With a high opportunity cost to building reputation, both the biased and unbiased are less likely to play against type.

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Senator LINDSEY GRAHAM (Republican, South Carolina): I believe that the votes to withdraw politically in Iraq have diminished, and that the testimony involving people like myself and those on the fence are going to be less likely to play politics with troop withdrawals.

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Dayna Even has found spending one hour a day fully focused on her 6-year-old son, Maximilian, means "he's less likely to act out, he's more likely to play independently and less likely to interrupt adults, " says the 51-year-old writer and tutor in Kailua, Hawaii.

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These statistics paint a picture of a more defensively minded league that is less likely to penalize such defensive play when it goes outside the bounds of the rules of play.

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Fields cookies is like saying: A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine has shown that people who limit their athletic activities to curling and badminton are less likely to require knee operations than people who play contact sports.

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But countries like Germany and Japan usually want to play a major role in building the weapons they buy, whereas Middle Eastern countries are less likely to make such demands.

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