And at the same time, I'm hearing that they're planning to reduce 1, 500 Marines in Anbar Province.
The force's officer establishment is expected to reduce from 1, 727 to about 1, 400 by the end of next year.
While the economy is growing at a rate of 1.6%, our fiscal restraint measures will reduce GDP by 1.75% in 2013 explained William Dudley, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, in a speech given on March 25th.
It is also in the process of closing nine factories by 2008, which will reduce capacity by 1 million units.
The other consists of distortions of the land market, such as badly defined titles and rent controls, which McKinsey reckons reduce growth by 1.3 percentage points a year.
On average, 401(k) fees reduce investment returns by 1 to 2% a year.
These measures will reduce GDP by about 1.0 percent annually on average.
This, it said, would reduce the deficit to 1.5% of gross domestic product by 2020, from 11% in the current fiscal year.
The authority currently employs 5, 500 staff and is proposing to reduce the number by 1, 000 over the next three years due to cuts to government grants.
Eastman Kodak, which continues to operate under Chapter 11 of the U.S. bankruptcy code, this morning said it expects to reduce staff by about 1, 000 more people by the end of 2012.
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Stimulus and stabilization efforts initiated in 2008 and 2009 and tax cuts introduced in Chancellor Angela MERKEL's second term increased Germany's budget deficit to 3.3% in 2010, but slower spending and higher tax revenues reduce the deficit to 1.7% in 2011, below the EU's 3% limit.
The installed panels are expected to reduce carbon emissions by over 1, 300 metric tons annually, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
Taxes and government transfers do little to reduce inequality (see chart 1).
More ominously, she says that some 120, 000 additional houses per year are needed to reduce real price growth to 1.1%, which would be closer to European averages.
But collectively, these factors might reduce overall economic impact by 1-3% this year, as opposed to the 5-10% it may have fallen if Tiger was on top of his game physically and mentally AND if the timing of the announcement pre-dated the event by several months.
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The first phase, intended to run from 2010-13, required America and Russia to negotiate a bilateral accord to reduce their total warheads to 1, 000 each from their current inventories of, respectively, 8, 500 and 11, 000 (the two countries still account for 95% of the world's 20, 500 nuclear warheads).
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One European study found that halving bus fares would reduce car use by less than 1%.
To survive, the Street must reduce leverage from over 20 to 1 closer to 10 to 1.
Amplats plans to reduce production to between 2.1-2.3 million ounces per annum "to more closely align output with expected demand".
Similarly, All Nippon Airways, the country's biggest domestic airline, has said that it wants to reduce investment and get rid of 1, 000 workers.
The number of officers across Cheshire will also reduce from 2, 060 to 1, 847 over the next four years through natural turnover of staff, the authority said.
Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, two Harvard economists, estimate that public debt above 90% of GDP can reduce average growth rates by more than 1%.
When LeMieux was hiking the Appalachian Trail a decade ago, he identified the problem that would become the focus of his work: how to turn the kinetic energy of a hiker into electrical energy that could keep devices charged (and reduce the battery weight he carried for 1, 500 miles).
He says they are trying to reduce patent approval time from 3 years to 1.
Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat, and simmer for about 1 hour or until tender.
Inactivity, poor nutrition, and age-related changes, all help to reduce bone mass at the rate of approximately 1% per year after age 40.
When public companies reduce the total number of shares outstanding by 1.3%, that means that institutional owners of stock have more money and less shares to chose from.
Sascha Heiden of IHS Global Insight, a forecasting firm, thinks the scrappage schemes in Western Europe will boost sales by about 1.2m this year and reduce them by 600, 000 next year.
The joint understanding commits the United States and Russia to reduce their strategic warheads to a range of 1, 500 to 1, 675, and their strategic delivery vehicles to a range of 500 to 1, 100.
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