Thus reducing the number of mines we need and the new minerals we must dig up.
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That might increase further as PIR becomes more of an online retailer, thus reducing costs.
Now anyone anywhere can provide software, thus reducing the need for costly boxed and proprietary licensed code.
Why aren't companies taking advantage of these bargain prices and retiring their debt, thus reducing their liabilities?
The reason why is pretty basic: When we devalue we're actually lowering real wage rates, thus reducing the cost of hiring.
The interest rate on the deficit is negative and thus reducing the deficit will cost the US government forgone interest payments.
This, the locals hope, will cause the water level in the northern part to rise, thus reducing its salinity and restoring the fishing industry.
Its "Promoting Sustainable Transport Solutions for East African Cities" project aims to reduce growth in private motor vehicles, thus reducing traffic congestion and greenhouse-gas emissions.
The idea was this: If after burning a quantity of heavy gasoline the airship became light, the skipper had only to switch to hydrogen, thus reducing lift.
If it does not, bond investors will regard every purchase it makes as pushing them down the pecking order, thus reducing any residual appetite they might have.
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To make matters worse, rock-bottom interest rates have encouraged people to buy, rather than rent, their homes, thus reducing the supply of rented accommodation, which particularly hurts Latinos.
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During the quarter, Smithfield refinanced high interest bearing debt with new debt at a much lower interest rate and a longer maturity, thus reducing interest expense by 6%.
But Shibboleth handles all the identification and authentication of users in between the school and the database, thus reducing the complexity of management and protecting the privacy of individual users.
Without a broadcast flag in place, content providers might decide not to release new programming in digital format, thus reducing consumer demand for Thomsons' digital set-top boxes, according to Arland.
It makes perfect sense for companies to do the reverse: scour the world for markets that will pay high prices for their shares, thus reducing the cost of their capital.
Then this November, Diller proposed splitting IAC into five parts that would use a single-tiered voting structure, thus reducing Liberty Media's hold on the company by almost half to 30%.
One company, Xenith, has a partnership with a youth football league that is testing a helmet that the company claims is designed to reduce head movement within the helmet, thus reducing concussion risks.
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The distance is monitored using sensors mounted at the front of the car, and braking or acceleration are applied automatically to ensure that it remains constant, thus reducing the chances of a collision.
The effect of these strengthened winds whipping across the sea surface is to bring deeper, more carbon-rich water up from below, thus reducing the surface layer's capacity to absorb more CO2 from the air.
If no existing grants are cut, then the 10% cut must fall entirely on the new grants which were 20% of the budget, thus reducing them by half to roughly 10% of the budget.
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It (they) only exist to purchase services and products from Apple and then to sell those unchanged products back to Apple but at inflated costs, thereby making Apple seem less profitable and thus reducing their tax liability.
Cable companies such as Cox appear to be abandoning a go-it-alone approach to retail, a strong likelihood of network sharing that could provide both future revenue and the potential for up-front cash, thus reducing some cash needs.
On the one hand it limits what people can do but it also creates an environment where many American companies cannot or choose not to enter, thus reducing competition - so the market is open to local players.
Over the past 25 years, the World Food Prize has grown to become the foremost international award for individuals who have made exceptional breakthrough achievements in increasing the quality, quantity and availability of food in the world, thus reducing hunger.
This suggests that, rather than pushing companies to explore some new area which the government in its wisdom or folly has decided is the sector of the future, industrial policy should encourage competition instead, thus reducing firms' tendency to seek out less contested arenas.
They look at whether the government of the country which is home to that bank would bail the bank out in a crisis - thus reducing losses for the bank's creditors - and whether the relevant government could in practice afford to bail out the bank.
This bar, which can be collapsed if you deem it unnecessary, includes icons for sound, WiFi, display, Bluetooth and more -- the idea is to get you one step closer to these individual settings, thus reducing the amount of time you spend trying to reach them.
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"The international community can claim full ownership of this treaty, which will make trade in conventional arms more responsible and transparent, thus reducing human suffering and tangibly contributing to international peace, security and stability, " Catherine Ashton, the European Union's foreign policy chief, said in a written statement.
Other costs are the impact on the lives of women and girls who spend several hours every day carrying heavy loads of water thus reducing the time women have available for growing food, working to earn an income or take care of children, and preventing girls from attending school.
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