For one thing, you can do more with less when it comes to animation.

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For one thing, people are more likely to spend less when they have to hand over something physical, even if it just paper.

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But if there is one thing about which investors can be more or less sure, it is that for the first time in years, official interest rates in America, Europe and Japan are heading in the same direction.

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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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Those nuggets from Applegate Farms certainly weren't the worst thing in the world, but each one was more air and less chicken than I could have known.

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Because one thing that's happening is that there's generally a bit more rain and a bit less snow in many places.

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