Obese people are rated as being less desirable as subordinates, co-workers, and bosses and are seen as less conscientious, less agreeable, and less emotionally stable.
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Rather than classifying some memories as important and others as less essential, the brain classes everything as important.
November saw less than half as many visitors as the year before, and less than a third as many as November 2000.
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As for the western states' mineral and farm exports, they will surely grow over time as less developed Asian countries such as China, Vietnam and Indonesia increasingly industrialise and switch to more meat and grain in their diets.
Managers, like movie stars, regard themselves more as valuable individuals and less as members of a team.
In times of crisis, local employees typically have more credibility than senior management, as they are seen as less calculating.
In other words, it is the latest initiative to provide the financial bridge that British industry has wanted for more or less as long as I have been conscious of the existence of British industry, viz long-term finance for growing companies from the institutions that invest for the long term.
The fund has bounced back because of its heavy concentration on a handful of technology stocks, such as Google, Amazon and eBay, which Mr Miller sees less as growth companies (the conventional view) than as natural monopolies.
They found that the more popular websites were not necessarily of higher quality, and were just as likely to contain inaccurate information as less popular sites.
As voters elsewhere clock the three Icelandic MPs, they may see a Pirate Party vote less as a political statement, and more as a realistic option.
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On the other, this kept us whisking about for longer periods in the den, as it didn't cover as much ground as our cheaper, less sucky options.
She says a woman will always be accepted as a pop princess and less easily as something else.
Those stakes they keep are being treated more as assets that must pay their way and less as the basis for a cosy friendship with the companies' managers.
Although he was one of New Labour's architects, as chancellor Mr Brown cultivated a reputation as less New and more straightforwardly Labour than Mr Blair, perhaps because this stance strengthened his hand in internal party politics.
The cast is a mixed salad: Rip Torn as the randy old King, Asia Argento as his mistress, Judy Davis as a court harpy, and Marianne Faithfull, no less, as the mother of Marie Antoinette.
We might cultivate ourselves more as individuals who are part of a community and less as employees who are part of a company.
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Overall, the pension experts judged the U.S. system, as well as those in the UK and Canada, as less sustainable than just a year ago, when they conducted their first joint international study.
Mobile advertising generally has been seen as less profitable for Internet companies as they seek to develop new advertising and other models on much smaller screens.
For traditional software systems, like enterprise software, this is not an easy shift and there exists an entire generation of software companies who will either not survive or come out as much smaller and less interesting companies as a result.
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As a result Latinos have been less strong as a block than the Irish were after the immigration wave of the 19th century, or than blacks have been recently, he says.
Moreover, management teams have already been calling for seasonal pick-up in foundry spending from later this year and as such, we view the set-up as less favorable for semicap stocks.
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They may be more intent on raising as much money as possible and less concerned about the publicity value of an IPO or the need to reward or reassure investors with quick returns.
That military campaigns, treaties, alliances were to be entered into for precisely as long, no more and no less, as they served to the advantage of the American nation.
But the uproar should serve as a warning to companies that women no longer take kindly to being portrayed as less serious or knowledgeable than men.
It joins other account-recovery features such as the ubiquitous "forgot my password" and security questions, as well as less conventional methods, like identifying friends' faces in pictures or recovering passwords via text message.
Meanwhile, as Pfizer had to conduct long safety studies to deal with the lung capacity issue, insulin shots got less painful as companies like Becton, Dickinson developed less painful needles and drug firms started to market insulin in easy-to-use pre-packaged "pen" devices.
But Brad Hintz, of Alliance Bernstein, thinks the bank may have to make do with eight to nine percentage points less as bets with borrowed money become less acceptable.
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Driven by the influence of venture capitalists prioritizing investments in these areas, publically-held companies are experiencing increasing interest from institutional investors who see them as less risky than start-ups yet just as able of moving into cloud computing.
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His subject emerges as a remarkable but flawed individual and as a less than consistently creative writer.
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