This would have frozen the rebate, with a view to phasing it out.
Besides the intrinsic value of cursive writing, some are worried that phasing it out may make texts written in cursive go the way of hieroglyphics, as McGrann pointed out.
Ms Kjaersgaard wants to keep early retirement as it is, but she might agree to phasing it out and raising the pension age in exchange for stricter immigration controls and firmer law-and-order policies.
Oracle says HP is phasing it out and that Oracle is therefore planning to drop support for Itanium, while HP says it has no such plans and will attempt to force Oracle to continue its support for the chip.
The company announced today that it is phasing out production of digital cameras.
But Congress voted to require all body scanners to have privacy-protecting software, and the TSA announced in February it was phasing out backscatter systems because they could not meet the new standard.
Instead, it's supposedly phasing out the name as part of a "transition from industry dialog to a broad consumer dialog" while it starts shipping related products -- a funny statement for a company that's been shipping some of those products for quite awhile.
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Poland thinks it can win Spain as an ally if it argues for phasing out (rather than cutting off) funds to regions now receiving them, alongside payments to new members.
As the Recovery Act funds that saw through many states over the last two years are phasing out -- and it is undeniable that the Recovery Act helped every single state represented in this room manage your budgets, whether you admit it or not -- you face some very tough choices at this point on everything from schools to prisons to pensions.
Phasing out nuclear at the outset will make it cost even more.
Yes, it is true that the Treasury Department will begin phasing out paper checks.
Obama cheerfully signed a spending bill that gratuitously included a provision phasing out the program next year unless Congress expressly reauthorizes it.
The economic recovery has been progressing so well that it had become almost a sure thing the Fed will begin phasing out its easy money policy and QE stimulus programs much earlier than planned, possibly beginning as early as this summer.
Although Netflix is phasing out the disc service, the company hung on to more of the DVD subscribers than it anticipated during the fourth quarter.
The UK had been due to set a date for phasing out all its imperial measurements within three years, but the European Commission will announce later it is leaving all future decisions to the British government.
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Oracle has been phasing out some of the legacy low margin products and introducing new profitable ones consistently, which has enabled it to boost its gross margins to almost 54% from 48% a year ago.
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