But let's face it, halving 12.9-inches is a lot different than halving 9.7 inches.
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The result: halving the time needed to manufacture parts and therefore halving the costs (minus the raw material costs, of course).
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This exponential halving means that even though the last halving won't occur for over 100 years, 75% of all bitcoins have already been mined and distributed.
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Signet is nearly halving its commercials this year, Drosos said.
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Before the halving in July, the miner's reward was 25 bitcoins.
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The halving of the risk also holds true for death rates.
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British funds are even lower, more than halving to 35 percent.
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Halving emissions in less than a decade requires immediate, concerted action.
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On that "halving day," the price of one bitcoin was $12.25 USD.
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The exact proportion of the gains caused by the halving is unclear.
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The recession in 2008 made matters much worse, halving that institution's endowment.
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So, today was the second ever halving in the history of Bitcoin.
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Rome has seen arrivals halving last year after introducing stricter border controls.
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Initially it was 1,000 per company, so this was a massive halving.
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The halving, which happened once before in 2012, is a similarly planned change.
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She urged fellow leaders to target a halving of malaria rates by 2023.
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So Obama ramped up auto standards that will double gas mileage, halving emissions.
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Trim the spring onions, halving the white parts and thinly slicing the greens.
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Open up that second screen, however, and you're roughly halving that battery life.
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Import-dependent Egypt floated its currency in November, roughly halving the pound's value.
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"We're prepared - we already went through one halving event in 2012," he said.
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Halving cooking time doesn't do much good when food is undercooked or overcooked.
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Org Foundation, leading to headlines and tweets about it "halving" its sound quality.
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He blames the halving of international oil prices since 2014, which slashed Venezuela's revenues.
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However, the long-term effect on the total hashrate of this halving is unknown.
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If the last halving is any indication, then the second camp may be correct.
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In the next halving in 2020, the reward will fall to 6.25 new bitcoins.
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Last year it set a goal of halving its global carbon emissions by 2050.
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"Bitcoin always does a 200% pump within 1 year before the halving and another much, much bigger pump in the year after the halving," said Stuttgart-based Marius Kramer, a social media influencer who currently works with crypto investing app Ember Fund.
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Last week, Noble reported halving its quarterly net loss from continuing operations to $43.3 million.
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After all, bitcoin made it all the way to its second halving without totally collapsing.
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The process is known as "halving" and was written in the original code for bitcoin.
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With the new housing strategy, the government has committed to halving "chronic homelessness" by 2028.
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You're effectively halving the number of pieces of paper you need for each print run.
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Apple has taken things even further, nearly halving the price of that 9.7-inch slate.
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Run a knife horizontally through the cake, halving it to make two even layers. 3.
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Humphrey said this could mean a halving of the U.S. business in the short term.
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Zeno's paradox, except instead of halving distances, you're surprising yourself with incremental increases in stupidity.
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Its president is halving his pay, and all other executives have had their bonuses scrapped.
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The United Nations has set a target of halving food loss and waste by 2030.
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"I'll always gravitate toward the dessert," she said, before accidentally halving one of her quarters.
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Everything You Need to Know About Bitcoin's 'Halving' Does what it says on the tin.
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Active membership in the Church of England, meanwhile, declined, halving in the past two decades.
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"We call them 'jewels,' " she said, halving and peeling the fruit for the other guests.
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It has committed to halving the carbon footprint of the energy it sells by 2050.
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Even halving that would yield an extra $85.4 billion that CBS could better spend on itself.
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But rising temperatures and a halving of rainfall over the decades mean it now rarely pays.
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STOXX50E rising nearly 11 percent this year with gains halving to around 5.5 percent in 2018.
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The move could see one of Port Talbot's two blast furnaces shut, halving the plant's capacity.
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Their prices have since surged, halving their yields to 8 percent from 16 percent in March.
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At least 230 brokerages cut their price targets, with Pacific Crest halving its target to $190.
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In 22 and 0003 Rolls issued five profit warnings in quick succession, halving the firm's share price.
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After halving its dividend last year to pay down debt, AB InBev had its own executive shakeup.
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Customers have pulled $12bn from the fund in 18 consecutive months of outflows, halving it in size.
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SXAP was the best-performing after a report that China is considering halving duty on imported cars.
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When sample sizes are small, this fix is difficult, as halving the sample saps power from tests.
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One roadmap suggests halving the globe's human-made carbon emissions each decade for the next 30 years.
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Just 85033 percent of the workforce is employed in manufacturing, after halving over the past 30 years.
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New START was an agreement that gave America and Russia the goal of halving their nuclear stockpiles.
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"This would make even more challenging the industry's goal of halving CO2 emissions," Mr. Rutherford's report said.
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Delta said earlier this week it was halving its U.S.-China schedule to about 21 weekly flights.
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Like a supply shock in oil, this quadrennial 'halving' has historically had a major impact on prices.
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This is estimated to result in fiscal costs of ageing halving to 11033pp of GDP by 2060.
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By halving the impact of EU social and employment laws, Britain could create 60,000 new jobs, she said.
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London (CNN Business)Consumer goods giant Unilever has committed to halving its use of new plastic by 2025.
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The companies said they were well on the way to adapting to the more than halving in prices.
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Some of the recent demand for Bitcoin has come from anticipation of a coming event known as halving.
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These included tripling dividend payouts from the current 30 yen ($0.28) per share and halving board members' terms.
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The lower prices led to a halving of its profit for the fiscal year to end-June 623.
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Some analysts said they doubted that the halving of the tax credit alone would slow sales next year.
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It has fallen nearly seven percent so far this year, more than halving its gains from last year.
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By halving those miles and requiring cleaner vehicles, haulers' carbon emissions could be cut by more than half.
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The process is written into bitcoin's underlying code, and previous halving events have preceded sizable bitcoin price increases.
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Several firms have cut back space and host planemaker Airbus is halving staff attendance and slashing catering, insiders said.
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But for Japan, where the jobless rate is low, halving the inflation target does not raise any serious concerns.
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"This is equivalent to a halving of the workforce," he told journalists outside Opel's headquarters in Ruesselsheim, western Germany.
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Now Macri's government announced a tax on exports, a halving of government ministries and other measures to cut spending.
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In New South Wales, for example, the conservative government is calling for a halving of immigration to the state.
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The coffee giant set a preliminary target of halving emissions from "its operations and direct supply chain" by 2030.
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The call came on top of an open-ended rail strike that began on Wednesday, halving domestic train services.
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The Finnish company reported fourth-quarter adjusted operating profit of 5.3 million euros ($6 million), halving from a year ago.
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The problems have also continued this year, with profit halving at the Power and Gas business in the first quarter.
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GRAPHIC - Bitcoin's Halving: here But others doubt bitcoin's latest rally is underpinned by anything more substantial than the previous booms.
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The next halving takes place in July, when miners will receive 12.5 coins every 10 minutes, down from 25 today.
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The CRTC's 2017 monitoring report shows the number of payphones in the country nearly halving over the past five years.
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Spurred by a citizens' initiative, the city voted to overhaul its government, halving the size of the council to seven.
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But the achievement of halving the proportion of malnourished people since 1990 has shown us just what can be achieved.
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The halving of oil prices in the second half of 2014 inflicted great pain on Russia and other crude exporters.
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It also published preliminary group results for the second quarter at the time, with adjusted group operating income almost halving.
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Halving food waste by 2030 was included as a target in global development goals adopted by world leaders in 2015.
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The planned 22-year human-made "eruption" would shave 27.7 degrees off warming, halving the likely increase during that time.
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Despite the near halving of the Canadian rate over this period, fiscal revenues generated by the tax did not diminish.
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The junior coalition party OVP recently called for halving the number of asylum applications accepted this year to around 17,000.
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Sustaining a healthier planet will require halving the amount of food loss and waste, and improving farming practices and technologies.
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Zhang predicted that bearish trend "will last for a long time," potentially halving the index's valuations from the current level.
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The CCF estimates that during the 1980s, livestock and game farmers removed nearly 10,000 cheetahs, halving the Namibian cheetah population.
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One step towards halving emissions by 19653 would be to ramp such renewable-electricity generation up to half the total.
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The next halving is scheduled in 2020 and the following year should be a good year for bitcoin, Peled said.
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"Speculators have been pointing to impending rises for some months, citing the impending halving of rewards for miners," explained James Lynn.
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But growth in the Bitcoin hashrate may be dented by last weeks block-halving, so Ethereum would indeed be 'catching up'.
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Others believe that the halving, which is a planned milestone that everyone has seen coming for years, marks a positive moment.
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The bank's overall results were solid, thanks to good cost control and a more than halving in losses from bad loans.
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Its Cape Town and Dublin offices are focused on exploration, an area where Tullow is halving spending to around $553 million.
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Its Cape Town and Dublin offices are focused on exploration, an area where Tullow is halving spending to around $553 million.
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The founder's family, which currently owns just shy of 40% in DHFL, is looking at halving its holdings, the source added.
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The bank has also seen its stock nearly halving in value since the RBI first cut short Kapoor's term in September.
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You're literally halving your problems to share with someone else and working through it together — but that doesn't mean it's easy.
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These include a halving of personal income tax or, for the super rich, a flat annual income tax of 100,000 euros.
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Crude exports from crisis-struck OPEC member Venezuela have also fallen sharply, halving in recent years to about 1 million bpd.
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But it has not been fast enough to meet the UN goal of halving road traffic deaths between 2016 and 2020.
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The Chinese company delayed its October plan to go public after halving the size of its planned offer, according to Reuters.
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And because most scenarios for curbing warming require halving worldwide emissions by 2030, that means countries must take serious action now.
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The latest assault saw Saudi Arabia's vital oil industry come under a drone-and-cruise-missile attack, halving the kingdom's output.
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Crude exports from crisis-struck OPEC member Venezuela have also fallen sharply, halving in recent years to around 1 million bpd.
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DIGITAL85033DEMOCRACY avoids the need for repeat dictation, directly transcribing the voice of each speaker and halving the time needed for transcription.
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The latest assault saw Saudi Arabia's vital oil industry come under a drone-and-cruise-missile attack , halving the kingdom's output.
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In fact, Novogratz said bitcoin could reach his estimated levels by the "halving," which is expected to take place in May.
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But to do so, we would need to drastically cut emissions in the next 20503 years, halving current levels by 2030.
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Business investment also disappointed, with the ONS more than halving its estimate for investment growth in the third quarter to 0.4 percent.
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Expensive defects on its new A320neo and A350 planes led to a halving of profits, year on year, in the first quarter.
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RIL's shares have lagged India's stockmarket over the past decade and its return on capital has sagged, halving from 12% to 6%.
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Italy's third largest lender, Banco BPM dropped nearly 6 percent after reporting a halving of loan-loss provisions for the first quarter.
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The airline cited delays in deliveries of Boeing's grounded 737 MAX jet as the reason for halving growth plans for next year.
