And when political elites cannot deliver deep-seated structural reforms, it is more of less impossible.
"It's been hectic - more of less what I expected, " reflected the former Cowdenbeath and TPS Turku boss.
Caught in the throes of its redistributive delirium, the welfare state redistributes more and more of less and less until driven to its ultimate lunacy, it leaves everyone sharing equally in the misery it creates.
Many were wary of a possible weak earnings season this quarter, and these are two more example of less-than-stellar reports that, although they are not leading to a lower open this morning, could weigh on market sentiment.
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So if more of the banking and trading was done by women less of the banking and trading would be of the risky kind and more would be of the less risky kind.
Audiences have also become more accepting of less-than-perfect female leads, making their best friends seem comparatively sane.
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Creating more out of less is the eternal name of the business game.
The news release also does not reveal whether higher doses of the drug showed more or less of an effect than lower doses.
By government paying above average wages and testing for the best and brightest, they assure that the worker pool for the private sector will thereby be populated with more of the less capable.
The masculine view of power is about who has more or less of it.
The result of moving email marketing in-house is more control of security standards, less risk of malicious targeting by hackers and access to more data for email execution.
They think we spend more and get less out of our foreign policy investments, when in fact we spend less and get more than in almost any other area of public endeavor.
Does anyone genuinely believe that, say, the government of Zimbabwe would suddenly become more democratic, less corrupt, more respectful of individual property rights if its international loans were erased?
Typically, it takes her about four to seven trials to nail a new flavor, settling on the right percentage of cacao in the chocolate she's using, for instance, and adding more or less of each ingredient.
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On a more sceptical note, Thomas Kirchner in the Sueddeutsche Zeitung describes the EU as a "quarrelling bunch of more or less bankrupt states" and says the Nobel committee "must be careful if it wants its decisions to be taken seriously for much longer".
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Moving from a project-based model to a retainer model, where you are paid a certain sum each month for a set amount of work, makes business more predictable and less of a soul-sapping emotional roller coaster.
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So then after that, I formed my own opinion based on, you know, both sides of the aisle, more or less in terms of what they were talking about with respect to the president's State of the Union speech.
As we parted to get to the championship basketball game I asked for a raising of hands for my obsessive fantasy that it just may be that the denizens of Wall Street were more or less in charge of the governing of these United States of America.
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If this is considered big business, then European soccer is a mega-business capable of generating more revenue in less than one month of play than FIFA does every quadrennial.
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And while nobody has gone so far as to openly celebrate an early elimination, it probably would be safe to assume that some managers aren't too displeased at the prospect of more rest and less travel in the stretch to the end of the season, when their club's future status (and their own future employment) will be determined.
Before getting properly under way, his book includes a selection of more or less unchanged reprints.
And there are signs that people are saving more in anticipation of less generous pensions.
What - do they e-mail you, do they write you, say, more of this, less of that?
But if returns to higher education go on falling as the price rises, will people want more of it or less?
The whole northern part of Iraq, where the Kurds are, was sort of more or less autonomous after the 1991 Gulf War.
He can tell just from the look and the feel whether more or less of an ingredient, or more manipulation, is necessary.
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Rather than viewing service and profit as a trade-off more of one means less of the other we should think about them as a partnership.
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But the one that is being targeted, it appears today, is that of more or less somebody who's political, the radical Shiite Moqtada al-Sadr.
Then you'd get a series of more or less secular politicians trying to adjust their own power relationship with each other and with the military.
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