Mr. McMurray and his team of scientists have worked out advanced mathematical equations, complex graphs showing "cutting systems" and precise anatomical diagrams of chickens.
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Now the airline is actively marketing its own content system to partners in providing comparison shopping services to customers, cutting out the GDS systems entirely.
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Third, we urged states to use cutting-edge data systems to track a child's progress throughout their academic career, and to link that child's progress to their teachers so we know what's working and what's not working in the classroom.
At that time, Fiat was fiercely cutting costs by bringing everything from payroll systems to building maintenance in-house.
At a small meeting in Des Moines, I listened to former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich come up with some intriguing ideas, such as cutting medical fraud by using the same systems as credit card companies.
At a time of year when many of us are engaged in some kind of therapeutic spring cleaning, cutting off distractions, decluttering our workspaces and developing systems to keep track of where things go can feel deliciously Type A, and necessary.
American prisons, after all, have been far more successful than mental-health systems at protecting their budgets from cost-cutting politicians.
The technology itself improves: What was cutting edge one year may already be losing ground to newer systems.
Chris Moore, NASA's deputy director for advanced exploration systems, said the space agency is working on engines aimed at cutting the trip time by the 2030s, when it hopes to send humans to Mars.
It cannot achieve likely targets for deficit reduction without attacking personnel costs unless it wants to leave the joint force bereft of cutting-edge weapons at a time when other countries are fielding impressive new military systems.
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Under intense pressure from the EU and international market participants, the government adopted a medium-term austerity program that includes cutting government spending, decreasing tax evasion, reworking the health-care and pension systems, and reforming the labor and product markets.
Back in the buccaneering 1970s, cable systems would twist the arms of local governments with whom they were negotiating rates by cutting all programming, and screening instead the officials' names and addresses.
If companies adopted work-from-home cultures, would they reduce their carbon footprints by cutting down on employee commuting, de-congesting highways to create space for effective rapid bus transport systems, and reducing need for space and energy-devouring office buildings?
Experts believed that tough, top-down controls would dispense with inefficiencies: Insurance companies would relentlessly cut back payments for hundreds of medical procedures, which would force hospitals, clinics and physicians to get their acts together, thereby boosting productivity and cutting costs. (Managed care's methods are close cousins to what you see in nationalized health care systems.) Because of these anticipated efficiencies, experts figured we would need fewer doctors.
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