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China's top state refiner, Sinopec Corp, was seen halving its loadings of Iranian crude in September, Reuters reported Friday, citing unidentified sources.
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Mr Choi has also set up his own trucking unit to reduce haulage costs to the port, halving logistics costs since 2015.
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One of the exchange-traded funds (ETFs) taking losses, $797 million ProShares Short VIX Short-Term Futures ETF, is halving its mandate.
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Oil drillers, meanwhile, continue to hunt for new cost-cutting technologies - after already halving the cost of extracting a barrel since 2014.
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Though the administration professes a goal of halving that number by 2020, on its face ICE's email threatens a nearly opposite outcome.
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Carryout is prone to swing wildly from initial to final estimates, sometimes more than doubling (or halving) over the whole time frame.
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The government floated the currency this month, and it lost nearly 50 percent of its value, wiping out savings and halving salaries.
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A carbon law of halving emissions every decade can be adopted at all levels: for individuals, families, communities, companies, cities and nations.
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The goal of halving U.S. CO2 emissions by 2035 is new, as is the 5% annual increase to the proposed carbon tax.
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The Committee on Ageing estimates the measures would result in the fiscal costs of ageing halving to 2.1pp of GDP by 203.
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The paper said this would mean halving the daily cap for clients of China's largest provider of bank cards to 5,13 patacas ($626).
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The scandal led to the resignation of the bank's former chief executive and the almost halving of Danske Bank's share price since February.
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I've been halving the amount of office-supplied milk and sugar I add to my morning brew in an attempt to be healthier.
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The Mate X design breathes new life into those tweener tablets by halving their size and making them pocketable (for men, at least).
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The halving in the region's economic growth rate was not altogether surprising, however, given a stalling in France's economy in the second quarter.
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Algeria is among the oil producers to have taken a heavy hit from the halving of oil prices over the past two years.
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That would help firms struggling to service foreign debt thanks to sanctions and the halving of the value of the rouble since 2014.
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Halving the trade shortfall with China would be enough to eliminate India's overall current-account deficit, and thus the need for external financing.
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The impact, felt in the halving of Rusal's share price since the announcement on April 24.56, is too big for Moscow to ignore.
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What's unlikely, however, is that the deals being offered to Amazon will change significantly, even though the company is effectively halving their investment.
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The military capitulation in Kirkuk was a crushing blow to the Kurds, both morally and financially, halving the region's oil export revenue overnight.
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Patuanelli said the government hoped for ultrafast broadband to be rolled out in 40% of the targeted areas, halving an initial 80% goal.
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Trump's original order also called for more than halving the number of refugees admitted to the U.S., from 110,000 per year to 50,000.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on governments, businesses and aid groups to commit to halving the number of displaced civilians by 2030.
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But, on paper, the same goal would be served either by doubling the limit for Roman languages or halving it for certain Asian ones.
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On Saturday, bitcoin is expected to reach a landmark known as the "halving," and the community is split on what the outcome will be.
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The halving since 2014 of the price of oil, almost the only export, makes these problems more acute but is not the underlying cause.
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The report reiterated the government's aim of halving childhood obesity by 2030 -- a goal that "we are nowhere near achieving" in England, Davies wrote.
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But halving warming might cut into the weather extremes wrought by the highest atmospheric carbon dioxide levels Earth has experienced in millions of years.
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The European Central Bank confirmed plans to wind down its programme of quantitative easing by halving monthly bond purchases, to €22017bn ($216bn), from October.
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Having never reported a profit since going public in 2017, investors took comfort in the halving of its loss for the quarter, to $192m.
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One ten-country study concluded that halving the price of child care increases the total number of hours worked by mothers by 7-10%.
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This is important, as most aftershocks occur on the first day after a quake occurs, before roughly halving in frequency on each following day.
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LONDON — The gender pay gap for UK millennials now stands at 210 percent; halving the gap experienced by the previous generation, new research suggests.
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However, China's Sinopec is halving loadings of crude oil from Iran this month, in a sign that pressure from Washington is having an effect.
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The junior coalition partner OVP called for halving that number while the head of the far-right Freedom Party wanted "zero and minus immigration".
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Japan Display also on Thursday said "a client" to which it owed money had agreed to halving the pace of repayment for two years.
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Progress towards meeting that target—essentially halving inflation from 10% to 5% (see chart)—has been made easier by tumbling commodity prices, especially oil.
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Economically, Vox's manifesto has been ultra-liberal: halving the highest income tax rate to 15%, reducing corporate tax, and abolishing wealth and inheritance taxes.
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Instacart unilaterally cut workers' pay by halving the default tip to 5 percent per order, provoking a three-day strike from November 40-5.
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Arabtec shares were down 10% after last week reporting a halving in first quarter profit last week and the departure of its chief executive.
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While Trump's initial budget proposal envisioned halving US contributions to UN peacekeeping, the administration has since agreed to more modest, but still significant, reductions.
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Analysts say the foundation for bitcoin's gains was set last July in a process called "halving," in which rewards offered to bitcoin miners shrink.
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A shortcut via a graded service road, we realized, would put us back in Medora by lunchtime, nearly halving the trail's last 28 miles.
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As the Cut 50 movement argues, a more radical reset would be needed to meet very ambitious goals like halving the nation's prison population.
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The pair were unbeaten in three matches, winning twice by handsome margins of 5&4 and 5&3, and halving their other tussle together.
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Sony is halving the price of its PlayStation Now video game subscription service and adding new titles to the platform, the company announced Tuesday.
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Two Republican senators plan to unveil legislation to curb legal immigration by halving the number of people allowed to live as legal permanent residents.
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Proxy adviser ISS had recommended this week that shareholders oppose the rights issue, which the group's biggest shareholder, Cobas Asset Management, has proposed halving.
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The halving, which takes place every four years, is a process by which the reward for people who mine bitcoin is reduced by half.
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The impending halving aside, Novogratz reiterated he believes liquidity is a propelling force not only for bitcoin's rally but for other asset rallies too.
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President George W. Bush also repeatedly went after the CPB during his eight years in office; in 2008, he proposed halving the corporation's budget.
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The bank is considering halving its London staff to 3,000 and moving key operations to New York and continental Europe, particularly Frankfurt, the paper reported.
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On the freeway, cars with similar destinations clump together, magnetic bumpers linking up, sharing a slipstream and halving the collective energy use of every car.
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Maybe it's a delayed natural reaction from the halving – or maybe it's just a sign that Bitcoin is doing better than people think it is.
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Halving net migration of foreign students, say by restricting the growth of universities (though that would hamper a lucrative industry), might reduce it to 303,230.
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This week has seen some evidence that Brexit uncertainty is already hitting the economy, with a halving in new investment in the British car industry.
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"We'll count carbon dioxide the same way as we count money," Vice Mayor Robert Steen told Reuters of the targets for halving emissions by 2020.
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That comes despite an expected halving of profits this year and no recovery to 2015's profit level in sight for the next three years.
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He said the Shanghai index was still roughly 17 percent above the theoretical support level of 2,500 even after almost halving from last summer's peak.
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Citing three anonymous sources, the paper said Lufthansa has also proposed halving Alitalia's workforce of 12,000 employees and reducing its short- and medium-range flights.
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The FSC recently said banks sold T$80 billion ($2.42 billion) in TRF contracts, halving from its peak of T$160 billion hit in 2014.
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While conventional oil activity is in freefall, U.S. shale drilling is on an upswing, thanks to American companies halving the cost of production, IEA notes.
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Spanish competition watchdog CNMC on Wednesday approved halving its planned cuts to regulated remuneration of gas transport networks following complaints from companies in the sector.
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Living costs have exploded since the import-dependent country floated its currency in November, roughly halving its value and slashing many Egyptians' real income overnight.
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It set a December 2016 deadline for halving the target time for switching cash Individual Savings Accounts or ISAs to 7 days from 15 days.
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Walmart said it was "halving" its ammo stock, requesting that shoppers refrain from openly carrying firearms within stores, and stopping sales of handguns in Alaska.
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The drop reflects a halving in the number of Chinese tourists in the year to September, which has hurt retailers and hotels in South Korea.
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That was broadly in line with its performance in the previous quarter and beat analyst forecasts, despite sales halving in Hong Kong, according to Duplaix.
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After the first week, 250 percent of the chronotherapy group had experienced a halving of their symptoms, compared to 13 percent of the exercise group.
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Analysts said the groundwork for bitcoin gains was laid in July this year in a process called "halving", where the rewards offered to bitcoin miners shrink.
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Expectations of more U.S. rate rises and the European Central Bank halving its bond buying will test individual emerging economies in 2018, emerging market veterans say.
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The U.S. bank is considering halving its London staff to 3,000 and moving key operations to New York and continental Europe, particularly Frankfurt, the paper reported.
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McDonald's said it will reduce calories and sodium from its six-piece chicken McNugget Mighty meal for older children by halving the french fry portion size.
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First, these routers have less memory, with system memory halving from the original 512MB down to 256MB and internal Flash memory falling from 4GB to 256MB.
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And blessed by falling oil prices, his single-minded approach succeeded in halving the inflation rate from the double digit levels prevailing when he came in.
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This means that assuming a price of $650 per coin, going forward miners will make ~$8,125 per block they mine, compared to $16,63 before the halving.
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The first halving (when the reward was cut from 50 to 25 bitcoins) was back in November of 2012, when the price was around $12 dollars.
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A new rail line passing through its capital city, Tbilisi, adds to its appeal, halving the time it takes to carry freight from China to Turkey.
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And don't think about halving your charging times by plugging two power adapters into this dongle at once, it only accepts a single power source—boo.
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Samsung said Japanese curbs on the export of chip-making materials were blurring its business outlook as it reported a halving in quarterly profit on Wednesday.
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U.S. carriers bumped passengers at a rate of just 0.34 per 612,000 passengers last year, nearly halving the rate of 0.62 per 10,2000 set in 212.
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The outline's business side would lower the tax rates for corporations and most businesses to 15 percent, more than halving the current 35 percent corporate rate.
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In February 2016, the Argentine ministry appeared to have overhauled historical soybean stocks, nearly halving inventory for the recent years, though the reasoning was not clear.
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The proposal would also reduce the tax rate for corporations and most small businesses to 15 percent, more than halving the current 35 percent corporate rate.
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China's Jinghong hydropower station said in early July it was more than halving the flow rate for "grid maintenance" on what China calls the Lancang River.
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The other big banks have gone even further, more than halving their fees for their most basic accounts over the past five years to undercut Capitec.
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Despite halving the homicide rate since the 2000 elections, South Africa has some of the highest rates of murder, assault, robbery, and rape in the world.
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"Integrated assessment models", which combine economic dynamics with assumptions about the climate, suggest that getting to zero emissions by 1000 means halving current emissions by 21.
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I tried halving a recipe to make more reasonably-sized loaves, but the bread didn&apost come out as delicious and was a little too small.
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The plan would also lower the tax rate for corporations and most small businesses to 6900 percent, more than halving the current 2628 percent corporate rate.
