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1. This hallway keeps narrowing as I go farther and farther in.
2. Similar to interventional cardiology stents, endovascular stents are small expandable tubes designed to treat a narrowing or blockage in a peripheral artery.
3. While the topic category is too coarse for detailed queries, keywords help narrowing a full text search and they allow for structured keyword search.
4. The 2005 IBP clearly changed the strategy by narrowing down TB’s activity to ALU coated steel tubes and tubes made from chromium steel.
5. the average inflation rate in Slovakia in the year ending March 2008 stood at 2,2 percent, which is well below the reference value, and it is likely to remain below the reference value in the months ahead, albeit with a narrowing margin,
6. However, despite this setting of an overall cap and narrowing of the scope of the measure, the Commission notes that the indemnity undertaken by the Hungarian Government in order to facilitate the sale of Postabank was not precisely defined and did not involve an exhaustive and binding list finalised by the date of accession.
7. In addition, it will be important for Portugal over the period of the NRP to focus on the following challenges for the future: narrowing its current account deficit in a sustained way; continuing to improve the long-term sustainability of public finances; pursuing the implementation of the Technological Plan, consolidating the linkages between research, higher education and industry, and involving the private sector further; continuing the liberalisation of the energy sector and ensuring effective competition in the financial services market; further implement a better regulation programme and in particular strengthen the impact assessment system; reducing the deficit in transposing EU legislation into national law; continue to fully implement measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions; and continuing to address factors undermining social cohesion.
8. The law should, in particular, introduce: a unified statutory retirement age of 65 years (including for women); a merger of the existing pension funds in three funds and a unified new pension system for all current and future employees (applicable as of 1 January 2013); a reduction of the upper limit on pensions; a gradual increase in the minimum contributory period for retirement on a full benefit from 37 to 40 years (by 2015); a minimum retirement age of 60 years by 1 January 2011 (including for workers in heavy and arduous professions and those with 40 years of contributions); the abolition of the special rules applicable to persons insured before 1993 (while retaining acquired rights); a substantial narrowing of the list of heavy and arduous professions; a reduction of pension benefits (by 6 % per year) for people entering retirement between the ages of 60 and 65 with a contributory period of less than 40 years; the creation of an automatic adjustment mechanism linking the retirement age with the increase in life expectancy (as of 2020); the creation of a means-tested minimum guaranteed income for elderly people above the statutory retirement age; stricter conditions and the regular re-examination of eligibility for disability pensions; an amendment of the pension award formula in the contributory based scheme to strengthen the link between contributions paid and benefits received (with accrual rate limited to an average annual rate of 1,2 %); and an extension of the calculation of the pensionable earnings to entire lifetime earnings (while retaining acquired rights).