If you bring five different people coffee on demand, that's less assisting one's supervisors and more waiting on them.
Dayna Even has found spending one hour a day fully focused on her 6-year-old son, Maximilian, means "he's less likely to act out, he's more likely to play independently and less likely to interrupt adults, " says the 51-year-old writer and tutor in Kailua, Hawaii.
That's less than what it's invested in China, which composes 17% of the portfolio.
And it should also, to be fair, be pointed out that 54 in July is considerably less--it's less than half of the worst month suffered by the US in Iraq and that was in last November when 137 military personnel died.
"Because it's contact-less there's a perception people can grab it from thin air, but it's actually a more sophisticated technology than credit cards with a magnetic stripe, making it more difficult to steal a consumer's payment information, " said Nick Holland, a mobile-transactions analyst at Yankee Group.
So if this extra spending means that their current account surplus becomes smaller, then there's less available to buy U.S. Treasuries, and you'd expect U.S. interest rates to go up a bit.
The head of the powerful Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) is one of a new generation of Japanese politicians less influenced by Japan's World War II defeat and less indebted to the U.S. in the post-war years.
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He says that, despite some recent commodity fluctuations, the price of food in industrialized nations continues to drop, so there's less incentive to think about what's in the fridge, or make an effort to avoid cooking more than we need.
That's less than 1.5% of BP's daily production of 3.9 million barrels of oil and gas equivalents.
What's less obvious is the impact on the nation's military readiness, he said.
And he wrote in to Morning Edition to say he's less than five years from retirement and he's got a 100, 000-dollar nest egg invested right now, in a seemingly safe money-market account.
In the meantime, though, we'd guess that this update may not be worth hunting down to the degree that the new iPad 2 was -- the level of shrinkage here doesn't seem enough to have a huge impact on power draw, and in any case that's less of an issue for a device that's fed from the wall.
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What's less obvious -- and perhaps totally underrated by Dell's marketing team -- is the addition of Swype keyboard.
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But I mean it, the bad news is it's less growth than there was I suppose, but it's better than it might be though, isn't it?
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Dr. James Steinberg, medical director at Emory University's Crawford Long Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, said that environment plays a role in the spread of MRSA but that it's less a factor than coming into contact with a person's skin.
"It's one clear option less, that's pretty obvious, but I am still very pleased with my situation, " said Rosberg.
Although Mannesmann chairman Klaus Esser has not ruled out an amicable settlement, he insists that Vodafone's offer is far less than Mannesmann's potential value.
Mr Cameron should make it clear that his long-term aim is to see government intrude less in people's lives and take less out of their pay packets.
The book's less demanding recipes, however, offer an attainable version of Mr. Chang's singular approach.
It has much higher screen resolution than the MeMo's, but less than the iPad's.
But why, you may ask, would the groom's increase be less than his father's?
But their screen resolution is less than the Mac's, meaning less material can be seen without scrolling.
If you've got some college or an associate's degree, less than a bachelor's degree, it's higher but it's lower than at national average, 7.72 percent.
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Seen through French eyes, Allianz's bid looks less threatening than Generali's.
Judge John Milmo QC said on Tuesday that Binfield's culpability in Riley's manslaughter was less than his partner's, but he condemned both for failing to move the cup out of the toddler's reach.
That's less than Americans, Irish and even Spaniards facing job insecurity due to the country's hefty debt pile.
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