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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A gradual reduction.
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- noun a gradual reduction in size or scale
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National Space Transportation System (NSTS) documents will be the umbrella under which the programs/projects will abide to after the Space Shuttle Program (SSP) parent documents are dispositioned as the orbiters phasedown.
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EPA's leaded-gasoline phasedown in the 1980s, and the well-known SO2 allowance trading system, enacted as part of the Clean Air Act amendments of 1990.
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Related to this, a third factor was that the SO2 allowance trading program, the leaded gasoline phasedown, and the CFC phaseout were all designed to reduce emissions, not simply to reallocate them cost-effectively among sources.
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Next comes a steep collapse (October '87), a recovery and a final phasedown, which Jenks thinks began last January.
The Bad News Bears 2008
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In September 1987, the Montreal Protocol was signed, providing for gradual phasedown of CFC production and consumption by industrialized countries to 50 percent of their 1986 levels by 1998-99, with a ten-year grace period for developing nations.
Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer 2007
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Related to this, a third factor was that the SO2 allowance trading program, the leaded gasoline phasedown, and the CFC phaseout were all designed to reduce emissions, not simply to reallocate them cost-effectively among sources.
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The SADC free trade agreement based on the agreed tariff phasedown was launched at the August 2008 summit in South Africa.
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The SADC free trade agreement based on the agreed tariff phasedown was launched at the August 2008 summit in South Africa.
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The SADC free trade agreement based on the agreed tariff phasedown was launched at the August 2008 summit in South Africa.
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In the 1980s, tradable-permit systems were used to accomplish the phasedown of lead in gasoline (at a savings of about $250 million per year), and to facilitate the phaseout of ozone-depleting chloroflourocarbons (CFCs); and in the
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