The goal, some speculate, may be to add a less negative vibe to the reports.
This, among other things, helps it to distinguish bacteria from human membranes, which have a less negative charge.
Older survey participants tended to be less negative about brands.
However, delinquency is substantially more common among those more deeply underwater than those in less negative equity: only 5.5% of mortgage holders between 0 and 20 percent underwater are delinquent on payments, as compared to 16% of mortgage holders who are greater than 100 percent underwater (see Figure 3).
This sort of politics is only sustainable so long as the economic pie is actually growing: the minute that growth stagnates, much less turns negative, the government finds it impossible to please all of the competing interests at the same time.
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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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Easy money will continue to keep real rates (or the T-bill rate less inflation) negative.
Now you have resulting symptoms from that fatigue, irritability, feeling overwhelmed.... We've become less tolerant of negative emotions.
Quickly, you will find yourself thinking less about the negative consequences associated with risk as your entrepreneurial attitude grows in confidence.
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In the arcane world of GDP calculations, less of a negative made the overall growth rate higher than it otherwise would have been.
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According to the Pew Research Center, people who know Muslims are less likely to have negative views of them.
This means that the data which shows a negative correlation between stock performance and GDP, has less data in it, and its negative correlation is only roughly 24%, while the analysis which shows a positive correlation between stock returns and GDP has a correlation of 66%.
Leigh Caldwell points out that anyone in the bottom 20% has more wealth than the bottom 20% combined, since they all have negative wealth, and no individual negative number in a group can be less than the sum of a whole group of negative numbers.
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But if anything the correlation between state spending and obesity is negative: the less a government spends the fatter its people are likely to be.
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The stock has not traded in technically oversold territory since the Thanksgiving holiday in late November, and has a short-term, negative edge of less than half a percent.
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Better yet, you are less likely to be roiled by negative feedback, or sidelined by attacks.
The IMF is forecasting continuing albeit slower growth in the United States and Europe next year, and negative -- but less so -- growth in Japan.
The New England Journal study, involving 1, 400 adults over a 2.5 year period showed that the rate of heart attack 1 month after a negative coronary CT was less than 1 percent, showing that it is a safe test for patient discharge from the ER.
The result is a distinctive strain of negative leadership traits less overtly confrontational than their domineering male counterparts but bullying just the same.
On the negative side: Women are less likely than men to want a woman boss and more likely to feel distressed by it.
Not only are the buggers capable of creating a byproduct which can quickly be refined into fuel for vehicles, but scientists say the process is carbon-negative -- it outputs less carbon than is required to produce it.
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Of course, this negative effect will be felt less in China, because there is still a lot of "room at the top" when it comes to satisfying its enormous population with cheap consumer goods--manufactured, mind you, by Chinese factories.
There are simple things, like the decision to not hide your password as you type it in (research shows less errors, higher satisfaction and no negative security consequences), but also methods to keep users logged in by default, reducing the need for bothersome logins.
This has resulted in negative publicity for CSD companies and less consumption of soft drinks.
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He claims this was a frightened and bewildered electorate who had believed Labour's negative campaign that there was a less painful way to overcome the country's economic ills.
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In the comfort of the dank hall in Woodcliff, the negative associations with license plates are much less grave.
Companies have received negative Say on Pay votes for far less.
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Like most complexities within the United States tax code, the alleged positives tend to be less efficient or less certain to realize than some of the obvious negative consequences.
This diverse picture fits with previous research conducted by University College, London, which similarly found both positive accounts of records being "more thorough and focused" and negative ones that they were becoming "less detailed and more anodyne".
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