The US spends less in the public sector, but it taxes even less than it spends.

Up until now, there has been far too little malaria control.

But the stimulus effect of quantitative easing is far less certain than even that of fiscal stimulus.

Even oil and mining companies have reported a less hostile environment.

Such a prospect would be even less acceptable to developing countries.

Cameron s bet is not yet won, to say the least.

All of the steps taken so far have resulted in more European integration, not less.

So far, little damage has been done and little positive change accomplished.

The ratio of women is still lower in some sectors and lines of business (View index 3.6)

While that is useful information, it does not say anything about the extent to which each forecaster believes that growth might turn out to be less than 1 , or even less than zero.

Inflation and interest rates in Japan lately have been even lower than in the US.

Unfortunately, so far the world seems to have learned very little from the recent financial crisis.

This definition made clear that a supermini was something larger than a Mini yet smaller than a typical car of the time.

And, with fewer than a thousand French citizens still living in Mali, even its pragmatic interest is relatively slight.

In short, even our moderate estimate may significantly underestimate the cost of America s involvement in Iraq.

Even Brazil, which is less strict than the USA in drug approvals, has banned the drug for these purposes.

The Blueprints scenario is less painful, even if the start is more disorderly.

And yet global interest rates are even lower now than they were then.

Most governments are in fact ill equipped to understand the scientific issues, even when they are much less ideological and dogmatic than Bush.

There is scant empirical evidence for this set of conditions, because such cases were rare until recently.

For the time being, however, the protection framework for the victims of natural disasters is less well developed than the protection afforded to civilians affected by armed conflict.

Africa's enormous energy potential remains vastly under exploited.

Thus far, no complaints have been registered coming from women concerning a lower salary in relation to a male employee on the same job.

There would be fewer informal systems, and those remaining would have to be less secretive to compete for business with regulated remittance service providers, so allowing more scrutiny by authorities.

Better to keep socking away US Treasury bills, even if the return is far lower than on most other investments.

Even the perception of fraud can be damaging as it makes people less inclined to accept election results.

In fact, these elements extend even to cultures like China, where religion is less significant than philosophical outlooks like Confucianism.

In 1985, the interest rate on ten year Treasury bonds was 10 , even though inflation had declined to less than 4 .

We need to make emission cuts much cheaper so that countries like China and India can afford to help the environment.

Prognosis Median survival is around 10 years, but the range is wide, from less than one year, to more than 20 years.

They might be just as surprised to learn that health policy is not yet subject to the same approach.

However, fabrication of the OLED substrate is more costly than that of a TFT LCD, until mass production methods lower cost through scalability.

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Italy, its foreign trade peremptorily suppressed, escaped the trade wars of the Great Depression. In 1931, Pius XI took credit.

The population in 2011 was 1.8 million, having grown 7.5 over the previous decade from just under 1.7 million in 2001.

The alternator syntax allows a series of items to be generated in sequence until one fails can generate 1 , hello , and 5 if x is less than 5.

Of the 14 appeals for Africa, 8 had received less than 20 per cent as at May 2005.

At the same time, Europe s economies should be less enmeshed in protective regulations, so that immigrants can find work more easily.

But even small terrorist successes are costly in terms of lives, money, and making open societies less so.

But even where family change continues apace, it has far less negative consequences when women have access to economic rights than when they do not.

If the fund s losses are big enough that rounding off still leaves it short of a stable 1.00 value, the fund breaks the buck.

It is considered less risky because some of its assets are less risky than others.

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Here one encounters less collective hope and less individual fear.

Foreign employers are appalled by the poor quality of Thailand s education system, whose graduates have little foreign language proficiency and possess scant analytical skills.