Moreover, the vast bulk of Greece's bonds are written under local law, which gives it a more-or-less-free hand to impose a much bigger haircut than the trim being planned.
Over the past decade, its transformation from a snooty commercial bank into a market-oriented investment bank has fostered a more outward-looking and less separatist culture.
In the USA the percentage of black women with morbid obesity - a BMI of 40 or more - has doubled in less than a decade to 15%.
As dawn broke, however, there was agitation throughout the county as word quickly spread of the discovery of a trail of hoof prints (some say cloven), two inches wide and about eight inches apart in the snow stretched in a more-or-less straight line for over a hundred miles.
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These low temperatures allow for a quick start-up, a more compact design, and less use of rare-earth materials.
There are disturbing parallels to events in neighbouring Belarus, where over the past five years a more-or-less democratic political system has been tweaked and squeezed into near-oblivion by a paranoid president and his rich and powerful backers, some of whom have a hot line to the Kremlin.
Then there is the Atomium, a giant-sized more-or-less model of an atom put up in 1958 as a tribute to the potential of the nuclear age.
But then, in 1971, Richard Nixon replaced a more-or-less solid dollar, vaguely backed by gold, with a pure paper dollar, backed by nothing but the good intentions of government employees.
The gold market this week is acting more like a safe-haven asset and less like a risk asset, which is frustrating the yellow metal bulls.
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What has been noticeable this week is the precious yellow metal has begun to act more like a safe-haven asset and less like a risk asset.
If it is a concept that is unlikely to ever acquire Total Football's sexy cache, Raymond Verheijen believes periodisation - in essence a less is more approach to training - is important in allowing clubs to protect their key asset - players.
Fossil's a pretty successful force in the watch business, but the Wrist PDA it launched last year--by its own admission--was more or less a failure.
Playing point forward is less than ideal for Anthony, a six-time All-Star, because it makes him more deliberate and leaves him less opportunity to act as a deadly spot-up shooter.
And as the President said yesterday, I think there is no doubt that this is -- this should and could be seen as nothing more -- nothing less than a big recruiting bonanza for al Qaeda.
Google has redesigned its product-search feature to make it more stylish and less like a text-heavy, SEO-optimized Google page, according to Search Engine Land.
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This would enable the various military components (carriers, battleships, submarines and aircraft) to experience acting independently, or in a semi-autonomous state, more adequately preparing them to meet the requirements of a C4ISR-less environment.
It would seem -- if Gorbachev's economic agenda, purportedly leading to a less militarized, more inward-looking Soviet Union, is real -- that the central government would have far more modest spending requirements and less trepidation about a devolution of this kind.
My guess is that gray hairs dominate this group and harken back to a more distant past for a less-than-objective way of deciding who plays this year.
England have yet to score a bonus point - for scoring four or more tries in a match or for losing by less than seven points - and though defeat to Samoa would not mean automatic failure to qualify, realistically they must win.
The menu items were the same for each participant, Dr. Bray said, but a participant on the low-protein diet would have gotten more mayonnaise and less tuna in a tuna fish salad, while the high-protein diet was extra tuna with little mayonnaise.
For junior hydroelectric companies, these run-of-river projects are a less expensive, more efficient, and fish-friendlier way to get in on the energy game.
Once the government brought in a more-or-less credible safety-net, people seemed to become less afraid that Japan's financial system was about to collapse.
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Likewise, the private donations may reflect the public changing how it distributes a more-or-less fixed pot of charitable cash, in which case other charities may suffer.
Although the basic framework of any deal is clear a more-or-less total Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights in exchange for security guarantees covering both Syria and Lebanon the details will be diabolical.
This is a more-or-less permanent state of affairs, because Mr O'Konek's contract says he does not have to take language lessons for three years (he wants to devote himself to the telecoms business first).
In 2004 a prestigious medical journal published a report claiming that a smoking ban imposed in the city of Helena, Montana, appeared to have resulted in a more-or-less immediate 40% reduction in hospital admissions for acute heart attacks.
As for acquisitions, the old stamp collecting, one-of-everything mentality has given way to a less-is-more approach.
If the president-elect looks to raise taxes, a more likely target will be the less-well-heeled small businesspeople, farmers and others who have tended to remain closer to the Republican Party.
For the time being, the ways of dealing with ethnic rivalry extend along a spectrum with, at one end, a colour-blind, race-blind and religion-blind democracy and, at the other, a more or less despotic system in which one lot sits on the other.
By contrast, a government-administered fund more or less guarantees a more politicized payment process.
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