Less fragmented industries also lobby better.

But safer, less indebted banks are better able to continue lending without becoming distressed or needing support.

It turns out, most people over 50 feel better, are less stressed, are less hostile, less anxious.

And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better.

As latecomers, we always want to say more, you know, crack better jokes, say better things, but we end up saying less because there's a gap between the mind and the tongue.

But today, the European Union is stymied by having squandered the chance to build stronger institutions when times were better and tempers less strained.

So, traffic keeps flowing, so that means less braking, which means less accelerating, less gas and less pollution, less time wasted, and that partly accounts for Europe's better efficiency than we have in the United States.

But it has long been recognized that subsidies can be just as destructive as tariffs and even less fair, since rich countries can better afford them.

But it would certainly be no less mistaken solely to look back into the past while ignoring the hope of a better future for succeeding generations.

The less we alienate the Afghan population in the fight against drugs, the better.

But safer, less indebted banks are better able to continue lending without becoming distressed or needing support. As a result, they are less likely to destabilize the global financial system or impose harm on most shareholders and the public.

China s technology inroads are usually less dramatic, but no less telling.

One can argue that economic performance would have been even better with less government intervention.

Energy efficient industry can compete better, pollute less and help to achieve national energy security.

What happens? They give better service not worse, but better.

But they knew better.

As light in water is less scattered than in ice this results in a better resolving power.

The threat they pose may be less dramatic, but it is no less pernicious.

But for genocide? Better not.

But this is a multifaceted effort. We need more training, better intelligence, better forces and better coordination.

But perhaps my old friend Lyndon Johnson might have put it in less noble fashion Better to have your enemies inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.

With better directed incentives (more research dollars spent on more important diseases, less money spent on wasteful and distorted marketing), we could have better health at lower cost.

We need a Europe that is more concrete, less rhetorical, and better suited to the current global economy.

Technology democratizes social and political processes and, for better and worse, institutions play less of a mediating role.

Other regulators did no better in predicting this crisis, and are even less suited to prevent the next.

People always think more is better than less 60 is always better than 50, and they always think now is better than later the bars on this side are higher than the bars on this side.

Gore s co recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize is less known, but no less deserving.

But there are ways to waste less.

But the outcome is far less clear.

But the reality is less re assuring.

But the international reaction was less expected.

In better shape, but not alone.

But you will be better off.

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

As adults, they tend to have better diets, exercise more, gain less weight, have fewer hangovers, and so on.

There is a strong case for Germany to decide whether to accept Eurobonds or leave the eurozone, but it is less obvious which of the two alternatives would be better for the country.

But Friedman also produced a less felicitous legacy.

but when they measure or weigh , give less .

But such policies will be less and less able to guarantee peace and stability in the future.

But today Russia is more isolated, less trusted, and less respected than it was a month ago.

But better and more hopeful? You bet.

But matters are little better in Europe.

An example could be that a software upgrade might improve system performance, but the business case is that better performance would improve customer satisfaction, require less task processing time, or reduce system maintenance costs.

For a president bent on implementing reforms, less can be more less aggressiveness and less ego. But can a man act against his deepest nature?

They are posh, they're wealthy, they're less likely to have outdoor jobs, they're less likely to do manual labor, they have better social support, they're less likely to smoke so for a whole host of fascinating, interlocking social, political and cultural reasons, they are less likely to have skin wrinkles.