He added British Gas was working to improve their procedures, including working more closely with Transco and making more efforts to contact customers.
But today, from iPads in retail locations to digital billboards, corporations and the marketers who serve them are making even more dramatic efforts to wow their audiences.
Despite these plans, both shale and renewable options face long roads to becoming viable sources of revenue, making traditional efforts all the more important in the meantime.
This problem is even more pressing now that many cash-strapped universities are making IP a key focus of efforts to more effectively leverage their research output.
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Their efforts are making the Federal Government more efficient, a better member of the local community, and saving taxpayer dollars.
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The company is making efforts to diversify its business and concentrate more on consumer and commercial banking.
The southern African country, which has a major city named Blantyre after Livingstone's birthplace, is a largely agricultural economy that is making efforts to overcome decades of underdevelopment and the more recent impact of a growing HIV-Aids problem.
Papandreou will claim that market speculators have exacerbated Greece's efforts to pay down its deficit by making government borrowing more expensive.
Some of these efforts have been less about making interesting apps, and more about ways to drive sales back to books, still the bread and butter for publishers.
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In the past couple of years the authorities have been making special efforts to get doctors and dentists, plumbers, and more recently restaurateurs, to come clean and pay the right tax.
Another key feature in making health care more affordable is early diagnosis, and better management of chronic disease via prevention efforts.
If a renewed eruption threatened to continue for days or even weeks, the ad hoc efforts to get people home could develop into more permanent solutions for those making essential trips.
These efforts are making a difference: In less than a decade, we have sent more than 6 million anti-malaria bed nets to Africa, helped to reduce global polio cases by 99% and helped to decrease measles mortality by 74% worldwide.
Direct efforts to improve the supply of credit to companies - including by making the banking sector more competitive - might well fall into this category.
Gemfields's efforts come amid other attempts by investors to bring more modern practices to the industry, including making pricing data more widely available and improving grading and tracking practices so that consumers can get a better idea of what their stones are worth and where they came from.
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