Sentences with phrase «reduced by a decade»

In addition, the 30 year rule under which sensitive Government records can be kept secret for 30 years, will be reduced by a decade to 20 years.

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Studies commissioned by his group project that over the next decade, PBMs will save employers, consumers, and the government more than $ 2 trillion, and have already helped reduce by a third the projected cost of the Medicare Part D program, a largely privatized drug benefit for seniors.

Fortune ran numbers to calculate how much extra revenue the U.S. would need to raise, over the next decade, if it lowered the rate of growth in Social Security by one percentage point, reduced increases in Medicare, Medicaid, and other health care spending by a proportional amount, and held discretionary spending below growth in GDP (albeit from the higher base established by the new laws).

Microsoft, for example, has reduced itself to heckling Google with two campaigns: «Scroogled,» about the alleged evils of Google's e-mail advertising policy (something that consumers have met with a shrug ever since Gmail's introduction nearly a decade ago); and the «Bing It On Challenge,» in which people on the street pick the search results they like best (which apes the old Pepsi Challenge — a campaign that defined Pepsi by what it isn't, and thus condemned it to being Coke's bridesmaid forever).

Attacking tailings accumulated over that entire period, Suncor has reclaimed its first pond, is working on another two and has five more it plans to drain over the next two decades, expecting to reduce the surface area of its tailings ponds by about 80 %.

If we persist on our current trajectory, the potential for temperatures to increase in the next few decades could reduce the global area suitable for production of coffee by as much as half by 2050.

Historically, smaller venture capital funds have outperformed, and the survivors of the current shakeout are likely to outperform by an even wider margin in the coming decade due to reduced competition.

In the late 1940s through the early 1970s, the U.S. and UK both reduced their debt burden by about 30 % to 40 % of GDP per decade by taking advantage of negative real interest rates, but there is no guarantee that government debt rates will continue to stay so low.

Last year, for example, the Tax Policy Center estimated President Trump's $ 6 trillion campaign tax plan would reduce GDP by 0.5 percent after a decade and 4 percent after two.

In fact, the proportion of part - timers in public administration was reduced by a third over that period of time, which contributes significantly to the increase in the average weekly wage over the decade, as workers were working more hours, not necessarily being paid a lot more per hour.

The Congressional Budget Office recently said the healthcare reform law would cause some people to work less, reducing employment by the equivalent of 2 million full - time jobs over the next decade.

I have previously laid out the case that the government has cheated legal immigrants for decades by erroneously counting the spouses and children of immigrants against the quotas for immigration, thereby reducing the total amount of immigration substantially.

Likewise, recent estimates by the Tax Policy Center and the Penn Wharton Budget Model show that dynamic effects would marginally reduce the revenue loss in the first decade but significantly increase it over the long run because of the economic consequences of higher debt.

It's difficult to separate these changes from long - term trends (especially since gun homicides have generally been on the decline for decades now), but a review of the evidence by RAND linked milder gun control measures, including background checks, to reduced injuries and deaths — and that means these measures likely saved lives.

The largest savings in the RSC budget comes from reducing other mandatory program spending by nearly $ 2.7 trillion over a decade.

Holding out for a very high value exit will dramatically reduce the chances of success and statistically extend the exit time for the angels and entrepreneurs by over a decade.

Animal advocates have been working for decades to weaken the animal agriculture industry by encouraging individuals and institutions to reduce the demand for animal products and implement humane reforms.

After all, the non-partisan Tax Policy Center estimates the current plan would reduce revenue to the government by $ 2.4 trillion in the first decade and $ 3.2 trillion in the second decade.

Management has a long track record of disciplined capital allocation, having reduced the share count by nearly one - third over the past decade, and it recently initiated a fairly generous dividend.

Decades later, Newton succeeded in explaining Kepler's laws — but he did not explain them down, if by down we mean reducing what we observe and experience to something more trivial or brutish.

Oates contends that that great achievement has been weakened in recent decades by depersonalized and often secular forms of fund» raising that have reduced popular participation and commitment to these institutions.

The cooperative notes that, in the past three decades, it reduced its emissions by increasing its energy efficiency by 60 percent.

«For many decades health authorities encouraged Americans to improve their health by reducing their fat intake, which led many people to consume low - fat, high - sugar foods that some experts now blame for fueling the obesity crisis.»

It's also been calculated that the initiative will reduce our carbon dioxide emissions by 1.91 million kilograms over the next two decades.»

It's estimated that the initiative will reduce our carbon dioxide emissions by 1.91 million kilograms over the next two decades.

* The energy costs of the supply chain need to be reduced by 25 % over the current decade to make it competitive with other regions of UK and other competitor countries.

