India, for example, seems not to have intervened much in the foreign-exchange market, but its currency has not moved much over the past year either.
The first iPhone featured a large screen for its time but not a much larger footprint than its contemporary competitors such as the BlackBerry or Treo.
Although it has put forward ideas for replacing price supports with direct subsidies, its plan would not much change farmers' behaviour.
The operation may have been a success, but if the patient was meant to be the U.S. financial markets, its condition was not much improved.
One does not have to be an expert on MasterCard to assume that its business does not change that much on a daily, or even weekly, basis.
Its development costs are not much less than the firm's total asset value.
Africa's population is more than twice that of the U.S., but its total income is not much more than Belgium's.
Given the chronic power outages, it seems safe to assume that compensating Pepco for its infrastructure would not cost much.
Similarly, Brazil's arms build-up, which includes plans for a nuclear-powered submarine and new jet fighters, has not alarmed its neighbours much.
Apple is in a class by itself, and its woes are not so much based on market position as they are on the problem of outrunning ever-advancing expectations.
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While a recent inflow of migrants from eastern Europe has restored to Salonika some of its old diversity, not much in today's spanking modern city reminds the visitor of a rich, cosmopolitan past: only the ghosts evoked by an occasional Jewish or Ottoman building, if you are sensitive to that kind of thing.
What's less certain is whether or not the company in 2013 is as capable of wholesale shifts in strategy as it was for much of its not quite 30-year history.
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Clearly to a jury of its peers Samsung is very much admired, not just for phones but also for its infrastructure innovations.
What's fascinating about this scheme is not so much its progressive aim as its enforcement mechanism.
But the beauty of avocados is not so much its flavor as its oily consistency.
But perhaps the defining theme of the new philanthropy is not so much its fondness for business theory as its iconoclasm.
Interestingly, its customers were not impacted too much by the payroll tax increase since the retailer caters to middle-upper income and upper income demographic.
The major-party candidates seem to have concluded that the American public has sampled radical change in the past two elections and not much liked its taste.
In any event the sin in corporate pay is not so much its magnitude as the fact that it is often completely decoupled from performance, as Harvard law professor Lucian Bebchuk has documented.
The Smart Cover is one of those fiendishly ingenious accessories that actually strengthens your inclination to buy the device it supports. iPad2 is indeed, as Apple says, thinner, faster and lighter than its predecessor, but not by much.
In fact, the new social media start-up is not only basing its entire marketing strategy on how very much it is not Facebook, but the very inspiration for the site was based on the idea that Facebook was mistreating its customers.
Although that would denude the pension reform of much of its immediate fiscal impact, it would not trouble the financial markets much.
Not so much in Tokelau, where its three atolls of Atafu, Fakaofo and Nukunonu may not be long for this world, due to rising sea levels as a result of climate change.
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The real yield, though, is not much different from its 2004 to early-2007 level.
Though the Medici bank's experience was not much better, its partners felt that shouldering such risks was necessary to get other business.
As far as the numbers themselves, bullish sentiment continues to stay above its historical average, but not so much that it implies excessive optimism.
The economy, with its strengths, may not sustain too much damage.
Perhaps, the issue with Tegra 2 is not so much concerning its performance, but rather, it has to fight to establish itself in a crowded market.
What bothered Cohen about Blackboard was that it was designed to suit the technology of the 1990s but has not changed much since its original design.
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