Over time, it reduced program costs by 92 percent and total waste by 62 percent.
In either scenario, the DR program reduced strain on the grid, averting a power blackout.
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The American Airlines card allows members to travel to select destinations in the U.S. and Canada with fewer miles via its Reduced Mileage Awards program.
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In July 1999, Fannie and Angelo Mozilo's Countrywide Home Loans entered "an alliance agreement" that included "a reduced documentation loan program called the 'internet loan, '" later called the "Fast and Easy" loan.
Essentially, the Debt Supercycle is the decades-long growth of debt from small and easily-dealt-with levels, to a point where bond markets rebel and the debt has to be restructured or reduced or a program of austerity must be undertaken to bring the debt back to manageable proportions.
After 10 years, spending on the program was reduced by half as a result compared to prior trends.
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The administration says the program has reduced juvenile crime and improved academic achievement.
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The document is an honest and thoughtful effort to restore fiscal balance through the combination of reduced spending and entitlement program reforms, and increased economic growth.
The council was also involved in a program that reduced by more than two months the time it takes for new restaurants to get city permits and inspections.
Analysts said that in the previous quarters that bank had begun an extensive risk-cutting program and reduced its large trading positions, following the losses from rogue trader Jerome Kerviel.
The Boston attack renewed attention on federal budget cuts that reduced spending for a program called Urban Areas Security Initiative, which pays for equipment, training and salaries for counterterrorism efforts.
Best Buy's strong results for the three months ended Aug. 28 were due to tight expense controls, increased sales of cellphones and services such as connecting televisions with home networks, and a stock repurchase program that reduced total shares outstanding.
In short, the dictates of common sense, fiscal responsibility and even Defense Department regulations have been seriously disserved by the latest "top-down" restructuring of the V-22 program to a reduced, single-service requirement.
The USDA has also reduced interest rates on its emergency loan program and worked with the major crop insurers to allow farmers to forego interest payments on unpaid premiums until November.
The company currently allows its borrowers who are underwater or who have less than 20% equity to refinance with reduced documentation and fees under the Home Affordable Refinance Program.
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We further document how less carefully executed interventions, in the pharmaceutical sector, can also have serious (although less dramatic) impacts, including program closures, pursuit of riskier payment mechanisms, and reduced order conversions.
At the same time it launched an amnesty program for employers to voluntarily reclassify workers in exchange for a reduced payment to cover back taxes.
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Medicare substantially improved its claims documentation, and reduced its error rate reporting in the Fee for Service portion of the program from 10.1% in FY 2004 to 5.2% in FY 2005.
After twelve months in the program, he found, their emergency-room visits and hospital admissions were reduced by more than forty per cent.
These programs are known to generate sharply higher employee participation rates, between 70% and 90% versus 20% for the standard wellness program, and they generally result in much lower employee health claim costs and reduced absenteeism.
Eventually, the committee reduced its demand to focus on documents involving decision-making after the administration shut down the Fast and Furious program.
And parents already in the program because their state allows it, can stay, but federal funding for them gradually would be reduced to the same level as if they were on Medicaid.
For example, Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield found that overall health care costs were reduced by 50% in the first year when people with heart disease or risk factors went through our lifestyle program in 24 hospitals and clinics in West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Nebraska.
For example, the first phase of the EU Emissions Trading program, which contained several design flaws that have since been rectified, has already been found to have reduced emissions by around 100 million tonnes of CO2 mostly by forcing a shift of load from coal to gas power plants and providing an incentive for inefficient coal plants to improve the thermal efficiency of their boilers.
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