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On Wednesday Verallia revived the abortive trade, targeting a smaller €26m five-year non-call two PIK toggle deal and halving the proposed dividend to €280m.
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The right-of-center government led by President Michel Temer — who was charged with corruption last month — has also changed policy, halving the local content quotas.
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Noble has agreed to hand over a 70 percent equity stake in its restructured business to senior creditors in return for halving its $3.4 billion in debt.
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The European Commission said this week the euro zone's third-largest economy would expand by just 0.1 percent this year, halving an already gloomy 0.2 percent figure.
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"We have no standing to play that role when we cut our own humanitarian assistance and when we are halving our refugee admissions," said the former official.
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Under the lifeline provided by creditors, Noble is halving its debt, in return giving 70 percent ownership to the creditors, which are comprised mainly of hedge funds.
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And, the code specified that every 210,000 blocks mined that reward would be cut in half, until it eventually is reduced to zero after 64 halving events.
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He's scheduled to be released in September, thereby halving his sentence, although he also has three years of probation and a lifetime registration as a sex offender.
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Elimination of the public-service loan-forgiveness program and subsidized Stafford loans, and an almost halving of the federal work-study program are currently up for discussion.
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The area came under the control of Iraqi military on Tuesday for the first time since 2015, effectively halving the amount of production under Erbil's direct control.
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The decision by STOXX Ltd, which manages Europe's top benchmark stock indexes, came following a near halving in value of Credit Suisse and Deutsche shares this year.
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Maserati's relaunch appears to have stalled, with sales of the luxury brand falling, and operating margin halving to 5 percent in the first nine months of 2015.
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At the time, David L. Stockman, Reagan's budget director, had just proposed halving the annual appropriation for the endowment with the aim of phasing it out altogether.
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"There's nothing like commodity prices halving to focus your mind on how else you can make money," said Finistere partner Arama Kukutai said in a recent interview.
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The United States, where the Agriculture Department says 66 million tons of food go to waste annually, last year announced a goal of halving that by 2030.
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For Wefunder's part, it's not charity — they're still taking a slice of the total volume raised, though they are halving their usual percentage from 7.5% to 3.75%.
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Chevron said it would spend $16 billion instead of a planned $20 billion this year, including halving spending in the Permian Basin, the top U.S. shale field.
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The deal prevented scheduled tariff increases in October and new tariffs in December, as well as halving the tariffs on $85033 billion of imports to 7.5 percent.
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The Internationals brought an overnight 23-21 lead into the final day but bowed out 21-14, winning only two of the 12 singles and halving four.
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The halving since 2000 of the price of oil, the country's biggest export, has pushed the economy into recession and widened a hole in the budget (see chart).
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In July, Oscar's members found out the company was halving its largest network, based in New York City, from 40,000 doctors to 20,000, from 77 hospitals to 31.
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Egypt has seen its exports grow since it floated its currency in November, roughly halving it in value overnight and making its goods more competitive on international markets.
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However, growth of 0.3 percent would represent a halving from the second quarter's pace and the Bank reiterated it could well cut its benchmark lending rate further soon.
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It also expects to take a 55 billion yen hit to revenue, due largely to a near halving in domestic retail sales in the wake of the scandal.
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The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and U.S. Institute for Peace would be reduced to close-out costs under the proposed budget, while halving U.N. peacekeeping support.
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The problem has become so serious that halving world food waste by 2850 was included as a target for global development goals adopted by world leaders in 2015.
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The firm is working on improving hybrid generators, which like hybrid cars store energy as they generate, halving emissions, and on cleaning fuel to make it less polluting.
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Current plans to combat climate change are expected by the government to reduce emissions by 23 percent in 2020, with a further aim of halving them by 2030.
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Give the leeks a thorough wash by halving them lengthwise and running them under a vigorous tap, letting the water swish away the soil trapped in their layers.
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The airline industry more broadly has set goals that include capping aviation's net emissions at 2020 levels, and halving net emissions by 2050 from 2005 levels, Dietz said.
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The problem has become so serious that halving world food waste by 2030 was included as a target in global development goals adopted by world leaders in 2015.
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As part of the deal, the United States will maintain 27% tariffs on $22020 billion of Chinese imports while halving tariffs on $22021 billion in products to 297.062%.
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The cut in corporate tax to 20.9222% from 28% and halving dividend tax to 5%, which will come into effect this year, will support investment appetite, it said.
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The results on Friday meant that total net profit for 2016 came in at 3.3 billion Swiss francs, a near halving from the 6.2 billion reported last year.
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Algeria, which relies heavily on oil and gas sales, has been hit hard by the crash in oil prices, halving its revenues from $60 billion to $30 billion.
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Analysts will be watching closely to see if the halving of the federal tax credit slows the growth rate of Model 2000 sales further in the first quarter.
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She later took the lead, before Nordqvist hit an eight-iron approach stiff at the par-four 18th for a conceded birdie, winning the hole and halving the match.
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You'll end up with 12 equally sizes pieces of pizza by first cutting six pieces in a wobbly star-shape from the center, then halving each of those pieces.
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Moscow's first real cooperation with OPEC, put together with the help of President Vladimir Putin, has been crucial in roughly halving an excess of global oil stocks since January.
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To repay the government, A.I.G. sold dozens of businesses and other assets, halving its size and narrowing its focus, though activist investors said it still was not focused enough.
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The halving applies only to the additional tariffs imposed by Beijing in September, and not to the total duties on goods built up since 2018 during the trade war.
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The halving applies only to the additional tariffs imposed by Beijing in September, and not to the total duties on goods built up since 2018 during the trade war.
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Shares of Ryanair were up by 2.6% on Tuesday, despite the airline halving its 2020 passenger growth outlook on the back of delayed deliveries of Boeing's 737 Max jet.
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Judging from a recent post on social media, fandom's favorite average, everyday Marvel Cinematic Universe character is still alive after the population-halving Thanos snap in Avengers: Infinity War.
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The halving of oil prices since the mid-2014 means fund managers can run a net position twice as large in barrel terms for the same commitment of capital.
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The price of coking coal - a key steel-making ingredient - has been volatile, nearly quadrupling between March and late November 13, but then halving by the end of March.
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While the halving on Saturday will in all likelihood have minimal effects on bitcoin's price, it's one more push in a direction that some users are reluctant to follow.
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As part of a broader Island View transformation drive Transnet is renegotiating lease agreements, halving it from the current 50-year contracts and separating cargo owners from terminal operators.
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It also marks the latest deal in a sector hit by overcapacity and low demand from oil firms, due to a halving of the oil price since mid-2014.
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If CloudNC can deliver on its promise of halving the cost of CNC machine-based manufacturing, it stands to make a major contribution to — and benefit from — that future.
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The White House also proposes nearly halving categorical grants, which support state and local efforts to address everything from pesticide exposure to air and water quality, to $597 million.
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But the NHL said Oldham did not act as a "neutral discipline arbitrator" (NDA) in halving Wideman's ban, given the lack of "substantial evidence" that Bettman's decision was wrong.
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Sanders's boosters also note that he has made progress in cutting into Clinton's polling lead, approximately halving her lead in the RCP average since the start of this month.
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The company's board announced last week a decision to reduce the share capital of the company by halving the nominal value of the company to 216 riyal per share.
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Bernie Sanders has proposed a yet more aggressive timeline of halving emissions by 2030 with his Green New Deal and proposes spending a whopping $16.3 trillion over 15 years.
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He credited the policy as one of the main drivers behind halving the number of people stopped at the border, from 130,000 apprehensions in May to 64,000 in August.
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If the United Nations goal of halving food waste by 2030 is to be met, countries should start measuring waste and adopt their own reduction goal, according to Kneller.
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Ankara says it wants to settle up to 2 million Syrian refugees in the zone, nearly halving the number sheltering in Turkey from Syria's more than eight-year conflict.
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On the business side, the plan would lower the tax rate for corporations and most small businesses to 22019 percent, more than halving the current 35 percent corporate rate.
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Those jobs are crucial to the United Nations' goal of halving greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, the threshold beyond which climate impacts could begin spinning dangerously out of control.
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BP beat analyst expectations on Tuesday, despite profits more than halving from the first three months of the year after a hefty charge from an unsuccessful project in Angola.
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And unlike recent fluctuations that were (at least loosely) tied to events like the halving or Bitcoin Core updates, this rally doesn't seem to be caused by anything in particular.
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Tesco had already committed to making all packaging fully recyclable or compostable by 2025 and is targeting a halving of packaging weight by the same date compared to 2007 levels.
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China's Sinopec Corp is halving loadings of crude oil from Iran this month, as the state refiner comes under intense pressure from Washington, said people with knowledge of the matter.
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Given the choice of halving the sum, or of keeping a lesser portion for themselves and handing an even smaller portion to the other group, they preferred the second option.
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Lynas shareholders have voiced support for management, judging the approach as "very opportunistic" and undervaluing the company, despite its shares almost halving from their May 18 high of A$2.91.
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"By halving the migratory flows in five years we would lose, in addition, a population equivalent to that of Turin," he added, referring to one of Italy's main industrial cities.
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While many Asian nations continued to purchase oil from Iran during sanctions, Western nations halted imports, halving Iran's overall exports to as little as one million barrels per day (bpd).
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LiShun, which makes paper box packaging machinery, lost financing from two of its four banks in the second quarter, halving its total credit line to 10 million yuan ($1.5 million).
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Reliance's revenue in the quarter was, however, dented by a drop in the prices of all refined oil products and nearly halving of sales in the U.S. shale gas business.
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As a result, overall market volatility in the pound has dropped to less than 7%, more than halving from a peak of 14% earlier this month, a near 2019 high.
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As a result, overall market volatility in the pound has dropped to less than 7%, more than halving from a peak of 14% earlier this month, a near 2019 high.
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Though Blizzard appeared to make some concessions, halving Blitzchung's ban to six months and reinstating his winnings, the company has become the target of memes and mockery on social media.
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Governments like the United States ratified that target of halving food waste by 2030—you cannot be a big food corporation without having a whole series of food waste strategies.
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Halving the number of reporting periods is certain to reduce the amount of information available to investors, without solving the core problem of CEOs trying to meet artificial data deadlines.
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By almost doubling gas mileage and halving emissions of carbon dioxide, the primary global warming pollutant, the Obama standard is the biggest single step taken against climate change in history.
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To accelerate renewable schemes, METI and the Environment Ministry have now teamed up with the aim of halving the time it takes for environmental assessments for wind and geothermal projects.
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The car sales will grow mainly due to the halving of a 2000 percent purchase tax on passenger vehicles with small engines and supportive monetary policy from Beijing, she said.
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And by cutting tariffs at all, the administration has shown a new willingness to retreat — although the products covered by the halving of tariffs on Friday were fairly low tech.
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On the tax side, Jaitley's standout announcements were the halving of the lowest rate of personal tax to 267.5850 percent that applies on incomes between 250,000 and 500,000 rupees ($3,700-$13,400).
