But the federal tax on petrol has been stuck at its current 18.4 cents a gallon since 1993, even as Americans drive less in more efficient cars.
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Beyond that, insurance companies look at past claims histories to determine which models incur more or less damage in a crash, are more or less damaging to other vehicles, people and property, are more or less likely to be stolen or be involved in a crash and have higher or lower bodily injury claims.
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These differences are less dramatic in more developed parts of the world.
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They think we spend more and get less out of our foreign policy investments, when in fact we spend less and get more than in almost any other area of public endeavor.
The sooner you need the money and the more conservative you are, the more you should have in bonds and the less you should have in more aggressive investments like stocks.
If we watched ourselves closely we'd see that we have more energy at some times in the day and far less at others, that we think more clearly in the morning and less so right after lunch and that we tend to feel more emotionally well at one time or another on average.
Beyond that, insurance companies look at past claims histories to determine which models incur more or less damage in a crash, are more or less damaging to other vehicles, people and property, are more or less likely to be crashed or stolen and have higher or lower bodily injury claims.
Another culprit: a societal shift toward praising kids whether or not they succeed, which has led them, as adults, to put in less effort and expect more in return.
In the hands of a master, less is always more in horror.
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Out on a nice country two-lane, the new Civic definitely feels more centered, more settled in its sneakers than the previous car, with less body lean in corners and more composed transitional behavior over uneven pavement.
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Less ice results in more dangerous seas because ice acts as a barrier from ocean swells.
If central banks were now to build their reserve portfolios from scratch they would probably hold less in gold and more in interest-yielding assets.
And I would say, particularly in the wake of a severe downturn such as we have been through, usual patterns surely provide less guidance than in more ordinary times.
Some have argued that doing less is more in the long run, and that the "we must act" lobby is a reflex stemming from frustration rather than a cool appraisal of what's feasible.
But when you look at it on a global basis, recent trade statistics suggest that this may not be the case, and that the renminbi may, in fact, be more or less in line when all currencies are taken into account.
If it is a concept that is unlikely to ever acquire Total Football's sexy cache, Raymond Verheijen believes periodisation - in essence a less is more approach to training - is important in allowing clubs to protect their key asset - players.
In fact the BlackBerry was born in the less glamorous and more laidback surroundings of Canadian technology company Research in Motion's headquarters at Waterloo, Ontario.
Each segment has an electromagnet attached to it, and these are activated by a current that flows from head to tail in more or less the way that a nerve signal flows in a real animal.
These security threats will be key factors in determining which companies are more or less aggressive in deploying consumer devices.
The authors looked at whether employee-owned firms in the same industry were more or less stable in their hiring and firing than their less enlightened peers.
Energy is going to get more expensive but everyone is really going to be paying less money in total for that more expensive energy?
The low inflation rate makes the additional monetary stimulus in train now less risky and more likely to make its impetus felt in the real economy.
Stores in shopping districts like Myeongdong have added Chinese-speaking staff, their headquarters are using Korean celebrities popular across China and Southeast Asia in advertisements, and glitzy duty-free stores are dropping European luxury brands to give more space to Korean cosmetics chains that are less expensive but more popular in the Asian region.
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In its recent efforts to diversify, Saudi Arabia has placed less faith in royal commissions and more in entrepreneurs.
In the monolithic Welsh NHS, it doesn't bring a penny more or less in whether a patient is coded or not.
In many ways, the debate on more versus less regulation in the aftermath of such panic is a healthy one.
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Few look in less obvious places for more average performers whose skills or social networks may be critical--both in keeping the lights on during the change effort itself as well as in delivering against its longer-term business objectives.
Yet as Wal-Mart makes more of those purchases in the less-served, but more difficult states, growth will inevitably slow.
For the first time in years, they argue, it has a government with some authority, working more or less in harness with both parliament and president.
Delta and other airlines are betting that less will be more in terms of revenue.
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