• Have you ever been a monderator or administrator of a more or less lively webforum?

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  • America's system, with a more or less directly elected president, is a good model.

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  • Good acquired Jumo, and Hughes will join the company on what he describes as a more or less full-time basis.

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  • In the eighteenth century, battles typically were fought, in a more or less prudent and narrow-bore fashion, to take a town or make a point.

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  • In addition, they want to tax their residents on their world-wide income (typically with a more or less limited credit for what they paid other states).

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  • If a more or less seamless network can be created from the web of European ventures, it should be possible to deter customers from straying on to other companies' systems.

    ECONOMIST: Telecommunications

  • Bruce achieved some success as a more or less conventional comedian in the 1950s before he began extending the boundaries of what was considered acceptable material for night club comics.

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  • Trouble is, yields climbed, in a more or less uninterrupted fashion, until November 1994, by which time the ten-year Treasury note yielded three percentage points more than it had a year earlier.

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  • Rather, the system takes advantage of the fact that the earth underneath Fort Knox (like many places across the country) maintains a more or less constant temperature of 57 degrees year around.

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  • The country had been set up as a homeland for Indian Muslims, but it had been a more or less secular state, as envisaged by its founder, the clean-shaven, tweed-jacketed, and Anglicized Muhammad Ali Jinnah.

    NEWYORKER: Days of Rage

  • This, coupled with his soft approach towards religion, helped him consolidate his support among the tribesmen, and put in place a more or less stable system of tribal governance, which continued for almost six years.

    BBC: Taliban's Mullah Nazir death spells trouble for Pakistan

  • Still, Ichiro is a more or less an average player even when he hits .250, because of his speed and defense, and Jeter is coming off a year in which he led the league in hits.

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  • The latest findings show that the rate of ice loss in Greenland has increased almost fivefold since the mid-1990s, while Antarctica overall has been losing relatively small amounts of ice at a more or less constant rate.

    WSJ: Polar Ice Sheets Melt at Faster Pace

  • Your avatar has a race (human, elf, orc etc), a class (warrior, priest, wizard, etc), a more or less extensive inventory of all sorts of stuff (weapons, armor, potions, fishing rods, etc), a level and, in effect, a bank account.

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  • Though she fulfills the rules of the genre, with a more or less chronological guided tour through the sites (in France and elsewhere) and the sights (her movies, photographs, and art projects) of her life, her main order of business is love.

    NEWYORKER: The Beaches of Agn��s

  • "If you are able to see a more or less stable situation in Afghanistan, if it becomes another relatively normal Central Asian state, China will be the natural beneficiary, " says Andrew Small, a China expert at The German Marshall Fund of the United States, an American research institute.

    NPR: Eyeing Rich Bounty, China In Line For Afghan Role

  • The second question is whether the closure of the News of the World will be seen by the media regulator, Ofcom, as making News Corporation, parent company of News International, a more or less fit-and-proper owner of British Sky Broadcasting, the UK's biggest television business (it is Ofcom's statutory duty to adjudicate on that important issue).

    BBC: Big questions for News International

  • Beyond that, insurance companies look at past claims histories to determine which models incur more or less damage in a crash, are more or less damaging to other vehicles, people and property, are more or less likely to be stolen or be involved in a crash and have higher or lower bodily injury claims.

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  • Or a little more or less.

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  • In the monolithic Welsh NHS, it doesn't bring a penny more or less in whether a patient is coded or not.

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  • Beyond that, insurance companies look at past claims histories to determine which models incur more or less damage in a crash, are more or less damaging to other vehicles, people and property, are more or less likely to be crashed or stolen and have higher or lower bodily injury claims.

    FORBES: The Cheapest Cars To Insure

  • "I am not a doctor, nor am I a medical historian, but these injuries are very difficult to recover from after one surgery, and I'm not sure what the history is of recovery from a second more or less identical surgery, " general manager Sandy Alderson said on a conference call.

    WSJ: Santana likely to miss season with torn shoulder

  • What may look like a more (or less) attractive salary could be offset by less (or more) attractive fringe benefits.

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  • The Traugots chose to decorate their home in a style more or less authentic to its Victorian origins, all frills and outsized furniture.

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  • But so far, Windows Phone sales have been terrible, despite some pretty sexy, well-reviewed hardware from Nokia (a company more or less on life support right now).

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  • The Horn is a region of more or less than a million square miles with between 100 million and 200 million people, depending on how you define it.

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  • The coast east of Nice falls so steeply to the sea, that in a more peaceful or less sun-obsessed part of the world it would have been largely shunned by man.

    BBC: The perfect trip: Provence and the C?te d��Azur

  • Now, he proved it in budget negotiations with the Republicans when he offered them right off the bat a trillion dollars in budget cuts over the next decade, and he said, now, can we make a deal more or less like the Simpson-Bowles deal?

    WHITEHOUSE: The White House

  • "It's quite obvious to me that there must be some individuals who are born with a more intense or less intense appetite than others and put in the right situation or the wrong situation - abundant access to food - those individuals born with greater appetite drive are much more likely to become obese, " says Professor O'Rahilly.

    BBC: Born to be fat

  • Even if you disagree with my strategy you can still make money by using my concept of using GTC Limit Orders to buy weakness to a value level to become more long or less short, or to sell strength to a risky level to become less long or more short.

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