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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.

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

Love increases through righteous restraint and decreases through impulsive indulgence.

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.

The Parkersburg/Marietta area employment outlook is stronger than the fourth quarter forecast when 23 percent of the companies interviewed reported an increase in hiring activity, and 17 percent planned to decrease the hiring pace.

This should cause the employment rate to increase and the unemployment rate to decrease for the month of April.

We love commercial fleet sales (to corporations). They're profitable, and we're not looking to decrease those.

While improving consumer confidence probably suggests downside protection against a slump in spending, it does not suggest we will see spending take off. We still need a sustained improvement in the jobs market, including a significant decrease in unemployment with a solid increase in real wages.

We need to decrease front-loading, increase diversity, recognize Iowa and New Hampshire laws and traditions and have a calendar that will let us elect a Democrat to the White House.

Fifty-four percent of hiring managers surveyed by CareerBuilder.com say they will increase their staffs in the coming year while only 9 percent will decrease them. After creating over 2 million jobs in 2005, the U.S. is expected to add 2 million more in 2006, according to economist estimates.

We've been playing great defense, but we've got to decrease the foul count and find some offense.

We selected Calypso because we felt that it was a strategic technology solution that would allow us to decrease the time taken to develop new products and release them to clients. We have worked in partnership with Calypso, along with Mitsui Knowledge Industry, to develop a solution that meets our needs in the Japanese market and can be implemented to fully meet the requirements of customers' platforms.

Yes, there can be a decrease in quality. Nationally, there's been a lot of research done that shows there is a clear correlation between volume of procedures done and the quality of care.

While these new locations will temporarily decrease short-term profitability, they should provide solid contributions to earnings in future periods.

While the rate decrease is good news for customers, we are still in the middle of a national crisis and a long way from being back to normal.

We've had the impression that there has been a decrease in the amount of illegal activity on many campuses but not all, ... That's a reflection of the fact that a legitimate alternative is not sufficient in and of itself.

The opportunity to decrease the number of doctor-office, infusion-center or hospital visits is welcome news - both for people with serious anemia and their families who have to deal with driving and waiting hours while their loved ones are getting treatments.

We will be able to decrease the number of cartons we process in our distribution centers, reduce our capital expenditure needs and cut our inventory by about $150 million.

We sold it in the upfront under relative conservative circumstances, actually expecting that there would be a decrease in ratings.

We were pleased to find a decrease in bacteria levels. Perhaps people are becoming more aware of germs in their office and doing something about it.

We expect the number of people E-filing to continue to grow more as the technology gets more popular. The decrease in early returns could be a result in more people owing money, or people could just be putting it off because of the later deadline.

We expect strong year-over-year sales growth in the first quarter, and our outlook for growth in 2000 remains strong. We expect that in 2000, our overall operating loss will decrease significantly as a percentage of sales.

We're going to work hard to decrease the ratio of NBA teams to D-League teams.

VITAS generated revenue growth of 18.8% over the prior-year period and 5.4% sequentially. Gross margins were 22.9% in the fourth quarter of 2005, a decrease of 60 basis points when compared to the prior-year quarter. The fourth-quarter 2005 gross margin includes $1.6 million in start-up losses, which is $0.1 million higher than the $1.5 million in losses from programs classified as new starts in the prior-year period. Central support costs for VITAS, which are classified as selling, general and administrative expenses in the Consolidating Statement of Income, totaled $14.1 million, including $0.1 million in OIG legal expenses. Excluding the OIG expenses, central support costs increased 7.8% when compared to the prior-year quarter and increased 2.5% sequentially.

use a thousand ways to boost rural income and decrease peasants' burden.

We are going to have a doggone hard time showing a decrease in property values. We are going to have a doggone hard time showing a decrease in economic activity due to sexually oriented businesses.

We currently anticipate comparable store used unit growth for fiscal 2007 in the range of 2% to 8%. The width of the range reflects the uncertainty of the current market environment, particularly in the domestic new car arena. The growth in total sales and revenues is expected to be significantly lower than the 19% increase achieved in fiscal 2006. This decrease reflects the difference in store opening patterns. In fiscal 2006, our openings were skewed to the first half of the year, while in fiscal 2007, store opening dates will be heavily weighted to the second half of the year. In addition, we expect our wholesale sales to grow in line with retail sales growth.

Even if you could stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at present day levels, the system has a certain amount of thermal inertia and would take several more decades to stabilize. You'd have to really decrease the rate that you're putting stuff in the atmosphere to get the concentrations to level out and that'll probably be fairly difficult politically.

Divorce causes a decrease in wealth that is larger than just splitting a couple's assets in half.

Customers have seen a big increase in digital newspaper and magazine circulation in the past four years. That is significant in a world where there is a decrease in print circulation. Furthermore, circulation is much broader.

