Europe.

As we have already said, the troop reduction will be based on conditions, and one of the important conditions is this election, which will be the latest in a series of political developments.

According to a recent estimate, we have achieved a faster rate of income poverty reduction during 2000-2005. As a result, a greater number of the poor are increasingly breaking free the vicious circle of poverty.

Access to health care would far outweigh any kind of reduction in doctor's salaries.

A capacity reduction is essential and everyone knows it, not only for protection of the resource itself but for the ability of any single captain to make a living. At present, it simply is not working.

It's a fairly significant jump. But there is no fundamental reason for it to go up. There was a little blip before when there was the threat of action. But last time there appeared to be no reduction in output from Iraq during the four days of military conflict.

It means that each of the 58 counties in California would see a significant reduction in the funds available for mass transit and in rural areas for streets and roads.

It's an unfair system, ... You can go to one particular block in Long Island, for example, where 11 houses got a tax reduction last year because they filed grievances. The remaining 4 homeowners who didn't file a grievance are still overpaying. In most municipalities, if you don't file it means you accept the assessment value of your home.

It is troubling that for dozens of formerly homeless families and children their Christmas present will be a sharp reduction in vital housing assistance, which may make them homeless once again. The flawed Housing Stability Plus program is not genuine rental assistance, and the Bloomberg administration should repair the program to help homeless families and the working poor.

It is time to say good-bye to an initially intended transition to a more flexible collective bargaining system and a reduction of non-wage costs for employers.

It's not just the number of officers, it's what the reduction in officers has done, ... It has compromised the ability of the police department to do modern, effective relationship-based policing.

It's not that big a deal, ... They're re-branding it as Delta rather than as a separate sub-brand. . . . Other than that, there's not much of a change. There's no reduction in competition, and fares will probably stay the same.

Ford needs to show greater cost reduction going forward as the revenue side gets more competitive.

The number of transistors on some chips exceeds one billion, and it is clear that improvements made for individual transistors can multiply into huge benefits for the entire device. Test chips made on Intel's ultra-low power 65nm process technology have shown transistor leakage reduction roughly 1,000 times from our standard process. This translates into significant power savings for people who will use devices based on this technology.

It's not the government's job to design automobiles. Also, there's a great deal of unrealistic expectation about what fuel-efficient cars can do. If the government really wants to secure reduction in oil consumption for cars, it should just leave gas prices alone. With enough time, consumers will reduce their consumption in response to higher costs.

It just makes sense. There's a massive program that has come to an end, and the state is doing the logical reduction in manpower.

It's fundamental the countries unite to build effective mechanisms to produce medication locally. The sole negotiation of price reduction won't guarantee sustainability in the long term.

It's possible, but that kind of reduction doesn't protect us from supply disruption. If we don't import oil from Iran, if they removed themselves from the market, it would increase crude prices regardless of where we're getting our oil.

Conditions-based reduction of coalition forces is a critical element of our strategy,

The new secretary must move VDOT, localities, and developers to understand that the commonwealth cannot afford the transportation infrastructure required to serve increasingly spread-out and scattered development. He must address the fact that new funding won't make a difference to traffic congestion without changes in development patterns and transportation demand reduction strategies.

Even with the better numbers, the 20% reduction in only five years is still an ambitions target.

That's a big surprise. The market was looking for a reduction in corn but not to that degree.

That's a 40 percent reduction in what we used to sell, ... We lost two of our good customers.

That kind of difference is normally translated into a 20-to-30 percent reduction in risk of stroke, ... Those kinds of differences in pressure are not insignificant.

It's still important to eat a high-fiber diet. Even though our study didn't find a reduction for colorectal cancer, other studies show that high-fiber diets reduce the risk of heart disease and diabetes.

It's still a possibility we're going to have some reduction in services, ... The reality is that we have more services than are mandated, a lot more.

Efforts to restrain growth in mandatory spending are vital - not just for our near-term deficit reduction efforts - but especially for the long term. Toward the end of the next decade, deficits stemming largely from entitlement programs ... will begin to rise indefinitely. No plausible amount of spending cuts in discretionary accounts or tax increases could possibly solve this problem.

Efficiency and cost reduction are a matter of survival for airlines. Charles de Gaulle Airport is already the second most expensive airport in Europe. It should be focusing on cost decreases not increases. This short-sighted decision will have long-term effects on the competitive position of Paris as a major hub.

The boom in electronic banking and the reduction in cash transactions - partly due to the introduction of the euro - are changing the role of the branch network,

Studies have shown that while there were reduction in sales at snack bars and vending machines, kids actually purchased more and better meals at school,

The average reduction in sales (of tobacco) to minors where there is such a license is 80 percent.