We've been able to reduce the risk of sudden infant death by about 50 percent in the last several decades.

According to details of the budget provided by a White House official, it will aim to reduce the deficit by $ 1.8 trillion over the next decade through tax increases and a plan to decrease the growth in Social Security spending.

Its proponents can point to logical, coherent evidence that it would reduce the homicide rate, and it has not been debated by Parliament for over a decade.

The government had by this point built up large reserves of foreign exchange to buffer against potential volatility, reduced annual inflation from 31 per cent in 2004 to 7,5 per cent a decade later, and established of a sovereign wealth fund to help diversify the economy.

«What is clear is that even though we're heading in the right direction by reducing unemployment, the leaps forward made elsewhere in the UK are not being repeated here in Wales thanks to over a decade of poor economic management by the Welsh Labour Government.»

«What is clear is that even though we're heading in the right direction by reducing unemployment, the leaps forward made elsewhere in the UK under the Coalition Government are not being repeated here in Wales due to the poor economic management by the Labour Party in Wales over the last decade or so.»

This would reduce the growth of public sector pension liabilities by hundreds of millions of pounds over the next decade.

'' The agreement includes support for a comprehensive New York Works Agenda that will create thousands of jobs with new investments in New York's infrastructure; passing a fair tax reform plan that achieves the first major restructuring of the tax code in decades, resulting in a tax cut for 4.4 million middle - class New York taxpayers; approving $ 50 million in additional relief for areas devastated by recent floods; and reducing the MTA payroll tax to provide relief for small businesses.»

This would undermine decades of improving market access for scotch and could reduce exports by as much as # 500m a year.

The agreement includes support for a comprehensive New York Works Agenda that will create thousands of jobs with new investments in New York's infrastructure, passing a fair tax reform plan that achieves the first major restructuring of the tax code in decades resulting in a tax cut for 4.4 million middle class New Yorkers taxpayers, approving $ 50 million in additional relief for areas devastated by recent floods, and reducing the MTA payroll tax to provide relief for small businesses.

Phasing out coal is one of the first steps the Cuomo administration must make if it hopes to meet its goal of drastically reducing air emissions by about 40 percent in the next decade, said Lisa Dix, senior New York representative for Sierra Club.

Last month, de Blasio announced plans to close the notorious prison complex in a decade and reduce the city's jail population by about half — down to 5,000 — to make it happen.

The latter would reduce spending by $ 772 billion in the coming decade, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

By the time Labour entered office in 1997 this figure had fallen to just 35 per cent but by 2009, after a decade of increased spending and focus on targets to reduce waiting times, satisfaction stood at a record high of 64 per cenBy the time Labour entered office in 1997 this figure had fallen to just 35 per cent but by 2009, after a decade of increased spending and focus on targets to reduce waiting times, satisfaction stood at a record high of 64 per cenby 2009, after a decade of increased spending and focus on targets to reduce waiting times, satisfaction stood at a record high of 64 per cent.

The passage of the bills, known collectively as the Criminal Justice Reform Act and spearheaded by the Council speaker, Melissa Mark - Viverito, was the most significant step yet toward reducing the burden of a two - decade - old policing policy that treats public disorder as harbingers of more dangerous offenses, and has resulted in hundreds of thousands of outstanding criminal court warrants for minor infractions.

For decades, the plan to reduce traffic by charging drivers in crowded zones in Manhattan has been revived again and again.

«Even if the administration is successful in reducing the population by 50 percent over the next decade, which would be an awesome accomplishment, we'd still have to house 5,000 inmates.»

The money was hailed as a sign of Cuomo's commitment toward his Ending the Epidemic initiative, which aims to reduce the number of new HIV cases to fewer than 750 by the end of the decade.

But as there is no way to tell if caviar is farmed or «wild», the new rules offer scant hope for sturgeon in the Caspian Sea, where overfishing has reduced their numbers by 90 per cent in the past two decades.

Carbon intensity, generally defined as carbon produced per unit of gross domestic product, has been falling in developed countries, and some developing countries have pledged to reduce their own levels by as much as 45 percent by the end of the decade.

By improving the understanding of how much radiation CO2 absorbs, uncertainties in modelling climate change will be reduced and more accurate predictions can be made about how much Earth is likely to warm over the next few decades.

Scientists have known for decades that the medications work by slowing the heart rate and reducing the force of contraction — lessening the burden of work carried out by the heart.

Global climate models find that rainfall in northeast Brazil is expected to decrease in the coming decades, and some rivers could see flows reduced by 60 to 70 percent, he said.

Over the past decade, CASH, a non-government organisation, helped to create anti-salt advertising aimed at the general public, plus year - by - year targets for companies to reduce salt levels.