The defense acquisitions portfolio has been plagued by reductions in the number of weapons delivered, delayed delivery times, and enormous cost overruns.
In the Great Lakes, algal blooms continue to plague Lake Erie and Saginaw Bay despite reductions in point source loading.
That is a game-changer in an industry relentlessly driven by cost reduction and plagued by slow-drip evolution.
Civil strife and vendettas continue to plague Iraq, despite an overall reduction in bombings, said several refugees interviewed in Syria and Jordan.
The Thirty Years' War and the Turkish wars had resulted in the devastation of large parts of the country and in great losses among the population, which suffered further reduction during the plague years of 1679 and 1713.
In rabbits fed cholesterol-rich diet, oral ZER treatment significantly decreased or averted early atheroma plague formation and development via reduction in monocytes and/or macrophages migration, aggregation, and smooth muscle cells proliferation.
They argued that social and cultural improvement, especially through education, climatic conditions, the scattered pattern of settlements, and the mysterious disappearance of a major cause of death, namely plague, were the prime factors for reduction in mortality (5, 10, 11).
If nothing else, auditory learners will benefit from the reduction in auditory distractions that plague the modern open office space.
Similar re-emergence of plague in Madagascar was due to the dramatic reduction of the country's resources devoted to public hygiene and the low socio-economic conditions of the majority of the population [ 11].
These features are considered to constitute the initial stages of a drastic reduction of genome size (Moran and Plague 2004; Gomez-Valero et al. 2007; Song et al. 2010).
