Moreover, the vast bulk of Greece's bonds are written under local law, which gives it a more-or-less-free hand to impose a much bigger haircut than the trim being planned.
Over the past decade, its transformation from a snooty commercial bank into a market-oriented investment bank has fostered a more outward-looking and less separatist culture.
In the USA the percentage of black women with morbid obesity - a BMI of 40 or more - has doubled in less than a decade to 15%.
As dawn broke, however, there was agitation throughout the county as word quickly spread of the discovery of a trail of hoof prints (some say cloven), two inches wide and about eight inches apart in the snow stretched in a more-or-less straight line for over a hundred miles.
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These low temperatures allow for a quick start-up, a more compact design, and less use of rare-earth materials.
Then there is the Atomium, a giant-sized more-or-less model of an atom put up in 1958 as a tribute to the potential of the nuclear age.
But then, in 1971, Richard Nixon replaced a more-or-less solid dollar, vaguely backed by gold, with a pure paper dollar, backed by nothing but the good intentions of government employees.
The gold market this week is acting more like a safe-haven asset and less like a risk asset, which is frustrating the yellow metal bulls.
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What has been noticeable this week is the precious yellow metal has begun to act more like a safe-haven asset and less like a risk asset.
If it is a concept that is unlikely to ever acquire Total Football's sexy cache, Raymond Verheijen believes periodisation - in essence a less is more approach to training - is important in allowing clubs to protect their key asset - players.
Fossil's a pretty successful force in the watch business, but the Wrist PDA it launched last year--by its own admission--was more or less a failure.
Playing point forward is less than ideal for Anthony, a six-time All-Star, because it makes him more deliberate and leaves him less opportunity to act as a deadly spot-up shooter.
Google has redesigned its product-search feature to make it more stylish and less like a text-heavy, SEO-optimized Google page, according to Search Engine Land.
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My guess is that gray hairs dominate this group and harken back to a more distant past for a less-than-objective way of deciding who plays this year.
England have yet to score a bonus point - for scoring four or more tries in a match or for losing by less than seven points - and though defeat to Samoa would not mean automatic failure to qualify, realistically they must win.
The menu items were the same for each participant, Dr. Bray said, but a participant on the low-protein diet would have gotten more mayonnaise and less tuna in a tuna fish salad, while the high-protein diet was extra tuna with little mayonnaise.
For junior hydroelectric companies, these run-of-river projects are a less expensive, more efficient, and fish-friendlier way to get in on the energy game.
Once the government brought in a more-or-less credible safety-net, people seemed to become less afraid that Japan's financial system was about to collapse.
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Likewise, the private donations may reflect the public changing how it distributes a more-or-less fixed pot of charitable cash, in which case other charities may suffer.
This is a more-or-less permanent state of affairs, because Mr O'Konek's contract says he does not have to take language lessons for three years (he wants to devote himself to the telecoms business first).
In 2004 a prestigious medical journal published a report claiming that a smoking ban imposed in the city of Helena, Montana, appeared to have resulted in a more-or-less immediate 40% reduction in hospital admissions for acute heart attacks.
As for acquisitions, the old stamp collecting, one-of-everything mentality has given way to a less-is-more approach.
So we find ourselves - as Lord Turner more or less admitted last night - trapped in a nightmare where trying to do the right thing to strengthen banks has the paradoxical and wrong outcome of undermining economic recovery and further debilitating the banks.
There's a lot more to Pinot Noir--usually with a lot less of nearly everything that has gone into those Baby Huey wines.
This was more a cyber-riot than a war, but it forced Estonia more or less to cut itself off from the internet.
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For all intents and purposes, it looks like a second-generation Q: less plasticky, slightly smaller, and perhaps even a little more purpose-suited.
The implied interest rate on 10-year loans to the Italian government fell more than half a percentage point - a remarkable drop - to less than 6%.
True story: a couple I knew, Judy, a top executive, made way more money than Mike, a less-than-successful entrepreneur.
The whole open-to-the-public stately home phenomenon is a business: nothing more, nothing less.
Andrew Rosen also picked up his father's affability, although it's a more low-key, less rambunctious version.
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