When the dollar gets cheaper, it raises the price of South Korean and Japanese exports like televisions and cars, making them less competitive.

VOA: standard.2009.11.27

Some business groups complain that the proposed tax changes will impose new costs on U.S.firms and make them less competitive in the global marketplace.

VOA: standard.2009.05.04

He says the region's Baluch people have important ethnic and cultural differences from Pashtuns in the tribal belt that make them less willing to harbor militants.

VOA: standard.2009.03.19

A company called StoveTec is selling them through its Web site for less than ten dollars.

VOA: special.2010.02.01

Two studies showed ways in which anti-H.I.V.drugs could permit infected women to breastfeed their newborns with less risk of passing the virus to them.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

But it caused them to depend less on imported rice.

VOA: special.2010.03.30

As a result, less desirable plants may replace them.

VOA: special.2009.01.06

And that parents who share ideas with their children and talk with them and who've met most of their child's friends are much less likely to have children who become bullies."

VOA: special.2010.05.06

As a result,less desirable plants may replace them.

VOA: special.2010.01.19

Phan says when shoppers see empty storefronts, it reminds them how tough the economic environment is and they feel less inclined to buy.

VOA: standard.2009.12.20

Major polluters could buy allowances from the government, and companies that pollute less than their allowances could sell them to those that pollute more.

VOA: standard.2009.06.27

He says there are many good students attending less prestigious universities who have been forced to abandon their educations because they simply cannot afford them.

VOA: standard.2010.02.02

"If coal and gas and oil had to pay the price for the damage that they did,we would use a whole lot less of them.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

So Mozaffarian and his colleagues studied the studies,eight of them, in which some participants ate less saturated fat and more polyunsaturated fats, the kind of fats that are in fish,nuts, and vegetable oils.

VOA: standard.2010.03.25