1.   Government has reduced the burden of regulation and the need for central bureaucracy.

2.   It recommends that the government reduce spending to encourage growth in private industry to bring about faster rates of economic growth.

3.   Should the government reduce the actual frequency of tragedies, or should it simply make them less painfully obvious?

4.   When governments reduce their numbers through layoffs, civil service employees with seniority can bump those with lesser seniority.

5.   Over the last few years the t Tory government has reduced the amount of wages inspectors.

6.   The government would reduce its outstanding debt, freeing capital for private investment.

7.   The Canadian government has drastically reduced catch quotas for cod after admitting that stocks of the fish on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland are dangerously low.

8.   If the trend grows will the government reduce fuel and vehicle taxes?

9.   Campaigners say, four thousand specialist teaching jobs could go if the government reduces the grant for teaching English as a foreign language.

10.   And if the federal government reduces Medicare benefits, state and local governments may be forced to pick up health care costs for their elderly populations.