The struggle to improve efficiency and cut costs is a constant irritant in labor- management relations.
That is even though the commission's energy policy is to improve efficiency and cut carbon emissions.
There is something deeply ironic about a device designed to improve efficiency and foster connections achieving the exact opposite.
Elsewhere there are talks of mergers between organisations or the closure of services to improve efficiency.
For years we've seen an increase in outsourcing jobs to countries outside of the U.S. to improve efficiency.
And the recent restructuring of Haas's executive-education arm is intended to improve efficiency.
All these management initiatives were downsizing moves to improve efficiency and cut overhead.
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Whether they are energy-efficient or energy-wasteful, cities such as New York and London are employing ambitious programs to improve efficiency.
Rather than protecting inefficient industries, he believes that countries should open their industries to foreign competition in order to improve efficiency.
On the mainframe side, IBM is doing its part to improve efficiency.
Ultimately, the service hopes to improve efficiency and not only reduce cost, but accurately track it - as well as hopefully save lives.
The Commission will need to ensure that the move towards diesel vehicles to improve efficiency does not lead to increased local air pollution from particulates.
One is that of Mr Blair's new plan, which seeks to improve efficiency through reams of targets and directives sent out from the centre.
The Galaxy S III offers secure features and capabilities that may be used in a wide range of business situations to improve efficiency and productivity.
The aim, says Rodrigo Kede of IBM Brasil, is to manage the conglomerate's computing needs during a period of rapid growth, and to improve efficiency.
The campaign group Transport and Environment says this is an old argument from an industry which has been forced by previous standards to improve efficiency and reduce fuel bills.
And the spokesman added he hoped the data would help PCTs compare how they were spending NHS money with other trusts in a bid to improve efficiency and care.
He leads a committee of supply-chain executives, currently focused on 18 "high-impact" opportunities to improve efficiency in making major products, including respiratory face masks, stethoscopes and reflective material for highway signs.
Some provisions attempt to improve efficiency through administrative reforms, by, for example, requiring insurance companies to create a single standardized form for insurance reimbursement, to alleviate the clerical burden on clinicians.
Of course there are plenty of other ways to improve efficiency, including using efficient appliances, weatherizing homes and that time-honored tradition your parents taught you: turning off the lights when you leave the room.
One of the early papers to come out of the project is a look at how the city of Busan, in South Korea, is using cloud-based city services to improve efficiency, reduce emissions and serve its residents better.
We worked together on a project about a city that implemented a smart energy program to improve energy efficiency, deliver benefits to its citizens and contribute positively to the environment.
According to the U.S. Department of Energy, the first step businesses and households should take when trying to improve energy efficiency is performing an audit to identify where energy is being wasted.
Syria will reach the limit of food self-sufficiency in 10-35 years, depending on the effectiveness of its measures to improve irrigation efficiency and agricultural yields, and to control population growth.
Although she had swum regularly for nearly 25 years, Ms Sherr realised she had to improve her efficiency in the water if she was to complete the Hellespont crossing.
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California was able to achieve this efficiency by establishing building codes that require energy efficiency in new construction, and by stimulating private companies to improve the efficiency of their own operations.
C. to announce the next round of a coordinated national program to improve fuel efficiency for cars and light-duty trucks for model years 2017 to 2025.
Clean-tech executives were encouraged by commitments to improve energy efficiency made by India and China, as well as a promise by rich countries to funnel billions to poor ones to pay for green investments.
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To improve the efficiency of this process, he worked out a way of arranging permanent magnets so as to concentrate their combined fields in a single direction, providing extra oomph.
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