There are another 13 Democratic congressmen whose districts were carried by the president but who themselves won re-election by less than 52%, four by less than 50%.
Ultimately, the winners and losers will be determined less by marketing and buzz than by which service crashes less.
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Where it fell by 45 points or less, the Labour vote slid by a less dreadful 14 points.
Then monetary policy might have needed to be less tight, sterling might have risen by less, and manufacturing, now in recession, might have borne a less disproportionate share of the burden of slowing the economy down.
Professor JOHNSON: Well, there would be less holding or less purchases by China of U.S. Treasury notes if there's an effect on that current account.
This business is more or less stable and less influenced by certain macroeconomic factors that are capable of swinging profits of some other businesses such as broadcasting, publishing, parks and resorts etc.
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What may look like a more (or less) attractive salary could be offset by less (or more) attractive fringe benefits.
And so the peacefulness, the serenity that we feel away from the Internet, and which all the Better-Nevers rightly testify to, has less to do with being no longer harried by others than with being less oppressed by the force of your own inner life.
Dr David Gunnell and colleagues from Bristol University point out that the method of suicide favoured by women - drug overdose - has become less lethal owing to the replacement of barbiturates by the less toxic benzodiazepines in the 1980s.
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Mali, Algeria, Libya and Egypt all share some similar problems but they are distinguished more by their differences and less by what they have in common.
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The risk in America now is that slower nominal growth will force firms and individuals to improve their balance sheets by spending less or by selling assets, exacerbating deflationary pressures.
Instead they work on reducing costs in other ways such as reformulating their packaging to be less expansive, or downsizing their product by putting less in a container but still charging the same.
Second, the study suggests that extremely optimistic people are less influenced by negative information because their brains process it less efficiently.
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The head of the powerful Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) is one of a new generation of Japanese politicians less influenced by Japan's World War II defeat and less indebted to the U.S. in the post-war years.
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However, the same justice was not done by Forbes, nor Halah Touryalai, even less by the Google editors who send E-mail notices.
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Expectations are high among some financial analysts, investors and industry experts that the low-cost airlines, which now hold only 7% of the intra-European air travel market as reckoned by the number of passengers they fly, and even less by revenue, can reach the penetration levels achieved by their U.S. counterparts.
The significantly higher tax base that would result under lower capital income taxes means that such a reform would be deficit-neutral, provided that either transfer payments were reduced by less than 2% of GDP or a national consumption tax of less than 3% were adopted.
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Only twice during the past 12 years has the big game been decided by less than a touchdown (both games were New England Patriot wins by three points).
As with diplomats, companies do not earn trust by using every interaction with a consumer to profile them, much less by storing that information in a database that can, and often does, leak out.
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The less electronic information that gets reviewed by lawyers, the less the discovery costs will be.
In principle, a stronger yuan would help by making exports less profitable and by giving consumers more spending power.
But reducing the size of less healthy foods by elongating the packages makes the size reduction less visible, which should make choosing a smaller size more tempting.
Italian and Spanish government bond yields rose by far less - and after rising by more than 0.1 percentage points, 10-year yields for Italy were at 4.65%, while Spanish 10-year yields were at 4.9%.
It is amazing that the costs of these types of drugs overseas is less, much less than here in the USA. Even when manufactured by the same company, they are considerably less in other countries.
He seems to regard a less patent-centric economy as a less innovative economy by definition.
However, economists expected the core reading, which is a gauge of less volatile goods by excluding energy and food prices, to increase less than it did.
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In other words, high earners will either respond to lower taxes by doing more productive work, by putting less effort into avoiding taxes or by putting more effort into negotiating for higher pay, as the post-tax rewards for all three are now higher.
When women make less than men for the same work, that hurts families who have to get by with less and businesses who have fewer customers with less to spend.
The less fortunate are bolstered better by private philanthropy, which is less prone to enable or encourage irresponsibility and sloth.
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