Analysts and airline industry officials say the fee reduction is a step in the right direction, but it fails to address the largest burden on the industry: high fuels costs and taxes.

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Mr Bush's trade supremo, Robert Zoellick, and the commerce secretary, Don Evans, presented the new plan as the logical culmination of the step-by-step reduction of trade tariffs that has taken place since the end of the second world war.

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That would be a symbolic first step towards an eventual reduction in Western troop numbers.

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Doctors and nurses can and do find more efficient ways of working, lengths of stay are decreasing, inpatients become day cases, day cases become outpatients and outpatients get treated in community community settings, each step leads to a reduction in resources required.

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We did achieve, after an ugly process, a significant step forward in terms of deficit reduction, and that will be implemented.

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We call on food manufacturers and restaurant chains to step up their efforts at voluntary salt reduction while the FDA and USDA implement the IOM's recommendations.

CNN: U.S. limits urged for salt in processed food

As he says, a lot of people will freak out this, but its another step along the same line of waste reduction as what we hoped The Times would eliminate (someday) by having copyeditors or writers tag their work once at the point of inception and bake that stuff into the files that flowed downstream from there.

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The use of booms from the Gulf oil spill is just the latest step GM has taken towards meeting its company-wide waste reduction goals.

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Mr Trichet said the deal struck at last week's summit of eurozone heads was a step in the right direction, but (yes) more work was needed, and the reduction in the debt owed by the Greek government must be a one-off event.

BBC: Interview with an ECB president