There were already a couple of clinics in operation, and they seemed to be popular and successful in reducing out-of-wedlock births.

当时已经有几家这样的诊所运营，在降低婚外生育方面很受欢迎，也很有成效。

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Couple this strategy with energy-efficient power and cooling systems, and a mid-sized data center with 1500 servers could save millions of dollars-while reducing your organization's carbon footprint.

将这种策略与节能电力和冷却系统相结合，一个拥有1500台服务器的中型数据中心可节省数百万美元——同时降低您企业的碳排放量。

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"Reducing salt in the food supply needs to be a gradual process for a couple of reasons."

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"We've been talking about reducing the number of teams for the last couple of seasons from nine to five or four....but it hasn't happened, " said Samuel.

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"I think we should spend the money that we can immediately, but at the same time if we have a couple of quarters of positive GDP growth, then let's start reducing and eliminating the huge, massive, unprecedented deficits that are going to accrue from these actions, " he said.

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Over the last couple of years, I also see the hiring of support staff, particularly around reducing energy, reducing waste, and water conservation.

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