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Western firms have found that morale improves with widely applied economy drives, such as ending business-entertainment allowances or replacing mobile telephones with pagers.
ECONOMIST: Hard labour
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And Dr. Pietras adds that the rates of cancers now common in western countries will likely rise if preventive measures are not widely applied.
FORBES: Eating You Alive: Environmental Cancer
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Although new CAFE standards should encourage the shift away from the thirstiest models, trucks still get off too lightly and the administration seems to have no appetite for the one thing that would radically change buying habits: a big increase in petrol taxes or a more widely applied tax on carbon.
ECONOMIST: The bankruptcy of General Motors
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But this will now be applied more widely, with more flexibility over pay levels and progress linked to annual appraisals.
BBC: Teachers' performance pay on pupil progress
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Early evidence from those schemes would inform decisions on whether lane rental could usefully be applied more widely, it said.
BBC: Lane rental scheme for digging up roads proposed
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And how widely can it be applied?
CNN: Are we heading for a human-powered future?
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Mr. Biden suggested that background checks be applied even more widely, to all private sales, wherever they occur.
WSJ: Biden's Emerging Gun Plan Draws NRA Ire
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How widely could this idea be applied?
ECONOMIST: Internet search data may be useful for forecasters
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Silicon Valley has led the options stampede, but has applied it more widely than other firms, as a way to pay the staff without spending much cash: 80% of options granted by high-tech companies went to employees below the top five executives.
ECONOMIST: A survey on pay
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Most other image compression systems, such as the widely used Jpeg format, are applied after an image has been snapped.
BBC: Lens-less camera emerges from metamaterials work
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By 2020, knowledge, the science base and technologies relating to biodiversity, its values, functioning, status and trends, and the consequences of its loss, are improved, widely shared and transferred, and applied.
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