• They are less aggressive and more consensus-seeking, less competitive and more collaborative, less power-obsessed and more group-oriented.

    ECONOMIST: Schumpeter

  • "Gov. Cuomo goes around saying schools have to do more with less, do more with less, " Mr. Rebell said.

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  • Other popular resolutions include learning more new skills, drinking less, volunteering more, worrying less, enjoying life more, and spending less time on social networks.

    FORBES: A Brand New Year

  • Firms want to know three things: whether big storms are becoming more or less common, whether certain coasts are being hit more or less often, and just how frequent are the biggest of the big storms the ones whose effects could break a careless insurance outfit.

    ECONOMIST: Eye on the storm | The

  • Beyond that, insurance companies look at past claims histories to determine which models incur more or less damage in a crash, are more or less damaging to other vehicles, people and property, are more or less likely to be crashed or stolen and have higher or lower bodily injury claims.

    FORBES: The Cheapest Cars To Insure

  • Beyond that, insurance companies look at past claims histories to determine which models incur more or less damage in a crash, are more or less damaging to other vehicles, people and property, are more or less likely to be stolen or be involved in a crash and have higher or lower bodily injury claims.

    FORBES: The Cheapest (And Most Expensive) 2013 Cars To Insure

  • In the post-WWII era, the top tax rate has been as high as 94% and as low as 28%, yet tax receipts as a percent of GDP have been roughly 17% to 19% of GDP sometimes a bit more, sometimes a bit less, but never much more or less.

    FORBES: Tax Rates and the Great Fairness Debate

  • Using smarter technologies, more brains and less money to wring more work from less delivered energy--what energy experts call "end-use efficiency"--is the largest, cheapest, safest, cleanest, fastest, most diverse, least visible, least understood and most neglected way to provide energy services.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Less is more and more is less.

    FORBES: Where To Load Up, Where To Go Lightly In Russell Growth, S&P 500

  • Outsourcing has the potential to do more for less, by more efficiently leveraging resources than trying to support outsourced functions in-house.

    FORBES: Politics Aside, Congress Won't Slow Offshore Outsourcing Growth

  • Optimization is lot more than just driving more for less, and much more than just a compelling Total Cost of Ownership story.

    FORBES: Old is New Again!

  • First is that the prime minister appears to feel more or less powerless to use much more than moral suasion to ensure the biggest, most internationally mobile companies pay the going rate.

    BBC: The going rate for Goldman

  • When Gallup asked whether we should be spending more or less in the economic stimulus, by close to 3-to-1 margin voters said it is better to have spent less than to have spent more.

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  • He can tell just from the look and the feel whether more or less of an ingredient, or more manipulation, is necessary.

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  • In More or Less this week, you can hear more about all those surveys that "reveal" such fascinating - and often just as questionable - facts about us.

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  • Although the capital markets are now open to more or less any firm, they are far more favourable to those that were already in relatively good financial health, says Carsten Stendevad of the financial-strategy arm of Citigroup.

    ECONOMIST: Corporate finance

  • Though this situation is less than ideal, it has persisted, more or less unchanged, for decades.

    NEWYORKER: Publish or Perish

  • Now that the security problem is more or less solved, we can now turn to a more progressive agenda.

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  • "I would say that we never had a winter that was less conclusive than this one: the tires last more or less, depending on how much temperature you are able to create, " added Vettel.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • The address received broad support from centre-right and liberal group leaders Joseph Daul and Guy Verhofstadt, who said that citizens wanted "more not less Europe", and called for the Commission to be more pro-active in coming forward with new legislation to promote economic growth.

    BBC: State of the Union address 2010

  • The result does not so much flirt with the ridiculous as lie back and let the ridiculous do more or less what it wants, and Maddin aficionados will ask for nothing more.

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  • The user base looks more or less like America at large, skewing a bit older and a bit more urban.

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  • That makes the precise location of the surface where the image is to be formed much less important, because any particular plane at any given location will receive more or less the same pattern of light rays.

    ECONOMIST: MONITOR

  • Ms Banister points out that, in the 1953 census, the sex ratio at birth was more or less normal, but that at every age up to 14, girls were more likely to die than boys.

    ECONOMIST: 6.3 brides for seven brothers

  • HIV, malaria or tuberculosis may be able to sell to poor countries more or less at cost, because they can make up their profit margins by charging more to travellers or to rich-country consumers who are at risk at home.

    ECONOMIST: A poor diagnosis

  • They could well benefit from what every private business has done over the last three years: Tighten the belt, get more with less, learn that you can run a good organization with fewer people, pay more attention to detail, and expect more from everyone.

    FORBES: Colleges And Universities Should Operate More Like Businesses

  • The inhalation is the most severe, in the past, thought to have 90% fatality, although in our cases here in this country, we've shown it to be 40% fatality, and that's more or less because of the advanced antibiotic therapy, and the ICU support that is much more advanced than it was when the statistics were first out.

    CNN: "The Secret Life of Germs" author Philip Tierno

  • Detroit prices have been in decline for more than three years, yet based on the NAHB index, Motown's homes have become less affordable over the past year as incomes have dropped due to job loss, and because the low-end market has become so unappealing to buyers that it's been more or less abandoned.

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  • Most are comfortable taking in more or less the same number of students they have historically educated, responding to rising demand by making admissions more selective and raising tuition.

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  • In many other ways, the business of winning elections has become more capital-intensive and less labour-intensive, making political donors matter more and political activists less.

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