The 1, 428-mile railway connects Beijing with Guangzhou, halving the travel time between the two cities.
Back then the reform only involved halving the number of primary care trusts and health authorities.
After halving the baguette lengthwise, cut it crosswise into quarters, to produce eight bread segments.
Long-term rates spiked past 13% by 1980, halving the value of some supposedly conservative bond portfolios.
However, the group also announced that it was halving its share dividend for the year.
Wednesday saw him achieve his aim of halving the difference between Italy's and Germany's bond yields.
One European study found that halving bus fares would reduce car use by less than 1%.
Among his latest measures is a halving of the sales tax on capital goods.
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And Mr Darling will stick to the government's agreed timetable of halving the deficit in four years.
Even that could still imply a halving in the rates of growth in industrial production and investment.
But Wales' lacklustre display was penalised moments later when San Marino embarrassed Toshack's men by halving the deficit.
One pension-scheme manager says he demanded, and quickly secured, a halving of his fee rate from a fund-of-funds.
Treasury figures show planned capital spending halving over the next five years once depreciation is taken into account.
To figure this out, just work backwards, halving your money every six years.
Environment Minister Trevor Mallard said achieving the goal of halving emissions from transport by 2040 would be a "major exercise".
The cuts will mean RBS has removed 11, 000 employees from its staff, almost halving its 2007, pre-credit crunch headcount of 24, 000.
The proposals include halving the number of acute hospitals, reviewing the midwifery-led units at Downpatrick and Lisburn and cutting 2, 000 jobs.
The average effect shown in each study was roughly a doubling or a halving of cancer risk for any given ingredient.
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I'm still committed to halving the deficit we inherited by the end of my first term -- cutting it in half.
Ballesteros, who won five major championships, played in eight Ryder Cups - winning 20 and halving five of his 37 matches.
Margins have shrunk as well, halving from the 40%, before tax, that investment banks collected at the beginning of the 1980s.
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We don't propose them because we've got a deficit reduction plan that is there: halving the deficit over the next four years.
But all it would take is another halving or two of the cost of photovoltaics for solar to be a real winner.
In 1999, the UK Government committed itself to halving child poverty by 2010 (compared to 1997 levels) and eradicating it by 2020.
European governments have set a target of halving road deaths by 2010.
Doubling of the federal deficit instead of halving it as he promised.
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China had all but met the target of halving poverty from its 1990 levels by the time it was set a decade later.
Airfreight is a big added cost for races outside Europe, so halving the footprint and weight, versus the previous solution significantly reduced costs.
Almost every country has endorsed these goals, which range from cutting child deaths by two-thirds to halving poverty malnutrition and achieving universal primary education.
As the day went by, though, investors took the gains as an opportunity to cut back on their exposure, halving the gains to 5.9%.
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