Codifying the rules into law would be a sensible step to increase the pressure for vigorous enforcement.
Automakers contend that California is taking a unilateral step to increase the fuel efficiency of vehicles, something the federal government has not done for years.
As a first important step, to increase crop productivity, the government has invested in a digital soil fertility mapping exercise, the soil information system (EthioSIS), led by the agriculture ministry and the Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency.
"This is not going to end the obesity epidemic," Dr. Frieden said, "but it is an important step to increase access to healthy food in the communities that need it most".
Charles Nicholls, SeeWhy's founder, says he advises Web sites to have visitors "put their e-mail address in at the first step," to increase the likelihood that it will be captured.
As a further step to increase the availability of corporate credit, by reducing the illiquidity of the underlying instruments, the Bank of England will set up an asset purchase programme implemented through a specially created fund.
PAGE A8 U.S. Freezes 2 Syrians' Assets The Bush administration took a major step to increase pressure on the Syrian government, ordering a freeze on any assets in American financial institutions controlled by two senior Syrian intelligence officials who served successively as Syria's de facto rulers in Lebanon during three decades of occupation.
This would by no means be a cure-all for increasing turnout, but it would mark one important step to increase participation and create the kind of political system that the world can look upon as an example, not a failure.
Several American Indian tribes are seeking to create or expand basic telephone service, a necessary step to increase Internet access on native lands, and the Mescalero Apache tribe of southern New Mexico has now become the latest to form its own telephone company.
ALD method was used as the second step to increase the conductivity.
After this, we conducted a verification step to increase the level of confidence in the collected data.