It's clearly understood that there is going to be a reduction in the workforce as we move away from the space shuttle era and into the Crew Exploration Vehicle era. What happens in serial processing is that the workforce reduction would happen a lot sooner.

It's been coming for a while since the reduction of scholarships. This conference has a very strong sense of itself, because of the coaches who have been here for a long time. The nature of the game now, especially in the west, is the throwing game. It's a game of space, which takes some of the physical aspects out of it.

Oil remains the wild card for industry profitability. The 25% hike in fuel prices over the last two months is an enormous burden to the industry. However, the S$ 1.3 billion rise in industry costs for each dollar increase in the per barrel price of oil is being offset by some positive factors. Industry hedging levels are 50%. Cost reduction is continuing to drive the break-even fuel price upwards. And the US domestic yield rose 12.4% in February.

It's very troubling, and simply not true. This administration, over the last five years, have worked very hard to improve the lives of working families and children in this country. We've seen a dramatic reduction in poverty, especially among children.

It will be interesting to ... see how the ongoing pressure from fuel pricing, the strengthening of the U.S. dollar, the introduction of bed products and subsequent reduction in business class seats impacts on airfare pricing.

The U.S. economic recovery appears to be further down the road than many expected, so another cut in interest rates is not likely to mean a great deal, ... What's more important is when companies report they're starting to see a reduction in inventories.

The restructuring of the Chrysler Group is moving along well, ... Work force reduction is proceeding according to plan, and agreements on cuts in the cost of materials in 2001 have already been reached.

This is a very painful decision. However, the current operating environment dictates that we reduce our flying schedule significantly, which in turn requires a significant reduction in our staffing levels and payroll.

This is a very big step forward that we will build on, ... the single biggest cost reduction that we've probably been able to announce in a single day in the history of G.M.

I want to show the people in Okinawa what kind of burden reduction there will be. It's going to be a very large scale reduction, ... in the thousands.

No trial has ever shown before a reduction in severe mortality with a new anti-malarial drug.

The NDP position on Northern Ontario representation is clear - the north deserves a strong voice in the Ontario Legislature, ... The Ontario NDP opposes any reduction in the number of seats for Northern Ontario.

It's not clear that Qwest is a near-term candidate to be bought by anyone. I still think debt reduction needs to be a priority.

Anyone who assumes any kind of rebound for GM assumes some level of capacity reduction and health-care cuts. It's been a bit surprising they didn't have a report already.

Small business is the backbone of New York's vibrant and growing economy. This rate reduction will provide an ideal opportunity for small businesses to learn more about what that State of New York is purchasing and capitalize on state government contracts.

That's exactly what we want to have happen in a weight reduction diet.

Exclusion of allergenic foods from the maternal diet was associated with reduction in distressed behavior among breast-fed infants with colic presenting in the first six weeks of life,

the largest one-year debt reduction in the history of the United States.

The Interest Rate Reduction Act takes a first step toward providing critical stability by eliminating the threat of an immediate interest rate increase, while making clear the need to move toward a long-term solution that serves the best interests of taxpayers and borrowers.

I'm not claiming there's anything approaching objectivity about this film. It's a corrective to the perception of Rudy and the miracle of crime reduction in New York, Rudy and the miracle of 9/11.

I'm very comfortable with that overall total reduction in risk, and I would not be able to say that there is anything that I can tell that should stop them from going ahead and flying.

Inflation for August was 0.1 per cent a welcome reduction from the previous months. While increases in bus fares and oil-related increases are likely to have a negative impact in September, assuming we have no adverse weather events, food prices are likely to fall as supply increases. The trend, therefore, should be for the inflation rate to return to lower levels.This should have a positive effect on inflation expectations.

In human rights and peacemaking, it's really about having a solid concrete goal - the reduction of human suffering somewhere in the world - and then doing what is required to get that goal achieved.

Individual accounts offset some of the benefit reduction you'd otherwise see.

Individuals who are targeting a lower replacement ratio will see a significant reduction in their standard of living.

In a smaller analysis, looking at people who used aspirin eight or more times a week, for at least a year, they had about a 90 per cent reduction in risk.

I'll be more specific. ...This year the show will lose $16 million for The WB, and that's with a license fee reduction from last year. At least to us, that's a big number.

If the reduction in supplies should prove to be especially large or last for a long time or the winter turns out to be especially cold, then we will hit the limits of our capacities.

If people can be inspired by this campaign to give quitting a go, then hopefully we'll see smoking rates drop and with that a reduction in the illness caused by smoking.

If you put all that together you end up with a reduction in volume.

If you look across all markets, there seems to be a common theme of reduction of risk.