Or, you could refine your overall strategy, prune personnel, shed unprofitable accounts, streamline procedures and upgrade systems.

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My own experience of this occurred at the World Bank in 1985 when I asked to head a task force to streamline procedures at that august and stately institution.

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At a summit last year in Bali, they pledged to streamline customs procedures and to adopt shared product standards.

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The leaders of a recipient country may know that they should free up trade, facilitate new business formation, streamline licensing procedures, and improve protection of private property.

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Doctors would manage these patients more intensely, coordinating their care with other physicians to streamline tests and other procedures and thus eliminate wasteful spending.

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The legislation will streamline previously excessive bureaucratic procedures so that federal land managers can begin thinning up to 20 million acres in high-risk areas.

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It also proposed to create a more flexible regulatory environment, and to streamline existing rules and equipment authorization procedures for devices throughout this band.

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But in any case, they will beg for custom software design as large and complex health care delivery systems go through compliance procedures and also look to streamline administrative costs.

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