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But for retirees with limited ability to boost their income and greater likelihood of big medical bills, it's even more of an uphill battle.
On the first group, he writes that all could use their strong balance sheets and global cross-marketing ability to boost subscriber growth and scale up investment in content.
There are also doubts about high-speed rail's ability to boost regional economies: the government itself expects the scheme to generate almost as much benefit inside London as outside it.
The company has made some big investments a few years ago which are about to come on stream, at the same time that competitors are going to have to ramp up spending, restricting their ability to boost dividends or engage in share buyback.
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Sanctuary also has access to the Honor ability, which can boost units adjacent to the unit significantly.
Its debt was also upgraded by Moody's, which will reduce its interest rates and boost its ability to raise capital for further expansion.
By rewarding public sharing and rapid deployment of such ideas, the Challenge will boost our ability to deliver on the promise of health care delivery innovation.
What is more, the remaining satellite companies will get more bandwidth to offer new services, which should boost their ability to compete with the digital cable that is now being rolled out across America.
But proponents argue that the better visualization provided by the 3-D camera will boost doctors' ability to spare the delicate nerve bundles.
It has plenty of supporters among global corporations who prized outsourcing's ability to lower their costs and boost profits.
The international community wants to streamline aid and boost Afghanistan's ability to manage reconstruction projects, hire Afghan contractors and root out corruption, Boucher said.
These vaccines resemble those used against smallpox or polio in that they use a piece of the target -- there a virus, here a cancer cell -- to boost the immune systems ability to find and attack those targets.
But it's unclear how either of those two measures would directly boost competitiveness, or the ability of euro-zone businesses to produce world-beating goods and services at low cost.
But the Reds skipper insists he backs plans to build a new ground in Stanley Park and boost the club's ability to generate more cash for quality players.
Tapping taxpayers - when the banks are so unpopular - would prove politically hard to sell and the banks are warning that if they boost their capital it will dent their ability to lend.
Lloyds has said that following discussions with the banking regulator, the Prudential Regulation Authority, it does not need to sell new shares to boost its capital resources and enhance its ability to absorb future losses.
The government says it wants to boost its stockpile of antibiotics to have the ability to treat 12 million people for anthrax for 60 days.
The ability to roll out a high-speed alternative on systems other than its own would give AOL a tremendous boost.
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