When it comes to deeds, Europe's contribution to reducing the threat from across what is still the world's most heavily armoured border does not amount to much.
It does not seem to amount to much but it does mean that life is possible here.
On closer examination it may amount to not much more than a currency move.
That amount is not likely to be much: Major marketers have been pulling their advertising from the paper in droves in an attempt to distance themselves from the scandal.
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While consumers do carry more debt than they used to, the amount of income devoted to servicing that debt has not gone up that much, thanks to falling interest rates and longer maturities.
If you are working, investments intended for retirement spending should be invested based on the total amount you expect to have when you retire, not how much you have now.
However, what we do know is that the minimum wage has been around as a national imperative since 1938 and it does not appear to have done much damage while arguably doing a considerable amount of good.
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In that sense, the government has "delayed some of the planned adjustment" - though, it must be said, only because the worsened state of the economy means the same amount of spending cuts and tax rises will not do as much to help the public finances in this parliament than they previously hoped.
If the reforms amount to nothing more than shuffling corporate assets, they will not have much effect (especially if the already stretched banks are forced to absorb most of the bad debt).
Over the past two and a half years, I would argue, you have seen unprecedented leadership at the state level: 44 or 45 states raising standards, three dozen states removing barriers to innovation, a huge amount of leadership and courage not so much coming out of here in Washington, but at the state level.
According to Praveen Atreya, director of Verizon's Innovation Program, there's just too much involved in the incubation and launch process to not devote the proper amount of manpower to it.
If you buy a junk bond with borrowed funds, you collect the high coupon on the bond while paying out a lower amount, presumably not too much more than what the U.S. government pays to borrow money.
But it does not require a huge amount of imagination to suggest that the cost of the 787 to Boeing could rise much higher.
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But the two governments did not use this language, and no one else, including republicans, seems to think the council will amount to much.
Moreover, as ever-better ways of measuring local carbon-dioxide levels become available, it will be possible to put figures on not just the amount of the gas that deforestation is releasing, but also how much of it photosynthesis is tucking away.
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This might not seem like much of an improvement, but 19 calories lost per meal over a number of years can amount to a number of pounds lost.
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