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If you want to decrease housing costs in Norway, the most important thing is to build more.

We are looking for ways to decrease the dropout rate. I am pretty sure, if we eliminate career and technical education, we are going to increase the dropout rate.

Intelligence augmentation decreases the need for specialization and increases participatory complexity.

Death is final. No it is not just final, it's worse than that, it's diminishing: the dead continue to decrease, to occupy less space.

Just like any other company, Samsung can fail, and if that happens, how will the South Korean economy overcome the shock? If we don't decrease our over-reliance on the chaebols and prepare to let smaller, dynamic start-ups fill the gaps in their place, it won't.

Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.

With the dramatic increase in ease of transportation and the incredible decrease in the amount of time required to travel between far-flung areas of the United States, representatives began spending more and more time in Washington and less and less time in their home districts.

One of the reasons that the central bank raised rates is to try to decrease market volatility that could arise from the election results.

On NTV, we have called for pluralist laws of ownership. We fear this (latest) development will decrease pluralism for owners.

If we get kids eating right, we could decrease cancer rates by 90 percent.

My great concern is that the tax will not benefit anyone because trading activity will decrease and the revenue collected by the government will therefore fall as well, and the trading will go to other markets.

One of the striking things about this is that the decrease is pretty much across the board.

Morale is a direct consequence of being treated well by a company, and employees return the 'gift' of good treatment with higher productivity and work quality, lower turnover (which reduces recruiting and training costs), a decrease in workers shirking their duties and a superior pool of job applicants. These gains translate directly into higher company profitability.

Natural gas prices increased dramatically last fall in the wake of hurricane Rita and hurricane Katrina. Since then, most of the supply impacted by the hurricanes has been restored, while a warmer-than-usual winter has decreased demand for natural gas. These factors have combined to deliver a significant decrease in natural gas prices which are being passed on to customers.

I don't disagree that if you're ill you should be able to get marijuana and decrease your pain, especially if you're critically ill. Our stand here is that we are torn between federal and state law. We don't want to violate federal law and go along with the state law, so we are making dispensaries illegal until they get the laws in order.

Last year, we topped out at about 40 West Nile cases statewide. We have seen a dramatic decrease in West Nile cases in horses from two years ago, when we had about 100. We're hoping to cut that in half again this year.

We're excited to be among the first to deploy this latest in HEV technology because it promises a 35% increase in fuel economy in addition to a dramatic decrease in vehicle emissions. UPS has been involved in HEV research for more than eight years, but that's just one part of a multifaceted strategy to reduce fuel dependency, cut greenhouse emissions and in the long run, reduce operating costs.

I wouldn't read a lot into one year's statistics. That's particularly true at the moment, when you've had a number of years of pretty dramatic decline in violent crime. If you're comparing this year's numbers to the 1990s, the story would be a decrease in crime.

Kidnapping this noble journalist will decrease the force of the efforts - no, it will interrupt them.

Growth is likely to be lower in '98 than it was in '97. So, to re-balance monetary policy, you're going to have to lower interest rates. The question is by how much? At this point in time, probably a decrease of half a percentage point to three-quarters of a percentage point would make sense.

I am very confident that our model will show in coming years how efficient it will be, taking advantage of our ability to continue to decrease costs and also to develop very sophisticated and original, high-end products for our customers and also taking advantage of our healthy growth projects.

I can tell you, in the past five years, we've seen a continued and remarkable decrease in risk management issues, hazing issues and all that stuff continues to decrease year in and year out. A lot of that is because the type of men we are attracting to our organizations are the ones who are looking to do well academically, who are looking to get something out of college beyond the party experience.

From last year there is a slight decrease because we have increased the size of the squad from 25-30. But we are working on the same budget. We have given each team an expense account. This to be used for expenses at training.

I don't think it will decrease any gang activity that's going on. If they're going to do the crime, they're not worried about the curfew.

From the standpoint of patient care, we really need to do this. We're looking at a 25 percent decrease in mortality.

but the data on sustained stress shows a decrease in functioning over time, even though a person may believe he is at the height of his powers.

China doesn't show any growth this year and could even show a decrease by the end of the year.

Because of the decrease of the physicians in this town, we're seeing an increase in the use of urgent care as primary care.

Here's my hope, ... If OPEC meets and decides to increase production at a sizable level, late spring, early summer you will see a gradual decrease in gasoline and diesel prices.

We think allowing hard-working and determined students to get a degree and enter the work force will decrease drug use among college students.

If that binding protein is still a bit elevated, you might have a decrease in libido that persists.

If it makes it harder for them to cross, we are going to see a decrease because they are going to cross somewhere else.

HIV/AIDS continues to be a major public health issue and the Mass Red Ribbon Ride is an important call to action. Tufts Health Plan supports the efforts of the Mass Red Ribbon Ride to increase awareness and decrease the impact of HIV/AIDS in Massachusetts.

Historically, insurance stocks have responded to disasters on the upside, actually. Catastrophes are generally considered one-time events, so I really don't expect a decrease today.

