ABOUT 30 younger print-shop workers chose less coverage, thus lowering their premiums and increasing their take-home pay.
Primary care doctors can help patients avoid unnecessary visits to specialists, hospitals and emergency rooms, thus lowering health care costs.
Congress reacted by raising the income level for each bracket for married people filing jointly, thus lowering couples' taxes.
The austerity efforts so far have backfired by slowing manufacturing and consumer sales, thus lowering tax receipts.
It allowed small businesses to fire more easily, thus lowering their risk of hiring.
For example, some governments may find it necessary to provide crop-specific subsidies to encourage farmers to cultivate more food crops, thus lowering prices for consumers.
Raising the base rate should bring down inflation by encouraging saving and deterring people from borrowing - thus lowering demand for goods in the shops.
For a serious anti-Trump movement to develop among businesspeople, Trump's chances of winning the election will probably have to diminish significantly, thus lowering the risk of repercussions.
Perhaps more important, people may take fewer car trips, thus lowering the risk of accidents, and spend less on alcohol and tobacco.
There is a great deal to be said in favour of increasing taxes on land and thus lowering land prices.
They want to prevent popular schools from cherrypicking the best-behaved children, thus lowering the quality of other schools' intake.
