That would allow the infrastructure of a hydrogen-delivery network to be introduced gradually, rather than being put in place more-or-less instantly.
In 2004 a prestigious medical journal published a report claiming that a smoking ban imposed in the city of Helena, Montana, appeared to have resulted in a more-or-less immediate 40% reduction in hospital admissions for acute heart attacks.
Data suggests Eskdalemuir in Dumfries and Galloway had 249mm of rain and 68.6 hours of sunshine - more rain and less sun than it had in the past 10 years.
But that would be less of a setback for Germany than before, because in principle there should be less need for burden-sharing in a more viable monetary union.
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Thirteen-year-olds in 1996 were taking more pre-algebra and less regular math.
Mr Gration, by contrast, favours a wary but active engagement with Sudan's government in the hope that it will be more co-operative and less brutal in Darfur and the south.
In high income countries, physical activity dwindles as people use more technology and are less engaged in labour-intensive work.
Outsourcing has the potential to do more for less, by more efficiently leveraging resources than trying to support outsourced functions in-house.
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But his big ears and resourcefulness also serve him well in more open, less-structured improvised settings.
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.
Yet as Wal-Mart makes more of those purchases in the less-served, but more difficult states, growth will inevitably slow.
In the less cossetted standard-class carriages, the traditional English apprehension of foreigners is more in evidence.
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Further, Europe is especially important to the platinum market since diesel-powered vehicles are popular on the continent and this requires the use of platinum, whereas gasoline-powered cars more common in the U.S. and China can use less-expensive palladium.
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But that unsecured interbank market more-or-less closed down in 2007 and 2008, and has never properly recovered.
"Despite the trace amounts of lead in the products at issue, the federal government has determined that Americans need to eat more -- not less -- of these nutritious foods, " they said in court documents.
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What the legislation really did was not so much create new rights as ratify and codify what tens of millions of Chinese had already put into practice, turning the more or less informal in-to the formal.
More problematic from a union standpoint is the higher turnover rate for teachers in charters which place more emphasis on drawing in young teachers and less on retirement and other back-end perks.
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Likewise, the private donations may reflect the public changing how it distributes a more-or-less fixed pot of charitable cash, in which case other charities may suffer.
For the European banks, Moody's and the other credit rating agencies are seen as grim reapers, going from country to country pronouncing in more-or-less all of them that the banks are less strong than they once were.
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In a 2011 article for the scholarly journal Science, researchers Martin Hilbert and Priscila Lopez estimated that the entire processing power of the world's stock of general-purpose computers in 2007 more or less equaled that of one human brain (about 6.4 quintillion instructions per second -- the standard measure of computer speed).
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.
While the investigation into Boris Berezovsky's' "unexplained" death continues in Britain, in Russia - for now - the focus is less on the circumstances surrounding it and more on the significance.
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Skis were widely utilized in Central Asia and Europe, while snowshoes were common in the New World - probably because snow was more compact and less soft in the Old World, theorizes Huntford.
Gloucestershire's Police and Crime Commissioner is aiming for "less crime, more peace" in his four-year plan.
And investors tend to frown on companies with too many eggs in one shopping basket--less diversification means more risk.
Historically, SLR cameras have been lucrative because price competition has been less intense than in the more-crowded compact-camera segment.
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The real upshot, however, will be to leave the United States and the rest of the international community with still less attractive -- and far more costly -- options for contending with North Korea's bomb in the future.
"The appetite for Internet access is actually going to be more intense in less-developed countries, " says Bronfman.
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There should be less James Smiths and more Zig-Zag Banana-Hammocks in this world.
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