An American who loses his job today has less of a chance of finding another one than at any time since records began half a century ago.

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Make an appointment with a financial advisor, write your will, get life insurance: one at a time these less drastic changes will help you build confidence and improve your financial situation.

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Mr Uribe, who at one time wanted a less onerous reform, sees recessionary dangers in imposing more taxes when growth is weak.

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Thanks to a largely inept campaign, Ms Merkel saw a lead that had at one time touched 20 percentage points whittled away to less than a point by polling day.

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Roadway is a less-than-truckload carrier, meaning its trucks can carry freight for more than one customer at a time.

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But one must remember that they were developed at a time when far less was known about medicine and clinical testing was far less vigorous than it is today.

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For one thing, you have more money at stake and less time to recover from a market downturn.

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It works as advertised, though we found it only nominally less complicated than the alternative method of dialing in a street name one letter at a time with the MMI dial.

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Before the launch of the iPhone 4 in mid-2010, the company developed designs for cheaper phones that were very similar to the iPhone at the time but had a less expensive back and sides, one of the people said.

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No one can yet quantify the effects, but at least for a time the land will be less fertile.

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