It should also reduce its desire or need to sell off spectrum when that is the real prize.

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It should also reduce banks' excess reserves to give them an incentive to borrow from each other in the interbank market, thereby enhancing the importance of money-market rates.

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It should also help to reduce America's massive trade deficit, and perhaps even push up inflation.

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It's also hard to take seriously the suggestion that something should be done to reduce the power of the whips.

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Along with helping heavy patients lose weight (it doesn't seem to work as well on thinner patients), Acomplia also raises good cholesterol, cuts bad cholesterol, reduces triglicerides and generally seems as if it should reduce the risk of heart disease and other obesity-related killers.

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