Last week, for instance, Greece took measures to cut abuses to its welfare system, and to eliminate excessive regulations that constrain entrepreneurship.
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The State Bank and the Ministry of Agriculture took measures to raise the mandatory support price for farmers, trying to increase next year's cane yield.
Readers likely remember that the stock market already crashed in 2007-08, from over 6000 to 1700, and that real estate prices in major cities dropped 20-30% in 2008 after the government took measures reduce liquidity and then the financial crisis hit.
But as that hope faded and the need to remove the steadily-decreasing decay heat remained, operators at Fukushima-Daiichi took measures that would cool the reactors but would ruin them for future operation, such as the decision to try to cool the reactors with seawater.
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For instance, although Intel's practice of providing rebates to retailers who sell PCs with Intel chips inside, could be interpreted as an innocent discount, Balto says he expects to see courts scrutinize the policies to assess whether Intel deliberately took measures to hamper AMD's ability to get PCs using its chips displayed and sold by retailers.
The measures that he took to stabilize our financial system and our banking system, and obviously the measures he took to begin the recovery in this country.
So the Federal Reserve and other agencies took emergency measures to prevent that outcome.
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With such a prized asset in custody, authorities took extraordinary measures to keep Vinas' arrest secret.
Benedict took extraordinary measures to bring the society back under Rome's wing during his pontificate, but negotiations stalled.
When Austria took desperate measures to prop up its banking system, its banking crisis only shifted to Germany.
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Another lamb on the farm had died, so in order to preserve the living lamb Mr Jones took special measures.
This past weekend, the first of two at the vast polo pitch in the desert here, Coachella took corrective measures.
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And yet, because of who we are, we took extraordinary measures to show the kind of respect that was shown in his burial.
Prior to the factory infiltration, the company took precautionary measures, where possible, to move or protect production and test equipment, inventory and tooling.
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So we feel very comfortable with the fact that we took extraordinary measures to show that respect to the traditions of the Islamic faith.
Adegbe took extreme measures to get his eco message heard -- and seen -- on the runway, including one design inspired by mermaids and made from real fish scales.
The head teacher took the measures when members of the NASUWT union at the Catholic school in Hertfordshire refused to teach the boy and threatened to take industrial action - even though he had won the right, on appeal, to return to the school.
The MTA took extensive measures before the storm to limit the amount of water flooding into tunnels, including by boarding up ventilation grates in low-lying stations, piling sandbags at station entrances, inflating a rubber dam in the Long Island Rail Road's West Side yards in Manhattan and hastily erecting a floodwall across the mouth of the No. 3 train tunnel near East 148th Street in Harlem.
But this part of the pie is shrinking too: fiscal-austerity measures took 0.7% off output over the past year.
And yet, if they took the right measures now, some might save themselves.
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Factory management turned a deaf ear to complaints about these conflicts and took no corrective measures, resulting in a work stoppage by quality control inspectors.
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The Council and the Environment Agency said they would continue to ensure that site workers took all appropriate measures to minimise any impact the clean up operations may have on the surrounding residents.
The measures he took helped to convince investors that his country was not a potential default risk.
That has been the case with some of the measures we took in December, in conjunction with Republicans.
The employees of Kookmin, one of the country's largest banks, took even more drastic measures this week when they heard that their bank was talking about merging with Housing and Commercial Bank.
He said stricter standards have proved to be cost-effective, particularly along the Gulf Coast where there has been a demonstrable difference between buildings that took stricter flood prevention measures after Hurricane Katrina and those that didn't.
Mario Monti outlined new austerity measures, which took the pressure off Italian bond yields.
It is certainly the case with the measures that we took in 2009, including the Recovery Act.
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