Each day, 10 children and teens are killed by firearms, and that is 10 too many, ... However, it is a significant decrease from four years earlier. This indicates that violence prevention efforts are showing results.

Especially in the Chicago area, there will be a 10 percent to 15 percent decrease in bets wagered.

The results were very good, even if its net profit looks to have been inflated due to a decrease in tax expenses.

I spent the last 4 1/2 years trying to show we need to increase security and decrease the dependency on foreign oil and we are going to give our port security to the country who funded 9/11.

I see this as a wondrous tax decrease for the working people of Mississippi. I urge you to search your heart - not your party.

It would be better to just decrease the speed.

These results are reminiscent of Ford's late 1990's performance -- driving earnings improvement with a richer truck mix, ... GM remains market-share driven and its North American pricing fell 1.0 percent. Fortunately, it was able to increase its mix of light trucks and decrease its fleet sales, offsetting partially the negative impact of lower prices.

The shelter was awarded some money that will help the homeless population in other ways. The impact of our decrease in income may not be as drastic as we first thought.

The share of purchases from foreign investors, including central banks, may decrease as a narrow spread between short-and long-term notes makes it difficult to hold the bonds.

The telecommunications market outlook remains turbulent, ... We continue to see a very significant decrease in the long-haul market in North America.

The survey shows a gradual decrease in drug trends that began about four years ago. Drug trends, which have traditionally been higher than medical trends, are now almost the same. However, we anticipate drug trends to grow again in the next several years, due to the introduction of new innovative therapies into the marketplace.

President Lincoln was a truly great, great leader. It would do a lot to decrease the stigma of a disability, and to highlight the abilities of people who have ataxia, if he could be that great and have this.

Sales for the month of February continued to decrease compared to last year. In response to our recent trends, we have cut expenses, accelerated new product testing and development, and further reduced our advertising spend, particularly in our direct marketing channels. In the near term, we expect our reduced advertising to contribute to continued lower year-over-year sales results. Our focus continues to be the introduction of new and innovative products, the optimization of advertising expenditures, and to lower expenses and inventory levels.

Prices for handsets and devices continue to decrease as we continue to invest in R&D to drive this dynamic.

Prices are high, but without those price increases we would not have seen the 20 percent decrease in industrial gas demand that has occurred over the past five years. One by one, industrial gas users are either shutting down or switching to substitute fuels.

The move to penny increments, ... greatly reduced spreads in those securities trading in pennies and narrower spreads have been cited as one of the factors that led to a decrease in the use of payment for order flow in securities traded as pennies. Payment for order flow could similarly be reduced in options if spreads are narrowed.

Additionally, we are seeing wholesale prices for natural gas to drop and expect approximately an 11 percent decrease in February.

The oil industry fought hard to keep Keystone alive, making wildly exaggerated claims that the pipeline - the country's largest infrastructure project - would create tens of thousands of jobs and decrease America's reliance on oil from the Middle East.

After 9-11, non-profits saw a real decrease in giving.

After many years of collaborative efforts to decrease infant mortality, Michigan recorded in 2004 its lowest rate ever of 7.6 (deaths) per thousand live births, a testament to the hard work going on at both the state and local levels.

Do your math. Packages are built with a fixed airfare. If there is a major decrease in ticket prices, you're going to pay more for the package than you would if you bought air, hotel, and car separately.

Dell needs to quickly decrease its reliance on desktop revenues (currently 48 percent of total sales), and establish a presence as an enterprise supplier (currently 19 percent of total sales). A successful transition will take time and money, and could lead to further revenue and earnings shortfalls.

Decrease as much as possible the amount of time or number of purchases where you actually hand the card to someone.

Any decrease of that magnitude would stagger the entire insurance industry here.

A well-designed and properly fitting helmet will definitely decrease the likelihood of a head injury because it absorbs and spreads the force of the impact over a larger surface.

This is evidence that a decrease in price is coming.

This is effectively a complete reversal in market share position from two or three years ago. We expect to grow these numbers substantially when the current quarter's data is reported. IBM's reported decrease of 5 percent in hardware revenue yesterday is an early indicator.

This is despite a 53% decrease in the U.S. SIDS rate since the American Academy of Pediatrics recommended in 1992 that babies be placed to sleep on their backs, ... This reduced rate reflects nearly 3,000 fewer infant deaths per year, or over 15,000 fewer deaths since the original back-to-sleep recommendation.

This earnings decrease reflects the significant slowdown in comparable-store sales gains since July, as well as the challenges of rapidly reducing expenses in our existing cost structure,

This decrease will mark the beginning of an essential expansion of coverage in the state.

This decrease is largely due to smaller-than-expected fruit size.

