The Tax Court is more or less saying that people with day jobs will never be able to meet the standard.
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Posh language, more or less saying things are getting better?
Last week the Department of Labor said the unemployment level in the U.S. had dropped to 8.9%, with less people saying they are actively looking for work.
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It was true and, somehow, felt less offensive than saying we wanted to be alone.
Tesco goes along with this picture, saying less than 1% of all its stock comes by air.
Two days later, their reclusive leader, known as Prachanda, was less fierce, saying talks with the government might be possible.
British officers are less impressed, saying their predecessors often repeated their errors.
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The FSB also criticised the banking industry for failing to help small businesses, saying less than 10% of small businesses said they had easy access to finance.
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Margins may be less, but as the saying goes, they can make it up on the volume.
The less developed countries were also saying we don't want to be compelled to do any of these.
But he warned that the effects may be less pronounced in humans, saying "an enriched mouse is more like a normal human".
First Utility, one of the newer entrants to the energy market dismissed the move as "smoke and mirrors", saying they buy less than 1% of their electricity on the next day market.
Less than a month after saying he looked forward to clearing his name, Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick now says he will plead guilty to federal dogfighting conspiracy charges, an admission that likely will mean prison time.
As the figure below shows, the difference between the percent of owners saying loans were more available and the share saying they were less available over the previous three months shrank from -16 in May of 2009 to -8 in March of 2011.
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In some cases, publishers played a little dance with PW, giving it an idea of how much an author sold (saying something like less than so-and-so but more than so-and-so), leaving PW to make an estimate, which is indicated by an asterisk next to the sales number.
As his tour started, Mr Bouchard was saying that nothing is less definite than a vote this autumn.
And you're saying that's less likely to be the case in the suburbs?
In the suit more than 100 female employees in 30 different states filed sworn statements saying they were paid less than male colleagues.
For many, greater use of the net came at the expense of TV watching, with 25% saying they now spent less time watching television.
However, the banking industry was less enthusiastic about the proposals, saying lingering uncertainty about the future shape of the banking industry threatened banks' ability to lend and to compete.
They even put a number on it, saying that living in less dense communities--and two-thirds of the U.S. is comprised of such communities-- adds six pounds to the average frame.
Berjaya Retail listed on the country's stock exchange in August 2010, but faced with depressed share prices Mr. Tan took the company private less than nine months later, saying investors had undervalued it.
While polling shows that a majority of the public favors stricter gun laws, surveys by The Wall Street Journal and NBC News suggest that the support peaked in February, two months after the Newtown shootings, and has since tapered, with 55% in an April survey favoring stricter laws and 43% saying laws should be less strict or remain as they are.
It goes without saying the public has a less than warm-and-fuzzy feelings towards the congloms.
The legislation also contains language preventing tobacco companies from saying that smokeless tobacco is less hazardous than cigarettes.
Precisely what they are saying, however, is less clear than some of the victors in yesterday's election would have us believe.
New York City challenged the official 2010 census count of its population at less than 8.2 million, saying it was too low.
Recent reports are saying that there has been less physical demand for gold, due to seasonal weaker demand during the summer months.
"The reality might be less serious than all the headlines are saying, " said Oded Eran, a senior research associate and former head of the Institute for National Security Studies.
Worries over whether the Olympics would be safe and the venues finished also apparently cut into tourist sales, with American ticket agents saying they ordered 30 percent less tickets than Sydney.
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