Others were bolder: he suggested personal aviation-mileage allowances that could be exceeded only by paying progressively higher taxes, as well as annual national targets for carbon reduction, something the government has sensibly rejected as being too rigid.
Instead of an emphasis on high-stakes student tests, more attention should be paid to parental accountability, teacher compensation (I'm not talking about merit pay but about higher salaries over all) and class-size reduction (something teachers' unions have advocated).
Some administration officials contend that Kyoto, which required mandatory emission reductions, is something the president would never accept and that it would be bad for the American economy.
"These job reductions are something we do with a heavy heart because they impact people we care deeply about.
And on her birthday last December, Ms. McIver shed another weight and had breast-reduction surgery, something she had been dreaming of for years.
One consequence of hospitalization, she reported, is a reduction in something called "life-space mobility," a scale measuring how often a person leaves the room where he sleeps, leaves his home, moves around his neighborhood or goes "into town".
It turned poverty reduction into something 'done to' families, rather than mobilising them and wider society in support of a national mission to 'end child poverty within a generation'".
But the Troika is also reported to be on the verge of ordering Athens to identify a further €2bn in cuts to meet its deficit reduction commitments, something which has prompted Mr Samaras to request more time.
In summary, new applications in nanomedicine turn reduction into something more concrete compared to previous approaches.
As landfills across Canada and the rest of the world are filled to their limits, a carbon-neutral process which can locally generate electricity and heat while providing up to 50% volatile solid reduction is something to be seriously considered.