Historically, job advertising drops off in the months of November and December. This online series does not have a long enough history to seasonally adjust the data. However, we know from The Conference Board's long running Help-Wanted Index for print ads, as well as the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics' job vacancy index (JOLTS) that businesses typically decrease their recruitment in the last two months of the year. This seasonal November decline typically reflects the Thanksgiving holiday and a slowdown in recruitments after a seasonal upturn in the late summer/early fall. Year-end budget constraints may also play a role if funds are short for paid advertisements. Nationally, the downturn in new online ad volume the week before and the week of Thanksgiving more than offset the modest increases in the other weeks in November.

The pace of consumer spending in the first half was too strong, so it will be slower in the second. The gradual increase in wages and decrease in unemployment will continue.

Local housing markets will cool off, leading to a slowdown in spending and some job losses in construction and other real estate-related industries. With this in mind, we are currently forecasting a plateau in home prices, a moderate decrease in sales and new building and two years of weak growth. However, this forecast represents the middle of the road.

Like many of the nation's major metropolitan markets, the Orlando area experienced a slight decrease in online job availability during December, due in part to a typical year-end slowdown in recruitment.

Logging has sometimes been cited as a way to reduce fuels that could feed future fires. But not everything leaves on the log truck. We found that the process of logging in this type of situation actually produces a large amount of fine fuels on the ground that, unless removed, could increase fire risk, not decrease it.

Some of the muscle tone will decrease and flexibility will also decrease. It's true what they say: if you don't use it, you lose it.

That ain't bad. In our humble forecasting, we've been predicting a gradual decrease in unemployment. Business executives have been reporting to us they feel as though their region is coming out of a slow-growth business environment. It's not rampant optimism, but for the fi rst time in a number of years, executives from every corner of the state are showing more optimism for growth.

Reduce portion sizes. Decrease foods laden with sugar, white flour and fat.

Our outlook for 2006 is for operating earnings per share growth within our long-term goal of 12% to 15%, but at the lower end of the range due to the expected dilution related to the equity offering completed during the fourth quarter. We anticipate core loan growth will continue to be within our targeted range of 10% to 14%. Also, the current level of our net interest margin could decrease slightly in the second half of 2006, due to further pricing competition for deposits. Our outlook assumes a stable economic environment and continued strong credit quality.

It hasn't changed driving habits. There's been no decrease at all.

Most of these changes that make work really work for employers and employees appear to be here to stay. In no case was there a statistically significant decrease in flexibility now offered.

It allows a lot more flexibility on our operations, ... It will also help decrease the amount of overtime spent.

It is clear that the problems with the patent system have been exacerbated by a decrease in patent quality and an increase in litigation abuses.

It is, I think, a little sobering to look at those job growth numbers year over year. The annual numbers are showing a significant decrease throughout the region, and that tends to suggest a slowing economy.

I think there might be a short-term decrease because of the negative publicity, but a year or two down the line you're probably going to see an increase in value.

Over the past three years there has been a 17 percent decrease in teenage drug use.

Our work suggests that interventions might decrease the mortality of caregivers. Interventions are likely to be useful in certain diseases, such as stroke and dementia, and the timing of such interventions might be matched to the riskiest times for caregivers, for example, just after the hospitalization of the spouse.

Overall our study did show protection against colorectal cancer. But it required 10 years or more before we saw optimal decrease in risk.

Our study shows that if you irrigate, you may well have ant problems. And if it's dry, you're not going to get Argentine ants. If it's at all possible to limit your irrigation, you can decrease problems associated with Argentine ants.

I think if consumers knew the diamonds they were looking at were conflict diamonds, there would be a significant decrease in the buying of these kinds of diamonds.

I testified why I thought it was important to keep this funding. A 25- to 27-percent decrease next year would just be devastating to our community development department and what we are trying to do. On top of the city general-fund problems we're having, there would be no way to absorb these cuts.

I think the prospects for success . . . actually decrease as the election gets closer.

It gets rid of legibility problems, and that means a decrease in errors.

It calls into question the seriousness of Arafat's intentions to implement ... understandings and decrease violence in the region,

It indicates that the reliability of the river will decrease with climate change. And that model doesn't take into account population growth and the ensuing increase in demand. We can't do business as usual.

We now have the specter that new forests might increase greenhouse warming through methane emissions rather than decrease it by sequestering CO2. This paper will undoubtedly unleash controversy, not the least of which will be political.

We believe the decrease in backlog at fiscal 2005 year end is due to lower consumer confidence levels, driven primarily by the volatility of fuel costs,

Unfortunately, the pressures have begun and the support and the aid started to decrease ... therefore, we are currently in a real financial crisis.

Usually obesity is the biggest factor that will throw off body age. You can decrease your body age if you're eating right and exercising. We can make you younger.

Virtualization has allowed us to decrease our costs, increase our agility, increase time to market for new business applications and make changes more efficiently.

Will it decrease fraud to zero? No. But if we reduce it to 50 percent, it could save $10 billion to $15 billion.

Most employees view base salary as a barometer of their worth, so thinking about a steady decrease in the amount of money being provided to them has had a psychological impact. That's why organizations looked to variable pay as a way to counteract that -- until recently.

