Meanwhile, Google is about to stop requiring users to input their gender -- meaning we may get less accurate stats as time progresses.
Predictions for 2050 suggest a 40% loss of forest, meaning significantly less rain and 35-40 less electric power.
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You see, a modification might require a principal write-down, meaning the lender is owed less than it lent originally.
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There is no need to drain lithium-ion batteries fully before recharging, meaning less maintenance, though they can catch fire if overcharged.
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And while Google, the king of cloud computing, has been cagey about revealing just how many servers house its treasure trove of data, the company said that of that 1 to 1.5 percent, it accounted for less than 1 percent -- meaning, just a hundredth of a percent of all the electricity consumed last year.
Roadway is a less-than-truckload carrier, meaning its trucks can carry freight for more than one customer at a time.
Many users had complained that ditching the traditional Start Menu and introducing the Start Screen had made the system less straight-forward to use, meaning businesses which adopted it would need to retrain staff.
The correlation between chocolate consumption and Nobels is remarkably strong, with a p-value less than 0.0001, meaning that the odds that this is due to chance are less than 1 in 10, 000.
Even though it may be plugged into any common 110-volt electrical outlet for a slow charge, high-speed electric vehicle charging stations have only sprung up in major population centers or along busy highway corridors, meaning a lack of foresight before heading down a less-traveled road may initiate a tow truck encounter.
Short-term capital gains (meaning gains on assets held for less than a year) are taxed at ordinary income tax rates of up to 35%.
With origins in the 14th century, it is thought to refer to the "off-fall" from the butcher's block, meaning the less desirable parts.
Consider the following: in a high-risk business we are raising our lending-effectiveness goal to 75%, meaning that we will lend less (or not lend) where the economic or institutional framework is unsatisfactory.
The London Stock Exchange is headlining the law among reasons that foreign firms should list stock in the U.K. instead of the U.S. German carmaker Porsche AG and reinsurer Benfield Group are among those scared away by Sarbanes-Oxley from U.S. listings lately, meaning less business for local exchanges and fewer choices for investors.
That damages the long-term potential of the economy, meaning the government can rely even less on an eventual recovery to fix the hole in its finances.
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The tax rate paid by the top 0.1% fell to 22.84% in 2010 from 24.28% in 2009, meaning they paid a lower rate than their less rich fellow 1 per-centers.
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In signing the deal, the UAW agreed to a highly unusual two-tier wage system, meaning certain workers in the same manufacturing complex will get paid less than their peers.
Profit margins, he says, are mean-reverting, meaning that at times when margins are high, investors should be willing to pay less per dollar of earnings.
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In discussing Islam we mean generally more or less what Muslims do in practicing their faith-tradition as they variously understand its meaning provided primarily in the Koran taken by them to be divinely revealed words to Muhammad.
The number of rejected votes has fallen dramatically from more than 330, 000 - 6% - during an initial count, to about 1% of votes cast, meaning they are fare less of an issue than it had seemed earlier in the week.
Critics of long-term-care insurance argue that many who need long-term care use it for less than 90 days, and that most policies have a 90-day deductible, meaning most owners of long-term care insurance will receive no benefits.
The system also has more or less the same book-inspired shape as Lenovo's U-series Ultrabooks, meaning when the notebook is closed, the top and bottom edges protrude ever so slightly beyond the sides, sort of like a hardcover shell cradling a spine full of pages.
With massive layoffs and once-flush brokerage firms finding cash a less abundant commodity, disputes over getting paid have taken on new meaning.
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