Trial lawyers and their Democratic allies call for health reform along European lines to reduce costs, making torts less expensive.
James McNerney, a former boss of 3M, a manufacturer, damaged the company's innovation engine by trying to apply six-sigma principles (which are intended to reduce errors on production lines) to the entire company, including the research laboratories.
When the next-generation communications system comes online, the question is whether the cruise lines will reduce their communications costs to passengers because of the changes in technology or whether they will leave costs as they are but offer a greatly enhanced experience for system users.
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We would expect the rise in non-mutually recognised State occupational licenses to reduce labour mobility across State lines.
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They thought it was best to reduce the number of product lines, simplify the choices for customers, emphasize margins and drive less for sales.
One of the next big things was Radio-frequency identification (RFID) contactless payment technology, which was said to provide a simple method of payment that could reduce time spent in checkout lines.
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Many brands have relatively narrow product lines, which tends to reduce their leverage with retailers.
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"We tried various methods to reduce the collisions, with enhanced signs, lines and surfacing, " he said.
Which will, if you think about it for a moment, clearly reduce the mobility of labour across said State lines.
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One is to reduce the electrical losses by putting thin metal lines used to collect and transport electrons on the back of the cells.
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Commentators estimate bank profitability will reduce by 20-40% for some business lines and geographies.
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Mortgage companies can cancel home equity lines of credit and credit card companies can reduce your credit limit.
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The main reason for wanting to install superconducting power lines in cities is not, perhaps surprisingly, to reduce transmission losses.
Financial institutions tapping credit lines at the Federal Reserve Board should be forced to reduce dividend payout ratios to no more than 25% of earnings.
Finally, they are looking for ways to produce and store power close to consumers, to reduce the need to send so much power down those ageing transmission lines in the first place.
Certainly travellers can finish up meals, avoid buffets, enquire about food waste when they check into hotels and choose properties, cruise-lines and tour operators that have programmes in place to reduce or recycle wastage.
You want a guarantee of safety - not something along the lines of "if we peak at date X and reduce emissions at rate Y that gives you Z% chance of not being flooded out of existence".
But after physicians noticed that patients treated with Botox had fewer facial lines, an increasing number of doctors since the mid-1990s have used it to reduce forehead creases and crow's feet wrinkles, which are caused by muscle contractions right under the skin.
But after patients who were treated with Botox showed a decrease in facial lines, an increasing number of physicians since the mid-1990s have used it to reduce forehead creases and crow's feet wrinkles, which are caused by muscle contractions directly under the skin.
As a result, our proposal would reduce the deficit by as much as a trillion dollars over the next decades, and would directly affect your bottom lines -- each and every one of you who are already providing insurance to your employees -- by a significant amount.
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