What if Mr. Ban sets the example by removing his own tie, as his office said he would?
That would help Spain, for example, by removing the risk that its hard-pressed taxpayers would have to finance a huge bank bailout.
Backstage space could be gained, for example, by removing the first 10 to 20 rows of seats and moving the stage forward -- a matter of engineering -- as appalling as the loss of seats might be to economics-minded administrators.
There are various ways of curing the disease — for example, by removing the tax loophole and making compensating cuts in corporate tax rates so that business over all does not pay more.
Mr. Draghi has often stressed that E.C.B. anti-crisis measures could only buy time for political leaders to take action, for example by removing barriers to entrepreneurship in countries like Italy or cooperating more closely to fix ailing banks.
Zarif makes three proposals: for negotiations to begin on a nuclear weapons elimination treaty; that this should lead initially to nuclear arsenals being taken off high alert readiness (for example, by removing warheads from missiles); and for the creation of a zone in the Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction.
The digitisation process is expected to take years to complete, due to both the volume of paper involved – Laverick estimates there are between 200m and 300m separate paper elements to deal with – and the time that preparing the documents to be scanned, for example by removing staples and paperclips and flattening the sheets, will take.
In the run-up to Japan's recent election, Yukio Hatoyama, the victorious candidate for prime minister, campaigned against "unrestrained market fundamentalism .Liberal reforms designed to increase the supply-side capacity of an economy, for example by removing barriers to entry, lose some of their urgency when the economy is too weak to achieve the potential it already has.
Chris Woodruff, the senior manager for model line marketing, said Nissan's research suggested that people were equally split between those who wanted more cargo capacity and were willing to go to more trouble to get it — for example, by removing the seats — and those who were willing to sacrifice some cargo space to get an easily accessible flat floor.
The Quebec government has set an excellent example by removing provincial income tax for international postdocs.
