The magazine, while still around, has reduced its frequency to quarterly and been somewhat de-emphasized.

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China Airlines, Thai Airways, Cathay Pacific and Dragonair have all cancelled routes or reduced their frequency.

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The Red5 route normally runs every 10 minutes during the day, but Premiere Travel has now reduced the frequency to every 20 minutes.

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Their surveys from May suggest a third of diners have reduced their expenditure on eating out per month or reduced the frequency of visits.

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General McChrystal has already sharply reduced the frequency of air strikes even as Western military casualties are at their highest since the fall of the Taliban.

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Human trials in treating epilepsy took longer than expected, but the gadget won U.S. approval in 1997, after trials on 310 patients found that it reduced the frequency of seizures 23% after three months.

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Despite the recession, when steep price cuts looked like the only way to go, Whirlpool last year reduced the frequency of its discounts, which it says are costly to communicate to salespeople, and can confuse customers if they are changed too often.

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Gatwick Express services reduced to a half-hourly frequency.

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As the variations or short-term disturbances in frequency increase, electronic devices start to malfunction, experience reduced performance and, in extreme cases, suffer permanent damage.

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"It is only through swift and determined action against those who use violence to silence t the media that the tragic frequency with which journalists are assassinated in the Philippines can be reduced, " he concluded.

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