### action | reduction:

Poverty reduction
* continues to be a central objective of international policy-making.
* is an important means to secure civil and political human rights
  - the main goal of indebted poor countries
* requires economic growth.
* twin function of the rate of growth and of changes in income distribution.

Risk reduction
* has to do with making informed decisions from a high knowledge base.
* is an important element in most companies' approach to risk management
  - seen with concomitant estrogen and progesterone use
* limits the severity of a loss.
* refers to the vulnerability of Michigan's economy to oil price shocks.

Rollback
* are decrease
  - offense.
  * I'm pretty sure that most of our iw bots etc have all their edits checked as minor, and they don't show up. Rollbacks do, though

Source reduction
* includes any activity that prevents the generation of pollution at the source.
* is any practice which eliminates or reduces the volume of material produced
  - one area in which corporate goals and environmental goals clearly overlap
  - the practice of minimizing or eliminating the generation of waste
* means reducing the amount and the toxicity of the waste that is produced.
* serves to reduce both chemical and utility consumption.

Stress reduction
* begins with an evaluation of one's life.
* can help boost the immune system.
* is also important to heal up the digestive tract
  - an important part of the cholesterol picture
  - another reason people seek the care of an acupuncturist
  - one of the major benefits of massage
  - part of a healthy lifestyle
* is the first line of defense against anthracnose
  - key to prevent infection

Tax credit
* allow the bearer to avoid or pay lower taxes by virtue of a special designation.
* are a market approach to helping solve the problem of climate change
  - public dollars the government has relinquished
* can help families with the costs of child care.
* is decrease.
* reduce taxes on a 'dollar for dollar' basis.

### action | reduction:

Weight reduction
* Being overweight definite risk factor for developing osteoarthritis.
* alleviates asthma in obese asthmatic people.
* can be helpful in lowering the risk of recurrent attacks of gout.
* is associated with greater benefit of cardiac rehab
  - drastic as the intake of food is significantly decreased
  - possible because of the use of plastic
  - recommended for obese people
  - the most potent non-pharmacological method of hypertension management
  - useful in some cases of vulvar fold pyoderma
* major issue when increasing mileage factor.

### action | reduction | wilt:

Bacterial wilt
* can occur in any size plant
  - spread swiftly to the whole plant within a couple of weeks
* causes plants to turn yellow, wilt and die
  - rapid wilting and death of the plant
  - stem drooping and wilting
* common and destructive disease of muskmelon and cucumber
  - disease spread by cucumber beetles
  - tomato plant killer in the southern part of the state
* devastating disease of tomato, tobacco, and potato in southern states.
* is carried by the cucumber beetle
  - characterized initially by wilting and drying of individual leaves
  - more prevalent in southern regions of the Corn Belt
  - severe on cucumber and cantaloupe and less damaging to squash and watermelon
* is spread by cucumber beetles
  - the striped or spotted cucumber beetle
  - the most frequent disease problem of marigolds in North Carolina landscapes
* produces limp leaves and stems that secrete a white sticky substance when cut.
* spread by cucumber beetles is devastating.