Better stock control helped Wal-Mart to reduce its expenses by $2 billion in 1997.

库存管理的改善使沃尔玛公司在1997年减少了20亿美元的开支。

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It also proposed an ambitious goal - to reduce chronic disease deaths by a further 2% annually until 2015.

它还提出了一个雄心勃勃的目标−到2015年，每年再将慢性病死亡降低2%。

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"Fixed fundamentals are the key to our Reduce 2 rating, with accelerating mobile substitution, cable threat and unbundling all pressuring the division, " the Swiss investment bank said in a note.

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The number of officers across Cheshire will also reduce from 2, 060 to 1, 847 over the next four years through natural turnover of staff, the authority said.

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The Fiscal Commission proposes spending cuts and tax increases designed to reduce the deficit to 2.3 percent of GDP by 2015 and to reduce the Federal debt to 40% of GDP by 2040.

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