In financial regulation, less may be more.
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Haighton-Williams believes that the bigger U.S. market may be less concerned with fads, and Americans may be more comfortable maintaining online relationships than are Europeans.
The result may well be that consumers used to successive generations of mobile devices costing the same or less may be asked to pay more for the next level of performance.
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But the more I see the growing number of screens and the behaviors of those who stare at them, the more I think the future may be less about compartmentalization and more about total immersion.
The report suggests this may be because August is the month when new junior staff take up their posts who may be "less well supervised" and that locum staff may be employed more to cover holidays, something which it says requires further investigation.
Given falling sales of print books, this push may be less fantasy, more necessity.
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Who knows, for many of us, less work may not only be more satisfying, but also more productive.
Airliners that are cheaper to run and contribute less to climate change may be more attractive than silent ones.
The offering is proof that while hard partying 20-somethings at start-ups such as Yelp may grab headlines, the new tech boom is creating real money for companies that may be less sexy but more useful.
Some customers may not be able to comply and may be forced into using less formal and more costly intermediaries such as cheque-cashing services.
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.
The crisis has entered what may be a less volatile but more lethal phase.
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With their homes worth less, more Americans may be saving their wage gains rather than heading to the mall.
For that reason, less-formal processes may sometimes be more effective and timely.
In reality, though, living a successful and fulfilling retirement may be less about money and more about keeping in contact with friends, staying healthy, and mentally sharp.
In the end, the quantified self may be less about the numbers and more about the personal insight.
Actual equity in the house may be more or less depending on where the market goes in the future.
The actual return to the investor may be more or less than the performance of the underlying portfolio, especially in the short term.
By this time next year, WikiLeaks itself and the personal fortunes of its editor-in-chief may be less relevant as news and more significant as historical antecedent.
Ultimately the success of in-vitro meat may be less about consumer sensibilities and more about the hard realities of feeding a growing global population in a finite world.
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RenewableUK figures show that 18GW is already built, being built, or up for planning permission - in other words, the plan may be more or less on target, even though the overall 15% figure remains very challenging.
Each of these properties may be more or less relevant based on your situation, but taken together, they will help you formulate a vision of how big data could be managed in the long term, in an affordable way.
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Sancerre's popularity has also meant that its more ambitious producers can be overlooked or underrated their wines may be considered less seriously than their counterparts in a more prestigious region such as Burgundy.
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Oftentimes, it may not be the fact that their spouse earns more, but that their spouse may have less time to spend at home, or may be neglecting other areas of the relationship.
Such a market panic may be less likely than a slow cruise to new market heights on QE3, but the market ship may be more Titanic than Queen Elizabeth.
On a more concrete level, affluent people may be more likely to get away with misbehavior (because they are less supervised at work, for example), and they may be more willing to take ethical risks because they have the resources to bail themselves out -- both literally and figuratively -- if they get caught.
Therefore, units may be worth more or less than what the unitholder originally paid.
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Other media owners may be less troubled by such prospects and more interested in cashing in on the seller's market of a lifetime.
Ruling that, say, a man with prostate cancer must be offered surgery discourages doctors from developing non-surgical alternatives that may be more effective and less painful.
The Federal Reserve, which uses the core inflation rate to decide its policy in creating economic conditions that will keep inflation at a low level and create jobs, may be worried now that the consumer now may now begin spending less and saving more as food and gas prices rise.
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