So the littoral warship costs much less to build and operate than other warships in the fleet.
Officers aren't trained to be beat cops, much less to fight insurgents, say U.S. military and local Afghans.
The sad truth is that income has much less to do with financial security than proper money management does.
But this is much less to do with the reduction in tariffs and trade laws than is generally thought.
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Greece now needs its creditors much less to pay pensions, civil-servant salaries and otherwise fund the operations of the government.
Often it is difficult to identify these funds or to understand their governance, much less to know how and why they make investment decisions.
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But this is nonsense: The Declaration promises people the right to the pursuit of happiness, not to happiness itself, much less to equal happiness.
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It shows us that practical politics has much less to do with ideas than it has to do with the emotions they feel while watching sports.
Evidently, women in some countries are much less likely to report an attack than in others and are much less likely to have their complaint recorded.
But the equity market, heavily influenced by downturns elsewhere, matters much less to Russia's economic future than the gruesome rise in interest rates for short-term debt.
The reality has much less to do with the domains in which each hemisphere operates and has more to do with the way each hemisphere processes information.
It is hard for Microsoft to uncover cases of corporate piracy, much less to prosecute them, but the firm is hoping that a few well-publicised fines will get the message across.
If other countries can simply take intellectual creations without paying for them, then wealthy nations have much less to gain from a free trade agreement and the entire world innovation system suffers.
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First, publishers make more money on hardcover sales than e-book sales, thanks to the inconvenient and widely unknown fact that digital books don't cost much less to produce than physical ones.
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But the board, composed of 25 growers at the time, nixed the idea, never giving the rest of the growers a chance to vote on it, much less to read the studies.
With much less to gain in damage awards, lawyers acting for cities or private plaintiffs are likely to be far less persistent in pursuing gun makers if, as looks certain, they fight back with determination.
Dagestan has its fair share of problems, but the answers to why the Tsarnaevs may have turned to terrorism will likely have much less to do with the republic than the changes they, especially Tamerlan, underwent in America.
At a bare minimum, though, if all teams, coaches, and players were held to a universal standard of ethics and transparency scandals like this would be much less likely to occur in the future, and scandals that did occur would be much less likely to go unreported for so long.
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The secrecy and the cult-like power that Degollado held over his followers made sexual abuse that much more likely to occur and made his victims and witnesses to his crimes that much less likely to come forward.
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In comparison, Dr Nairn said that parents in Spain and Sweden seemed to find it easier to refuse to buy goods for their children - and that there seemed to be much less pressure to have particular brands.
Unlike product innovations, systems innovations are nearly impossible to protect with patents and are rarely backed by tangible assets, making them much less attractive to investors and therefore much harder to launch and develop.
We know that if breast cancer is detected early, it's far easier to cure and much less costly to treat.
Several panelists compared social media today to early stages of the Internet when companies had a hard time figuring out how to use it, much less try to measure ROI.
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Therefore their impact on Afghanistan is that much less and likely to be that much less in the future.
As a result, U.S. tax law is very, very good to some of these companies and much less generous to others.
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Mitch Daniels, former Bush administration budget chief, told me GM and Chrysler would have been easier to turn around, and at much less cost to the taxpayer, if they'd gone through the traditional bankruptcy route, stripping them of their pension liabilities and debts.
That makes it comparable to older methods that would have been much less likely to find the gene.
Traffic to the database has been reduced dramatically deadlocks are much less likely to occur with fewer locks on the database.
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If South Korea steps in to provide the missing electricity, the North would have much less incentive to do so.
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