We get everything from people who are brand new to the area to 30-year residents who want to learn how to decrease the amount of turf on their lawn.

While we have seen retail sales of PC games decrease for several years now, we know from talking to consumers about their online gaming behaviors that playing games on the PC, whether it's via online casual sites or through massive multi-player online (MMO) subscription play, has been increasing.

While we have so much information about changes that would be necessary to decrease the risk of cancer and other chronic diseases, it's not clear how to change society and change policy to help those changes take place. It's disturbing that we have so much information now but we haven't really achieved the social will to make the kinds of changes that would need to be made to really impact tobacco smoking and the trends of increasing overweight and obesity.

We found a 30-40 percent decrease in symptoms, both respiratory and irritant,

We found a dramatic decrease in particles. There is something like a 70 percent decrease in particles in the pub and that makes it quite similar to outdoor air in Dublin, which is quite good.

While 2005 witnessed a decrease from 2004, the yearly average is still very high in the Marshall Islands when compared both to its own history and to prevalence data from other countries. The Marshall Islands is averaging 14 suicides per year this decade (since 2000).

We don't put extra money into our savings. We decrease the amount we pay to reduce our credit card debt. We still live in a starter home. I'm not even considering a bigger home because we're paying all that money in gas.

We continue to believe that motor carriers should expect modest growth in volumes going forward and that the latest decrease should not alarm the industry.

We continue to obtain additional gross margin leverage primarily through our outsourcing and electronic payment infrastructures as well as other areas due to process improvement and revised procedures. Also positively impacting our gross margins is the continued decrease in hardware revenues as a percentage of total revenue.

We hope the amount of fire personnel will decrease each day from now on.

We are troubled by the continuing decrease of the value of our investments in the company and are pleased that management and the board of directors are considering steps to stem the loss of shareholder value, ... However, as long-term investors, we want to be assured that the options are being considered to promote growth and stability in the long-term, and not simply to produce a short-term boost in the stock price.

We have a global decrease in interest rates and a global decrease in inflation.

We effectively managed our distribution channel to closely match our shipments in with distributor sales out. Channel re-sales were seasonally down about 3% during the first quarter but were more than 17% higher than a year ago. We managed our sales into the channel to this level of re-sales, resulting in a slight decrease in absolute inventory levels for approximately flat weeks of supply in the channel compared to the prior quarter.

That's the lowest in recent years, a decrease in the increase.

We have had a few participants say that they felt they could decrease their other medications while they were in the study.

We've seen a nine percent decrease in pediatric patients that are uninsured or underinsured in the emergency department.

We've seen a sharp decrease in phishing site activity since deploying the TippingPoint anti-phishing filters, and block more than 9,000 phishing attacks per hour.

Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is a new doubt as well.

This will mean a significant decrease of monies in the budget.

Man's sense of Morality tends to decrease as his Power increases

You must decrease the amount of food you eat and increase the amount of exercise you get. That is all there is to it.

Any decrease of anxiety is a step toward love.

If frequency with which you cite an education credential does not decrease over the course of your life, you’re not accomplishing very much.

The program has been successful in eliminating raccoon rabies from the St. Lawrence River Valley. So far this year the health department has confirmed two rabid bats and one rabid raccoon in Oswego County. An immunized raccoon population will decrease rabies exposure to people and domestic animals.

The ongoing decrease in the number of people smoking in California is a major public health achievement. With California adults smoking 25 percent less than the rest of the nation, our state continues to benefit from lower rates of tobacco-related illnesses.

We are pleased that Onyx has been recognized as a leading solution provider in the Enterprise CRM marketplace. Onyx's unique blend of integrated CRM, business process management and analytics empowers our customers every day to increase revenues, decrease costs, and improve customer satisfaction.

We definitely think, in children in particular, that this vaccine is as good or better than the standard flu shot, ... The children who received the vaccine, who were all preschool children, had a dramatic decrease in natural flu.

We don't know what that means yet. We're hoping that means the ginger is doing something really good, and we have had a few participants say they felt they could decrease their other medications while they were in the study. Whether that's a placebo effect or from the ginger, we'll have to wait until the study ends.

The decrease in pervasive attacks in 2005 is counter-intuitive to what society at large believes is a major threat to their personal data. IBM believes that the environment has shifted - with increased security protection on most systems and stiffer penalties, we are seeing organized, committed, and tenacious profiteers enter this space. This means that attacks will be more targeted and potentially damaging. Organizations around the world - from the public and private sectors - must move quickly and work together to address this growing challenge.

The decrease we had last year will at least partially off set the increase we are proposing for this year.

The expanded use of renewable fuels like E-85 helps stretch domestic oil supply and decrease our reliance on foreign imports of oil.

As your organizational authority increases, your organizational IQ decreases.

We wouldn't ever do anything that's going to decrease our production.

We think that having an adequate supply of both vitamins E and C will help to decrease oxidative stress that is too low for us to measure and will then help to forestall the onset of chronic diseases. Taking vitamin E and vitamin C supplements will decrease oxidative stress.