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In response, global fishing regulators tightened international limits in 2015, halving the amount of bluefin tuna under 30 kilograms that were caught, compared to the average caught between 2002 and 2004.
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PRISTINA (Reuters) - Kosovo's Prime Minister Albin Kurti and cabinet ministers will accept a halving of their salaries in an attempt to demonstrate that the new government plans to tackle wage inequality.
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Some shareholders at Wednesday's meeting had expressed concern about Shell overpaying for BG, based on the near halving of oil prices since the deal was announced on April 8 last year.
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However, to reduce the site's pollution in line with the Dutch target of halving CO2 emissions by 2030, Henrar said the government would need to build the undersea carbon capture site.
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The company previously announced that it would spend $800 million during the second quarter to make free one-day shipping standard for its Prime customers, effectively halving the usual shipping window.
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The company previously announced that it would spend $7373 million during the second quarter to make free one-day shipping standard for its Prime customers, effectively halving the usual shipping window.
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Morgan Stanley sent lithium stocks tumbling on Monday after it forecast a surplus in the market in 2022 of 190,000 tonnes, resulting in predicted prices nearly halving to $7,699 a tonne.
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"By doubling Prime Day's duration and halving the delivery time, the company is testing hundreds of thousands of workers' physical limits as though they were trained triathletes," Appelbaum told Business Insider.
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On the tax side, Jaitley's standout announcements were the halving of the lowest rate of personal tax to 5 percent that applies on incomes between 250,000 and 500,000 rupees ($303,700-$7,400).
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"By halving the number of bills required to be adopted annually, Congress could create space for itself to devote more time and attentions to oversight and other national priorities," he wrote.
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When asked the question in a less stark way, a slightly higher share either strongly or somewhat supported halving legal immigration, but the combined total of support was still only 37%.
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But halving the number of reporting periods is certain to reduce the amount of information available to investors, without solving the core problem of CEOs trying to meet artificial data deadlines.
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In April, Providence, R.I., where Doyle lives, revised its housing admissions policy, halving the "look back" period for violent and drug-related crimes and no longer weighing arrests and minor crimes.
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He blames poor deal making for the near-halving of the company's share price over the past three years, and wants its shareholders to replace the entire board of 12 people.
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The European Union's financial regulator, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), on Tuesday began forcing greater transparency of short positions by halving the threshold at which they must be disclosed.
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Choppies will dispose of its operations in Mozambique, Tanzania and Kenya, halving its footprint to just four countries, it said in an announcement through the Botswana Stock Exchange late on Friday.
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Trump makes rare trip to Clinton state, hoping to win back New Hampshire MORE (R-Ariz.) said halving the U.S. presence in Afghanistan would risk squandering U.S. gains in the country.
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Hitting the latter target would require halving global emissions by as soon as 2030, reaching net-zero emissions by 2050, and then net reductions of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere thereafter.
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It hit a high of just over $727 on Wednesday before more than halving to just over $310 in the space of a few hours, according to price tracking site Coinmarketcap.com.
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David Einhorn, the founder of hedge fund Greenlight Capital and another vocal Apple shareholder, also pared back his position in Apple, nearly halving Greenlight's 11 million stake by selling 4.9 million shares.
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Nio's shares have been hit harder, down 60% this year on a cut to its delivery outlook, a halving in first-quarter sales from the previous quarter, increased competition and reduced subsidies.
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Later, Ghosn reveals his "Nissan Revival Plan", targeting a return to profitability in the 2000 financial year, a profit margin of at least 4.5 percent and a halving of debt by 2002.
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It was his tweet last year announcing a quick pullout of American forces from Syria and a halving of forces in Afghanistan that led to the resignation of Defense Secretary James Mattis.
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Revenue from Amazon's international business, which brings in 27.5 percent of total sales, was at the heart of the shortfall in results, growth halving to 13.4 percent compared to the previous quarter.
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The reforms also include the halving of salaries of the country's three heads of state -- the prime minister, president and speaker of parliament -- as well as ministers and former members of parliament.
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Another measure of the drop in trade is the near halving of the number of people travelling across the border to 101,978 in April 2019 from April 2010, according to Tunisian statistics.
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He also oversaw company's exit from a number of non-core markets, halving its footprint from 28 markets to 14, as well as growing operating profit and ramping up investment on technology.
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Halving the amount of food that is discarded by shops and consumers by 2030 is one of the targets set by the Sustainable Development Goals, agreed by U.N. member states in 1003.
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The Communist government said on Thursday that it was halving the edition size of some weeklies as well as Granma on certain days due to the lack of newsprint, which it imports.
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Other e-commerce assets also continued to expand, with online retail trading losses almost halving and the Payments and Fintech business narrowing its trading loss margin to 12% from 22% last year.
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The price of coking coal - a vital steelmaking ingredient - has been volatile, nearly quadrupling between March and late November 2016, but then halving between that time and the end of March 2017.
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The vast majority of that, around $203 billion, would go toward halving the sediment coming out of the farm-heavy Fitzroy Basin by 2025, and cutting its nitrogen levels by 80 percent.
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Boeing also canceled plans to increase production of the 747 to one plane per month from 2019, and stuck to its earlier plan of halving the production rate in September 2016. bit.
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The 5-Star Movement has been hurt by its tie-up with the League, halving its voter support since the two parties joined forces in June last year, according to opinion polls.
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JP Morgan strategists estimate that a halving of the outstanding long euro positions in the currency market — a very low probability event — would only trigger a 2 percent drop in the euro.
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Chairman Byron Haynes said an additional halving of the ratio was key to the bank's medium-term plans as Portugal's third-largest lender by assets needed to align itself with local peers.
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Philip Morris quickly shifted gears by halving its advertising budget for mothers to $10.7 million, and more than doubling the amount spent on children's marketing to $6 million, according to company figures.
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The second-largest U.S. oil firm said it would spend $16 billion instead of a planned $20 billion this year, including halving spending in the Permian Basin, the top U.S. shale field.
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Few, if any, major improvements in recent decades—the spread of democracy, say, or the halving of extreme poverty, or the expansion of women's and L.G.B.T. rights—can be attributed to utopianism.
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The cheese maker imports around 70 percent of its raw materials and has been hit by the halving of the Egyptian pound after the central bank floated the currency on Nov. 3.
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According to the WHO, in 22020, the national rate of coverage for a single dose of the measles-containing vaccine was only 31 percent — a halving from about 60 percent in 2016.
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Another measure of the drop in trade is the near halving of the number of people traveling across the border to 101,978 in April 2019 from April 2010, according to Tunisian statistics.
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Earlier in April, Tesla reported fewer-than-expected vehicle deliveries in the first quarter, with figures for the Model S sedans and Model X SUVs more-than-halving compared with the preceding quarter.
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South Korea's economy grew 0.4 percent in January-March over the previous quarter, the central bank estimated on Tuesday, slightly below expectations and with growth almost halving from the fourth quarter of 2015.
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Part of the movie's long, winding story involves the core Avengers (who survived the apocalyptic population-halving "snap" at the end of Avengers: Infinity War) circling back to crucial moments in MCU history.
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The price of coking coal has been volatile for more than a year, nearly quadrupling between March and late November 2016, and then halving over the next four months to end-March 2017.
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And the halving of the share price of Valeant late in the month was also a problem, adding to the anxiety of risk managers who had already been reducing exposure to health care.
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The holiday and airline group has been under pressure since late November when it cut its profit guidance and suspended its dividend, halving the value of its shares in just over a week.
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The European Central Bank meets on Thursday, just weeks before a new halving of monthly asset purchases in October that will mark the next step in the unwinding of its massive monetary stimulus.
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Last year the 3N initiative was credited with halving the number of people suffering from hunger in Niger since 2011 in a U.N.-backed award for the world's best policies to combat desertification.
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But she and others at the Fed are generally quite gratified by the halving of the unemployment rate from 10 percent in 2009 to 5 percent, which is below the Fed's stated target.
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Mattis submitted his resignation letter to Trump on Thursday following the president's decision to withdraw all 85033,000 U.S. troops from Syria and as he mulls halving the number of troops deployed to Afghanistan.
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And by almost halving corporate taxes, Trump has fueled the global race to the bottom among corporate managers and money movers, thereby depriving the federal government of revenue it needs for social spending.
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East, leading a turnaround plan at Rolls-Royce to reverse an expected halving of the engine-maker's profit in 2016, said Rolls-Royce did not need new funds to pay for the acquisition.
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On Saturday, all else being equal, the halving of the reward will double that cost, to $400, leaving a small margin for profit at the current exchange rate of around $640 per bitcoin.
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" When the tongue-in-cheek zodiac subgroups were analyzed, Geminis and Libras were found to have no benefit from aspirin, but the drug "produced halving of risk if you were born under Capricorn.
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Those sanctions have had a devastating effect on Iran, with its currency halving in value, food costs rising by more than 100 percent in some cases, and its economy shrinking as unemployment rises.
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But lawmakers rejected a number of those proposals, including slashing funding for the department's Office for Civil Rights, halving federal work study programs and spending $250 million on a private school choice program.
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When he traveled to Iraq last year, he had just ordered a full withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria and had pushed for halving the nearly 14,000-strong U.S. military contingent in Afghanistan.
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The two-time prime minister remains popular thanks partly to a package of social welfare measures in the last year, including hikes to maternity benefits and halving the sales tax on some groceries.
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MILAN, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Italian mid-sized bank Creval will accelerate its proposed 800 million euro ($895 million) disposal of bad loans, halving its impaired debt burden earlier than expected, it said on Wednesday.
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Trump's order to ban immigrants temporarily from seven Muslim-majority countries and his halving of refugee levels enjoy support north of 483 percent in multiple surveys, according to Kathy Frankovic, polling director at YouGov.
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If an asset is doubling and halving in price every other day, an option is much more likely to be exercised than if its price barely moves from one trading session to the next.
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China was hardest hit in the semi-manufactured products ( "semis") segment of the supply chain, with imports from the largest supplier to the U.S. market in the previous three years almost halving in 2018.
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While carriers saved hundreds of millions of dollars from oil prices halving since June, they forfeited a large chunk of that gain because of the fuel hedges they bought as protection against oil rising.
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The company said in November the cost-cutting measures would include lowering operating expenses in 2017 to about $350 million and more than halving its capital budget for the year to about $100 million.
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The new rules impose rent caps to remove the financial incentive to maintain or create queues, halving rent after a queue of 30 days and scrapping all rent after a wait of 50 days.
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Inflation has soared since import-dependant Egypt floated its pound currency in November, roughly halving it in value and increasing the population's reliance on basic subsidized goods such as bread, cooking oil and sugar.
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Nearly 200,000 Mexicans got green cards in fiscal year 2016; halving that number through a lengthy and tedious procedure that frustrates many Mexicans would not be as bad as shutting down the whole program.
