The new LCD technology also improves the light transmittal of pixels, rendering brightness with an added benefit of lower battery drain.

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Screen technology is what allows mobile device makers to increase the size of their phones (the development of phablets, for example) at better resolution with lower battery drain.

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Worse, for Mr Paulson, a brain drain at lower levels in the Treasury leaves the secretary without the sort of deep technocratic policy apparatus that Mr Rubin once enjoyed.

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Depot, meanwhile, must backfill metropolitan markets with smaller stores that lower its average return on investment and drain sales from sibling outlets nearby.

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Record job losses, lower incomes, and the extension of the Bush tax cuts has been a drain on US government revenues since the crisis of 2008.

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