But at university level, with the exception of Oxbridge, Oxford Brookes, London and Durham, British rowing is not up to much.
Politicians are naturally happy to see such self-sacrifice: it may not add up to much compared with the huge weight of the nation's financial predicament, but it fosters an air of crisis and helps prepare people for the tough times to come.
Mr Koizumi's government may deserve some credit, they argue, but most of his reforms have been gradual and do not yet add up to much.
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.
Banks may not have to pay up as much to retain lower-level worker bees, because there are simply fewer competitors to snatch them away.
In addition, while TeliaSonera does have a presence in Russia through MegaFon, and in Turkey through Turkcell, both investments are minority stakes, and alongside majority shareholders who are not prepared to give up much control, said Goyens.
The second weakness is that although the report recognises that expanding the supply of good school places is more important than allocating existing ones, it does not come up with much to help new providers set up schools.
There have not yet been any names or numbers to back the claims up, and Sarin is not thought to have encountered much hostility when he met recently with major investors.
India and China, most prominently, are trying to contain price increases while not seeing their currencies move up too much to hurt exports.
Republicans want to tighten up the testing part, but not to spend much more money.
So you end up not having to hold as much margin because those are less risky portfolios than had they been held separately.
For their part, America and the European Union have banned assorted Belarusian officials from entering their countries, and are trying to freeze their foreign assets (though not much loot seems to have turned up).
The Saudis and Gulf allies may say that they intend to ramp up oil production, but not much of any increase will make it through to export markets.
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Critics say the league in China is not doing much to catch up as it is primarily focused on increasing viewership and selling merchandise.
The researchers found no benefit over six years, but they admit that the effects of long-term use might not show up with regard to cancer until much later.
Never mind that Mr. Clinton has up to this point not shown much interest in equipping the United States with missile defense technology, let alone making it available to others.
Whether pondering disaster or opportunity, the point is not so much to come up with definitive answers to these questions, but to visit and stretch our brains by considering different possibilities.
These do not add up to an ideological revolution so much as a big shift in power away from narrow, outdated interest-groups and towards the interests of the majority of Japanese.
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But the kind of numbers being talked about for the IMF - on the order of 300-500bn euros - do not, in themselves, add up to much more than a security blanket for the likes of Italy.
Among them are the right to file a joint return (which is not always quite as much as it is cracked up to be) and the unlimited marital deduction for estate tax purposes.
When you teach to the test you end up teaching kids how to take tests and not much else.
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I'm not expecting Liberty to lighten up on Sirius too much, too soon.
Does he think the Europeans need to step up, not so much on the longer-term issue but on the immediate issue of restoring market confidence?
This lizard's ability to walk up walls and along ceilings is of much interest, and not only to fans of Spider-Man.
The wealthy entrepreneur doesn't usually attach a note saying that he usually manages not to pay much tax but this year he'd been forced to cough up.
As experienced administrators, EVAC members say they are careful not to pass on information about hoaxes which can take as much time to clear up as real viruses.
But by the weekend before the taping, I decided not to study up, or even brood very much.
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