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Lower oil prices in the global downturn have led to second-quarter profits at BP more than halving from a year ago.

Even so, halving sulfur emissions has its own consequences: it would make global warming noticeable sooner.

And the disparities are growing. India seems certain to miss one of its key Millennium Development Goals: halving malnutrition by 2015.

This would help the company meet its long-term goal of halving today's price of mainstream beer in Africa.

One pension-scheme manager says he demanded, and quickly secured, a halving of his fee rate from a fund-of-funds.

By halving prices and lifting limits on the length of calls, Mr Niel hopes to take a big slice of the market.

The U. N. has set goals to reduce poverty worldwide by 2015, and among those goals is halving the number of the world's hungry.

The government of Ivory Coast says it's halving the salaries of its ministers to pay for a reduction in the price of fuel.

Until the global financial crisis hit, Bangladesh was on track to meet the Millennium Development Goal of halving poverty by 2015.

These include halving the number of people living on less than $2 a day and reducing infant mortality by two thirds.

But in the last survey, released in March, London's point total had slipped, halving its lead over New York.

To reach its target of halving radiation levels within two years the government will have to remove large quantities of soil.

The government promised to save money by abolishing the provincial administrations and halving the number of national lawmakers.

This year's sales growth was driven in large part by a halving of the sales tax on autos with smaller engine sizes.

Millions will be lifted out of poverty, halving the number of people below the $1-a-day poverty line.

Carmakers, for instance, are roughly halving production, with consequences for makers of steel, chips and chemicals.

The achievement of the World Food Summit goal of halving the number of hungry people is even more remote, FAO said.

The male, XY stem cells underwent the crucial process of "meiosis" - halving the number of chromosomes.

The new KODAK MAGNUS Platesetter has replaced three CTP units, instantly halving our manpower requirement.

That could outstrip the benefits of halving the number of buses and taxis currently on the roads.

Last fall, you stated that the world was off-target for meeting the Millennium Development Goal of halving hunger by the year 2015.

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Automatic collimation of norm pole was realized by precisely halving norm pole on the method of subpixel on former gray image.

But the word is that next month the European Commission will propose halving this number.

Existing technology can go a long way towards achieving the halving of fuel consumption that the industry wants.

Halving the repeater spacing made it possible to triple the bandwidth.

On the same day Ida commanded attention, refiner Tesoro was halving its dividend to preserve cash.

When the market for big jets collapsed after the terrorist attacks of September 2001, Boeing drew in its horns, halving production.

Airlines recently announced a target of halving emissions by 2050, and shipping companies are considering a similar deal.

Europe wants the G8 to commit to a goal of halving by mid-century the emissions that cause global warming, compared with 1990 levels.

Sweden made halving unemployment its priority during its 1990s fiscal consolidation.

Halving Hunger warns that food security is slipping down the G20 agenda.

The halving of the dollar value of the Icelandic krona at the height of the crisis pushed inflation as high as 18. 6%.

But halving net immigration is problematic.

You found that halving your salary cut your enthusiasm.

Collapsing consumer demand was a big factor in halving the gap during the past year.

Even halving its external surplus would add only 0. 4 per cent to aggregate demand in the rest of the world.

Supporting Merkel's approach, the G-20 endorsed a halving of budget deficits by 2013 as the target.

Mr Yudhoyono has not met his promise in 2004 of halving the number of people living below the government's poverty line.

The Stop TB Partnership has endorsed additional targets of halving 1990 prevalence and deaths rates by 2015.

It represents a near halving of the estimated figure for 2006.

Take the goal of halving the poverty rate from its 1990 level by 2015.

In 2000, world leaders committed, among many other lofty things, to halving world hunger by 2015.

A global halving by 2015 seems well within reach.

A halving of the planting area last year, and belief in the bulb's powers to ward off swine flu, provide some justification for the surge.

Investigation on Typical Fault Pattern of the Halving-style Condenser and Its Fault Diagnosis with BP Neural Network

Verticality Measurement of Superhigh Cylinder by Intersection with Indirect Halving Object Direction

Research on Faults Symptoms Abstraction and Faults Fuzzy Diagnosis for Large Power-Station Halving-Style Condenser

African Union Topic A: Towards Halving Global Poverty and Hunger Topic B: The African Peer Review Mechanism Reviewed

Halving Extreme Poverty: An Action Strategy for the United Nations

effectively halving the size of the continent

Effects of Halving Spikelet on the Wheat Grain Quality under Short Period of Heat Shock at the middle Stage of Grain Filling

by using integrated biological control, halving pesticide quantities by 50 percent and obtaining a 15 percent increase in rice production;

Halving the Polygonal Areas with Rulers and Compass

halving the auto purchase tax for cars with engine sizes below 1. 60 litres