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The German newspaper Handelsblatt reported that Goldman Sachs is considering halving its London work force to 3,000 and moving key operations to New York and Continental Europe, but the bank has not confirmed that.
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Proponents of solar energy have launched a campaign aiming to make the Philippines use only renewables by 2030, by halving the cost of solar so that it can compete against fossil fuels without subsidies.
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The bill would simplify the system, Le Maire said, by halving the number of those stages to three - bringing in new charges and obligations when a company has 11, 50 and then 250 employees.
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And the central bank kept short-term interest rates steady, despite the Fed and even as Caixin PMIs showed the services sector had its worst month ever in Feb, almost halving from January levels.
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The block reward Two other factors that may influence the growth rate of the network's total hashrate are the bitcoin block size and the halving of the bitcoin block-reward, expected to happen this summer.
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The European Commission said this week the euro zone's third-largest economy would expand by just 0.1 percent this year, halving an already gloomy 0.2 percent figure and drawing accusations of prejudice from Italy's government.
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KIEV (Reuters) - The head of Ukraine's State Property Fund said on Monday he will recommend more than halving the reserve price for the flagship privatization of the Odessa Portside Plant (OPP) to below $200 million.
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First, the airlines have been deeply affected by the halving of the oil price since 2350, which has reduced their customers' spending power and sharply cut demand for air travel from the Middle East itself.
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Iraq, Iran and Turkey blocked Erbil's air traffic and banking communications and on Tuesday Iraqi forces retook major fields back from the Kurdish Peshmerga forces, thus effectively halving oil production under direct control of Erbil.
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But there were other lies, too: One employee said a colleague doctored pay stubs to lower payments; another colleague, he said, reported that a client was paid monthly instead of biweekly, halving his apparent salary.
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Curaleaf said it expects "significant" cost savings, with input costs more than halving and processing costs falling by about a quarter, and would give it access to Select's operations in Oregon, Nevada, California and Arizona.
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Abu Dhabi-based Goldilocks Investment Co Ltd, which holds 8.1 percent of Noble, had been resisting the plan which proposed halving Noble's debt in return for handing over 70 percent of equity to senior creditors.
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OSLO (Reuters) - Global shipping should set a goal of halving greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, Norway's government and shipowners' association said on Thursday before talks by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in London next week.
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GLP's shares spent most of last year languishing below the 2010 IPO price of S$1.96 after slumping to a five-year low of S$1.595 in February 2016, halving from a peak in 2013.
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Christopher Smith switched the beat up, halving the kick-drum throbs and adding filling the gaps with hi-hat trills, Syd was captivatingly chilled-out, and Steve Lacy took over for a seemingly improvised solo.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The halving in value this year of shares in Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank and their slide to record lows have raised the prospect of both exiting an index of Europe's top bluechips .
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Ryanair earlier this month cut the number of 737 MAX jets it plans to fly next summer from 58 to 30, halving its growth rate for the year from 10 million to 5 million passengers.
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If leaving the EU led to a halving of the number of migrants, and trade and regulatory agreements were less favourable, then economic output would suffer by as much as 3.9 percent, Oxford Economics said.
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Iraqi forces also took back control of Kirkuk oilfields, effectively halving the amount of output under the direct control of the autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in a serious blow to the Kurds' independence quest.
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Since then, over the past four years, the price has fluctuated dramatically, sometimes tied to news like the halving and broad economic uncertainty and hacked exchanges and, sometimes, seemingly moving on no news at all.
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Sales in the North Sea, an ageing oil basin that has seen production falling since the late 1990s, have been seen as particularly difficult following the halving of oil prices over the past two years.
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An international team of researchers last year reported that meeting this target would require halving global emissions by as soon as 2030, reaching net-zero emissions by 2050, and even getting to negative emissions thereafter.
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PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - Panama's government said on Friday it will tighten its immigration policy toward Venezuela, Colombia and Nicaragua, including halving the amount of time tourists from the countries can stay in the isthmus nation.
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Separately, two U.S. Republican senators plan to unveil legislation on Tuesday aimed at curbing legal immigration by halving the overall number of people allowed to live as legal permanent residents, one of the bill's authors said.
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However, the block-reward halving is by design, based on the idea that bitcoin transaction fees will slowly take over as the main incentive for mining, thus it may have severe consequences on the energy consumption.
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The previous 2016 high of $781.31 was achieved in the summer when traders prepared for a process known as "halving" – where the rewards offered to bitcoin miners fall, thus tightening the supply of the digital currency.
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"The difference between having a product that is Prime eligible, meaning it is in an Amazon warehouse, and having a product that is not Prime eligible means as much as a halving of sales," he said.
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Metro Bank revealed this month the damage an accounting error had inflicted on its business, with a halving of its quarterly profit, a drop in its capital buffers and an exodus of major business customer deposits.
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The reasoning behind the halving, which arrives automatically once a certain number of the total amount of bitcoins—estimated at 21 million—are mined, is that bitcoin simulates a commodity like gold more than fiat money.
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From there, the Democratic National Committee has made it more difficult to make the stage, raising the requirements to qualify and likely halving the number of candidates who are able to make it into September's debate.
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He would guarantee that those earning less than $25,000 owe nothing on their undergraduate federal student loans, while everyone else's payments are capped at 5% of their discretionary income above $25,000 -- halving the current 10% cap.
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Boeing Business Jets (BBJ), which sells variants of Boeing aircraft for the corporate jet market, blames a more than halving of sales this year on the uncertainty created by Britain's Brexit vote and U.S. Presidential election.
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The price of bitcoin slumped to $10,000 on Wednesday, halving in value from its peak price of almost $20,000 hit just in December, with investors gripped by fears regulators could clamp down on the volatile currency.
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While Russian markets, including the rouble, fell across the board on Monday, Rusal assets were hardest hit, with its Hong Kong listed shares halving in value and the company warning it risked tipping into technical default.
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Greenland plans to place out shares in this listed entity, although in August 2016 it further reduced the amount to be raised to CNY11bn from CNY8523bn, after halving the size of the placement in May 2016.
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The country's dramatic decision to float its currency in November — roughly halving its value overnight — along with a three-year $12 billion IMF programme attached to sweeping reforms have been widely praised by economists and investors.
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The authors calculate that 2100% of the narrowing of the life-expectancy gap for black and white men between 21993 and 22005 could be explained by the unexpected halving of the murder rate over that period.
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YOKOHAMA, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Nissan Motor Co Ltd on Thursday reported a halving in third-quarter operating profit, weighed by costs stemming from improper final inspection procedures at home, and higher discounts in the United States.
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Kenya softened its stance in June, following an outcry from rights groups who said much of Somalia was not yet safe for return, and agreed a goal of halving Dadaab's population by the end of 2016.
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The accord will allow the Scandinavian firm to further boost its presence in Europe's biggest problem loan market, while helping Intesa work towards its goal of halving its soured debts under a new four-year plan.
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India renegotiated a long-term LNG supply deal with RasGas last year, nearly halving the price and avoiding a $1.5 billion penalty fee for lifting less gas than agreed as customers there preferred cheaper spot supplies.
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His exceptional record has helped capture four of the five Ryder Cups he has played in, the Briton winning four singles matches while halving the other, and emerging victorious in eight of his 13 pairs matches.
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Germany's Handelsblatt newspaper also reported that Goldman Sachs is considering halving its London workforce to 0.23,000 and moving key operations to New York and continental Europe, particularly Frankfurt, where it could move up to 1,000 staff.
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One wonders why the film critic and historian David Thomson screened The Clock in this way in 1978 for a class at Dartmouth College, halving its run-time and allowing the narrative to unfold so unusually.
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While Russian markets, including the rouble, fell across the board on Monday, Rusal assets were hardest hit, with its Hong Kong-listed shares halving in value and the company warning it risked tipping into technical default.
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Oracle has bowed to years of shareholder unrest by halving the pay of co-founder Larry Ellison, who for years has been at or near the top of rankings of the highest-paid US business leaders.
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He says that the rise of "idolatry of innovators," coupled with the halving of journalists, has allowed for a culture that rewards and enables incremental tasks in companies like We.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.
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But with GOP leaders suggesting that the reform of welfare, Medicaid and Medicare are up next after tax reform, there is also a good case that Democrats would be better off with Jones halving McConnell's majority.
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The Trump administration is proposing sharp reductions in the number of skilled and unskilled workers who are allowed to become permanent residents, halving annual immigration from the current level of roughly one million people a year.
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Iraqi forces also took back control of Kirkuk oilfields, effectively halving the amount of output under the direct control of the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in a serious blow to the Kurds' independence quest.
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Tokyo (CNN)Despite years of promising to tackle Japan's yawning gender-gap, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe this week appeared to take a step backwards, halving the number of women in his cabinet from two to one.
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The government is expected to approve reforms including halving ministers' wages in a bid to ease an economic crisis and defuse protests that have brought hundreds of thousands of people to the streets for four days.
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Daily volatility in the euro-dollar exchange rate, for example, has cratered to below 3%, more than halving from around 7% in September and not far from a record low of below 2% in April 2014.
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Japan's problems are also partly made in Washington, where the Fed has turned less aggressive, sending U.S. interest rates lower and halving the real, or inflation-adjusted, difference between higher U.S. and lower Japanese bond yields.
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NGURIUNDITU, Kenya (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Joyce Njenga replaced her traditional open-fire hearth with an energy-saving stove, she was pleased it lived up to its promised efficiencies: using less firewood and halving cooking times.
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At the same time, homebuilder stocks were one of the few positive groups during the drop, which sent the Dow industrials plummeting as much as 500 points at one juncture before halving the losses in afternoon trading.
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The outflows, which came during a torrid six months for many firms, took the fund's assets down to $15.7 billion, the source said - a near halving of the fund's total assets three years ago at $28 billion.
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General Electric on Monday announced a halving of both its dividend and its 2018 earnings outlook, largely due to its flailing turbines business, which it acknowledged it had mismanaged as it underestimated the scale of the problem.
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Most fundamentally, many cite growing demand for bitcoin before its latest "halving" — a 50% cut in the production of the cryptocurrency due in May that is one of the few observable events known to materially impact price.
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The initial rise in the price of the cryptocurrency came last week as traders prepared for a process known as "halving" – where the rewards offered to bitcoin miners fall, thus tightening the supply of the digital currency.
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Similarly, YouGov found that the public registers big support for halving the number of refugees, by a 47-26 margin, as well as a wide 48-31 margin of support for the restriction on Muslim-majority countries.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Total will seek compensation for the losses caused by a contaminated oil pipeline which has led to a halving of output at its Leuna refinery in Germany, Chief Executive Patrick Pouyanne told shareholders on Wednesday.
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According to the International Monetary Fund, the fiscal deficit for the world as a whole climbed to 7.2 percent of global economic output in 2009, before halving to 3.6 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2015.
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But in ordinary language the term is used to refer to big price swings such as the near-quadrupling in oil prices between 2002 and 2008 and the more-than-halving of prices between 2013 and 2016.
