• The 1988 Education Act began to cut them down to size.

    ECONOMIST: Education

  • The point of the project, which should be completed by 2014, is to allow Nepal to participate in international carbon-trading schemes that pay poor countries with lots of trees not to cut them down.

    ECONOMIST: Forest conservation

  • Even on the (optimistic) assumption that the police try their best, efforts to stop deforestation may fail unless it becomes more profitable for people who control the forest to leave trees intact than it is to cut them down.

    ECONOMIST: Global consensus on climate change is maddeningly elusive

  • That's debatable (you have to cut down more forest to grow them), but they indisputably are benefiting from the same leftist zeitgeist that propels the solar energy business.

    FORBES: In The Sunshine

  • Generally, if more trees are cut down then there would be fewer of them to absorb the carbon emissions.

    FORBES: Biomass Breathing New Life Into Coal Plants

  • "By selling the tickets exclusively on my site, I've cut the ticket charges way down and absorbed them into the ticket price, " he continues.

    CNN: Louis C.K. selling tour tickets on his website for flat fee

  • On one end of the gluten spectrum, for example, are some professional tennis players who never felt sick but when they drastically cut down on gluten found increased energy that enabled them to win long, tough matches that they had previously been losing.

    CNN: Gluten: 5 things you need to know

  • Coca now looks likely to be cut down much faster than the alternatives and all that goes with them are established.

    ECONOMIST: Bolivia goes to war against coca | The

  • To build up his legs, core, arm and hands, he and his brother and father would toss tires, dig holes and refill them, push wheelbarrows full of dirt, cut down trees with an ax and split wood.

    WSJ: Baseball 2013: Here Come the Flamethrowers

  • While the firm's clearly stated minimum helps cut down on queries from unqualified investors, it doesn't eliminate them.

    WSJ: Do You Make the Asset Cut?

  • The welfare state's expansion into every nook and cranny of too many people's lives has been less about saving people from deprivation and expresses more a condescending middle-class view of people as helpless and hapless unless the state helps them to parent correctly, improve their lifestyles, cut down on smoking or drinking, etc.

    BBC: UK

  • With discounting squeezing profit margins down to 3-4% and the Internet threatening to cut them further, Europe's big operators see scale as their best defence.

    ECONOMIST: Tour operators

  • When at long last some of them were revived in the 1920s, they were severely cut down and many of the lead parts, written for the star castrati of Handel's day, were transposed an octave down for a tenor or a baritone, leaving them barely recognisable.

    ECONOMIST: Handel's anniversary

  • Under the influence of these grafted cells, cut spinal cords can regrow and bridge the gap which stops them sending signals down the line.

    ECONOMIST: Something new in mind

  • That high level of cholesterol makes them more likely to have heart attacks, and it should make it easier to cut down on the buildup of artery plaque.

    FORBES: What's Next For Vytorin?

  • Campaigners fighting plans to cut down a historic elm tree in Brighton have ended their protest after the city council agreed to hold talks with them.

    BBC: Brighton protesters come down from elm tree ahead of talks

  • Infrastructure consulting, which entails providing consulting services to clients to help them evaluate and implement efficient IT infrastructure, is a discretionary part of spending that clients typically cut down on during a slowdown.

    FORBES: Service Biz Helps Drive Dell Stock To $20

  • It provides loans to small farmers, trains them in agronomy and sells them seeds and fertiliser, as well as the saplings they must plant if they cut other trees down for fuel to flue-cure their crop.

    ECONOMIST: Africa 40 years on

  • With some good business sense and a strong dose of help from some up-and-coming technology, however, public radio could easily cut on-air fundraisers down to just a few days and, for listeners who do pay, could eliminate them altogether.

    FORBES: Public Radio Goes Begging

  • To pay for his plans and get the deficit down to manageable levels, he would return top tax rates to where they were before George Bush cut them, extract more from the rich by capping their deductions, increase taxes on corporations and auction carbon-emission permits.

    ECONOMIST: Barack Obama's budget

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