Can the public employees recognize that wage settlements will directly reduce the level of services for everyone else?

Not only do lower rates directly reduce a corporation's cost, they generally spur economic growth, which in turn, stimulates corporate profits.

Replacing private automobiles with shared ones directly reduces demand for parking spaces.

A particular technique might directly reduce the number of components, for instance by combining impedances in series.

Credit rationing provides a means of directly reducing aggregate demand without having to raise interest rates.

In fact, this model reduces directly to the previous one with the following substitutions:

The contract does allow layoffs in response to outside events that significantly and directly reduce the need for a large number of employees.

Using fewer materials and designing products to last longer can directly reduce producers' end-of-life costs.

This directly reduces the local interest rate relative to the global interest rate.

Surgical techniques are used to directly reduce the size of an enlarged mandible.