Sentences with phrase «curb the costs of»

Dr. Houshmand, widely recognized for innovative approaches to curbing the cost of a four - year degree, committed to professionally producing the hot sauce that he has gifted family and friends with for years after a waiting list grew for the batch he had auctioned off at a campus holiday fundraiser in 2016.

To help curb the cost of baby supplies, check out sites such as Free Baby Stuff, Free Baby Samples by Mail and BabyCenter to look for offers, coupons, gifts and free samples from companies such as Huggies, Enfamil and Gerber.

Here's a copy of LG Richard Ravitch's report on curbing the cost of Medicaid, which he calls the «largest single driver of the state's growing expenditures.»

You can do things to help curb the costs of Tucson automobile insurance.

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Another amendment granting states the option of requiring able - bodied adults to work as a requirement for benefits could further curb costs.

In addition to the U.S. tax benefits, the Dow component is in the middle of an aggressive cost savings campaign — called «Business Transformation» — designed to curb operating expenditures to free up cash.

In addition to the U.S. tax benefits, the Dow component is in the middle of an aggressive cost savings campaign to curb operating expenditures to free up cash.

Those views are largely predicated on three factors: higher borrowing costs; increasing curbs on home buying to cool soaring prices; and government - mandated shutdowns of some steel mills and factories in coming months to reduce winter air pollution.

But of course the government already does curb and control prices directly for traditional natural monopolies, like energy and communications, and through medicare and medicaid, restrains healthcare costs to a healthy degree.

In 1914 Congress enacted the Clayton Act55 to strengthen the Sherman Act and included a provision to curb price discrimination and predatory pricing.56 The House Report stated that section 2 of the Clayton Act was expressly designed to prohibit large corporations from slashing prices below the cost of production «with the intent to destroy and make unprofitable the business of their competitors» and with the aim of «acquiring a monopoly in the particular locality or section in which the discriminating price is made.»

Ethereum's network requires a lot of energy, and their push towards PoS is a solution towards curbing wasteful and expensive energy costs.

Get key facts about the true cost of trying to curb health benefit costs - it's more than meets the eye.

To curb the crazy growth of higher education costs demands less, not more, of Uncle Sam's involvement.

It also suggested credit providers were becoming more picky about who they would lend credit to at a time of regulator - driven curbs that have seen commercial lenders increasingly raise costs for borrowers on investment loan products such as interest - only loans, Mr Shilbury said.

But in a major shift away from the previous Saudi - led policy of maintaining production to squeeze high - cost US shale - oil producers, OPEC countries agreed to target a lower level of 32.5 — 33.0 million barrels a day, although there was some skepticism about the absence of details on which members would curb output and by how much, which were delayed until the next meeting in November.

In today's New York Times, Jane Brody reports on the recently released results of the CHildhood Obesity Cost - Effectiveness Study (aka «CHOICES»), which examined various possible approaches to curbing childhood obesity and chose two as most likely to help: the imposition of taxes on sugary beverages and curbs on children's junk food advertising, both measures long supported here on The Lunch Tray.

Similarly, the GOP's own estimates of the costs of requiring more fruits and vegetables, whole grains and low - fat dairy in school meals is $ 7 billion over five years, but the direct cost of obesity - related diseases in this country is pegged at $ 147 million (putting aside the other benefits of feeding children well, apart from curbing obesity.)

He mentioned the Free Seedlings Distribution programme which provides early bearing and high yielding planting materials to farmers at no cost, the Free Fertilizer Distribution Programme which is helping to improve upon soil fertility and increase yield, the National Cocoa Rehabilitation Programme which has facilitated the replanting of large hectares of over-aged, moribund and diseased farms as well as the Youth in Cocoa Initiative which is curbing the ageing - cocoa - farmers situation in Ghana.

The prime minister will lay out today the government's plans to curb the rising cost of living, amid deepening concerns over rising premiums.

«In this period of austerity, national economic uncertainty, unpredictability of federal funding, and rising social service costs there is an increasing risk that funding for infrastructure investments will be curbed to dangerous levels,» Ravitch said in a press release.

Citing a need to better deploy police and curb overtime costs, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio is extending a policy that limits the number of permits allowed for neighborhood street fairs in 2018.

Noting that «personnel costs are the major component of school district expenditures, and have been increasing at a rate above inflation for a number of years,» the Commission recommended a series of reforms to curb these expenses, including a modification of the Triborough Amendment to exclude salary steps and lanes for teachers.

