As part of President Obama's continuing effort to streamline regulatory requirements, we took a series of quiet but aggressive steps to cut pointless red tape.
The company laid off 150 employees in Santa Monica, Calif., and Bellevue, Wash., in what company officials said was a continuing effort to streamline operations and to achieve profitability.
The Nokia chief executive, Stephen Elop, described the Romanian plant closure as part of the company's continuing effort to streamline production and meet consumer demand for smartphones, and to prepare for Nokia's software collaboration with Microsoft.
It will rebrand the International Herald Tribune as the International New York Times in the autumn and in February it once again sought buyers for the Globe, as it continued its efforts to streamline its formerly sprawling and diverse media empire.
Clinton said at a White House briefing that he expects Peña to continue O'Leary's efforts to streamline DOE, which the president characterized as a "diverse and sprawling operation".
However, continued efforts to improve consistency were considered worthwhile.
In Human Resources, our new e-recruitment system is speeding up the hiring process, and our staff development initiatives continue to work toward greater gender balance and geographic diversity, just as our efforts to streamline staffing for humanitarian action have enabled us to move more quickly in crises.
We certainly applaud efforts to streamline legal immigration.
In Nassau County, efforts to streamline government are well under way, said Howard S. Weitzman, the county's comptroller.
Political reform is not high on the agenda, apart from efforts to streamline bureaucracy.