They've been sitting exposed to the elements for months. Some of the trailers that we inspected are actually warping, have lost wheels. And some have been cannibalized, parts taken out, and we don't even know where the parts are right now. So their value is going to decrease tremendously.

They took a sharper run up in prices, so it makes sense that there's a decrease there. Some people have been priced out of the housing market, but others are waiting.

A lot of people don't understand what it takes to actually do an entire deal. I've seen people get involved with renovation projects that cost more than they initially thought. A lot try to do their own general contracting to decrease the cost. Then they find they can't put in the new granite countertops because the cabinet guys haven't installed the cabinets yet. I've seen people underestimate what it takes to sell a property. They underestimate the holding costs, the mortgage, insurance, selling expenses, taxes. They think, 'If I sell it for $500,000 and buy it for $350,000, I'll make $150,000.' It's not like that.

A lot of companies will -- may -- reduce production or decrease production thinking sales will go down. I personally think that if anything Brett Favre has a couple years to go.

There weren't enough baseline studies to reach any conclusions based on the effectiveness of these interventions. What we do know is there's a need to continue to create interventions that would decrease those types of injuries.

This is the third month in a row the price has dropped. The decrease will help a little bit with the after-Christmas blues.

There's been a decrease in the supply of developed lots in Albuquerque and the threat of the effects of impact fees.

At least in the near term we are seeing a sharp decrease in natural gas prices because the weather has been warmer nationwide and storage levels are running 30 percent above the five-year average. So it's good news from the standpoint that we had a mild winter and that prices are starting to approximate last year instead of being 30 percent or 40 percent higher.

AT&T offered the optimum solution to consolidate our telecommunications services. They have unsurpassed breadth and depth of services which will enable us to increase efficiencies and decrease overall network costs. More importantly, maintaining an efficient and advanced network is crucial to our business, as we continue to strive to deliver outstanding customer experience.

As we see more and more investors moving inland, we're seeing a decrease in affordable housing.

It's a question of how do we pay those personnel costs. There are two main choices - raise property taxes or create a franchise fee on gas and electric. We're not seeing opportunities to decrease expenditures without harming services.

It's allowed us to undertake more inspections and decrease the time between inspections as well.

It is worth trying for someone who is allergic. Some products are over hyped. But one thing I recommend is getting HEPA (high efficiency particulate air) filters. They do decrease the allergens in the air.

It's very difficult to see how China can decrease its trade surplus in the short term. China is very self- sufficient in terms of consumer goods and electronics and while they can buy more Boeing and Airbus jets, they are already doing that and still recording a surplus.

For certain projects that are competing, you have to decide which one is needed the most, which one services more people and alleviates congestion or would help decrease traffic accidents in an area.

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.

The number of participants in all the rallies have been tracked, and the trend is really downward; the decrease is dramatic,

It slows down for a little while and starts back up, ... We have noticed a decrease in activity in certain areas. They move to other areas.

It's going to take more that a one-month decrease in consumer prices to knock the Fed off it rate-rise bandwagon.

It's our position as a company, which is consistent with that of the cable industry, that at the bottom line - and it's borne out by research - that this will hurt consumers. It's going to increase prices, decrease choice and reduce the diversity.

Dad would be saddened to see the attendance decrease like it has. If we can go to an area where the population is greater and the attendance is higher, then let's go. It's a win-win.

Conditions indicate that motorists may see slight increases in retail gasoline prices within the next few days. Typically, pump prices in Texas move lower during this time of year due to a decrease in demand, but with crude oil trading around $63 a barrel that has yet to happen.

Congressman Souder wants to decrease drug abuse but encourages it by blocking peoples' access to education. Federal studies show that these efforts do not work. They're hurting our economy and society.

It's not a significant decrease but it's not rising any more. It will still take a while to get the water out of the city. It's a lot of chaos right now.

Studies have shown that daily doses of hydroxyurea decrease the number of painful crises a person may experience and lengthen their life span as well,

Students who are under a lot of stress not only feel anxious about their course work, they can have difficulty sleeping or concentrating. All of those things can decrease their immune system and they could become physically ill.

The additional time is primarily attributable to a decrease in the rate of enrollment which began in December and continued through January as well as delays in initiating several additional clinical sites for the study.

The Air Force's desire to keep costs low on the guidance replacement program contract and Northrop Grumman's desire to enhance contract incentive performance dovetail into a mutually beneficial effort to decrease production costs.

It's worth remembering that every time that a new communication technology becomes popular there's usually a moral panic. When the telephone was introduced in the 19th century, there was widespread fear that it would decrease the authority of parents over their daughters, that men would be entering the house through the telephone line. That's something we are going through now with the Internet, the fear that strange men will enter the house through the DSL line.