Less open than many other Asian economies, India was less exposed to the global downturn.
American banks are less exposed to wobbly euro-zone countries, but the numbers are still pretty big.
Falling stockmarkets mean that, without doing much, a lot of savers are less exposed to equities.
Wells Fargo, less exposed to trading performance and European issues than its big-bank peers, was 1.4% lower.
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Its container ships are less exposed to the volatility found in bulk cargo.
But the output of goods less exposed to low-cost competition, such as cars and chemicals, has grown (see chart).
In good times, most of the economy's impetus came from within so it was less exposed to trouble from without.
Rafael Soifer, an analyst with Brown Brothers Harriman, reckons that most banks are less exposed to Asia than the market assumes.
Europe's economies may be less exposed to emerging markets than America's, but European banks account for the lion's share of lending to them.
Since banks would be less exposed to their national governments, financial sector stability would be less endangered if a national government has financial problems.
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They also have been less exposed to insurance products and thus require literacy training before they can trust and understand the benefits of the products.
Britain is far less exposed to a run on its banks by foreign depositors than Iceland was, says Ben Broadbent, an economist at Goldman Sachs.
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Sir2 can turn off whole swaths of genes inside cells, keeping the DNA coiled up in a protected position and less exposed to environmental damage during hard times.
One of the younger and less experienced constables has obviously asked her to accompany him to a place where, as an agent of the state, he will feel less exposed.
Though high-income areas tend to spawn expensive homes that are pricier to replace if damaged or destroyed, they are also likely to be more structurally sound and less exposed to tough weather.
Dell, which "has a higher mix of corporate business to the market than HP and Acer, " was less exposed to a slowdown in the consumer segment, according to Matthew Wilkins, analyst for iSuppli.
One of the differences between now and the recession of 1990-91 is, on the face of it, that banks are much less exposed to credit risk, thanks to the vast market in corporate debt.
Short of success in international competitions, the leading English teams and a couple of Scottish clubs (which have a separate league) have looked for ways to make money that are less exposed to results on the pitch.
Funded pensions are considerably less exposed to the risk of being plundered by politicians, whereas pay-as-you-go state pensions have a long record of being reduced in value by governments looking to save money, as the Tories themselves did.
The airline considered putting the couches across the four seats in the middle of the 777-300 coach cabin, but people in the tests preferred three seats on the side, where they felt less exposed and more like they were in a private cocoon.
True, that lead may well lead nowhere but this, its advocates would say, does not necessarily invalidate the argument: if America had had more support, its policies would have had a better chance of working, and America itself would have been less exposed.
"Japan's export economy is much less exposed to the euro than the dollar, but as both continued to look unlikely to recover through the course of the day, the initial round of profit-taking gave way to renewed selling, " said David Baran, co-CEO of Tokyo-based asset manager Symphony Partners in Tokyo.
Brazil's high tariff barriers have created factories that are less efficient than those exposed to international competition.
But calm yourselves, Bank of America executives: your secrets are no more or less certain to be exposed than they were yesterday.
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Business leaders will remember a time when U.S. companies were more or less alone in being exposed to legal action for foreign commercial bribery.
Business would be exposed to less uncertainty.
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Now that we're exposed to less dirt and bacteria (thanks in part to our obsession with antibacterial everything), and have fewer scourges like polio and parasites to fight, our immune systems are quicker to overreact to otherwise harmless substances like pollen, says Levetin.
"From the day Vioxx was withdrawn from the market, the principal assertion from Merck has been that patients exposed for less than 18 months were not at risk, " says Steven Nissen, who heads cardiology at the Cleveland Clinic and has been one of Merck's biggest critics on Vioxx--including in a letter published alongside the NEJM correction.
They are also less likely to have been exposed to opportunities, such as education or jobs.
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