Large speculators started cutting their net-long position in silver beginning Feb. 12 and did so for each week since.
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But policymakers have also begun to realise that world-class universities produce a disproportionately large share of cutting-edge ideas and research.
"One traditional method involves cutting large bundles at low tide and roughly tying them together with net or old rope, anchored on rocks, " Mr Walsh says.
The RBI in the past has said that the large twin deficits make cutting rates difficult.
Under South African law, companies must hold a 60-day consultation process before cutting a large number of jobs.
And Korea is quietly connecting its national labs, historically great technical universities, and public utilities to conduct large-scale tests of cutting-edge smart grid technologies.
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Earlier forest blockades, by Greenpeace and others, showed up the logging companies' destructive practices, such as over-cutting, too-large clear-cuts, and damage not only to the forests but to salmon streams.
Mr Greenspan has expressed anxiety in the past about the risks of cutting taxes on such a large scale at a time of budgetary pressure.
Analysts said that in the previous quarters that bank had begun an extensive risk-cutting program and reduced its large trading positions, following the losses from rogue trader Jerome Kerviel.
The state-controlled bank's share price has slumped by more than 40% over the past year, and RBS has recently disposed of large parts of its investment bank, cutting thousands of jobs.
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That does seem to be cutting off access to an awfully large amount of possible talent.
"Smaller firms rely more on standard protections like firewalls and antivirus software, " as opposed to the kind of sophisticated, cutting-edge controls that many large companies use, said Lawrence Pingree, an analyst at Gartner.
The large robotic arm, which is connected to a laser cutting tool, can be manoeuvred around tight spaces in hazardous environments.
With uneven economies in Europe and America, large companies are struggling to grow sales, so cost-cutting is the key to expanding profit margins.
In addition, there are more cost savings available from cutting warranty and recall costs than from maintaining a large degree of commonality among various models.
"Peugeot is not cutting prices and I would find it unbelievable that other large manufacturers would contemplate a large reduction, " Mr Evans said according to the Financial Times report.
One day, when they needed a large basket, they decided to make it on their own, painstakingly cutting and sharpening bamboo stalks.
At its convention at the end of January, Reform welcomed instead a large contingent of supporters of Mike Harris, Ontario's tax-cutting Conservative premier.
Large financial-service companies are scrambling to get into the act, cutting deals with individual states to run their plans and to market them nationwide.
As Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the fund's boss, puts it: if countries start cutting budgets a year late, they will have an unnecessarily large debt burden.
Proposals put forward as a solution include cutting to one the number of commissioners for each of the large states, with some smaller states sharing a commissioner between them.
In relative terms, the Welsh Government is not a particularly large organisation but it is complex and despite work to push cross-cutting policy agendas, many departments still operate within policy silos.
Brilliantly managed by Chairman and Chief Executive Lorenzo Zambrano, 54, its success stems from several interrelated factors: acquisitions, economies of scale, pricing power, ruthless cost-cutting -- all of which have been made possible by large and intelligent investment in communications technology.
These had included cutting off some of Singapore's fresh-water supply and withdrawing the large numbers of Malaysian workers from the country.
He says there is no large, unified network organising people to be sent to Mali and the challenge will be cutting some of those pathways to prevent others joining them.
In particular aviation planners are focusing on ways of cutting the amount of time planes spend queuing to take off and land, in the process burning large and unnecessary amounts of fuel (IATA estimates that airlines could cut their annual CO2 emissions by 12 percent if air-traffic control operations were more efficient).
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And large as this figure is, we believe that this is an overall good decision as it is largely aimed at cutting down the flab that Bank of America has accumulated over the years.
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