• In recent years officials have repeatedly called on manufacturers to use less elaborate packaging in order to cut down on waste and make mooncakes more affordable.

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  • WarZ raised the player limit on servers to 70, in order to cut down on the active servers.

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  • In 2008, the city switched to a standardized, test-based admissions system in an attempt to cut down on favoritism that it said existed in the previous system, which allowed different districts to set their own rules.

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  • Secondly, Chief Executive Roger Deromedi Roger Deromedi is sparking a second wave of job cuts: 8, 000 to be exact, in a bid to cut down on costs.

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  • The program has done this for the last seven to eight years, in an effort to cut down on travel time and stress for the program.

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  • Governor Brown ordered an audit of all state reports in December in a bid to cut down on red tape, the BBC's Peter Bowes in California says.

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  • In an effort to cut down on travel and boost productivity, Mr Katzenberg looked into videoconferencing in 2001 and found it clunky, unreliable and fiddly.

    ECONOMIST: Videoconferencing

  • We will be making a trip up to Doncaster on Friday by plane in order to cut travelling time down.

    BBC: Clive Stuart-Smith column

  • The growth in demand for solar technology from China could ease the oversupply situation in the industry as traditional markets in Europe look to cut down subsidies enjoyed by renewable sources.

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  • In 1669, in a bid to cut down on violence, King Louis XIV of France decreed all pointed knives on the street or the dinner table illegal, and ordered all knife points ground down.

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  • And in an effort to cut down on injuries on the court or the field, Dr. Timothy Hewett, who heads the project at OSU's Wexner Medical Center, and his team have developed simple screening tests to better determine who is at risk for certain problems before damage occurs.

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  • Design-wise the Nexus 4 Wireless Charger looks similar to a smaller Nexus Q cut in half, down to the matching recessed square connector cutout.

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  • Andre Nel claimed his first five-wicket haul in Tests to cut the tourists down 105 behind South Africa's 532.

    BBC: Brian Lara 177 innings (1989-2003)

  • On the western boundary stood a line of ash trees that he wished, in dictatorial moods, to cut down, because they filled his garden with seeds.

    ECONOMIST: Christopher Lloyd

  • Measures have already been taken to try to encourage more responsible drinking in Parliament, with staff told to cut down on topping up MPs' glasses at receptions.

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  • Supporters of the U.S. private-pay system fear a shift in power to Washington will cut down on the innovation and choice that comes with the free market.

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  • But by the second half of that year it became apparent that the Plaza Accord had failed in its real mission to cut down on the U.S. trade deficit.

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  • But doctors also remember the fetal heart monitor, introduced with great enthusiasm in the 1970s as a way to cut down on birth injuries by alerting doctors to fetal distress in time to remove the baby via Caesarean section.

    FORBES: Defensive Medicine

  • So, even if SAARC really comes together to deal with the effects of climate change while the big players in the region and elsewhere fail to cut down their emissions, experts say it will be a zero-sum game.

    BBC: South Asian bloc active at climate meeting

  • But that comes a distant second in irritation level to spending money on items that will cut the wait time down, or in other words, paying to have the game speed up in order to actually play it.

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  • Against this background, Mr Putin's promise, when he became president in 2000, to cut the oligarchs down to size was justified and welcome.

    ECONOMIST: Russia

  • But guess what: Mr Berlusconi has scuppered an 18-month-long attempt at constitutional reform, largely because he was thwarted in his desire to cut the magistracy down to size.

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  • As The New York Times reports, some people are complaining that the company is acting too slowly and not doing enough, failing to try to cut down in sugar in carbonated beverages, for instance.

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  • An accelerator based in New York is seeking to cut down that timeframe and increase the possibility of success by maximizing efficiency and providing developmental assistance for film projects it thinks has a real shot at going all the way.

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  • He founded FlatRate Moving in 1991, a company that sought to find out as much as possible about its clients requirements in order to submit an accurate price and cut down on inefficiencies that irritated clients and cut into his profits.

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  • As the second-quarter reports have come in, Europe has been a defining theme and concern as governments throughout the region have cut spending in an effort to bring down deficits.

    FORBES

  • An arms race developed, with some trading faster and faster even siting their computers closer to the exchanges in order to cut the time it took orders to travel down the wires.

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