Over the past decade, Brazil has cracked down on clear-cutting, especially in the biodiverse Amazon rain forest, reducing the rate of deforestation by 80%.
Loans grew in emerging market such as Latin America and Poland and declined in economies that are "deleveraging" - that is, cutting down on debt - such as Spain and Portugal, the bank added.
The slimming-down of RBS and the cost-cutting integration of the operations of Lloyds and HBOS have yet to take their full toll.
Co-located teams and defragmentation: A key part of making fast progress is now largely believed by many teams and leaders at Google to be owing to co-located teams in Mountain View ( MTV) interacting together cutting down cross-timezone bottlenecks.
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That's not far or fast, but it's enough to make the EN-V useful for cutting down congestion in urban settings, particularly high-density cities in China and India, Borroni-Bird said.
Bringing down the cost of cutting-edge research is important, Perfetto says, because resource-constrained operations like garages, schools, and researchers in the developing world inherently think different.
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And by "critical, " I doubt very much that Ebert would have meant a position of carping or complaining or even cutting-down-to-size so much as a state of heightened perception, of being open enough to the possibility that whatever you're looking at or listening to may not be what it seems -- or should be.
Al-Mustaqbal should win a good number of seats, cutting the old-timers down to size.
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?
Shutting down under-performing sites does not mean that Yahoo is completely cutting down on investments.
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Alaska was the first U.S. carrier to sell tickets online, in 1995, to begin cutting down on travel-agent fees.
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Commercials added gross longs and sliced shorts, cutting down their net-short position.
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Commercials trimmed both gross longs and shorts, cutting down their net-short position.
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Cutting down on box-ticking and form-filling will help reduce costs, but leaves government policy, the source of most of the regulatory burden, untouched.
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Reducing water use at its buildings, cutting down on non-essential travel and the construction of modern energy efficient stations to replace existing ones have been among suggestions of the ways in which HIFRS could cut CO2 emissions.
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Sinclair, who has been called up to the England under-21 set-up, ran at ease down the left into the box before cutting back at the by-line for Joe Allen who was denied by the feet of Steele from close range.
The wider use of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has unleashed a vast supply of natural gas from the shale-rock formations across the U.S., forcing down domestic prices, cutting the need for overseas imports and making gas-exporting nations in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean a less important piece in the U.S. energy puzzle.
Skipping that two-week vacation, cutting down on the amount you spend dining out, and saving your next raise or bonus, are also simple methods of adding to your emergency fund.
Since October the government has encouraged people to buy houses by cutting the minimum mortgage down-payment on their main home from 30% to 20% and by reducing stamp duty and other taxes on property transactions.
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Far from helping Olympic to take off, its angry pilots are helping to steer it into the ground by defying the Socialist government's latest cost-cutting plan to hold down wages for three years and to make air crews work longer hours.
If it's this hard to get more than a handful of Republican votes on what is relatively easy -- spending tons of money and cutting people's taxes -- when you look down the road at health care and entitlement reform and energy reform, those are really tough choices.
By cutting down some of the post-operative care, he said, the procedure is also likely to prove more economical.
Car companies often resort to cost-cutting measures such as toning down the exterior or doing away with a swanky dashboard with high-end features for a simple, no frills interior.
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Today, most conservative plans are of the slash-and-burn variety, to get costs down by cutting benefits, within the context of the existing program.
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Kessler may or may not be wrong about cord-cutting being a result of a down economy, but he is right about many other things.
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Among these virtues: cutting down on traffic congestion and commuter-generated pollution.
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America's biggest airline, American Airlines has prepared a glide path down to Chapter 11 by laying out a cost-cutting strategy and a financing plan before it asked its workers to agree to wage cuts.
The International Cricket Council's plan to revamp the 50-over World Cup by cutting it down to 10 teams, while increasing the World Twenty20 to 16 teams instead of 12, has drawn criticism from Kenya, Ireland and Canada and the Netherlands.
And we're cutting waiting times and waiting lists - down over 200, 000 in a year, and now over 60, 000 lower than when we got in.
The Latics were on top for the opening half-hour but were let down by that lack of cutting edge until Moses broke the deadlock in style for his first goal since joining from Crystal Palace in January.
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