The trend in these and other cases is to reduce the room for large-scale religious exceptionalism.

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Intel needs to make chips on a large scale again to keep profits coming in, and Apple needs to reduce its reliance on arch rival Samsung for mobile processors.

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Spending more time in school did reduce the probability of a teenage pregnancy, but on a much smaller scale than the effect of a pregnant sister.

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"The report highlights the scale of the challenge the government faces if it is to reduce poverty significantly in the UK, " said Julia Unwin, chief executive of the Foundation.

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Genentech and Novartis, in fact, have already conducted larger-scale studies showing that the drug can reduce hay fever attacks.

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Budgetary pressures in Europe have forced a number of NATO allies to reduce the size of their armed forces and scale back modernization programs.

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Yet, at the same time we have seen that the steps of both individuals and organizations have taken on their own, in their communities or with their employers reduce their carbon footprint have defused and spread on a large scale.

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"Over time, by providing a market for these assets that does not now exist, this programme will help improve assets values, increase lending capacity by banks, and reduce uncertainty about the scale of losses on bank balance sheets, " US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner wrote in the Wall Street Journal before the programme was officially announced.

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It might also reduce the need for antitrust enforcement by counteracting data aggregators' desire to grow ever bigger in order to reap economies of scale.

ECONOMIST: Regulators are having to rethink their brief