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" Among aims that Ramaphosa called ambitious were making the economy "grow at a much faster rate than our population ... putting two million more young people in work, halving violent crime" and "ensuring no South African goes hungry.
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BERLIN, Jan 24 (Reuters) - French carmaker PSA Group's Opel will adjust production volume at its Ruesselsheim plant in Germany this year, it said on Thursday after a newspaper reported that the company is halving the plant's output.
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The reforms announced by Hariri on Monday included the symbolic halving of the salaries of ministers and lawmakers, as well as moves towards implementing long-delayed measures vital to putting the public finances on a sustainable path.
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The results are astonishing: Measured accurately using the Census Bureau's Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM), poverty among children would fall from 16.1 percent to 8.9 percent — a 45 percent reduction, nearly halving the child poverty rate in America.
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The economy lost steam in the third quarter with overall gross domestic product growth halving to 0.2 percent from 0.4 percent in the three months through June due to a drop in exports, data showed on Tuesday.
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A study published in January suggested an "ideal diet" for the health of people and the planet would include a doubling of consumption of nuts, fruits, vegetables and legumes, and a halving of meat and sugar intake.
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" Among aims that Ramaphosa called ambitious were making the economy "grow at a much faster rate than our population ... putting two million more young people in work, halving violent crime" and "ensuring no South African goes hungry.
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The tariff rollbacks had been widely expected and were a gesture in response to the United States halving its September round of tariffs in the "phase one" trade deal, according Tommy Wu, an economist with Oxford Economics.
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The plan includes a 2020 budget targeting a deficit of 0.6% of GDP, halving the salaries of lawmakers and ministers, eliminating some public bodies, a draft law to restore looted state money and, importantly, no new taxes.
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Donald Trump's budget contains truly shocking cuts to the social safety net: a near-halving of funding for Medicaid, a 25 percent cut to food stamps, and substantial hits to cash welfare and disability benefits as well.
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The strategy includes plans to halve investment bank NatWest Markets' risk weighted assets to 29.4 billion pounds ($22019 billion) and a string of green targets such as halving the impact of the bank's climate financing by 2250.
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The strategy includes plans to halve investment bank NatWest Markets' risk weighted assets to 20 billion pounds ($26.10 billion) and a string of green targets such as halving the impact of the bank's climate financing by 2030.
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Halving the player base also means fewer potential sales, which would hurt the bottom line for gaming companies as well — giving them every reason to lean hard on expanding existing popular products instead of focusing on new ones.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission, America's stockmarket regulator, is investigating whether ExxonMobil, the country's biggest oil company, values its untapped reserves appropriately in light of the recent halving of oil prices and potential regulatory action on climate change.
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This is very bad PR, and new initiatives like the Lightning Network won't help (though the halving of block rewards will.) Second, even if Bitcoin succeeds, as Rusty Russell points out, people will want to change it e.g.
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The halving of the price on Opdivo, approved in Japan for treating advanced melanoma, non-small cell lung cancer and kidney cancer, will take effect from February 1, 2017, Ono Pharmaceutical said in an emailed statement on Wednesday.
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Ryanair, one of the largest customers for the jet, this month cut the number of 737 MAX jets it plans to fly next summer from 58 to 30, halving passenger growth for the year to 5 million passengers.
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Industrial profit at the trains-to-turbines group came to 222.48 billion euros ($220.81 billion) in the fiscal first quarter to end-December, taking a hit from a near halving of profits at the Power and Gas division.
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While top oil companies struggle with slumping revenues following a more than halving of prices since mid-2014 after years of spectacular growth, their production has persistently grown as projects sanctioned earlier in the decade come on line.
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A more than halving of oil prices since 2014 has sapped the supply of foreign currency in Nigeria, making it difficult for businesses to import basic equipment or for foreigners to repatriate dollars, raising the risks for investors.
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The new calculations put the government in a tight spot, as it is already struggling to generate support for measures needed to reach its ultimate goal of halving CO2 emissions by 2030 and banning them altogether by 2050.
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Announcing a fundraising target for the next three-year cycle, Peter Sands, director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, said the money could help save 16 million lives, halving deaths from the three diseases.
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The newspaper said the idea of halving the headline rate from 20 percent had been put forward by Prime Minister Theresa May's advisers amid growing fears other EU member states will take a hard line in Brexit negotiations.
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In South Korea, a halving of inbound Chinese tourists in the first nine months of the year cost the economy $6.5 billion in lost revenue based on the average spending of Chinese visitors in 2016, official data shows.
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JPMorgan in turn hoped to break into big Italian deal-making, a sphere where this year it lagged behind U.S. rival Goldman Sachs with its investment banking fees more than halving since 2014, according to Thomson Reuters data.
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Tria said the government would focus on stimulating the economy with the aim of halving by next year a one-percentage gap that currently exists between Italy and the rest of the eurozone when it came to growth.
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Jaitley said rural communities - such as women, farmers, lower caste and tribal groups - needed more support to fight poverty, and raised allocations on a slew of social welfare programs, as well as halving basic personal income tax rates.
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The strategy, which also looks to tackle home, farming and industrial pollutants, commits Britain to halving the number of people who live in areas breaching WHO guidelines on pollution as poor air quality in British cities comes under scrutiny.
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That raises the stakes enormously, with some economists predicting a halving or worse of Chinese exports to the U.S. – worth US$385.2 billion in 2016 according to the General Administration of Customs – if a 45 percent tariff is introduced.
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ECB President Mario Draghi last month announced a halving n the size of its 2 trillion euro bond-buying program, but this is far from the return to conventional monetary policy many Germans, including Bundesbank president Jens Weidmann, demand.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Metro Bank revealed the damage an accounting error had inflicted on its business on Wednesday, with a halving of its quarterly profit, a drop in its capital buffers and an exodus of major business customer deposits.
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The change at hand, halving the amount of deductible interest from $212 million to $2600,224 for future homebuyers, is a dramatic shift for certain high-cost housing markets, though only a modest one for the majority of the country.
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LONDON Scientists have unveiled what they say is an ideal diet for the health of the planet and its people - including a doubling of consumption of nuts, fruits, vegetables and legumes, and a halving of meat and sugar intake.
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Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri said the emergency measures introduced last week which included the symbolic halving of the salaries of ministers and lawmakers might not meet the protesters' demands but were a start towards achieving some of them.
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One mid-level rebel fighter said the group wants to decentralize Colombia's government, including halving the size of Congress, in a bid to combat corruption and ensure communities have control over distribution of royalties from oil and mining projects.
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"By doubling Prime Day's duration and halving the delivery time, the company is testing hundreds of thousands of workers' physical limits as though they were trained triathletes," said Stuart Appelbaum, president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union.
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This was the harmattan, the seasonal trade wind that blows from the Sahara over West Africa in the winter months, disrupting air travel and halving the time it takes to dry a freshly laundered T-shirt on a clothesline.
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BP, like other of the world's top oil companies, is in the midst of a divestment drive in order to focus its business and boost cash flow in the wake of the halving of oil prices since mid-2014.
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Students seeking a halving of fees and a doubling of the university education budget have been protesting in their thousands since early December and have said they will not even talk unless the government accepts their demands in full.
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None of that stopped Cabana from jumping to WWE when he was offered a developmental deal in 2007—even though that meant halving his income, forfeiting his merchandise business, and putting his body through a far more punishing schedule.
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After more than halving from a mid-2018 peak, contract prices for so-called DRAM memory chips may stop falling by the first quarter of 2020, and even start ticking up by the second quarter, predicts industry tracker DRAMeXchange.
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India's poultry industry has lost 13 billion rupees ($182 million) in three weeks after speculation on social media that chickens are a cause of the spread of coronavirus, denting demand for chicken and nearly halving prices, say industry officials.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two U.S. Republican senators plan to unveil legislation on Tuesday aimed at curbing legal immigration into the United States by halving the overall number of people allowed to live as legal permanent residents, one of the bill's authors said.
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Others have argued that the halving of the mining reward will lead to increased bitcoin scarcity and therefore a quick increase in the bitcoin price, which would possibly lead to an even higher growth in hashrate quickly after the gap.
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Hopefully the founder of Muddy Waters covered his short position in early February as after halving in price by that point, the stock has since recovered to currently sit at around 3 percentage points higher than its level last December.
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EDINBURGH (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May's lead in the opinion polls has narrowed after her Conservatives and the Labour opposition published their policy plans this week, with one survey showing the gap between the two parties halving to nine points.
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But data last week showed an almost halving of Britain's current account deficit as a percentage of output, and a rise in foreign direct investment to 110 billion pounds, offering hope that one of the economy's big vulnerabilities may be fading.
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Gross domestic product (GDP) in the 19 countries sharing the euro rose 0.3 percent quarter-on-quarter in the April-June period, halving from the 0.6 percent growth in the first quarter of the year, European statistics office Eurostat said.
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BP reported a near halving in third-quarter earnings and slashed another $1 billion from its 2016 investment plan, while Shell saw an 18 percent rise in profits and lowered next year's capital spending to the bottom of the expected range.
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News last week that BT would cut 13,000 jobs, close its London base and faced lower earnings capped a torrid two years when a fight with the regulator and a weak international performance led to a halving of the share price.
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United said that halving its emissions by 2050 from 2005 levels as projected would be the equivalent of removing 4.5 million vehicles from the road each year, or the total number of cars in New York City and Los Angeles combined.
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CALGARY, Alberta, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Oil companies reeling from the collapse in global crude prices have slammed the brakes on conventional crude production in Canada, with the Western Canadian active oil rig count halving from last year, data showed on Tuesday.
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Imposing his authority, Bouteflika late on Tuesday vetoed down a plan by Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia to drastically increase duties for passport and other documents to cope with a halving in vital gas and oil revenues between 2014 and 2017.
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The tribunal did not uphold all of the SFC's claims against Moody's, more than halving the regulator's proposed HK$23 million ($2.97 million) fine to HK$11 million and directing the SFC to re-draft its public reprimand against the agency.
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Japan's primary budget deficit has been narrowing and is seen likely to meet the target for fiscal 2015, which has not yet been finalised, halving the deficit as a percentage of GDP to the level last seen in fiscal 2010.
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This legislation would require federal health officials to develop a National Strategy to Combat Maternal Mortality, with the goal of halving the rate of maternal mortality in the next decade and eliminating preventable maternal deaths entirely in the next 20 years.
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A rise of 1.5C degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times, the toughest goal under the 2015 Paris climate agreement, would mean that only six percent of insects species would suffer a halving or more of their natural habitats.
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Changing priorities and attitudes have caused arrests for cannabis offenses to fall by 19 percent since 2015, with recorded possession of cannabis offenses almost halving since 2010, prompting reports claiming cannabis is being decriminalized "by stealth" due to police inaction.
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GM's announcement last month that it plans to shut down of one of its four factories in South Korea and was weighing the fate of the three other plants resulted in domestic retail sales nearly halving in February to 5,804.
