An election that seemed to promise nothing less than the remaking of British politics may end up being much less transformational than that.
It is true that the median black household is much less wealthy than that of the median white household.
The way it is done, though, matters much less than the fact that it happens.
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Here the low price of petrol, much less than half of that in other developed countries, has predictably resulted in ever-larger and heavier vehicles that consume more fuel and road, and generate more pollution, than is necessary.
Goran Tunhammar, head of the employers' club, says Swedish companies are only adapting to a global market where top dogs at American and British companies, for instance, get much bigger salaries than their Swedish counterparts and lose much less than the 60% that high-earning Swedes pay in income tax.
Both firms admit, however, that small shareholders receive much less information than institutional investors, and that more must be done for the little chap.
The hothead theory is that the ice on that gigantic island is much less stable than previously thought, and that with a tad more warming, lakes will form in the summer, drain thousands of feet down to the bedrock, and lubricate the flow to the ocean.
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At the same time, the four on-land connection points are much less hassle than the number that would be required if a 350-mile transmission system was built on land.
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That is much less of a bargain than the 60% discount that they offered in 2002.
Institutional and economic interests are bound to be hurt when a behemoth like the Pentagon re-orients itself to deal with a world that is much less predictable, but no less dangerous, than that of the cold war.
Thursday's tornadoes were much less dangerous than the EF5 storm that struck Moore, Okla.
But now even Mr Djukanovic's enemies in Podgorica, the capital, who say that their youthful president is much less of a reformer than his western friends assert, admit that his popularity is rising again, after a dip induced by the first two weeks of bombing Montenegro's military and naval installations.
That is much less than during the previous 40 years, when cereal production rose by 250%.
It's much less ostentatious than New York, although that may change.
Retrofitting existing diesel powered buses is a much less expensive alternative than replacing a bus that may still have some years left in its useful life.
This would likely be much less expensive than the existing Social Security program, which means that taxes to fund it could be much lower.
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But new government reports show that dependency is much less than it was before the economic downturn of 2008.
The first PCs were much less capable than mini-computers and mainframes that were already on the market at the time.
Electrical engineers at Stanford University have created nanoscale optical lines that use much less power than the laser connectors found in computers today.
In July, for example, Chase sent out an offer for an Ink From Chase Cash Business Card that required much less information than earlier offers.
Spence said that he quickly realized that teams run much less than they used to and when they do run, "teams aren't running power and leads with the fullbacks, " he said.
Or as Greg Clark has pointed out, the reason that past societies had less income inequality than our own is that everyone lived that much closer to starvation.
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Yet there is a big risk that REDD will deliver much less than is required.
Making sustainability the default: Behavioral economics convincingly demonstrates that we act much less rationally than we think we do.
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The fact that these actresses cost much less than Jolie might even inspire studios to take a chance on them.
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And all of that is much, much less than what the men are drawing because I wasn't paid according to what they were.
From there on, they have plenty of room to differ, encouraged by the fact that they are much less regulated than, say, mutual funds.
All I can say is that I watch much less today than I used to, and I think my life has improved as a result.
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The reason it may be controversial that British banks have borrowed so much from the ECB - a bit less than 4% of all the money on offer - is that the interest rate is so low, just 1%.
Even those jobs that demand physical labor -- manufacturing, for example -- are much less grueling than they used to be, as electrically powered machines do the lifting and shifting that used to consume human energy.
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