Savings can come through retrofitting products to make them more efficient, upgrading already-planned purchases, building a more efficient infrastructure and improving current operations at little or no cost.
The line-up this year: Credit and housing markets, export growth, health care, tax policy, infrastructure, alternative energy and improving economic statistics.
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Now, it appears that they want their leaders to focus on the basics: creating better-paying jobs, protecting the population, expanding trade, improving access to technology, developing infrastructure in rural areas, and improving relations with foreign countries and trade partners.
However, more steps are needed, such as to cut down the delays in environmental clearances and improving infrastructure for reducing power shortages, it said.
Donation rates in Britain could be increased by at least 50% over the next five years by improving infrastructure and publicity as Spain did, the report holds.
What was supposed to be a deal that brings in more jobs in the short term could potentially harm long-term job growth in Rhode Island if the cost of borrowing for schools, roads and improving infrastructure goes up.
Two-thirds of Chicago residents want the Olympics, according to a Chicago Tribune poll, but the city is also seeing opposition from the likes of blog nogameschicago.com, which thinks its Olympic investment would be better spent on improving infrastructure and transport.
"But the cost of the technology and the infrastructure would be far better spent on improving the railways and the public transport system".
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And he can use his power and influence to facilitate new building while improving municipal infrastructure to encourage economic growth and population expansion.
If it did, improving the infrastructure and public services of the country's underdeveloped interior might really do some good.
Now the theory is that delays to building fast-track rail lines through countryside or new runways in residential areas of the south east would shrink - creating jobs in the short term and improving productive infrastructure in the medium term.
Ongoing improvements in SoC silicon and network level applications are improving the economics on the infrastructure side and helping the faster rollout of LTE-based services.
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Other aims include offering more opportunities to the long-term unemployed, improving the transport infrastructure and creating better public transport.
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China needs to first find popular support if it is to take a role in managing and improving the global infrastructure.
Meanwhile, FIFA has continued to make inroads in centralizing the administration of Indian football through its two Goal Projects and in improving footballing infrastructure.
They came back with recommendations that included joining the World Trade Organization, passing laws to protect intellectual property, improving the telecom infrastructure and beefing up the education system.
This will benefit not only unions, who will build and operate these systems, but companies like Siemens who push for greater rail expansions at the expense of maintaining and improving such critical infrastructure as roads.
The ways to accommodate such growth in an already dense and developed city inherently tend to be green: improving public transport, redeveloping brownfields, making infrastructure and water supply more reliable and efficient.
Fiscal conservatives need to clearly articulate their understanding of the importance of renewing our infrastructure as a vehicle for creating jobs and improving the economy.
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His top three: education, energy and improving America's infrastructure.
He said Mayor of London Boris Johnson would work with the boroughs to develop plans that may include redeveloping land for commercial use, improving transport infrastructure in Tottenham and establishing Croydon as a retail centre.
Al Fahim told Pompey's fans at a meeting on Friday he is committed to taking the club forward and that his strategy is to invest prudently in strengthening the squad and improving the club's infrastructure.
The delivery infrastructure has two ways of scaling: increasing bandwidth and improving compression.
But ways of streamlining the pre-construction phase and improving procurement techniques on major transport infrastructure projects are being looked at.
Most projects are small, taking one week or less to complete, and are geared toward installing or improving infrastructure for basic human needs, such as water projects.
The UN's Top Ten list of "slum upgrading actions" ranks "installing or improving basic infrastructure" as No. 1 and makes no reference to government-subsidized replacement housing.
We'll know in two weeks when they hold a conference call, with a similar update from United Technologies this time next week likely indicative of improving tone in housing and possibly also international infrastructure projects.
The report mentions other long-term priorities such as ensuring transport links, improving island infrastructure such as the roads, harbours and broadband access and speed, security of energy supply and planning for increasing health and pension costs due to an ageing population.
As we continue to work within existing authorities to fortify our country against cyber risks, comprehensive legislation remains essential to improving infrastructure security, enhancing cyber information sharing between government and the private sector, and protecting the privacy and civil liberties of the American people.
MEPs were united in demanding "earmarking" of the revenues, to ensure that member states invest in improving the environmental standards of vehicles and develop alternative transport infrastructure.
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