Meanwhile, total appropriations (less one-time spikes for disaster relief) for the SBA have fallen by roughly 38%.
Those are high expectations for any company, much less one without a track record of economic profitability.
And more recently -- more or less one year ago -- the new central line was painted again.
After watching net income (less one-time adjustments) slide three years in a row, Jones finally has some breathing room.
Thirty-three universities have now come out publicly in favour of animal testing, and debate in general is less one-sided.
Betting on that kind of growth is risky for any company, much less one with no recent track record of profitability.
The stronger the content, the less one needs to spend on publicity.
The final set was less one-sided than the first two and although Henin-Hardenne led 2-0 Davenport fought back to level at 2-2.
Exchange-rate fluctuations mean that this falls foul of a ban on ever paying an employee less one month than the previous one.
If you suggest re-assignment, your boss will be less one headcount.
But if that is the case, the neutral will hope for a far less one-sided affair - as Liverpool attacked relentlessly but lacked the necessary guile to open the scoring.
The forces of persuasion have been no less one-sided.
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On the front of peace, the important thing for me is to resume negotiations as rapidly as possible, and to -- and my view is less one of terminology, but one of substance.
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Mr. MICHAEL SHAHEEN (Former Head, Office of Professional Responsibility): No one in OPR for the 24 years I was there was denied the necessary clearance, ever, and much less one that brought to a conclusion an investigation.
Among respondents who made up their minds in the last week, Kerry took more than one-third, compared with less than one-quarter for Dean and less for Edwards.
Just one square inch, the chip contains 2, 056 microvalves that can selectively mix reagents together (in this case to test for the activity of a particular enzyme in a bacterium) in 256 reaction chambers, each one holding less than one-billionth of a liter of fluorescent dye.
World leaders would have no choice but to give in to the maids' demands, for it is a well-known fact that the higher one rises in society, the less willing one is to perform household chores.
Putting all its angry eggs in one basket is a risk, but less of one than it used to be given the billions of devices in the hands of consumers.
Astronomers think there are about half a million asteroids the size this one near Earth, NASA said, but less than one percent have been detected.
Today less than one-third of all CMOs hold the position for less than three years--bad news for anyone who cares about marketing.
This shift matters: at less than one, an additional dollar in incentives for giving generates less than a dollar's worth of donation.
In terms of the time they spend with their children, one in four (25 percent) working dads spend less than one hour with their kids each day.
One in four men and one in six women said they now used condoms consistently during sex compared with less than one in five men and one in seven women in 1990's survey.
Of the one-third of respondents that do research prior to donating, over 70% said they spent less than one hour conducting it.
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We already handled far more than our share, and had less than one tree per acre.
There is less than one chance in 10, 000 that it has come about accidentally.
By 1980, Reagan was a social conservative, if a less fervent one than Santorum is today.
Less than 50 years on a commercial scale, less than one lifetime from inception to today.
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Another measure of train performance looks at how many trains arrive less than one minute late.
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