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The goal is to reduce the pet population through the most humane means possible.

The driver for all industries looking to outsource the movement of their goods is the need to reduce costs in order to increase profitability. Employing an expert to maintain various stages of its logistical supply chain allows a company to focus on its core competencies and 'stick to the knitting'.

The driving force behind this effort is the federal deficit and the out-of-control spending that is pushing it increasingly higher. This bill takes fiscally responsible steps to reduce the deficit, reduce spending that is on autopilot and strengthen our economy,

The effort to reduce the deficit has an impact on all discretionary programs.

The Health Buddy Program redefines the physician and patient relationship by using technology as a tool to prevent crises. Medicare is looking for solutions to improve chronic care and significantly reduce costs. Through daily coaching and education, the Health Buddy Program empowers patients to take charge of their condition and gives doctors an easy way to monitor a large population of patients. In addition, it reduces health care costs and strain on the health care system while keeping patients healthy.

The Dodd Bill does very little to reduce financial risks. What it will do is make Wall Street even more the servant of bureaucrats in Washington and the political party in power. That is not in the best interests of the American people.

The Indians, I was now speaking of, were not content with the common Enemies that lessen and destroy their Country-men, but invented an infallible Stratagem to purge their Tribe, and reduce their Multitude into far less Numbers.

The industry does not want to discuss the fact that as long as nuclear power is being produced, some amount of nuclear waste will always remain at the plants where it was generated. Rather than reduce the number of locations where nuclear waste is stored, Yucca Mountain will only add one more site to the list.

The inability to raise prices requires us to take even tougher measures to reduce costs,

The incentives today are not just used to reduce the price of the vehicle. They are a way to get existing owners to buy new cars. If those go away, it absolutely stops our ability to trade.

The EU also believes that its combination of reducing subsidies and cutting tariffs will reduce EU poultry exports by about 25 percent -- creating market access for others in third markets.

The European auto industry made a commitment to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by an average of 140 grams per kilometer. But then there was a significant change in what customers wanted in their vehicles.

The focal point of our long-range plan is the creation of small learning communities throughout the school district, beginning with early childhood education and continuing all the way through high school. This plan will allow us to reduce school sizes throughout the district and remain at the forefront of today's cutting-edge practices.

The focus is going to be on prevention, ... Let's don't wait for the problem to raise its ugly head. Let's make sure controls are in place to reduce the opportunity for any waste, fraud or mismanagement.

The fixed-income franchise continued to show extremely strong results at a time when most other major sectors in the industry were experiencing persistent weakness, ... The steps taken during fiscal 2001 to reduce operating costs and increase margins have had a positive effect on the current period's earnings.

The idea behind micro-scale chemistry is to reduce the risk by reducing the exposure to chemicals.

The hope is that peer pressure is going to reduce and eventually eliminate violations.

The initiative's goal was not to drive business to one wholesaler, but to reduce pharmaceutical costs for participating hospitals. This regional effort was driven by our membership and really showed how hospitals can work together to affect change.

The Energy Policy Act of 2005 did nothing to reduce our dependency on foreign oil or relieve the burden of consumers at the pump.

The emergence of text messaging offers fraudsters another cheap and easy way to reach large numbers of potential investors. Now more than ever, investors need to be vigilant about doing their homework before investing and taking the necessary steps to reduce the likelihood of falling prey to these scams.

The EPA has determined that the best course of action is to trap the material in place until a long-term solution for the PCB contamination issue in St. Clair Shores can be developed. This effort will reduce risk of PCBs entering the environment.

The evidence indicates that keeps people from coming back into the criminal justice system are employment, so if we do things that reduce the chance that they'll be employed, it's more likely that they'll violate the law.

An awful lot of people are very upset with us, and we've got to do whatever we can to reduce taxes and show them we are trying.

The main thing that we're looking at is that these are the three dominant players within the U.S. baby food market, and the proposed merger would effectively reduce that number from three to two. There's an increased chance for collusion is really what it comes down to.

The filter does help to reduce the ozone the product emits. But it still -- from our tests -- didn't perform well in removing particles from the air.

