Four hundred out-of-competition tests will be taken in Sydney before the Games even begin, and independent observers will monitor the testing to lessen long-held international suspicions that positive tests were often covered up.
Although 33 other states have enacted some form of mental health parity and a presidential commission has determined that early intervention can lessen long-term disability, New York's mentally ill continue to receive unequal treatment and suffer needlessly because of Albany's bickering.
Identifying and dealing with risks early in development lessen long-term costs and help prevent software disasters [26].
For example, giving a child a local anesthetic before drawing blood could not only numb the needleprick, but also might lessen long-term emotional or physical sensitivity to the needleprick.
Accurate diagnosis and recognition of risk factors is important for lessening long-term sequelae of this condition.
Washington has a unique opportunity today to substantially lessen our long-term outlays for interest payments.
But such approaches won't lessen the long-term rate of climate change, a new study confirms.
Aiming to provide early tenable diagnosis, and proactive and holistic (qua comprehensive) treatment of back pain, whilst it is still a sub-acute phase, may lessen a long-term negative impact, avoid excessive costs and complications of secondary health effects.
In fact, I probably lost sleep over the decision, weighing the potential power sacrifices I'd be making for the promise of portability and the lessening of long-term lower back pain.
Some of the more recent causes of congestion might lessen before too long, as the roadworks required for Crossrail and cycle superhighways are completed, but the growth in the number of delivery vans and private hire vehicles together with the loss of road space to cycling have worked against the good effects of the congestion charge, introduced in 2003.
