Labels were signing fewer acts, giving them less time to prove themselves and spending less money on marketing.
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If that makes them less big and complex, many would say that is a good thing.
Instead, most hope that controls on short-term capital flows might make them less volatile.
They usually have deep root systems that make them less vulnerable to dry conditions.
But one of the problems with idolatry is that it gives them less than their due.
This makes them less influential than they should be, even when Democrats control the House.
But these added to the bulk of the machines making them less practical for real-world uses.
As their country appreciates them less, creative Poles, it seems, are appreciating Poland more.
In the past, brusque interrogators frightened children, making them less willing to confront their abusers.
Reducing the banks' equity holdings would also make them less vulnerable to stockmarket gyrations.
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Yet, these policies trip American device makers for political reasons, rendering them less efficient.
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It has since retreated from that position and modified its internal models (ie, made them less optimistic).
Those liquidity facilities charge borrowers a penalty rate which makes them less attractive as private credit returns.
Any one of those developments would have made them less reliant on Jeter and Rivera in 2013.
As extreme weather events become more frequent, it is important to try to make them less disruptive.
Some of these medicines may be less than inventive and exciting, but that also makes them less risky.
That makes them less expensive to produce and helps automakers that are less technologically advanced than foreign rivals.
This has had the effect of making them less sensitive than earlier devices that did use external antennas.
Unfortunately, it has been using them less efficiently than before: output has grown more slowly than real inputs.
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Historically, dollar weakness helps commodities by making them less expensive in other currencies.
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He vowed to create products durable enough and timeless enough that people could replace them less often, reducing waste.
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This may weaken their ability to withstand chemotherapy or other aggressive treatments, so doctors may treat them less aggressively.
Its thesis: The way to get people to say yes to more dates is to offer them less information.
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This has made them less risky and allowed them to keep their value.
Better legal protection for journalists makes them less reliant on tough investigative methods.
The hard courts are far more punishing on his body, and he has talked about perhaps playing on them less.
But changing the way the way you think about your choices, both big and small, can make them less draining.
Part of the problem is his age--he found that employers preferred younger workers, even teenagers, because they could pay them less.
He showed floral prints too but they were rendered in black and white which made them less feminine and more vampy.
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Contra-cyclical capital requirements, forcing banks to build more reserves during good times, will leave them less cash to splurge on bonuses.
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