They make the system less than perfectly efficient, but safer when things go wrong.
That would make the system less unfair and, in the long term, a bit cheaper.
They believe high levels of the chemical may make the nervous system less responsive to danger signs.
The largest loopholes also favour the rich, making the tax system less progressive, and encourage rampant tax avoidance.
The government wants to put "economic growth at the heart of every planning decision" and make the planning system less complex.
The right way to deal with it is to work with the providers to figure out how can we make the system less wasteful, more efficient overall.
Dr Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) told Today presenter Sarah Montague that she welcomed moves to make the system less bureaucratic.
That alone may make the international monetary system less stable.
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.
Some Windows users will scoff at the attempts to liven up the old system as pandering to more casual computer users, or as somehow making the system less capable of serious work.
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The push to standardise over-the-counter derivatives contracts, for instance, could, if taken too far, leave investors trying to hedge specific risks with blunt instruments, making the system less safe, rather than more.
It ought to make the system less capricious.
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This will mean less leverage, less flexibility in the financial system, and less influence for the financial system in .
Having LORAN in reserve makes the GPS satellite system a less attractive target for terrorists, they say.
Hence the need for more research comparing the efficiency of America's justice system with less severe European ones.
What's more, LG's Wireless Ultra HD Transmission system consumes less than half the power of other similar transmission technologies.
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In total, the Swedish tax system is less redistributory than the US one.
But, as part of its programme to get more Germans working, the government promised a simpler tax system and less bureaucracy.
The pin and pattern spotting system did less well when it was applied to data gathered when users were walking around with gadgets.
The system costs less to install and maintain than the existing furnaces, it virtually eliminates carbon dioxide emissions and it enables the use of higher-quality, solvent-based paints.
It would, however, make the tax system far less progressive.
Intel will be tacking on extra features that corporate buyers crave, such as the ability to remotely access computers and run programs in isolation so that the system is less crash-prone.
Yesterday Research In Motion stock was very strong based on the report that the company has received 15, 000 apps for its upcoming BB 10 operating system in less than two days.
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At least in economic terms, France is holding up ok in this crisis so far, with French consumer spending actually rebounding in January, and the French financial system in less horrible shape than some.
Making Brazil's absurdly generous pensions system slightly less so by raising the retirement age will require congressional approval but officials working on it hope that by pushing the pain into the future there is a chance it will pass.
In fact, recent research by Blancon et al published in Nature in 2009, examining the paleoclimate record, shows sea-level rises of 3 metres in 50 years due to the rapid melting of ice sheets 123, 000 years ago in the Eemian, when the energy imbalance in the climate system was less than that to which we are now subjecting the planet.
And in general, he says that the German system seemed "less hung up about ideology, which has bedevilled our education system for the past 40 years".
But he found his summer job with the school system a bit less exciting.
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