Chirac wanted to decrease the size of his majority, which he found too difficult to manage.
ESTATE MANAGEMENT Just as insurance can help heirs pay estate taxes, it can also help decrease the size of the taxable estate.
The hormone may have been given by a physician to treat hypothyroidism or to decrease the size of a goitre.
New York firefighters are guaranteed 96 hours of overtime a year to make up for the Fire Department's decision in 1990 to decrease the size of engine crews in some parts of the city.
The Stars have been a breath of fresh air in a season where NHL administrators have lamented the decrease in scoring, and publicly floated proposals to increase the size of the nets or decrease the size of goaltender equipment.
The manufacturers that have remained in the United States, and the retailers selling their and others' products, have also been able to decrease the size of their own stockpiles.
Though rising interest rates will probably decrease the size of the subsidies lenders receive, the delay could still be costly because student loan companies can keep issuing new loans with the old guarantee until the rules are changed, experts say.
Even when estimates are in agreement, owners are likely to resist any change that will decrease the size, and therefore the value, of an apartment.
Bayer and Avigen don't want to decrease the size of this market.
Radiotherapy can relieve the pain and decrease the size of such lesions [3, 6, 23, 24].
The subsequent annealing will decrease the size of the central hole of hollow nanocages.
