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  • "The scale-down did not go into effect until to-day."

    CHAPTER 6 2010

  • The world's largest wind-turbine manufacturer also warned that if U.S. lawmakers fail to extend a renewable-energy subsidy, known as the production tax credit, which expires by the end of 2012, it could lead to the layoff of an additional 1,600 workers in the U.S. Vestas will start preparing for a possible scale-down of U.S. operations later this year, it said.

    Wind Giant Vestas Cuts Back Flemming Emil Hansen 2012

  • The scale-down is one of the bigger efforts to shrink an investment bank to date, and execution will be tricky, particularly given such volatile markets.

    UBS Scales Back Investment Bank Deborah Ball 2011

  • John Pistole was against the scale-down before he was for it.

    TSA chief shifts his stance after media pat-down Jena McGregor 2010

  • The Afghan War's current cost-benefit disparity would call for a scale-down.

    Malou Innocent: Obama's Afghanistan War Plan Malou Innocent 2010

  • "The measured declines again suggest good volumes of scale-down buying as investors carry out pockets of diversification," said TheBullionDesk's analyst James Moore in a daily report.

    Gold Prices Follow Euro Higher Matthew Walls 2010

  • If indeed our goal is to monitor terrorists and prevent the creation of big training camps, rather than propping up a failed state, U.S. leaders should scale-down to a narrower counterterrorism mission that can assemble quickly and strike effectively and cheaply at "real" enemies.

    Malou Innocent: Are Our Goals in Afghanistan 'Fairly Modest'? 2010

  • The Afghan War's current cost-benefit disparity would call for a scale-down in mission objectives and correspondingly in troop presence.

    Malou Innocent: Obama's Afghanistan War Plan Malou Innocent 2010

  • A separate hardware box, called WaveDeploy Wi-Fi, runs a scale-down version of VeriWave's wireless traffic generator/analyzer software.

    VeriWave captures users' view of Wi-Fi networks 2010

  • The Afghan War's current cost-benefit disparity would call for a scale-down in mission objectives and correspondingly in troop presence.

    Malou Innocent: Obama's Afghanistan War Plan Malou Innocent 2010

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