"These enhancements would further reduce the potential for impinging on civil liberties," Mr. Chertoff said.
If such stock is eventually converted, that would further reduce the stake of Continental's existing shareholders.
Finally, preventive medicine would be enhanced, a move that would further reduce treatment costs.
But critics immediately charged the deal would further reduce competition in an already heavily consolidated market.
A shallow basement would further reduce it to 45,000 casualties.
Any multiyear contracts the Knicks give out this summer would further reduce their 2012 cap room.
A buyout program for G.M.'s union retirees would further reduce long-term obligations.
The new proposal would further reduce it to 3.1 percent in 2012.
This would further reduce the extra trays, added to account for the uncertainties, during the column design.
The shortfall could be compounded by predicted long periods of drought that would further reduce flow and increase evaporation.
Many economists object that doing so would further reduce the already low savings rate in the United States.
