The day's lows occurred late in the session, after Dow Jones Newswires reported that European Union finance ministers' four-hour teleconference failed to yield a new agreement to beef up the region's rescue funds, dashing traders' hopes for progress increasing the region's bailout powers.
Recent polling suggests that the increasing violence and slow pace of progress are also taking a toll on support for the war in Canada.
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George Osborne, the chancellor of the exchequer, made some progress in his most recent budget by increasing the tax relief available for investors in start-ups.
I'd note that we also made a lot of progress increasing trade on the sidelines of APEC.
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Increasing the H-1B quota would constitute progress.
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With the increasing availability of machines that can peer into brains as they function, there has been rapid progress in understanding the biological mechanisms by which people transform information, such as from a golf lesson, first into actions and ultimately into automatic motor skills that don't require conscious thought to enact.
Accelerated Progress towards Achieving the EFA Goals by Increasing Adult Literacy, Expanding ECCE, and Promoting UPE in Rural Areas of Hafizabad and Lahore Districts Punjab, Pakistan.
New York State attorney general Eliot Spitzer has made some small progress toward cleaning up the industry: increasing disclosure of conflicts of interest and separating analysts' compensation from specific investment-banking deals.
"We have areas where we are making progress and areas where we are further increasing the focus, " said Nokia chief executive Stephen Elop, who was hired in 2010 to revive the company.
Given the increasing numbers of bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics, any progress in ensuring that infections by those bacteria are treatable is good news.
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That alone would go a long way to increasing the life expectancies in some of the counties where we see little or no progress.
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As media becomes an increasing part of every-day life and as we make progress in bridging the digital divide, media literacy is becoming increasingly important.
Once concerned about what ARM-like prices would do to its business model, Intel appears to have seen the Post-PC light: Traditional PCs will continue to make technical progress, but the go-go days of ever-increasing volumes are gone.
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This remains a very real concern, with much of the world suffering from increasing water scarcity, land erosion, drought intensity, stalled progress on crop productivity, declining groundwater aquifers, over-grazing of pasturelands, tropical deforestation, massive species extinction, over-fishing, and anthropogenic climate-change.
School districts started mandating an increasing number of multiple-choice tests, or assessments, that measure student progress throughout the year.
Obviously, I mentioned earlier, the President wants to see progress on a small business bill, on cutting taxes and on increasing credit.
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