The other reforms - conflict of interest, corruption and cutting political costs - are much more controversial and so more likely to be blocked by a Berlusconi-led opposition.
Respondents tend to think better of a company if it asks their opinion and so are more likely to recommend or use the product again.
Yet we can become more adept at genuinely supporting others best side so they are more likely to see and support ours.
So 2008 is more likely to be a robust market than a bust one.
Deflation erodes profitability and increases the real burden of debt, and so makes defaults more likely.
In some instances, they are squeezing workers into smaller spaces so they are more likely to bump into each other.
The campaigners also agreed that prison just makes life harder for women - so they are more likely to reoffend.
What makes immigrants so much more likely to launch a high-tech startup, compared with their native born peers?
By selectively altering key enzymes in bacteria's chemical weapons factories, he hopes to redesign microbes so they are more likely to produce compounds that can fight human disease.
There is another important dynamic in which technological innovation draws on previous research, and so firms are more likely to continue on established innovation trajectories than to start new ones.
Although only a quarter of customers go overdrawn each year, most of these had also done so the previous year and were more likely to do so six times a year than just once.
"Clearly the rise in energy prices in the short term will add to the squeeze we've seen in the last year or so and is more likely to discourage consumer spending, but we've also seen a rise in asset prices and share prices, " Mr King said.
In principle globalisation can help to stabilise economies if they are at different stages of the cycle, but the very forces of global integration are likely to synchronise economic cycles more closely, so that downturns in different countries are more likely to reinforce one another.
But deflation is so far the stuff of imagination, and more likely to remain so than not.
So, is it more likely that rates will drop significantly lower or that they will rise in the coming years?
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So instead of prices collapsing during the next year or so, we are more likely to see prices stabilize and recover.
So the courts are more likely to "raise the First Amendment protections for broadcast than they are to lower the protections for cable, " says Duke's Benjamin.
But the integrated dinosaurs, hobbled by high production costs, are horribly uncompetitive and have remained so despite (or more likely because of) a long history of protection.
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Coffeen apparently acted very strangely when police arrived (not that he had been acting normally before that), so there is likely more to the plea than a claimed overconsumption of Red Bull.
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Big companies so far have been more likely to hire social-media consultants that can help safeguard them and their employees against reputation-injuring mistakes on sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
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So the issues it is more likely to address are the AdWords API and scraping issues.
But it is more likely simply so they can concentrate on a fight over spending.
So Mr Kerry is much more likely to make a choice based on the character of his campaign overall.
If so, the returns are more likely to come from developing countries than from fancy synergies between utilities in the rich world.
So they are many times more likely to buy from you again than a customer that may have never heard of you before.
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Yeah, it's a crazy story, and it gets even wilder: Palm says Company C never signed an NDA, so it's more than likely we'll eventually find out who it was.
So consumption taxes are the more likely answer.
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However, in the current weak economic climate, firms with lots of spare capacity find it hard to pass on costs, so rising labour costs are more likely to squeeze profits than to push up inflation.
And that 15% is only for a subset of paying members in the U.S., so likely a lot more hours are being spent on Xbox Live watching video, though the company declined to break out exactly how many.
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