• 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.

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  • One thing to remember is the size of the device dictates the size of the screen more or less and the screen is one of the costlier components of the device.

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  • Thiel, who was in law school at the time, was also the president of the Stanford Federalist Society and the founder of the Stanford Review, a more highbrow, less bad-boy version of the notoriously incendiary Dartmouth Review.

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  • Kennan thought that Americans were shallow, materialistic, and self-centered he had the attitude of a typical mid-century European and the more he saw of them the less fond of them he grew.

    NEWYORKER: Getting Real

  • 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.

    WSJ: Success in Soccer's FA Cup Puts Wigan Athletic in Bind

  • The news release also does not reveal whether higher doses of the drug showed more or less of an effect than lower doses.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Risk equals reward, but now the governments of the world want less of the first and more of the latter and more layers to the failed oversight system that let the credit system bubble and crunch.

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  • But as the rate of killing remains more or less constant, the insurgents have probably merely become more skilled at laying other kinds of bomb.

    ECONOMIST: Iraq's constitution

  • The mixture the team achieved leaves the combined mass of lignin and cellulose in the trunk more or less unchanged and, contrary to the expectations of many critics, the resulting trees are as strong as unmodified ones.

    ECONOMIST: GM trees are on their way

  • The whole northern part of Iraq, where the Kurds are, was sort of more or less autonomous after the 1991 Gulf War.

    NPR: Kurds Weigh Future in Federated Iraq

  • 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.

    FORBES: My Cohort Believes QE Only Benefits the Nation's Wealthiest

  • The threat of more injuries (with less pay) is the main concern of the Players Association in switching to the 18-game schedule.

    FORBES: Ironman Against Supermen To Start NFL Season

  • There is of course a very interesting question whether the risk aversion of the regulator is more or less rational than the priesthood's apparent appetite for risk.

    BBC: Holy pension hole

  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • There will without doubt be improvements in the efficiency of the economy - more output from less electricity through better machines or ways of doing things or better materials.

    BBC: German coal power revival poses new emissions threat

  • 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.

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  • "It is more aware of the need for competition, less afraid of the arts being subversive, and more assured of their positive qualities in the making of a modern society, " he says.

    CNN: ?>?magazine

  • Or are their votes more of an economic tantrum against the globalization that threatens the less-work, more-welfare ethos of their contemporary lives?

    FORBES

  • The likely cause of the crash is far more complex and less definable, says Ben Van Vliet, a professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology.

    FORBES: Searching For Flash Crash Culprit, The SEC Fingers Wrong Man

  • He said some information was already available and showed the first set of results were "more or less in line with the expectations of the industry".

    BBC: Work Programme stats due in August, minister says

  • The photographs (many of them taken on a Vest Pocket Kodak, more or less the equivalent of a modern disposable camera) are starkly beautiful.

    ECONOMIST: Antarctic exploration

  • The move, more or less the equivalent of an old-fashioned table-pounding affirmation of her bullish stance on the stock, comes in tandem with a release of the bullish results of a survey Morgan conducted that shows strong demand for for the iPhone.

    FORBES: Apple: Morgan Stanley Says Buy Now; Bullish On iPhone

  • As you know, the Bush administration is straining to develop a coalition of the more or less willing to punish North Korea for testing an atomic device and threatening to test more.

    NPR: U.S. Must Battle Allies Over N. Korea Regime

  • Lacking both a congressional majority and negotiating skills, neither president managed much in the way of structural reforms, leaving more or less intact the PRI's legacy of public and private monopolies that stifle the economy and the education system.

    ECONOMIST: Mexico��s presidential election

  • The First Concept: The more something costs, the less of it you get.

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  • If Mer has a not-so-hidden agenda, it is to make the French government more of a facilitator and less of a boss, the business role that officials have traditionally held and cherished.

    FORBES: Sea change in France

  • In particular, as Mr Wall notes, he provides an answer to the question left hanging by Mr Stora: namely, given that the French army by the end of the 1950s had more or less won its war in Algeria, why did Algeria nonetheless gain its independence?

    ECONOMIST: Algeria then and now

  • The multinational digger has just confirmed it has let the trucks roam free at the Nammuldi iron ore mine, a hole in the ground located in more or less the middle of nowhere, as the nearest town, Tom Price, is 60km away.

    FORBES: Don't Tell The Teamsters: But Driverless Trucks Are Already Here

  • The theory of the permanent campaign is an attempt to explain the politics of the world through one idea that more or less applies everywhere.

    BBC: Philip Gould: What 'permanent campaign'?

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