I didn t feel I was any less able than my classmates from private schools.

And government spending is as good as anybody else s.

US consumers are shopped out, savings less, and debt burdened.

The problem is that Russian labor is less mobile than in the Europe and the United States.

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

Poor people tend to be more exposed to threats and are less able to absorb the shocks inherent in disasters.

Such conduct was likely to make the Zambian plant less competitive by restricting its production capacity.

People with few resources or alternatives are also less able to recover from disasters.

The United States, which best embodies ultimate power, is less willing and less able to exercise it.

And that will require a less competitive euro higher relative to the dollar and other currencies.

Germany, struggling with the burdens of reunification, undertook structural reforms and became more competitive. Other countries enjoyed housing and consumption booms on the back of cheap credit, making them less competitive.

The Royal Norwegian Navy is now replacing those vessels with a smaller number of larger and more capable vessels.

Their exports would become less competitive, and they would encounter heavy competition from the rump eurozone in their home markets.

The problems of food and hunger were likely to continue, with developing countries most severely affected because they were least able to overcome them.

) This was primarily because London had less access to fresh water (and thus a greater need to conserve water, though this theory is now contested.

All those actors obviously have less access to information and freedom of interaction with the realities of armed conflict.

But very little was done to strengthen the financial system s ability to withstand a default of any significant magnitude.

And restructuring weakens banks, which generally hold large portfolios of government bonds, thus making them less able to finance the economy.

But the availability of long term capital appears to have been impaired, as traditional providers of equity to infrastructure projects, for example, have become less able or willing to invest.

This would require, of course, less cynical political elites who can transcend their petty ambitions and divisions for the sake of the country.

The reason that not for profit providers can achieve higher quality care with better health outcomes at lower cost is evident.

A personal experience, when I was at MIT computer taking up about the size of this room, less powerful than the computer in your cell phone.

India s ability to stave off the economic gales was helped by the fact that it is much less dependent than most countries on global flows of trade and capital.

The spread of information means that informal networks are undercutting the monopoly of traditional bureaucracy, with all governments less able to control their agendas.

Now that the housing bubble has burst, the US finds itself out trained, out educated, and out maneuvered in the global competition for employment.

Rent seeking, the ability of entrenched elites to allocate resources to themselves and smother opportunity for others, invariably leads to a less competitive market and lower growth.

The law of entropy reminds us that we will leave to future generations a degraded natural patrimony, probably less adequate to their needs than what we inherited.

But Japan s wealthiest people, such as entrepreneurs, medical doctors, and lawyers, are nowadays less willing or financially able to continue patronizing the sport, particularly since the collapse of Japan s asset bubble in the early 1990 s.

Limits emissions and waste within the planet s ability to absorb them, uses renewable resources at or below their rates of generation, and uses non renewable resources at or below the rates of development of renewable substitutes, while minimizing the impact on the use of land and the generation of noise.

They take fewer days off work.

But it is precisely the lack of economic reform at home that has made Italy one of the least competitive states in the euro zone economy.

On the other side of the frequency spectrum are low frequency vibrations, often not detected by hearing organs, but with other, less specialized sense organs.

New missions are less equipped to provide this service in a timely manner, and vendors have limited ability to modify equipment to peacekeeping specifications.

In other words, Gazprom (and the Russian government) are less capable of withstanding the loss of the European market than vice versa. Indeed, given the hard bargains that China has been driving during Putin s desperate search for alternative buyers, threatening to cut exports to Europe has proven to be an exceedingly unwise tactic.

At the very least, the combination of higher interest rates in the shadow banking sector and weaker nominal GDP growth undermines borrowers debt repayment capacity.

According to the latest Annual Threat Assessment of the Intelligence Community released last February, Because of the pressure we and our allies have put on Al Qaeda s core leadership in Pakistan Al Qaeda today is less capable and effective than it was a year ago.

Certainly, America s guarantee of its NATO allies security will not become worthless but it will become far more difficult to redeem it in full.

The Least Developed Countries Fund of the Global Environment Facility provides funds for the enhancement of those countries' adaptive capacity and the implementation of their national adaptation plans of action and grants for their environmental projects.

Europe must grow up and develop the capacity to defend its own interests, because the day is fast approaching when others will be less able and willing to do this for us than they once were.

Over 92,000 people in Scotland (just under 2 of the population) had some Gaelic language ability, including 72 of those living in the Outer Hebrides.

There is no equally organized and active demand for evidence that all of these subsidies are distortionary, waste money, and make companies less rather than more competitive.

China s exchange rate intervention probably hurts a number of other emerging market exporters that do not intervene as much and are less competitive as a result.

China requires nothing less than another radical re engineering to become a more balanced, socially equitable, and sustainable economy.

Once the monetary rules of the game incorporate the real exchange rate, and assuming that fiscal policy remains supportive, investors can look forward to a less volatile and more competitive currency.

Some Parties referred to tax policies (e.g. carbon tax system), the restructuring of relevant institutions, encouragement of the use of hydrogen based fuels, and the introduction of small engine capacity cars that consume less energy.