Sentences with phrase «reducing stockpiles»

Texas produces 55 % of the U.S. crop and two - thirds of America's yield is exported to mills in China, Mexico, Vietnam and Thailand, where textile manufacturers drove prices down by reducing their stockpiles hoping to see a glut on the market and hence lower cotton prices, Miller says.

A supportive and successful drilling accord from OPEC, as well as reduced stockpiles at home, could help to drive prices higher.

A declaratory policy of going to sea only with unarmed missiles and storing a reduced stockpile of warheads for redeployment within a specified timeframe.

The campaign against Britain's nuclear arsenal took a surprising turn today after efforts to reduce stockpiles came from an altogether different angle.

«Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs with reference to the Statement during the Prime Minister's address to the US Congress that the UK would work with the United States of America to reduce stockpiles of nuclear weapons, what steps the Government is taking to achieve that objective.

The UK Government, through the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), is considering the use of PRISM to reduce its stockpile of 112 tons of plutonium stored in Cumbria.

This has resulted in reduced stockpiles of plastic waste, a menace that deviled Kibera for a long time.

Not exact matches

Though many tech companies had been stockpiling cash overseas to defer paying taxes on their foreign profits, the new law requires companies to pay taxes on those holdings immediately but at reduced rates.

The filmmakers hope to feed the movement to not only reduce nuclear stockpiles, but eventually to abolish nuclear weapons altogether.

Robust oil demand growth and reduced global stockpiles have instilled confidence in the oil market lately.

Rubber Inventories Climbing in China as Slowdown Reduces Automaker Demand Rubber stockpiles in China's Qingdao port, the main shipment hub for the commodity used in tires, are starting to expand as demand slows in the world's largest consumer, said the Qingdao International Rubber Exchange Market.

Illinois, New Jersey, & Kentucky Pensions Fall Billions Short - China, India, & Russia Stockpiling Gold Holdings While Western Hedge Funds Reduce — Yellen, Fischer, & Williams of The Fed -LSB-...]

The business case for stockpiling Tamiflu had assumed it would reduce complications and deaths by up to 50 %.

America and Russia recently agreed to significantly reduce their own weapons stockpiles and last week's G8 summit brought suggestions that Britain might include Trident in international disarmament talks.

Yesterday, Mr Brown said Britain's stockpile would not be reduced unilaterally and argued for a better weapons inspection regime as an incentive.

NNSA maintains and enhances the safety, security, and effectiveness of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile without nuclear explosive testing; works to reduce global danger from weapons of mass destruction; provides the U.S. Navy with safe and effective nuclear propulsion; and responds to nuclear and radiological emergencies in the U.S. and abroad.

«It's a very important prerequisite for the control of nuclear materials,» says Brian Chow of the Rand Corporation in Santa Monica, California, who has analysed ways of reducing the world's plutonium stockpile.

Here are some other top successes: destroying stockpiles of chemical weapons globally as well as local stores of DDT in Tanzania; new cooking stoves to eliminate indoor air pollution in Ghana; separating copper mine tailings from the local water supply in Chile; alternative fuels to reduce air pollution in New Delhi as well as treating arsenic in well water in West Bengal; removing lead - contaminated soil in the Dominican Republic and Russia; reducing mercury vapors from artisanal gold mining in Indonesia; and new sewage systems to clean up contaminated Suzhou Creek in Shanghai.

The W76 spends the majority of its life aboard submarines or in heavily secured stockpiles, reducing its need for such features, critics note.

America's aid package, unveiled during the Vancouver summit between Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin, commits the US to helping Russia improve the safety of its nuclear power plants, reduce air pollution and dismantle its stockpile of nuclear weapons.

It will also reduce its LEU stockpile from 10,000 kilograms down to 300 kilograms.

«We recognize that the gravest terror threat we face — a nuclear attack made possible by nuclear proliferation — requires a comprehensive strategy for reducing the world's nuclear stockpiles and preventing the spread of those armaments,» it says.

It is highly improbable that the threat can be reduced by bombing the stockpiles (see «Wind and rockets key clues in Syrian chemical puzzle» and «Iraq offers grim lessons for Syrian gas survivors «-RRB-.

PRISM has a number of benefits for managing plutonium — including reduced time to disposition the UK stockpile due to greater incorporation of plutonium in the fuel, and a simplified fuel manufacturing and reactor construction process — all of which reduce the costs of implementation.

NNSA maintains the safety, security, and effectiveness of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile without nuclear explosive testing; works to reduce global danger from weapons of mass destruction; provides the U.S. Navy with safe and effective nuclear propulsion; and responds to nuclear and radiological emergencies in the U.S. and abroad.

The Stockholm Convention requires Parties to take measures to reduce or eliminate releases of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) from intentional production and use, from unintentional production and from stockpiles and wastes.

Although for PR reasons I'd rebrand generation IV reactors as «Nuclear Waste De-energisers» given that they reduce rather than enlarge existing stockpiles of nuclear waste.

Coal - fired power plants are also encouraged to increase their thermal coal stockpiles and upgrade their equipment to reduce emissions.

The addition of First Solar's thin - film capacity, existing US cell capacity plus the gigawatts of modules imported into the US and stockpiled prior to the tariffs, will all reduce the impact of the 30 % rate.

Plus, reducing cash stockpiles helps communities stay safe and the privacy features of digital wallets could help employees avoid discrimination from lenders.