But have you ever thought about how the free market gives you so much for so little?
It makes sense: so much land, irrigation, and fuel for so little corn ethanol.
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But thanks to the wrong turn ("so much for this nice little shortcut") that is as essential to horror movies as yeast is to bread, the gang decides to camp out for the night and resume the journey in the morning.
So much money had been spent on the exterior that there was little left for the inside, so the local council - more used to overseeing parks and roads - finished off the job.
It will probably not be able to intervene in the economy for much longer, so rates will rise and there will be little they will be able to do about it.
The much larger sensor and superior processing gives you massively better image quality, they're much faster (with little or no lag) so better for action, there's a lot more creative control over things like depth of field, the option to change lenses, add flashguns etc add to creative possibilities and also increase image quality.
Large areas of Africa receive little rainfall for much of the year, so even though Africa covers 20% of the world's land area, it only has 9% of global freshwater resources.
So too, I would guess, will be the effect on the psyche of a people who have lived with earthquakes for centuries and, recent troubles aside, have done so much with so little.
His disdain for pessimistic, Chicken Little-like punditry--beloved by so much of the mainstream media--was in synch with the basic optimism of most Americans.
For example, companies are sitting on so much cash at the moment that there is little risk that private investment will be crowded out by lots of government borrowing.
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Because WPP paid so little for its initial 22% stake, it can pay as much as 600p per share without diluting the company's total value, said Deutsche Bank analyst Patrick Kirby.
"The markets at Ledbury, Ross-on-Wye and Leominster are far better than Hereford, we make a little bit extra because the council don't charge us so much for those markets, and that keeps Hereford afloat, " he added.
So much money had been spent on the outside of the building that there was comparatively little left for the inside, which led to complaints that the job was inadequate.
Some activists -- conservative Grover Norquist among them -- argue that over time, this purification will be good for the U.S. But so far, the task of governing has gotten much tougher, and what little trust is left among the parties is evaporating.
So next time Donald Duck traps the thugs, or 007 eliminates the villain, we should also allow ourselves to feel a slight sense of grief and sympathy for the ugly crooks, who might have achieved so much more in life had mother nature made them just that little bit more pleasing to our eye.
And I think Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have taken so much oxygen out of the room, and not to mention Edwards, has left very little left for the second tier candidates.
But watching the Greek crisis grind toward its umpteenth "crunch point", you can't help wondering why we hear so much about the country that's been desperately trying to win the markets' confidence for nearly two years, but so little about the country that, at the height of the crisis, basically told international investors to shut up and wait their turn.
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