Since this lessens the risk to lenders, more mortgages are being offered with fixed rates.
This would, obviously, amount to a huge penalty and lessens its leverage in any settlement talks.
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This also lessens homeowners' chances of borrowing too much from their home to their detriment.
The live web-streaming of a newsmaker lessens the need to explain a low physical turn out.
The publishers hate the idea, because it lessens their power to dictate titles and volumes.
The split greatly lessens the benefits of having Netflix as a single source for home movies.
More demand with the same supply causes prices to rise temporarily until either demand lessens or supply increases.
For some families, having savings in a 529 counted as an asset lessens the chances of getting financial aid.
This is where the movie stumbles, although not to a degree that lessens the impact of Prefontaine's willful spirit.
However, people should give because they believe in the cause, not because the government lessens the cost of giving.
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The way the US Government or really any government lessens its debt burden is by enlarging its GDP while restraining the accumulation of debt.
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None of this lessens the overall benefit of faster productivity growth.
One of the concerns I hear from people who love bound books is that the sameness of touch and smell in e-books lessens the reading experience.
As we've seen vividly in the U.S., the Internet lessens the barrier to business entry and the increased competition will squeeze out those who are slow to adapt.
Third, economic growth lessens the impact of excess money creation.
Borer, the Cornell doctor who served on the panel, says a drug that increases mortality but lessens the shortness of breath caused by heart failure might have a place.
This increasing substitution of sure-fire techniques for the clumsy but sincere efforts of the amateur lessens the opportunity for the magic of spontaneity and a genuine encounter with another person.
There is also a bill to repeal the expanded Income-Based Repayment program, that lessens the sting of college students by letting them pay back what they own in proportion to their salaries.
It lessens the economic bang for the buck.
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It lessens the cloud of uncertainty over other Internet companies and signals the correct way to beat a competitor is by competition in the marketplace, not by hiring armies of lobbyists, lawyers and PR advocates.
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This lessens the chance that the company will get into a bind that will force it to cut back on exploration and acquisitions -- and leave it with too little oil and gas reserves to meet future debt service.
It is ironic that when our trade balance worsens, it has been a sign that the U.S. economy is stronger and foreign economies are weaker because growing domestic income stimulates our demand for imports while weaker foreign income growth lessens their appetite for U.S. goods and services.
Note that the company pays less in interest than it would pay in dividends (current yield of 2.8%) so by borrowing at 2% it essentially lessens the cash impact of paying the dividend along with being able to deduct the interest from its income, further lowering its cost.
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As international troops draw down from Afghanistan and the military presences lessens, what is really going to help the country and provide a future for Afghans is the civil society groups who work to keep children off the streets and to provide viable alternatives, like education and jobs training, that mitigates youth recruitment into ideologically extreme groups or other high-risk behavior.
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