No, it can be lowered by letting a pleat out.

You can dial up the intensity or dial down the intensity of an emotion.

The gas tax should be raised , not lowered.

So some people say, oh you know what, my share of the company got diluted.

Steps should be taken to re examine and further reduce existing arsenals of strategic and sub strategic nuclear weapons.

Consequently, the need to reduce substantially and ultimately eliminate them must remain our primary goal.

8. Invites development and trading partners to consider extending to the graduated country trade preferences previously made available as a result of least developed country status, or reducing them in a phased manner in order to avoid their abrupt reduction

(b) A number of ONUMOZ support elements would also be withdrawn or reduced according to their previously scheduled rotation

The international community should identify a mechanism that allowed debt to be cancelled or reduced without compromising the stability of the international financial institutions.

The Parliament asked the President to work out a time frame for the liquidation of the armaments scheduled for reduction under the agreement and to ensure monitoring of its implementation.

Reduce Medicare for very wealthy seniors, seniors who make a lot of money.

(In the past few days, however, 11 pages of comments have somehow been reduced to five).

She called on all countries in possession of non strategic nuclear weapons to negotiate further reductions with a view to their total elimination.

Worse still, with European backing, the IAEA s budget, already a paltry 300 million, has been cut by almost 10 .

But each percentage point reduction in the corporate tax rate would reduce federal revenues by about 12 billion per year.

30. Continued high levels of maternal mortality in developing countries are of great concern, particularly because means of reducing them are well known.

One of the upgrading was effected by means of an exchange with the P 5 position in the Human Resources Management Service, which was downgraded to the P 4 level.

The cost reduction impact element measures the costs avoided or minimized through implementation of a management improvement measure.

28. The proposal to reduce the statistical base period to nine years seemed a good compromise.

13. All Governments adopted measures to improve tax receipts by reforming income tax, establishing or increasing value added tax and eliminating or reducing tax exemptions.

To maintain an equilibrium, it would be equitable to link the reduction of expenditures with force reductions, expressed in physical terms, and to provide for the number of men and machines to be reduced.

On the contrary, recent illegal violation of Japanese territorial waters by Chinese nuclear submarines suggests that, rather than being reduced, ASW capability should be built up further.

The Assembly had emphasized the need to develop a methodology which would eliminate that anomaly or reduce it significantly, either immediately or gradually.

The most crucial development goals were the total eradication of poverty, cancellation or reduction of external debt and fundamental changes in structural adjustment policies.

In Kyoto, we were promised a 7 reduction in world emissions, but will probably achieve only 0.4 .

(b) Launching the International Court which has just been set up, as well as the local courts that are to be established to try persons responsible for genocide, in order to stop, or at least reduce, acts of reprisal

The public declaration of the Regional Commander in Bali to foreign correspondents that Indonesian troops will be reduced to six battalions has been challenged by the resistance.

The world s central banks are already cutting interest rates on safe assets, and will cut them more as the proximity and magnitude of the likely global slump becomes clear.

88. Of the 54 posts proposed for reduction in UNTSO, 37 are Field Service posts and the rest local level.

Although an understanding to curb the increase in nuclear stockpiles has been reached as a result of certain concerted efforts, those stockpiles have yet to be adequately reduced.

The services provided by UNRWA must be viewed as the minimum required to enable the refugees to lead productive lives, and a reduction in those services could have a destabilizing effect on the entire region.

The costs avoided or reduced in 2004 were in the reform areas of common services and an electronic United Nations, as illustrated in figure 6.

3. On questioning by the Advisory Committee, however, it was discovered that as a result of phasing in of contingent personnel, rental of premises and lower prices for data processing equipment, the cost estimates could be revised downwards.

We have also addressed those policies that have caused the most harm to the system in recent years, including overvalued or undervalued exchange rate pegs maintained for domestic reasons.

Artificially low exchange rates, restrictions on capital flows, and excessively large currency reserves all create global imbalances.

Furthermore, having already reduced infant mortality, Thailand was working to reduce it to 15 per 1,000 live births by 2015.

Well, what I want to do in this video is, one, show you what concativity is, or what concave upwards and what concave downwards is, and to have an intuition of what those mean, and then discuss the ideas of inflection points, which are really just transition points between being either concave upwards and downwards or between downwards and upwards.

This is clearly not what was intended in the Peace Agreement and is especially disturbing when linked to the apparent reinforcement, rather than reduction, of the National Police.

The international community faces a crisis of official development assistance characterized by a stagnation, and even reduction, in aid budgets, a trend that is contrary to the agreed target of 0.7 per cent of GNP.

Structural adjustment measures did not always result in increased capital inflows while reducing imbalances they raised the incidence of poverty in the process.

Noted the request of Iraq for the cancellation or reduction of their sovereign debt. In this regard, the Conference decided to cancel all the arrears of Iraq to the OIC and its subsidiary organs until the financial year 2004 2005.

BERLIN It seems obvious that if a business invests in automation, its workforce though possibly reduced will be more productive. So why do the statistics tell a different story?

The second source is private investment. The world s central banks are already cutting interest rates on safe assets, and will cut them more as the proximity and magnitude of the likely global slump becomes clear.

The costs of first and second line antiretroviral treatment in particular, treatment for children, which is currently expensive and often unavailable should continue to be reduced and the treatment made more accessible.

Revised estimates in annex VIII of 3,111,100 for transport operations and other equipment still are excessive, and in the view of the Advisory Committee should be reduced by 800,000.