If we are lucky, we will be left with a far-less-resilient "Dyad" equipped with obsolescing, untested weapons.
Investing in super-angel funds can pose risks in that they typically invest in far-less-proven start-ups than venture capitalists do.
But the security has proved to be -- so far -- less of a burden than some had expected.
Government soon got big and claimed the resources of the far-less-prosperous.
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Americans are as creative as ever, but today's buzz and big-money speculation are devoted to smaller-scale, less far-reaching, less conspicuous advances.
The small size of the LED light chip allows another advantage arising from the physics of optics: Engineers can employ collaterally small lenses making it possible to efficiently extract, direct and focus the lumens, achieving useful illumination with far fewer lumens--and far less energy--wasted.
But there are a tremendous number of people out there who feel that in some way - in some shape or form - they had less than the - far less than the ideal experience, growing up and having a parent.
That means that any European nation receiving an extradition request from the US, in similar circumstances, can provide the suspect with far less delay - certainly less than a decade.
An innovative proposal has been offered by Dr. Morris Davis, the inventor of a program known as Transition Software that has demonstrated impressive capabilities to accomplish such corrective action on mainframe computers in a fraction of the time -- and at far less cost -- than is currently associated with human review of each line of code.
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Spacecraft assembled and provisioned on the moon could escape its far-lower gravity using far less energy and thus far less cost.
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Worse, part-timers receive far less training than their full-time colleagues.
Italian and Spanish government bond yields rose by far less - and after rising by more than 0.1 percentage points, 10-year yields for Italy were at 4.65%, while Spanish 10-year yields were at 4.9%.
Business Platinum Card, meanwhile, can see their low introductory interest rates spike if they are just three days late with payment twice in a 12-month period, far less than the 60-day notice period required under the Card Act.
Equally important, the hydrogen-impregnation technique requires far less gas than the oxygen-based one.
It also offers a progressive-scan, wide-screen, 60-frame-per-second MPEG-2 format that delivers far less resolution than full-fledged HD, but may work well when transferred to DVD.
Republican Senators John Warner (VA), William Cohen (ME), and Richard Lugar (IN) broke ranks with President Bush last week in a letter that criticized him for seeking rapid development of space-based defenses, urged him to pursue a far less competent ground-based alternative and called for continued adherence to the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty.
The sad fact is they may not work for everyone--and they may be far less powerful than a well-designed drug.
He has applied far more money and know-how to issues far less important than the shortage of water.
Second, biologics are really difficult to copy, and thus even after the patents expire, knock-off biologics (biosimilars) are far less a threat than knock-off small molecules (generics).
Sony's PlayStation Vita already employs such functionality, making the claim all the less far-fetched.
Huge, broadly diversified banks are not, on average, any more profitable than less far-flung ones.
To some, this analysis of music and society may seem no less far-fetched than Plato's.
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The men were having far less fun--they ate, they talked about their weekend plans, and they plotted an exit.
In their place came a collection of familiar names from less far-flung locales.
Mice given the drug every three days from birth suffered far less age-related body-wasting than those which were not.
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They help to make up for the domestic outflow (the big difference is that they are far less well-educated).
Not only would this approach ensure food safety, but it would be far less labor- and time-intensive for agency personnel.
Mahathir, at the very least, is a known quantity - and far less of an Islamist (ever a worry in the island republic).
The Russians perfected a far less energy-hogging method that uses centrifuges to spin the uranium hexafluoride at 50, 000rpm so that heavier u-238 separates from lighter u-235.
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