Going from 3% to 2% is actually reducing the rate of growth by 33.3%, not 1%.
The new discipline could change the drug market by reducing the rate of product failure in clinical trials.
They adopted the largest capital gains tax cut in history, reducing the rate by nearly 30%, from 28% to 20%.
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Flat-tax pioneer Estonia is even reducing its rate by two percentage points a year until it drops to 20% in 2007.
The biggest task before both parties is reducing unemployment rate, which has stubbornly hovered at around 10% for more than year.
An effectively unaccountable board of 15 appointed officials, the Board will be tasked with reducing the rate of growth in Medicare spending.
Reducing the rate of colon cancer would reduce healthcare costs and thus have a direct economic impact on the interstate healthcare market.
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Construction workers have been taught stretching techniques, reducing their rate of injury.
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Preqin reports that 35% of endowment respondents are reducing the rate of commitments they make to private equity and 22% are exercising greater caution.
Over the past decade, Brazil has cracked down on clear-cutting, especially in the biodiverse Amazon rain forest, reducing the rate of deforestation by 80%.
Indeed, a single income tax generated so much revenue in Colorado that one state lawmaker actually proposed reducing the rate 10 years after its implementation.
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In my view, additional enforcement efforts above this point are likely to be subject to rapidly diminishing returns, both in reducing the rate of piracy and increasing copyright holder revenues.
The submarine sealed 20 cracks in the wreck last winter - dramatically reducing its rate of leakage - but the repairs were only expected to last a few months because of corrosion and strong currents.
Studies suggest that reducing the rate of these deliveries to a reasonable number could eliminate as many as one-half million NICU days, which could lower health costs for the U.S. But this would force hospitals to take a big financial hit.
"Because of this ongoing environmental catastrophe, we need to put all of the management options on the table to try to find ways of reducing the rate at which our biodiversity succumbs to the impacts of invasive alien species, " he says.
"We're in the middle of a well-trailed programme for reducing the rate of corporation tax while other business taxes such as NI and VAT have risen, " Andrew Bonfield, chairman of the tax committee of the Hundred Group said in a statement.
In addition to cutting the funds rate, the Fed announced it was reducing its discount rate, the interest it charges to make direct loans to banks, by a quarter-point, as well, to 4.75 percent.
Ministers are committed to reducing the suicide rate by at least 20% by 2010.
These objections could however be partly met by reducing the tax rate and removing many loopholes.
Regarding reducing the top rate of income tax, the coalition government appears to be split over the issue.
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Reducing the penalty rate does not alter the overall stance of monetary policy.
By reducing the discount rate, the Fed intentionally abandoned the traditional one percent differential in order to deal with the crisis.
The aforementioned powerful growth would produce 6.6 million jobs in the first two years alone, reducing the unemployment rate to 4.6%.
Dr. ANDERSON: Well, by reducing the interest rate and easing the repayment terms, this legislation might well make bank lending for student aid less profitable.
Central bankers have also bet that QE would drive investors into riskier assets, reducing the required rate of return on new business investments.
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That means taking actions such as reducing the high rate of black children born to unmarried parents and placing more value on education, he says.
For what has been happening is that the ECB has been buying bonds in the open markets as a way of reducing the interest rate that Greece must pay on market borrowings.
He works on one project aimed at reducing the death rate from sepsis, a leading killer, and says thousands of lives could be saved each year if every hospital implemented the measures used in the study.
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