His answer is simple: "We need to put technology to use to address the issues of reducing non-combatant casualties in the battle-space".
With a different hole design, crystal fibres can do the opposite trick as well, spreading the light much more evenly across the width of the fibre and thereby reducing non-linear effects.
For one thing, if governments try to force people to save more than they want, the savers may try to offset this either by reducing non-mandatory saving or by borrowing to maintain their current consumption.
Other cost-saving plans include restructuring non-essential services and reducing the number of councillors.
Using energy to make solar cells is, accordingly, speculative, not a long term means of reducing consumption of non-renewable fuels.
The drive to get more students into university has also had unintended knock-on consequences, such as reducing opportunities for non-graduates.
But selling non-core assets and reducing loan loss risk and the reserves for potential losses was ostensibly part of their federal bailout deal.
During the 1990s companies placed a greater emphasis on non-regular workers, often reducing or freezing the hiring of regular workers, in order to reduce costs.
Smoking bans could have an effect on reducing heart attacks or heart disease generally by one of two major routes: either by inducing current smokers to quit or by reducing the exposure of non-smokers to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS).
Non-commercials cut their gross long position and increased their gross short position, reducing the net-longs for both PGMs. Non-commercials are net-long 20, 127 contracts in platinum and net-long 12, 648 contracts in palladium.
FORBES: Speculators Increase Bullish Gold, Silver Positions, Cut PGMs -- CFTC Data
But the non-PenTile screen is laminated, reducing glare and making colors really bright and vivid.
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Non-commercials mimicked that action, reducing their net long position, which now is 20, 603 contracts, having cut gross longs and added gross shorts.
FORBES: FOCUS: Speculators Continue To Whittle Back Exposure To Metals - CFTC
"HSBC's decision sets a new benchmark for the financial services sector, " said Steve Howard, chief executive of The Climate Group, a non-profit coalition of organisations committed to reducing their greenhouse gas emissions, of which HSBC is a member.
In a joint news conference Wednesday with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown -- ahead of his talks with Medvedev -- Obama emphasized that Russia and the United States also have a common interest in "reducing nuclear stockpiles and promoting nuclear non-proliferation" across the world.
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Nanotech also allows for "green manufacturing"--manufacturing processes that can take place at ordinary temperatures, reducing energy costs, while the use of non-toxic catalysts minimize pollution and bottom-up construction leaves no wasted material behind.
In the legacy report, non-commercials trimmed gross longs and increased shorts, ultimately reducing their net-long to 23, 699 contracts.
FORBES: FOCUS: Speculators Hike Appetite For Gold In Latest CFTC Report -- Just Ahead Of Price Break
In the legacy report, the non-commercials also clipped gross longs and gross shorts, reducing the net-long position to 6, 965 contracts.
The notion that the scientific establishment has suppressed evidence to the contrary has provided plenty of non-expert politicians with an excuse not to spend money reducing carbon.
Reducing water use at its buildings, cutting down on non-essential travel and the construction of modern energy efficient stations to replace existing ones have been among suggestions of the ways in which HIFRS could cut CO2 emissions.
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"We believe that such a step be not only in the interests of India but in the interests of reducing tension in the region and contributing to the world regime on non-proliferation, " Mr Cook said.
In palladium, non-commercials cut 4, 951 gross longs and added 186 gross shorts, reducing the net-long to 12, 141 contracts.
FORBES: FOCUS: Speculators Scurry From Precious, Base Metals - CFTC
The non-commercial traders cut three gross long contracts and added 580 gross shorts, reducing the net-long position to 11, 028 contracts.
FORBES: FOCUS: Speculators Continue To Cut Exposure To Most Metals- CFTC
Ron Madrid, an expert on non-lethal warfare, says that a new laser-warning system has proved particularly effective in reducing casualties at checkpoints in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The new 101 non-emergency number in Scotland is designed to simplify the way the public contact the police, while reducing pressure on the 999 system.
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The 187 countries that have signed the 1970 Non-Proliferation Treaty meet in New York, as they do every five years, to review progress in reducing the nuclear danger.
In the legacy report, large speculators, known as non-commercials, decreased gross longs by 21, 077 contracts and raised gross shorts by 280 contracts, reducing their net-long position to 204, 736 contracts, their smallest since Sept 11.
FORBES: FOCUS: Speculators Continue To Trim Bullish Exposure To Metals-CFTC
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