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Software applications weredownsizedfrom expensive mainframes to networked personal computers and workstations that are often more user-friendly and cost-effective.
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We use adownsizedmodel because it is analytically difficult to use the general pension scheme (19) in the three-period overlapping generations model.
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He first postponed the time of the showdown, thendownsizedits scope.
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Many factories closed; othersdownsized, restructured, and reorganized production with new technology.
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The government has beendownsizedand increasingly decentralised, and elections, especially since 1993, have generally been open and fair.
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On the other hand, will these infantry battalions bedownsized, to use the jargon?
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If a factory isdownsizedbut a market upturn subsequently occurs, it can re-expand and growth can be put back into the operation.
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That has meant some personnel management as wedownsizedthe cadre.
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Will he make it plain that he has no plans to do so and that it will not bedownsized?
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Government wasdownsizedthe right way by eliminating what was not needed—bloated headquarters, layers of managers, outdated field services and obsolete red tape and rules.
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By last year, they haddownsizedit to 404.
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Smaller companies are not simplydownsizedversions of large corporations, so some reporting required of large companies is not relevant at all.
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Since the health centerdownsizedin the late 1970s, state funding is limited and doesn't allot for basic maintenance and care of the buildings.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In the late 1940s when dance bandsdownsized, guitar players who lost their positions playing guitar were told they could play double bass.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Two mild heart attacks in 1921 and 1922, probably the long-term effects of his gassing, precluded his further advancement in thedownsizedpost-war army.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.But the business was not as successful as hoped and in the early 1950s, the pottery wasdownsized.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.As of 2010, the mechanical engineering shop has been severelydownsizedwith a reduction in staff and equipment.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Warnecke purposelydownsizedhis firm as he approached retirement, not wishing for his firm to continue after his death.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The firmdownsizedits space to 175000 sqft of space on six floors.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The company againdownsizedits operations in 2014.
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