This, it expects, will help increase flexibility with regard to preserving capital for future share buybacks.
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It follows his attempts to stimulate growth and reform the labor market by passing a law in January the government says will increase flexibility for French companies and spur competitiveness.
The range of actions that increase flexibility are great.
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"Annuities, which seemed dull for a long time, now seem interesting when a sense of security and freedom are good things, " says Donn Sharer , vice president of Metropolitan Life Insurance 's (nyse: MET - news - people ) MetLife Financial Service, which is currently evaluating ways to increase flexibility in the annuities it offers.
The BUG platform is constantly evolving to include new hardware modules to increase the flexibility of the platform.
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Phthalates are plasticizers used to increase the flexibility and durability of a product.
In addition, we welcome China's determination to increase the flexibility of the RMB.
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Pay TV service providers are strengthening their video-on-demand offerings to increase viewing flexibility and prevent customer migration to alternative services.
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They include measures to re-target pay to reward contribution, increase local flexibility and make important structural changes to enable further reform.
The ability to use fuels other than petroleum is critical to our energy security because it will increase our flexibility and reduce the services' vulnerability to rapid and unforeseen changes in the price of oil.
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Sprint said the new equipment will increase the companies flexibility and reduce costs.
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He said that young people were being helped into work by measures such as awarding tax relief to companies employing 16-24-year-olds and changes to increase labour market flexibility.
Many health and safety regulations increase costs and reduce flexibility without really improving health and safety.
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These policies from privatisations to a host of measures designed to increase labour-market flexibility were informed by a consistent view of the way the world worked.
Now we must work together to increase accountability, add flexibility for States and districts, reduce the number of high school dropouts, and provide extra help for struggling schools.
Charter benefits include a low cost of entry, flexibility to increase or decrease service as needed, and the ability to find the best aircraft to suit each mission.
First, they conclude, labour-market flexibility does increase employment.
An ever-evolving, cross-pollinating, idea-sparking culture takes hold leadership, culture, unity, morale, flexibility and performance increase.
It is desirable to proceed further with reform of the RMB exchange rate regime and increase the RMB exchange rate flexibility.
Already, its plans for a national minimum wage and its promise to sign Europe's social chapter threaten to reduce, not increase, labour-market flexibility.
Pfizer, trying to increase its already immense financial flexibility, will decide to buy Serono , the Swiss biotech firm that is currently up for sale.
Associate Director Simon Power insisted that if the UK Government want to increase their targets, the flexibility of TAN 8 is essential if more wind farms are to be developed across Wales.
Workplace flexibility policies can increase worker productivity.
The restructuring process, which began in 2009, is expected to reduce manufacturing costs, increase efficiency, facilitate far more flexibility in labor requirements, and will also help reduce product development time by 30% that will enable the company to launch new models faster.
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While flexibility of operations and competition will increase, fares are unlikely to fall in the short term.
There are more advantages to the cloud model beyond cost savings such as enhanced flexibility and agility that could increase the productivity, performance and responsiveness of agencies.
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The best and the brightest economists, politicians and central bankers promised such flexibility would give them the power they needed to increase the general prosperity by mitigating the business cycle, keeping unemployment low, and improving the trade balance.
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David Jones, chief economist at DMJ Advisors, said that in saying it could increase or decrease its bond purchases, the Fed wants to show flexibility: It's ready to respond, whether the economy improves or weakens significantly.
Of these 854 rules in play with small business impacts, 470 required the aforementioned Regulatory Flexibility Analyses (RFA), a 12.4 percent increase over 2011 and a level well above anything seen in the past decade.
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