• Small grants scattered across deserving causes are likely to have less effect than concentrated efforts.

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  • But low wages may have less effect on poverty than the fact that the poor are not working full-time.

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  • It remains likely that this area will see the biggest changes in the new treaty, but whether they will have much effect is less clear.

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  • But she said a financial charge would be less likely to have an effect than a system of email or text reminders from the health service.

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  • You can see clearly what needs to shift, but it seems like the more you say or do to try to help, the less effect you have.

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  • An EU-Troika bailout in the wake of such a shakeout would have more credibility and a less terrorizing effect.

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  • Road investments have felt the effect of motorists driving less and using more fuel-efficient cars, which cut into fuel tax revenues.

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  • Others have less of a sense of humor about the effect of tech toys on their lives.

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  • Analysts say the new rule will have little immediate effect because even issuers in less-than-stellar financial health fall below that threshold.

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  • The sediment layer would have to be less than a km (half a mile) thick in order to have the observed effect, and would probably cover only patches of the outer core.

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  • The genetic domino effect that his team uncovered may have less to do with extending life, he says, then with making it possible to survive caloric restriction at all.

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  • But if Svensmark was correct, it would mean that periods of high solar output should coincide with reduced cloud formation (due to reduced cosmic ray incidence), which in turn would have a warming effect on the Earth, since less sunlight would be reflected back into space by clouds.

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  • They have, however, had an outsized effect on monetary policy because fears over some countries' solvency have made investors less willing to finance any of their banks (see article).

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  • "Despite the high-profile nature of the Olympics, we don't expect it to have the same effect on retail as events such as the Royal Wedding, mainly because it will have far less of an impact on day-to-day lives of U.K. consumers, " Honor Westnedge, senior retail analyst at U.K.-based consultancy Verdict Research, said in a note.

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  • That way, the spirits are extra-cold when served, and there is less need for ice, which can have a diluting effect.

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  • But if the Obama campaign could come up with new messages ... as long as they could keep doing that, it would be less likely that any one message would have that burnout effect.

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  • No-one knows why: theories range from the notion that it might have an antibiotic effect to the idea that it makes algae less appealing to munching zooplankton.

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  • The rockets have no guidance system, and have far less explosive power than the larger Katyushas, used with devastating effect by Hezbollah during this summer's war.

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  • One effect of recent rapid growth is that companies have had much less incentive to restructure.

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  • When it comes down to it, if an organization places restrictions that limits the way it engages with the public, such as the ones placed on the Olympic athletes, it will eventually have an adverse effect on the brand over time, gradually making it less relevant.

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  • European households hold less of their wealth in shares, so a stockmarket crash will have little effect on spending.

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  • Third, a decline in property prices also leaves some households with homes worth less than the amount they have borrowed, so housing busts have a greater effect on banks, which are typically heavily exposed to real estate.

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  • And it is not much less for some old-economy shares, because equity investors have no idea of the effect of the Internet on companies' prospects.

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  • Do you think less outlets to buy games and less possibility to recoup the cost of gaming is going to have a positive long term effect in building a customer base that may buy new later?

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  • Many Fed insiders expect the end to their mortgage buying to have a mild effect on rates, a half-percentage-point increase or possibly much less.

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  • The sequester would have a barely perceptible effect on government spending except that it will fall disproportionately on defense, which is less than 20 percent of the budget.

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  • One potential perverse effect of the law, says medical-cost analysts Milliman, is that insurers might have less incentive to drive down reimbursement rates to hospitals and doctors because that might push their administrative expenses above the ObamaCare cap of 15% of total costs.

    FORBES: OutFront

  • There have been no clinical trials to assess the effect of higher doses, although two other studies done on less-sick patients might suggest the higher doses are problematic--one in 1998 for patients with cardiac disease and one last year for chronic kidney disease patients.

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  • Indeed, the researchers reckon the magnetic fields at the distances they considered are less than the average fields in homes and fields of this level have been shown to have no effect.

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