Mr. Immelt, like far too many CEOs, took a much less aggressive stance toward growth.
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An Obama administration may be slightly less aggressive in reigning back taxes in this area.
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They are less aggressive and more consensus-seeking, less competitive and more collaborative, less power-obsessed and more group-oriented.
Visitors can hold and cuddle these cubs, since the babies are much less aggressive and more playful than the adults.
Less aggressive open market purchases would have left money growth in negative territory.
For your C list companies, Wendleton says, you can be a little less aggressive than with the A list.
These security threats will be key factors in determining which companies are more or less aggressive in deploying consumer devices.
Again, the mutant mice behaved appropriately, but they were much less aggressive, spent less time fighting and they took longer breaks between attacks.
When patients play an active role in their medical decisions, studies show they tend to choose less aggressive treatment paths.
The shift provides signals that less aggressive government spending measures will be taken in favor of more strict cut-backs from Washington.
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On the flip side, other organizations may have a vested interest in keeping costs down, and their protocols are less aggressive.
In a note to investors this week, Bear Stearns' Gurinder Kalra wrote that he sees a "less aggressive" pricing environment going forward.
But parts of the communique echoed President Bush's less aggressive climate policy.
Ethiopia has made it clear it distrusts President Isaias Afwerki personally, and that it would prefer to see a less aggressive Eritrean leader.
My very strong sense however is that George Osborne at the Treasury is taking a rather less aggressive approach to the negotiations with banks.
Vanguard's findings hint at a long-held stereotype about women as investors that they are somehow less aggressive than men when it comes to money management.
The economy is turning around, so I think that the Federal Reserve Board is being less aggressive in their stance on a lot of things.
In addition, the seniors seemed to be less sophisticated (and certainly less aggressive) than younger folks when it came to dealing with credit card companies.
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Adjusted for the less aggressive (and ever-more mandated) benchmark of consumer price inflation, average earnings fell in May for the 15th in 25 months.
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If the catharsis theory were true, he said, football players should be less aggressive after a game, because they've been able to purge it from their system.
"There has been a greater consideration on the part of many urologists to take less aggressive approaches with some low-grade cancer, particularly in older men, " Brooks said.
Many Fed watchers had expected a less aggressive quarter-point cut.
Even a less aggressive version, like the plan Senator Kent Conrad has advocated for, would at least offer the American people direction and specifics and, indeed, hope for the future.
However, he said Kuroda's policies would be unlikely to differ much from the current Bank of Japan governor, Masaaki Shirakawa, despite perceptions that Shirakawa favors a less aggressive policy approach.
It all felt slightly less aggressive than last season when we saw dark monkish hoods, black knit elbow-length fingerless gloves and mysterious wool tailoring with twill suits and leather jackets.
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Consider what would be necessary to slash global greenhouse-gas emissions just 50% below 2000 levels by 2050--a far less aggressive goal than what the enviros say is necessary to avert climate catastrophe.
Mr King's cautious confidence about the prospects for inflation and the narrowness of the rate-setters' decision both suggest that the bank will now be less aggressive in raising rates than the markets had feared.
One change that stands out: He's taking a less aggressive position on his service returns and standing further behind the baseline (the average distance has increased in each of their last three Grand Slam finals).
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You had to consider the risks of doing nothing or having a fairly aggressive surgery like gastric bypass -- or doing something a little less aggressive like the Lap-Band, also called the adjustable laparoscopic banding system.
More moderate politicians, such as India's foreign minister, Jaswant Singh, have suggested a less aggressive posture: a capability to respond to a nuclear attack, along with a promise that India would not itself be the first to use nuclear weapons.
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