The finances have improved again this year. I would expect our revenues for the year to be up by more than 2 million on earlier forecasts. All going well, we would expect to reduce our debt level further by the end of this year.

The financial and economic impact of injuries in the United States is serious. However, by expanding our science-based, injury-prevention programs, we can drastically reduce these costs and even more importantly help people live longer and healthier lives.

The first quarter traditionally is the weakest period of the year for technology purchases, and many of our customers chose to reduce or defer capital spending decisions until they see a sustained improvement in their businesses.

The code share agreement will allow the airlines to reduce cost by removing some surplus capacity and utilizing aircraft more efficiently, while increasing the number of flights available to ... customers.

The challenge is that the interface on a cell phone is so poor that anything you can do to reduce the number of keystrokes and the number of menus is a plus.

The case for lower interest rates is a strong one, ... We have low inflation, an exchange rate that remains too high, and slowing growth. Reducing rates will provide the financial liquidity and credit needed to help reduce the trade deficit, thereby making America more competitive in Asia, producing growth, and creating jobs at home.

The changes improve accountability and reduce complexity in our management structure. Aligning our managers directly with our key priorities will result in better execution and effectiveness.

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia has completed research that clearly demonstrates booster seats reduce the risk of injury by nearly 60 percent when compared to safety belts alone. When we compared types of injuries between booster seat users and those who used seat belts alone, we found that children in booster seats suffered virtually no abdominal or spinal injuries while children in seat belts suffered injuries to every body region.

The company has to sell off assets in order to substantially reduce debt prior to emerging from bankruptcy.

The company regularly assesses new and emerging technologies to determine their applicability at our plant, including at the HF unit. Over the years, we've incorporated many improvements to our HF units to further reduce the remote risk of an incident.

The community right to know act will become the community right to know every other year act, ... This proposal would deny communities up-to-date information about local toxic releases, reduce incentives to minimize the generation of toxic waste and undermine the ability of public health agencies and researchers to identify important trends.

The companies have publicly committed to reduce their hedge books, not to increase them, so I don't expect them to start hedging again in the same way in the near future.

You can only reduce so much from agriculture. Just the simple act of living is a cause of pollution. A well-managed farm still has some influences.

You can reduce the fear by knowing your message and knowing your audience.

You can reduce the risk, but you're not going to eliminate it, and you're not going to bring it down very far, ... Last year in the U.S., we crossed the threshold: There are now more former smokers than current smokers. People can see there are 47 million people who are now former smokers, so it's not impossible.

You can use it in rock gardens. And it helps reduce water run off.

The hope was that it would reduce volatility, but this quarter it added to it. We lost money as opposed to making money on it.

The idea is for the victim to only have to tell their story once to reduce the trauma.

The idea is to help people optimize their ability to reduce body fat.

The idea is to reduce response times and not duplicate services.

The idea is to reduce the burden on taxpayers.

The idea is to utilize resources there to reduce the costs of going to the Moon .

You'd have a hard time finding a major publishing company that has not begun to reduce its page size.

This is a good-faith effort on our part to try and reduce the number of people who are incarcerated.

This is a huge message for the spammers operating around the United States and around the world, ... We are hopeful that with prosecutions like this that we will be able to reduce the amount of spam coming into homes around Virginia and around the United States.

This is a great demonstration of the increased awareness and availability of renewable Fuels such as E85. With automakers like General Motors producing an abundance of flexible-fuel vehicles, we can help boost our country's agriculture industry, save the environment, and reduce our dependence on petroleum.

This is a great opportunity for residents to reduce water consumption by effectively managing their irrigation. The city feels this cooperative effort with CVWD will provide an ongoing effort to conserve water.

These findings provide evidence that high-deductible and consumer-driven plans may undermine the two basic purposes of health insurance: to reduce financial barriers to needed care and protect against high out-of-pocket cost burdens for patients.

These funds will benefit the children attending public schools in our area by expanding a program that helps families deal with domestic violence. We must take advantage of all options -- including educating the parents-to reduce domestic violence directed at children.

These kinds of actions by the government are clearly not good for business. Consumers who are concerned that they may be spied on are likely to reduce the scope and frequency of online activities that may be subject to spying.

