Often, the results are a decline in the quality of education and reduced opportunities for poorer students to get financial aid.

This means that farmers wait a couple of months before planting in order to reduce opportunities for the fly to reproduce.

Essentially, recent research shows that if nations act together to reduce carbon emissions, costs of action fall and new opportunities for jobs and growth rise.

The extended period of absence that such policies awards often reduce a women's economic status and opportunities.

Residents have profited from this plan, but the conversion has reduced opportunities for other working and middle-class families.

Many upstate coaches oppose that move, however, because it would reduce opportunities to train and compete in good weather.

Should we reduce opportunities for minorities, since they are more prevalent in the military than in society?

So we're really reducing opportunities exactly where we don't want to.

Also, changes in American society have reduced opportunities for quiet exchanges of information around the dinner table.

In the steel mills, these changes have altered the profile of the labor force, reducing opportunities for younger workers.