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The headline changes are that Boost VC is halving the number of companies in its accelerator classes to 7-10 companies, and is increasing the checks that it's writing to $500K while taking a bigger slice of its portfolio startups (15%).
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A record $14 billion in commitments made last week to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria could help the multilateral health partnership save up to 16 million lives while halving mortality rates from the illnesses it targets.
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The change follows last month's halving of the Japanese price of cancer drug Opdivo, developed by Bristol Myers Squibb Co's and Ono Pharmaceutical Co, and an earlier move to slash the price of Gilead Science Inc's hepatitis C drug Sovaldi.
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The euro skidded almost half a percent to back below $226 after the ECB said it was halving its stimulus to 259.49 billion euros a month, but made clear that any rise in interest rates remained way off in the distance.
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And scientists have warned that meeting the more aggressive goal of the Paris agreement to limit warming this century to 1.5 degrees Celsius would require halving global emissions by as soon as 2030, a target few nations are anywhere near meeting.
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LONDON, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Scientists have unveiled what they say is an ideal diet for the health of the planet and its people - including a doubling of consumption of nuts, fruits, vegetables and legumes, and a halving of meat and sugar intake.
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Samir Sharifov, the finance minister, said the government also planned to revise the budget, halving the oil price it is based upon to just $25, as the ex-Soviet state scrambles to reorder its public finances in the face of low commodity prices.
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U.S. District Judge Alison Nathan in Manhattan said the NHL failed to show that the arbitrator, Georgetown University law professor James Oldham, exceeded his authority under the league's collective bargaining agreement (CBA) with the NHL Players' Association (NHLPA) in halving the suspension.
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LAGOS, Nov 2884 (Reuters) - Lafarge Africa will use part of the proceeds of a 224 billion naira ($24 million) rights issue to cut debt by around $224 million, almost halving its foreign currency exposure, the cement maker said in its offer document.
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In South Korea, a halving of inbound Chinese tourists in the first nine months of the year cost the economy $6.5 billion in lost revenue based on the average spending of Chinese visitors in 2016, data from the Korea Tourism Organization shows.
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If the negotiations go nowhere and a 25 percent tariff is imposed on all Chinese goods, HSBC estimated 4.5 percentage points would be subtracted from 2019 earnings growth, more than halving the growth rate from current levels, Laidler said in the note.
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The bank also announced it was closing its "bad bank" after reducing assets in the division to 63 billion euros at the end of 2015 from 13 billion in 2012 and halving the division's full-year operating loss to 401 million euros.
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Noting some progress in halving global mortality rates for children under 5 since 1990 and boys and girls attending primary school in equal numbers in 129 countries, the report said such developments have been neither even nor fair, with repercussions for global turmoil.
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The prime minister, Saad Hariri, announced a package of economic reforms on Monday evening meant to defuse the protests, including halving the salaries of current and former members of Parliament and requiring the banks to contribute $3.4 billion toward the national debt.
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However, the Irish company had flagged job losses on Monday when it reported a sharp fall in profits, and said earlier this month it was halving growth plans for next year due to delays in deliveries of Boeing's grounded 737 MAX jet.
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And the most logical conclusion is that any pricing effect from the halving has most likely already happened due to the market anticipating it, and is probably one of the main reason for the huge price increase over the past 6 months.
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DnB Markets lowered its rating on SAS shares to "hold" from "buy" after nearly halving its 2019 earnings per share estimate due to the strike and high fuel prices, and said it may cut estimates further unless the strike is ended by Wednesday.
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ISTANBUL, May 17 (Reuters) - The Turkish lira weakened slightly on Friday as investors weighed up a U.S. decision to end Turkey's preferential trade treatment that allowed some exports to enter the United States duty free, while halving tariffs on Turkish steel imports.
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LONDON (Reuters) - BP reported a near halving in third-quarter earnings on Tuesday and cut its 23 investment plans by another $25 billion as weak oil prices cut into profits yet tighter spending helped the British oil major still beat analysts' estimates.
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The firm cut carbon emissions from its direct operations by 22.8 percent in 22025, he told Reuters, the first year of a program aimed at halving emissions by 2025 as part of a goal of limiting droughts, floods and more powerful storms.
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While the 2017 demonstrations failed and left the opposition in disarray, a dozen people who protested on Wednesday told Reuters of a renewed confidence in dislodging Maduro, who became president five years ago and has presided over a halving of Venezuela's economy.
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The government has said it will present its plans to reach the 2020 goal in April, around the time it is also due to decide how the ultimate goals of halving CO2-emissions by 2030 and banning them by 2050 should be attained.
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Among mid-caps, shares in vehicle fluid storage firm TI Fluid jumped 8.5 percent to the top of the FTSE 250 , tracking a surge in Europe's autos and parts stocks after a Bloomberg report that China is considering halving the car purchase tax.
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Last week, scientists unveiled for the first time what they say is an ideal diet for the health of the planet and its people, recommending a doubling of consumption of nuts, fruits, vegetables and legumes, and a halving of meat and sugar intake.
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N.C. State raised minority students' graduation rates by 12 percentage points during that time, nearly halving the gap between them and white students, while graduation rates for underrepresented students at Auburn actually declined and the gap grew to more than 20 percentage points.
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Canada's western oil patch is already hurting from five years of low crude prices and pipeline constraints, which resulted in capital investment in the sector more than halving to C$21 billion ($21.3156 billion) in 2019 from C$81 billion in 2014.
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Canada's western oil patch is already hurting from five years of low crude prices and pipeline constraints, which resulted in capital investment in the sector more than halving to C$37 billion ($28.12 billion) in 2019 from C$81 billion in 2014.
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Canada's western oil patch is already hurting from five years of low crude prices and pipeline constraints, which resulted in capital investment in the sector more than halving to C$37 billion ($28.12 billion) in 2019 from C$81 billion in 2014.
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The New York Times has proposed halving the number of copy editors it employs, a move that this week drew a stinging rebuke from copy editors in a letter to the paper's management — and a walkout that was supported by other editorial staff.
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The North African OPEC member has already cut public spending, introduced new taxes and reduced government subsidies on fuel to help it cope with the halving of its income from oil and gas due to a long slide in international energy prices.
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Despite the fact that the halving was expected, and that the price has risen, it has already claimed one casualty: Sweden's KnCMiner filed for bankruptcy at the end of May, citing the hit to its profits that the reward cut would bring.
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The proposal, which could be included in one of the Senate's coronavirus rescue bills, would significantly boost the number of visas offered annually from 10,000 to 103,000 while halving the investment required to earn legal residence from $900,000 to $450,000, they say.
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MUMBAI, Feb 17 (Reuters) - India's poultry industry has lost 13 billion rupees ($182 million) in three weeks after speculation on social media that chickens are a cause of the spread of coronavirus, denting demand for chicken and nearly halving prices, say industry officials.
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The group had already taken a hit in Asia Pacific last year, with RevPar in Hong Kong halving in the fourth quarter due to anti-government protests that have kept tourists away, and it said Washington-Beijing trade tensions had dragged on business.
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Halving his figures, we find that because China joined the WTO, the US has 5003,000 more jobs in manufacturing industries that export to China, and 500,000 fewer manufacturing jobs in industries where China exports to the US. The net loss is 300,000.
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CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Canadian oil production will grow by 1.4% annually until 2035, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) forecast on Thursday, halving its estimate from five years ago due to constraints by a lack of new pipelines and inefficient regulation.
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RABAT (Reuters) - Morocco and Spain pledged on Wednesday to cooperate more closely to curb illegal migration, an issue fuelling the growth of far right and populist politics in Europe, following a near halving of migrant arrivals in mainland Spain this year from 2018.
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Egypt's dramatic decision to float its currency in November, roughly halving it in value overnight, along with a three-year $12 billion IMF programme attached to sweeping reforms have been widely praised by economists and investors long-hesitant to re-enter its dollar-starved economy.
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But to somehow account for the diminishing block-reward, I assumed that the hashrate will either stop growing and stabilize during the six months following the halving of the block-reward (optimistic) or that it will simply keep growing as it did historically (pessimistic).
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BEIJING/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - China's Sinopec Corp is halving loadings of crude oil from Iran this month, as the state refiner comes under intense pressure from Washington to comply with a U.S. ban on Iranian oil from November, said people with knowledge of the matter.
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Saudi Arabia has increased output since 3.73 to record highs of around 23.7 million-225 million barrels per day and adding extra supply would only worsen the global glut, which has already seen prices more than halving from $230 a barrel since mid 2014.
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Now promoted, Patel offers the promise of continuity with most of the policies of the man he will replace, Raghuram Rajan, who was feted by investors for halving inflation and for pulling the country out of its worst currency crisis in over two decades.
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MOSCOW-ON-THAMES There was an even sharper fall in the number of Middle Eastern and North African buyers in 2015, with the proportion of those purchasing homes in central London's most expensive area more than halving to 553 percent from 10 percent in 2014.
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Delta said Wednesday it was halving its China flights to 21 per week until at least the end of March while American Airlines, the largest U.S. carrier, is to suspend all its LA flights to Beijing and Shanghai from February 9 until March 27.
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A secretive company controlled by the family of Erling Persson who founded it in 1947, H&M held its first-ever capital markets day on Wednesday in a bid to reassure investors, stung by the more than halving of the share price since March 2015.
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Europe's autos sector jumped 77.323 percent, its strongest day since August 2015, after a report that China was considering halving the tax on car purchases in an attempt to boost demand for autos, which has been hurt by a trade war and slowing economic growth.
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While the profit drop was mainly due to an exceptional gain made in the same period last year, the company's shares still slumped as much as 9.2 percent after the company said it was halving the dividend for the quarter to 0.25 riyals a share.
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Defense Secretary Jim Mattis met late last month with the four-star commanders of American Special Operations forces and troops in Africa to discuss options for halving the number of counterterrorism forces on the continent over the next three years, and assigning them new missions.
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The Fed knows that the halving of the economy's growth rate between the first quarter of 22001 (22013 percent) and the second quarter of this year (21992 percent) is one more proof that the monetary policy alone cannot carry the entire burden of the country's economic management.
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After reducing the portfolio of its non-core assets division to 63 billion euros at the end of 2015 from 160 million in 2012, and after halving the division's full-year operating loss to 401 million euros, the remaining assets will be transferred to other divisions.
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India has also renegotiated a long-term supply deal with Qatar's Rasgas, nearly halving the price, and industry sources say the South Asian nation's biggest LNG importer, Petronet , is also seeking to renegotiate a costly import deal with ExxonMobil for supply from the Gorgon project in Australia.
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Europe's autos sector jumped 4.9 percent, set for its strongest day since August 25.8, after a report that China was considering halving the tax on car purchases in an attempt to boost demand for autos, which has been hurt by a trade war and slowing economic growth.
