The Chinese, feeling themselves more or less self-sufficient in material matters, had less interest in commerce.
In this case they might have been paid less interest than they should have been.
Workers may work fewer hours, moderate their career plans, or show less interest in acquiring new skills.
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Such a move might mean that the Commonwealth would attract even less interest in Britain than it already does.
For them, collecting less interest is better than collecting no interest at all.
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Whether or not "Return to Casablanca" ever gets made may be of less interest, however, than the fact that it is still being considered.
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His comments come as Greece is asking private investors to swap their current Greek bonds for others that pay less interest over a longer term.
The option ARM allows borrowers to pay less interest than the formal rate for a limited period (the vast majority of customers choose this option).
So there is less interest in providing access to foreign partners.
This gives the producer today's price for tomorrow's production, less interest.
In Brazil, for example, high end brokers in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paolo are seeing less interest from abroad and a pullback of domestic wealth.
Is this something -- the longer you get away from a tragedy, the less interest there is in gun control efforts that's happened in the past?
Brokers and developers agree that they are seeing demand in the borough for brownstones or new construction with classic touches, and less interest in shiny modern construction.
The insurers had sufficient assets and expertise to garner triple-A ratings, so the issuers could pay less interest on their bonds than they would have without the backing.
The most the ECB has done to try and encourage more lending is cut its overnight deposit rate, in other words paying less interest on money it borrows from banks overnight.
Despite improving pay and the critical role primary care physicians will play in the future of health care in the U.S., there remains less interest by doctors-in-training in general medicine than specialty disciplines.
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Meaning there may not be, as these stories infer, less interest in what Mr. Obama has to say than in what happens on American Idol, but far less interest in whether Nielsen gets to take their attendance.
They help enhance profits because paying for stadium improvements means the corporate owners have to borrow less, pay less interest, and thereby reinvest those savings in interest payments into player salaries or hiring and retaining top executive talent.
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According to Fannie Mae, the government-sponsored mortgage-lending agency, up to half the people who take out sub-prime loans could qualify for a prime loan, which charges as much as four percentage points less interest, a huge saving over the 30-year life of a mortgage.
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Those who worry about Amazon, Google or Apple taking the Netflix position forget that those companies are making huge bets to compete in other markets and have shown less interest in making the big investments to compete on the content that is critical in the download market.
Operating with less attractive margins leads to less attractive interest rates on loans.
MPs to put timely questions to the government, and meant that any subsequent parliamentary debate attracted less media interest.
And when rates go up, you are stuck earning less in interest than you could if you had more flexibility.
This leaves less investor interest in building companies that earn the old-fashioned way: hiring workers to make useful products and services.
Future local currency bond issues in Brazil are going to pay a lot less in interest than they have in several years.
Germany and Canada kept to a less extreme interest rate path, and their industrial production had climbed back to prerecession levels by the middle of 2011.
Further, platinum is a smaller market that tends to draw less investment interest than in gold, said Sterling Smith, analyst and commodity trading adviser with Country Hedging.
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Indeed, brokerage stocks seem to have even less short interest, an indication that the sector is favored more than commercial banks, which have greater exposure to the hazards of interest-rate fluctuations.
Bank branches that have above-average deposits also tend to make above-average profits, and they can often get away with offering less attractive interest rates on deposits and loans without losing market share, according to Novantas.
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