Even if you reduce a position by 50%, you still own the stock for the original cost of purchase with money in your pocket.
Normally, a donor can reduce his AGI by a maximum of 50% and has to carry forward any excess charitable deductions to future years.
Consider these suggestions for improving our fiscal outlook: means test Social Security and Medicare, reduce the Pentagon budget by a fifth, end the War on Drugs, phase out agricultural subsidies, shrink the Department of Education, end the mortgage deduction for borrowing over a certain figure, reduce prison populations by relying on home incarceration and monitoring bracelets for many kinds of non-violent criminals.
The company currently has about 200 different suppliers--Flaig thinks he can reduce that by a factor of magnitude.
The government has said it wants to reduce bureaucracy by a third.
Scottish Water has also been told to reduce leaks by a third.
Royal Dutch Shell announced on October 16th a plan to reduce its greenhouse emissions by at least a tenth from its 1990 levels by 2002.
Moreover, the wealth effect may be asymmetric: a fall in share prices could reduce economic activity by more than a rise in prices boosts it, because of the greater adverse impact on confidence.
Even if its sales to the region fell by 25%, this would reduce growth only by half a point.
This morning we heard the President talk about a bold, but ambitious and achievable goal to reduce our oil imports by a third by 2025.
Fuller disclosure needs to be supported by measures to reduce the contagion effect of a failure by, for example, reducing uncollateralised interbank exposures among European banks.
The look of that vehicle isn't the only cool thing about it: it's also the product of a new approach to manufacturing, which has the potential to reduce the overall process by a factor a five.
As a result, our proposal would reduce the deficit by as much as a trillion dollars over the next decades, and would directly affect your bottom lines -- each and every one of you who are already providing insurance to your employees -- by a significant amount.
But Wal-Mart was stymied recently when it tried to reduce costs by buying a tiny industrial bank.
Minimize and reduce risk by creating a backup plan (Plan C) for the backup plan (Plan B).
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The immediate objective to reduce child poverty by a quarter is spelt out in one of the government's many targets.
Adding pictures, he estimates, would reduce his travelling by a quarter and leave even more time for meditating at the mill.
Changes to train timetables and work patterns have been introduced to reduce cancellations caused by a driver shortage, according to London Midland.
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Fourth, if necessary, the Fed could reduce reserves by selling a portion of its holdings of long-term securities into the open market.
And tax increases reduce potential GDP by a multiplier of at least one and maybe three, depending on which study you want to cite.
The analysis also said that provisions in the bill would reduce by about a half-million per year the future number of people entering the country illegally.
So if the Chinese are to reduce their intensity by a whopping 50%, they would merely be back on to the trend line that was established in the 1990s.
They were then commanded to reduce their height by a factor of two (to 23km) for another three months, allowing them to obtain data at an even better resolution.
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Yet, allowing patients to face the discipline of market forces rather than shielding them entirely (as is done in Canada, where cost sharing for health services guaranteed under federal law is prohibited) has the potential to reduce spending by nearly a third.
So -- and by the way, all of it is paid for, and not only is it deficit-neutral but the Congressional Budget Office, which is the bipartisan office that's the scorekeeper for how much things cost in Congress, says it's going to reduce our costs by a trillion dollars.
Additionally, these programs will dramatically cut the oil we consume, saving a total of 12 billion barrels of oil, and by 2025, reduce oil consumption by 2.2 million barrels a day -- as much as half of the oil we import from OPEC every day.
Now, a U.S. company has developed a device in a bid to reduce those feelings of despair, by inventing a cell phone so that dogs and their owners can communicate when they are away from each other.
They found that a generally positive outlook appeared to reduce the chance of breast cancer by a quarter.
Researchers expect a successful product will reduce fuel needs by 40 percent for expeditionary power systems, with a continual output of 3 kilowatts.
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The President has laid out a specific plan with detailed cuts to avoid the sequester and reduce the deficit in a balanced way by cutting spending, reforming entitlements and closing tax loopholes for the wealthiest and big corporations - loopholes not available to the middle class -- and Congressional Democrats have put forward a balanced approach as well.
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