All computer users should treat any unsolicited email attachments with extreme caution, or they run the risk of being ripped off. Anyone unfortunate enough to run malicious software could potentially be allowing hackers to gain access to their computer to spy, steal and cause havoc. Users need to savvy-up to reduce the risk of being taken in by greedy, money-grabbing internet criminals.

These are areas that investors generally invest in when they want to reduce the portfolio betas, or the volatility of their portfolios.

These are difficult decisions that involve sacrifices by our employees, stockholders, retirees, and the senior leadership team. However, we are confronting a dramatic change in our industry and in the global competitive environment, and that requires us to look for additional ways to reduce financial risk and improve our competitiveness for the long term.

The trip will enable senior US military officials to have a close look at China and help reduce their misjudgment and misunderstanding of China,

For a series of meetings, if you can reduce the no-show factor by even 1 percent, that can make a significant difference. If you're running a series of 100 dinner meetings and you can get even one more doctor to each one of them, then you've touched 100 more physicians. That has a lot of impact. Even a minimal decrease in the no-show factor can pay volumes in dividends for years to come if, for example, those 100 doctors were to change their prescribing habits based on what they learned.

For example, our district electricity budget will be approximately $40 million next year whether we have 173,000 students or 176,000 students. However, 3,000 less students could reduce annual operating revenues by $18 million.

For every $10 you reduce the price of the smartphone, 100 million more people will buy them.

For many years, we have looked at the managed care system as a managed cost system, and we have done almost all we can. Now, we are looking at improving the overall health of our employees as a way to reduce costs.

For me, appropriate policy means that we continue to reduce accommodation and return to a neutral federal funds rate,

A buyback would be a great way for Ecuador to reduce its debt burden. We could be talking several hundred million of dollars of debt.

ACE's own experience as underwriters of specialist network risk insurance shows that businesses believe their traditional property and liability programmes will cover losses. But generally they do not cover damage to intangible assets, which leaves companies vulnerable. Business must recognise that transferring the risks to vehicles such as specialist technology insurance products will reduce their exposure to significant financial losses.

For an individual consumer, the money and effort spent purchasing these products is not trivial ? as many as 12 percent of purchased products are never used and eventually discarded. By understanding why we buy products we never use, we can change our purchase and usage habits to reduce product abandonment, thereby saving money and reducing waste,

For a company that now has the status of being added to the S&P 500, they need to tighten up and do it in a hurry. They should be offering financial guidance, which will reduce volatility for the shares. The shares will be in a lot of retirement funds. They need to tighten up.

Following the completion of the Blackstone transaction, we will have sold 25 assets for $586 million since the beginning of 2005. This group of 25 properties contributed over $30 million in adjusted EBITDA2 for the full year 2005. These sales essentially complete our asset disposition program, with only six properties remaining for disposition that are expected to generate approximately $70 million in proceeds. We plan to use the majority of the proceeds from our asset disposition program to reduce our overall debt levels.

It's the number one priority of the city council: reduce crime and make Stockton safer. It's very clear.

It?s the biggest tax hike for homeowners ever considered. Replacing the mortgage interest deduction would punish millions of homeowners, particularly those living in high-cost markets. The proposals would reduce home values and send a chill through the housing market.

It is what a lot of clubs want at the moment. We need to reduce football so that there is a better balance between club and international football. That would mean more recovery time for the players.

It's more of a feel-good bill than anything else. The bill does nothing to reduce our dependence on imported oil and the only winners will be those that benefit from high energy prices.

It's one we're going to take a look at. He's interested in us looking at any cost-effective ways to reduce bottled water spending.

It's the same theory that Lance Armstrong exploits whenever he's riding in the Tour de France. He's taking advantage of the draft created by other riders to reduce the amount of effort he has to make.

It's one thing for United Airlines to reduce wages of its pilots or mechanics through a bankruptcy filing. That doesn't help you out very much in the sport world, ... You need the star athlete paid the big bucks to be happy and part of the team. And particularly in a situation where there is a collective bargaining agreement, you can't cherry pick. If you do something (voiding player contracts), you'd have to do it across the board.

It's one important way we can save lives in Vermont. We would expect that these cigarettes would reduce the incidence of tobacco-related fires in the state.