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FTSE 100 asset manager Hargreaves Lansdown was most successful in narrowing its pay gap, more than halving it to 13.7 percent from 28.8 percent, which the firm attributed to hiring more women in its third to sixth tiers of seniority although it noted its median gap rose.
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A former rival of Ms. Merkel who quit politics in 2009 to become a millionaire in the world of finance, Mr. Merz shines at the podium with broad visionary statements about strengthening small and midsize companies and halving the strength of the populist Alternative for Germany party.
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Asked by another lawmaker about a report in the Sunday Times newspaper that the government was considering halving the headline rate of corporation tax if the EU refuses to agree a post-Brexit free trade deal, May told him he "shouldn't believe everything he reads in newspapers".
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"We are a large continent with a small population, so considering the emissions reduction targets we've committed to on a per capita basis we will be more than halving emissions and indeed we will be reducing the emissions intensity in our economy by two-thirds," he said.
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Rolls-Royce, in the middle of a turnaround plan to reverse an expected halving of its profit in 2016, said on Tuesday that its cost-cutting plan was on track and it continued to expect a stronger profit performance in the second half of the year.
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Europe's autos sector surged 25.8 percent, set for its strongest day since August 20.1, after a report that China was considering halving the tax on car purchases in an attempt to boost demand for autos which has been hurt by a trade war and slowing economic growth.
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Tom Cotton (R-AR), the most hardline member of the Senate on immigration, is willing to entertain legalizing DREAMers in exchange for halving legal immigration over the next decade and making it mandatory for employers to electronically check that anyone they hire is a legal worker.
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More than anything, the halving signals yet one more shift away from an economy that relies on automated block rewards to one that relies on regular users spending bitcoin on, say, dinner, to pay a fee for miners to include their transaction in a block sooner, thus confirming it.
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Hours later, the company released a statement to the London Stock Exchange announcing the halving of the reserves of the Taq Taq oil field in Iraqi Kurdistan, the value of which had already been hurt by the collapse in oil prices and the proximity of Islamic State fighters.
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Analysts said the move was not surprising following the halving in oil prices over the past two months and a 54% slide in Santos's share price in the past month due to a slump in oil demand due to the coronavirus and a Saudi-led oil price war.
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Ofcom, the telecoms regulator, has already tried to boost competition by forcing Openreach to share its underground ducts and overhead poles with service providers besides BT. Using Openreach's ducts saves these new providers from the bother of having to dig up roads, halving the cost of setting up a network.
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Pence, chairing the White House's National Space Council, announced in March an accelerated schedule for NASA to return astronauts to the moon by 2024, halving the U.S. space agency's previous timeline to get there by 2028 and requesting from Congress a $1.6 billion boost to NASA's fiscal 2020 budget request.
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A pause in the rise in CO2 emissions that brought hope in 2015 and 2016 has ended; the increase has resumed at a time when we should be making progress toward a goal of halving emissions by 2030, says Johan Rockstrom, science director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impacts Research.
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"The likes of Netflix have opened our eyes to how much we were paying for a packaged channel, 90 percent of which we don't even watch, (and) forced the hand of Foxtel," Han added, referring to Foxtel's halving of its subscription fees in 2014, a few months after Netflix launched.
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Not only is he proposing a President Reagan-style tax reduction that would involve a more than halving in the corporate tax rate to 15 percent and a large reduction in household income tax rates — he is also proposing a highly ambitious infrastructure program and a large increase in defense spending.
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Trump's previous national security adviser, H.R. McMaster, along with former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Mattis agreed to limit the number of senior-level meetings, basically halving the number of times Cabinet officials and their deputies convened at the White House to just once and twice a week, respectively.
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The semi-autonomous city of Hong Kong, which has reported eight cases of the virus, announced Tuesday it was closing many of its border crossings with mainland China, slashing the number of tourist visas it issues to mainland Chinese visitors, and halving the number of inbound flights from the mainland.
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These included: Cutting the carbon intensity of products it sells by 50% by 2050 or earlier; installing methane measurement at its major oil and gas processing sites by the year 2023 and halving the methane intensity of operations; and upping the proportion of its investment in non-oil and gas businesses.
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The original version's 60 fps first design no doubt made it easier to create the Switch port, since halving the frame rate to free up system resources could still produce acceptable results, but it still serves as a useful example of how high-end AAA games could work on Nintendo's low-power console.
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What they found: Contrary to earlier studies that focused on solar geoengineering schemes that would aim to cancel out all human-caused global warming, the new study found that halving the amount of warming would not have widespread, significant negative impacts on temperature, water availability, the intensity of hurricanes or extreme precipitation.
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RELATED: 10 U.S. sailors in Iranian custody While Obama, in deference to his ebbing power as a lame-duck president, avoided the long list of legislative proposals that Congress has no intention of taking up, he strongly defended his domestic record, claiming credit for 14 million new jobs and a halving of the unemployment rate.
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Halving the number of well-thought-of carriers in America does not feel like progress at a time when all around them seem to be engaged in a race to the bottom, squeezing in more seats, asking passengers to pay ever more for ancillary services and rolling out "last class" cabins below even standard economy.
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"By doubling Prime Day's duration and halving the delivery time, the company is testing hundreds of thousands of workers' physical limits as though they were trained triathletes," Stuart Appelbaum, the president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, which is involved in the European strikes, said in a statement to the press on Monday.
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Here is what is at stake: The Obama-era standards that President Trump seeks to scrap would gradually raise average fuel economy under test conditions from about 37 miles per gallon in 2020 to 19773 miles per gallon in 2025 — a near-doubling of fuel efficiency and halving of greenhouse gas emissions since 2010.
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Since 2012 the US has imposed more than 60 rounds of sanctions on Moscow—punishment for its annexation of Crimea and its meddling in the 2016 election, among other things—halving the country's foreign direct investment, wiping out $500 billion in investments in its energy sector, and hammering Russian banks' ability to do global business.
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When the 2020 halving comes (when the reward for mining blocks of Bitcoin data is halved) and the last of the small outfits drop out of mining due to a sheer lack of profitability, the blockchain will end up stacked heavily in favor those who have acquired vast resources of cloud or on-premise computing.
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The former secretary of state is touting the administration's record on the economy, with the halving of the unemployment rate and progress on gay rights, health care and climate change -- issues that are important to the Democratic base and the Obama hordes of young, affluent, educated white voters and minorities that she needs to turn out.
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The recent wave of attacks has also come as Hong Kong is debating how best to manage its markets following a series of stocks enjoying stunning rallies and sudden collapses such as Hanergy's in 2015, where a fivefold rally over one year was followed by a near-halving in half an hour, since when it has been suspended.
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Brent crude LCOc2000 was down 24 cents at $210.7 a barrel as of 210.2 ET. Saudi Arabia has increased output since 3.73 to record highs of around 23.7 million-225 million barrels per day and adding extra supply would only worsen the global glut, which has already seen prices more than halving from $230 a barrel since mid-2014.
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"We will soon be able to pay all the salaries of the Peshmerga and the employees of the region," Abadi told reporters The cost of a three-year war on Islamic State added to the Kurdistan region's financial difficulties, and Iraqi troops captured the oil region of Kirkuk from the Peshmerga two weeks ago, halving the KRG's oil income.
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"The bitcoin price when it goes up is always fuelled by a high leverage, people using margin borrowing money to buy up the price anticipating the block rewarded halving, so the smallest hairline crack can cause a selloff," Bobby Lee, chief executive of BTCC, one of the largest bitcoin exchanges in the world based in China, told CNBC by phone on Thursday.
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Earnest also took the opportunity to note President Barack Obama's successes on an array of climate change-related issues, including improvements in fuel economy that have not come at the expense of auto industry growth, an expansion of the renewable energy market, a reduction of carbon dioxide emissions amid a growing economy and a halving of U.S. reliance on foreign oil.
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For instance, a huge $64m Ether heist carried out last year was severe enough to cause a fork in the Ethereum platform it runs on top of, and a halving in price of Ether itself—if you've got a powerful, expensive, cryptocurrency mining operation going on in your basement then that's a serious hit on your profits through factors completely out of your control.
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It set up a framework to make permanent changes to the way the US admitted visa holders and refugees from other countries: raising the standards for what information countries had to provide about their citizens who wished to come to the US, blacklisting countries that couldn't provide that information, and halving the number of refugees that the US would admit in the next year.
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Clinton would reform mandatory minimum sentencing for nonviolent drug offenders (which we know disproportionately impact people of color) by halving said mandatory minimums; allowing current nonviolent prisoners to seek "fairer sentences"; and rejiggering the "strike" system in such a way that a nonviolent drug offense would no longer count as a "strike", thus cutting down the mandatory penalty for second- and third-strike offenses.
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Opens the door and the potential energy of the fight quickly dissipates, carried away from them along with their voices, words spoken a minute ago propagating waveforms of fear, of love, tumbling down into the canyon, the historical event of their first argument now traveling outward in all directions to the ends of the universe, sounds they made halving themselves again and again, until somewhere, hundreds of feet below, they break against the rocks in a wash of ambient vibration.
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Kevin Lai, research head for Asia excluding Japan with Daiwa Capital Markets, wrote in a research note that punitive tariffs of 343 percent would lead to an 87 percent fall in China's exports to the U.S., while HSBC economists led by Qu Hongbin predicted they would result in a halving of Chinese shipments to the U.S. The U.S. is China's biggest export market, accounting for 18 percent of total exports, and China's overall exports would be expected to shrink at least 9 percent if Trump carried through with his tariff threat.
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LONDON, March 20 (Reuters) - * Swiss-based energy trader Mercuria Group reported a gross profit of $674 million in 2017, down from $716 million in 2016, the company said on Tuesday * Mercuria's traded volumes of crude and refined products rose to 121 million tonnes from 105 million tonnes * Gas and power volumes fell while metals and minerals edged higher after halving in 2016 * Revenue rose to $104 billion from $91 billion * Total equity for the group rose to $3.08 billion from $2.88 billion (Reporting by Julia Payne; editing by Jason Neely)
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"You got to find people who are willing to do it, and I think a lot of people are upset with [the Syria] call and also the second call where he's talking about downgrading the Afghan numbers," Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman James InhofeJames (Jim) Mountain InhofeDemocrats, environmentalists blast Trump rollback of endangered species protections Bottom Line Overnight Defense: Dems talk Afghanistan, nukes at Detroit debate | Senate panel advances Hyten nomination | Iranian foreign minister hit with sanctions | Senate confirms UN ambassador MORE (R-Okla.) said, referring to Trump's decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria and his consideration of halving the number of troops in Afghanistan.
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Ashish Jha, a physician with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, said there have been major drops in the mortality of children under 5 (down more than 50 percent in the last three decades), and he pointed to other encouraging advancements: the halving of deaths of women at childbirth significant decreases in death from malaria a turnaround in the H.I.V. epidemic increased life expectancy in every country Funding science research has led to new therapies, and global funding programs like Pepfar in the United States have made those medicines widely available, Dr. Jha said.
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