The Conservative group has said reducing backroom costs means it can invest more in children's services and adult social care.
In perhaps the most noteworthy call this morning, Goldman Sachs analyst James Covello turned cautious on the chip and chip equipment stocks, reducing his rating on the group to Neutral from Atractive, noting that semi shares have outperformed the market significantly since 2008.
Yahoo (YHOO) currently owns 24% of Alibaba Group, even after reducing its stake earlier this year.
In any event, GE Capital's Cary said Tuesday that a special group will focus on reducing the company's holdings in areas that "don't meet our return hurdles, " he said, but did not provide details on particular lines of business.
Months later, the group returned with proposals for reducing the cost of doing business, streamlining the regulatory process, boosting tourism and improving the public schools.
The council cabinet, a minority administration controlled by the Shires Group, had also proposed reducing 75% of community grants and charging sixth formers for school transport.
Physician compensation is tied to "efficiencies, " which means reducing the outlays and costs to the group (translation: skimp where possible) and thus generating for internal distribution a larger share of the prepaid premiums.
Figures published in June 2012 showed that a Scottish government target for reducing pregnancies in the under-16 age group had been missed.
Raytheon, a missiles and radar group, is plugging on with reducing its huge debts by selling off some businesses, though its cashflow is still negative and its civil business-jet subsidiary is suffering.
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In the latest case, prosecutors said that part of the money declared for the purchase of US film rights was skimmed off to create illegal slush funds, reducing tax liabilities for Mr Berlusconi's Mediaset group.
The organisers could have made things easier for themselves by reverting to the previous system of World Cup scheduling, where teams would play all of their group matches in a single region, reducing the number of journeys.
"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.
The issues most important to the undecided group of affluent voters are plans for economic recovery (70%), reducing federal debt (48%), reducing federal budget (42%), changes in income taxes (40%), and plans to create new jobs (33%).
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In 2010, after suspicions that crimes in Melbourne against Indian students were racially motivated, the number of university applications from India fell by half, reducing what is a big source of income for Australia (Indians are the second-largest group of foreigners studying in the country).
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The process, known as netting, allows approved companies to consolidate intra-group payments and receipts into a single, "netted, " amount, significantly reducing the time and cost of processing each individual payment.
The first group knew perfectly well that economic development, education and rights for women were very effective in reducing birth rates.
Baskar Vairmohan, the EPRI researcher who conducted the iPad test, said the group is now studying usage to understand whether the explosion of tablets is adding to power consumption or reducing it.
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