The change curbed contract costs but led to an influx of lower - paid, less - qualified workers.

Cuomo has sought to marshal opposition to Republican repeal and replace plans in Washington, blasting efforts to curb Medicaid and shift the cost of the county share to the state government.

«The policy was adopted as a way to curb rising healthcare costs and improve quality of care, and CMS chose those three conditions because they're common, expensive to treat, and often result in readmission.»

As for costs to the economy, Brandt said the benefits from curbing carbon dioxide emissions drastically outweigh the risks from regulation, though current accounting methods may not accurately reflect the scale of the impact.

The niece's mother had just lost her job and could not afford to buy antibiotics, so the health department was going to have to cover the cost of her treatment in order to curb the spread of the infection.

Byass, who co-authored one of the papers, observed that previous international climate talks focused more on economic issues relating to development, curbing emissions and spreading the cost burden.

Sixth, curbing the irrational use, and containing the spiralling costs, of drugs and technology.

«Of all the tools needed to curb new HIV infections, a vaccine is arguably the most cost - effective and transformative.

This change would not reduce costs overall, but it would begin to curb the practice of paying operating expenses with long - term, off — balance sheet debt.

Edison curbs costs by having just one central administrative office, where a staff of about 350 oversee operations at all of its schools.

Edison also curbs costs by having just one central administrative office, where a staff of about 350 oversee operations at all of its schools.

Wisconsin lawmakers have moved to curb rising local property taxes by approving a state budget plan that imposes five years of cost controls on public school spending.

In Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Federation of Teachers president Jerry Jordan has long railed against using 401 (k) retirement plans for his union's members as a way to curb skyrocketing pension costs.

This is part of an effort at Volkswagen to help curb costs because of the diesel emission mess.

The rims trim a total of 25 pounds from the car's curb weight, and cost $ 13,000.

Alarm notifies the user when a call time limit (set by the user) has been reached, helping users curb lengthy calls; Call Manager keeps track of call costs and duration so you know exactly how much you are spending on your conversations; Mobile Tracker alerts the user when the mobile's SIM card is changed; SOS Message sends out emergency messages to pre-designated contacts with just a single click of a button; 200 - entry phonebook contains all your phone numbers for easy retrieval; SMS storage of up to 100 messages

With Amazon Prime, members enjoy unlimited streaming of thousands of movies and TV episodes at no additional cost, including award - winning Amazon Original series Transparent, top HBO shows like True Blood, Girls, and Curb Your Enthusiasm.

As a result, they will now convert images to grayscale for delivery to monochrome Kindle devices, once again a step to curb in bandwidth — and thus, reducing the cost of delivery fees for you.

Instead, consider these five low - or no - cost tips to help boost your home's curb appeal — adding thousands to the value of your home in just 30 minutes.

With credit card debt costing families in the United States an average of $ 1,300 in interest per year it is apparent that changes need to be made to curb credit card spending.

Just think about the monetary costs of carrying on an affair — you'll need to spend cash on hotels, trips if he or she lives out of town, gifts, cell phone bills, and if your spouse does catch wind of the affair and kicks you to the curb there's pricey lawyer fees, support payments, you may have to cover the entire mortgage if you get to keep the house and the list goes on.

The Tories» pre-budget media blitz has been peppered with a number of such low - cost pledges, such as legislation to enshrine balanced budgets and tighter rules for charitable status to curb the link between charities, terrorists and organized crime.

At the core of our values is the belief that every animal deserves a home, and that veterinarians should do their part to curb animal overpopulation by partnering with rescue organizations, promoting adoptions and participating in low - cost spay / neuter programs.

When it comes to air travel, one of the best things you can do to curb the cost is to use a travel credit card.

There are lots of things you can do to curb the cost, as well as rewards programs you can take advantage of to make holiday travel easier and more affordable.

Frequent guests will discover benefits that both curb costs and add another dimension of luxury to the hotel experience.

Fire occurrence and fire landscapes, unlike other environmental disturbances, can be effectively managed to result in landscapes that either welcome, or discourage, subsequent fires and can offer a comparatively low - cost means of curbing greenhouse - gas emissions in the short and medium term.

The latest initiative, called the Presidential Climate Action Project, is a set of about 300 concrete steps that a president can take (or take the lead on) to curb energy use and greenhouse - gas emissions, theoretically with economic benefits far outweighing costs.