The smart grid would have less impact on the countryside, said the groups.
Movements in currencies also tend to have less impact on inflation in America than elsewhere, partly because it imports less.
Experience from previous natural disasters, such as earthquakes, suggests that they often have less impact than was predicted at the time.
While a program like Virgin's offers employees some short-term benefits, it may have less impact on a company's overall effectiveness, he says.
Because of these trends, price changes at the farm level in the U.S. have less impact on a percentage basis than ever before.
Equities account for less than 20% of Chinese households' total financial assets, compared with half in America, so price swings have less impact on spending.
Because monthly mortgage payments for many homeowners and buyers are lower than they have been for years, trimming or restructuring the MID might have less impact than we thought.
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Even if he were to hint at a third bout of quantitative easing, another round of QE seems likely to have less impact on American growth than the previous two.
The claim is far-fetched: the merchant banks' collapse, should it happen, would have less impact on the banking system than on the dodgy companies the merchant banks have been forced to lend to.
At the end of the day, a judge's race and gender may have less impact on how she decides a particular case than how the larger public perceives the court on which she sits.
They are paid well, but certainly not extravagant amounts and when compared to many other jobs that require less expertise, have less impact on the globe, and less responsibility, there is good value for the money.
In my case, changes to my exercise patterns have much less impact on my sugar levels than how much I eat.
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The agency said the work would cost "significantly lower" than widening the motorway and have "less impact on the environment during construction".
Ironically, Europe's much-criticised Common Agricultural Policy has been moving away from price and production-based subsidies towards direct payments to farmers that have far less impact on trade.
But while some are highly promising, taken together they have so far had much less impact than might have been hoped.
Mr Shotton said a stop near the M6 would be cheaper, have less of an impact on the environment and benefit more people.
Moreover, Canadian private investment is divided evenly between machinery and equipment, which boost productivity sharply, and structures that store and transport goods, which have less of an impact.
"We're trying to figure out how to have more impact with less resources, " he said.
Not only do they reduce reliance on oil, but these substitutes tend to have less of a residual impact on the environment.
"I do buy flowers and small gifts for (my wife) sometimes, but honestly those things have way less of an impact than me doing the dishes randomly, putting the girls to sleep or helping to enforce the rules, " he says.
"Despite the high-profile nature of the Olympics, we don't expect it to have the same effect on retail as events such as the Royal Wedding, mainly because it will have far less of an impact on day-to-day lives of U.K. consumers, " Honor Westnedge, senior retail analyst at U.K.-based consultancy Verdict Research, said in a note.
Getting hair cuts at home or eating at home more and eating out less would have a similar impact on GDP without necessarily reducing standards of living.
As mentioned above, better than expected Kinect sales would not have much impact, as XBox constitutes less than 3% of our estimate for Microsoft stock.
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Jobs versus output is a different story: Regulations that make it more expensive to create output that could have otherwise been created with less input must impact either existing jobs somewhere in the economy, or job creation and growth down the line.
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The more people will use it the less impact any isolated incident will have on bitcoins value.
We found their approach to have more than double the impact of a less comprehensive approach used in British Columbia, where minimum prices were not linked to alcohol content.
The closer rates come to zero, the less impact they are likely to have, which is why the Fed will not want to use up what ammunition it has left before it is convinced it needs to.
Ultimately, however, the revelation that the Saudis are 40% less impressive than they were yesterday will have little impact.
In its ruling on Tuesday, Justice AK Patnaik said "compensation must act as a deterrent" and "any amount less than 1bn rupees would not have the desired impact", reports Press Trust of India.
Less obvious is what international impact a Brazilian crisis will have.
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