In doing so, cheatgrass has displaced more nutritious native grasses, reducing the quantity of livestock a given acreage can support.
To comply with federal energy-efficiency requirements, manufacturers made changes like reducing the quantity of hot water.
This would reduce the number of buyers of Iranian petroleum, without reducing the quantity of oil on the market.
It will also increase the efficiency of coal-fired plants by slightly reducing the quantity of coal needed.
Nonetheless, retailers have made massive progress over recent years reducing the quantity of packaging involved, so much so that it's now hard to take further dramatic strides.
"From that point on, it was a question of reducing the quantity of garlic and chile to the point where it would be generally acceptable".
Similarly, a monopsony — a buyer without competitors — can reduce the price it pays below the competitive level by reducing the quantity it demands.
A monopoly — a seller without competitors — can profitably raise the price of its product above the competitive level by reducing the quantity it supplies to the market.
So computerization is not reducing the quantity of jobs, but rather degrading the quality of jobs for a significant subset of workers.
To restore the gold standard at the former gold price, the government deflated the price level by reducing the quantity of money.
They, too, take steps to limit yields in their vineyards, reducing the quantity of the harvest but increasing the quality of what remains.