It's not the government's job to design automobiles. Also, there's a great deal of unrealistic expectation about what fuel-efficient cars can do. If the government really wants to secure reduction in oil consumption for cars, it should just leave gas prices alone. With enough time, consumers will reduce their consumption in response to higher costs.

It points to a growing interest among businesses in using fuel cells to power factories and buildings. The most compelling reason for GM to collaborate with Dow is ultimately to reduce the cost of fuel cells and improve their durability so that we may put them in cars by the end of the decade.

At least two people have been killed who were involved in this. And we don't know how many others have been compromised. It's important that we understand what happened so that we can be in position to work with the administration, with the intelligence community, to reduce the chances of it happening again,

It's true we're not going to reduce the volume of traffic, but we can create an aesthetic identity along the road. We hope to beautify it and make it safer for pedestrians.

It's a rational way to reduce your risk. Most of them are getting caught at least once in the San Diego sector, but it is a more attractive option for many. The smugglers have obviously made that calculation too, that people are more willing to be smuggled through the San Diego sector than through the Arizona desert.

It's a law which is approved of by Singapore's inhabitants and which allows us to reduce the drug problem,

As we work to restore our margins and profitability to historical levels, we are keeping our focus on the core values that have served Lear well over the years. This means running the business with a customer focus and continuously improving quality and service levels. At the same time, we are working collaboratively with all of our customers to reduce product costs and improve overall value.

A strong baht must, all else being the same, reduce BOT appetite when it comes to interest rate increases.

As we help empower consumers to reduce their energy costs through products and services, we also believe it is right for us to reduce our company's own consumption and help contribute to the country's energy conservation efforts at this time.

Economic development is necessary to allow us to do these things - to allow us to maintain and reduce our tax rates so we can take this burden off our citizens.

Efficiency innovations are a natural part of the economic cycle, but these are the innovations that streamline process and actually reduce the number of available jobs.

Even with those advances most manufacturers are not making a great deal of money and customers aren't happy, ... Lean consumption involves solving customers' problems completely, not wasting their time, providing exactly what the customer wants, in a location they prefer and a timeframe they need. And finally it is helping customers reduce efforts to solve their own set of problems.

The numbers are disappointing when it's all said and done, if we reduce (traffic) by 15 percent.

The numbers show that the government is opening the faucets when it should save money or spend more moderately. They may not see a consequence in the short term, but in the medium- to long-term, it makes it harder for the country to lower borrowing costs and reduce debt.

The objective of the Drug Court is really to reduce the number of kids placed out of home -- to cure them of drug addiction in an effort to reduce their delinquency ... and prevent them from being locked up or sent to a placement facility.

Efforts to maintain cleanliness of the household in terms of dust on the floors and in bedding can help reduce these complaints. Laundering bedding regularly with hot water and soap is a good idea.

It's still important to eat a high-fiber diet. Even though our study didn't find a reduction for colorectal cancer, other studies show that high-fiber diets reduce the risk of heart disease and diabetes.

That is a big and complex code. If you take problems like finding the optimal shape for common automotive and aircraft structures, you have to somehow find the shape that has the least weight but at the same time won't break. We call that process shape optimization or topology optimization. These shapes have holes in them for bolting them in place or to reduce their weight. You have to decide whether to have one hole or two holes or 10 holes in a part, exactly where to put those holes and how to shape the holes.

That is a joke. You are not going to negotiate with these mortgage companies to reduce those mortgages.

Anyone who runs for President is certainly adequately endowed with both ambition and ego. Sometimes, there are factors that occur in our lives, unanticipated factors, that tend to reduce the level of ego.

Anyone who sincerely wanted to use policy to reduce illegal immigration should start by crafting legislation based on changing actual behavior.

As an auto manufacturer, Hyundai Motor America wants to keep families safe when operating motor vehicles and help reduce the alarming statistics among Hispanics related to automobile fatalities,

As a company founded by a competitive cyclist who wanted to create the first great-tasting, nutritious energy bar, we're ecstatic about helping bring professional cycling to California. We also value the opportunity to reduce the environmental footprint of this event while raising awareness about global warming.