The idea is preposterous, similar to a retailer's believing that reducing prices doesn't help move merchandise.
"Reducing weight doesn't necessarily reduce environmental impact, " says Jane Bickerstaffe, of Incpen - the Industry Council for Packaging and the Environment.
The concept of "deleveraging, " or reducing debt, isn't new.
"I don't ever see it reducing the need for manpower in my office, " he says.
The agency says it has dealt with the federal government's across-the-board sequestration budget cuts by reducing scheduled overtime and it hasn't furloughed any screeners.
While acknowledging policing isn't the only factor in reducing gun violence, they cite the all-time low number of slayings in a city where most people are killed with guns.
As one official put it to me, "you can't have a convincing plan without reducing Greek debt".
The deception of resigning contracts, the "shareholders always come first attitude, " the reducing of canceled accounts so it doesn't affect anyone's numbers.
For one thing, it signals that these companies are finding ways of using these new technologies to make their medicines more effective --making for better odds in getting Food and Drug Administration approval and reducing money wasted testing drugs that won't work in human beings.
"What we see is a Congress who tends to think that the job of public health and environmental protection is not particularly important, that the job in some ways is done and that we don't have to worry about further reducing pollution, " says EPA Administrator Carol Browner.
Experts know that reducing the number of Americans killed by guns isn't a problem that will be solved overnight, let alone in a few years.
In a keynote speech to the Tory conference, he said Labour's proposal for reducing spending more slowly meant their cuts "wouldn't be smaller - they would be bigger and last longer".
"We have to recognise that to get people into employment you have to start reducing the tax burden and if the Liberals don't want to join in that endeavour, then they might want to have an earlier meeting with the electorate at a general election, " he told BBC Radio 4's World at One.
BBC: David Cameron and Nick Clegg: No let-up in tough decisions
This debate isn't a choice between protecting the Second Amendment or reducing gun violence.
The transition could mean the company wasn't making as many calls to delinquent debtors, reducing its ability to collect on those accounts.
Soliman's 20-year-old son, Kareem, says he's worried that other countries aren't doing their part to curb climate change by reducing their greenhouse gas emissions.
Hlatky agreed the study "provides more evidence about the effectiveness of statin therapy in reducing cardiovascular risk, " even among people who don't currently meet the guidelines for this kind of therapy.
CNN: Study: Cholesterol drugs could help those with healthy levels
How are we cutting costs and reducing our deficit so that our children and our grandchildren aren't saddled with debt?
WHITEHOUSE: Forum on Modernizing Government: Opening Session
Much of the environmental movement--committed largely to reducing the carbon footprint of 300 million Americans--doesn't want new bridges, roads, ports or much of anything that uses greenhouse gas-spewing concrete.
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.
Pork butt doesn't take kindly to blasts of high heat, so don't think you can cheat by turning up the heat and reducing the cooking time.
We very much hope that the super committee will fulfill its mandate, produce a proposal that is balanced and fair, that doesn't ask any sector of society to bear the burden of reducing our deficits and getting our fiscal house in order.
By footling round with centrifuges and liquid nitrogen they were reducing food to a set of mental hurdles, as though there weren't already enough traffic lights and zebra crossings in life.
Why aren't companies taking advantage of these bargain prices and retiring their debt, thus reducing their liabilities?
Meanwhile, the stricter U.S. sanctions, which won't fully take effect until summer, will go one step further, likely reducing the volume of Iranian exports by shutting buyers of Iranian oil out of the U.S. financial system.
The concept of medical devices that patients can use themselves isn't new, given products like home-pregnancy tests that have long aided in reducing the need for professional medical support.
However, NRA chief executive Wayne LaPierre told the panel that the current background check system doesn't work, so expanding it would only create an unmanageable government bureaucracy instead of reducing gun crime.
CNN: Obama still backs new gun ban; top senator less certain
Another issue with curcumin is that it isn't very "bioavailable, " meaning many of the curcuminoids are altered during digestion, reducing potency.
What hasn't changed is that the early states in the nominating process serve a national purpose by reducing the presidential race to a human scale.
WSJ: Fergus Cullen: In New Hampshire, Politics on a Human Scale
"There was a lot of pain in reducing head count 50%, but we were quick to see the shift coming and couldn't abdicate our leadership, " says Duncan Niederauer, a Goldman managing director in equities.
应用推荐