• At first it became a way to streamline passage of deficit-reducing measures in the Senate.

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  • He said the extra officers would "enable greater options to focus on reducing crime through preventative measures and reducing harm to communities".

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  • Saving measures include reducing street cleaning, public toilets and the number of children's centres.

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  • She added that many Greeks at home are pinning their hopes on Samaras retracting some of the government's harsh austerity measures while reducing domestic bureaucracy to encourage foreign investment.

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  • Meanwhile, the administration plans to begin to reduce the fiscal deficit in 2012 and bring it below 4% of GDP by 2014 by adopting fiscal consolidation measures and reducing the primary deficit.

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  • The French government unveiled a series of measures aimed at reducing the state pension-fund shortfall.

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  • The row over the Beech loophole overshadowed the executive's announcement of a range of measures aimed at reducing the risk from sex offending.

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  • Since September, the government has taken several measures such as reducing fuel subsidies, easing foreign investment restrictions and fast-tracking industrial projects to improve economic conditions.

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  • Elsewhere thousands of Greek protestors have gathered in central Athens as unions hold a general strike against government austerity measures aimed at reducing the country's huge public debt and stabilising the euro.

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  • When angry voters went to the polls on May 6, they punished politicians who imposed the austerity measures, greatly reducing the number of seats held by the center-right New Democracy party and the Socialist PASOK party.

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  • These and other measures are essential to reducing the effects of extreme weather events and forging a safer future.

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  • In practice that generally means dramatically reducing energy consumption through passive design measures and installing a small amount of on-site energy generation, often solar.

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  • Among the ideas that have become reality: A product that helps remotely track the safety of school buses, improvements to the internal phone system and cost-cutting measures, such as reducing the use of overnight delivery for packages.

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  • True, spending on new houses fell sharply again in July, but mortgage rates have been cut by the government's Housing Loan Corporation, and the government is considering reducing real-estate taxes and relaxing regulatory measures such as limits on the height of houses.

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  • They advise employers who have sufferers to take measures such as job-rotation and reducing the time spent on the repetitive task.

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  • Zapatero has said there will be no more austerity measures, but he is committed to reducing the deficit to 6% of GDP next year.

    BBC: Spain: Anti-Zapatero vote tests market nerves

  • Measures may include canceling field trips, reducing hours of operation, hiring more part-time and fewer full-time employees, and a renewed focus on volunteerism, he said.

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  • And aggressive monetary easing measures like QE-to-infinity are reducing the systemic risks and ensuing swings in investor positioning that have dominated markets since the start of the great recession.

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  • In a recent survey by CSA, a pollster, respondents adjudge Mr Hollande the more credible on nine measures out of 12, including combating unemployment and even reducing the budget deficit.

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  • It did, however, introduce other measures intended to improve the fishery's management by reducing illegal fishing, improving the collection of data and introducing a new framework for the presentation of scientific advice.

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  • Rangarajan, chairman of the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council, said he disagreed with the assessment and that the government's recent measures would show a significant impact on boosting growth and reducing fiscal deficit.

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  • The lower alcohol-content threshold was one of nearly 20 recommendations aimed at reducing drunken driving made by the board, including that states adopt measures to ensure more widespread use of use of ignition devices.

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  • The government is taking measures to stabilize growth by pushing for more investment projects, reducing tax burdens and allowing private sector investment in strategic industries as China tries moving away from being a low-cost manufacturing hub dependent on the ever-declining growth of the developed world.

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  • Mr Stevenson also announced measures to minimise disruption during the construction of the new bridge, including reducing working hours for the building of associated roads.

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  • Mr Hazare and his supporters say that tougher measures are required in the bill if it is to prove effective at reducing the level of corruption.

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  • Fuller disclosure needs to be supported by measures to reduce the contagion effect of a failure by, for example, reducing uncollateralised interbank exposures among European banks.

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  • Finally, some of the measures that Joe Geronimo Martinez mentions have been tried all around over decades (esp. reducing working hours), with not exactly overwhelming success.

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