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Almost 60 years after the first McDonald’s restaurant opened, nearly one in three American children are overweight or obese, owing to a range of factors, including fewer home-cooked meals.
In principle, the Commission ought to be slimmed down after enlargement, with fewer Commissioners than member states.
There are 150 local Muslim councillors and eight mayors, slightly fewer than other ethnic minorities, but not alarmingly so.
Unless owners change their expectations, many contractors could lose revenue by moving to a more efficient, larger-scale system with fewer redundancies.
Moreover, the data on personal saving suggest somewhat fewer vulnerabilities and more resilience in the household sector.
After all, with fewer global rules, China will face even fewer obstacles when asserting its growing influence abroad.
No one shows up at Treasury auctions to buy US bonds, and fewer foreigners buy US stocks or companies and real estate.
Moreover, alternative approaches to stimulate private demand might have fewer undesirable distributional consequences, as MGI has discussed.
Often, their targets had much fewer resources, which meant that a libel suit requiring both sides to spend substantial amounts could be effective in silencing critics even if it did not succeed.
The Communist party, which had fewer than 10% of the vote during the first round, will certainly give him less trouble with its three minor ministries than it would have had if it remained outside the government with nothing to lose.
For starters, HICCup will focus on communities of 100,000 people or fewer.
Outside West Africa, there have been fewer than 30 cases, and only five deaths.
We are facing more problems with fewer resources.
This will mean fewer sources of information for a government that hopes to build support for its development goals in the region.
Conflict has broken out in no fewer than nine Arab countries, and the carnage has reached unimaginable levels of inhumanity.
What we do not need are forests of reports going to supervisors who appear to devote ample resources to ensuring they arrive on time but fewer on interpreting their content and drawing the relevant conclusions.
Achieving near-universal access to family planning would carry an annual price tag of $3.6 billion; but allowing women more control over pregnancy would mean 150,000 fewer maternal deaths and 600,000 fewer orphaned children, while the demographic dividend would boost economic growth.
Have fewer children.”
They advocated stopping economic growth, cutting consumption, and making sure people had fewer children.
Rich countries have provided generous subsidies and other incentives for increased bio-fuel production, while poorer countries encouraging bio-fuel production have provided far fewer market-distorting incentives to farmers.
With fewer firm-specific skills than their German counterparts, American workers are more susceptible to layoffs.
A certain amount of labor-market rigidity may make economic sense for jobs that require firm-specific skills and training, alongside greater flexibility for jobs that require fewer skills.
Nearly a hundred have been recorded, including no fewer than 65 incursions by China’s People’s Liberation Army in just one sector – the evocatively-named Finger Area, a 2.1-square-kilometer salient in the Indian state of Sikkim, which shares a 206-kilometer border with Tibet.
Not only do fewer cases occur, but the NCD cases that do tend to be less severe, and to progress more slowly than was previously the case.
A new tax code was adopted, with lower and fewer taxes, notably a flat income tax of 13%.
For each innovative champion that sells cutting-edge products on the global market, there are many poorly managed companies with fewer than ten employees that produce only for the local market.
Fewer than 2% of East Jerusalem’s residents vote in municipal elections, as most believe that participating would lend legitimacy to the Israeli occupation.
The Vatican newspaper responded by criticizing Melinda Gates, whose efforts in organizing and partly funding this initiative will, it is estimated, lead to nearly three million fewer babies dying in their first year of life, and to 50 million fewer abortions.
And the weaker federal government would mean fewer US “wars of choice” in the Middle East.
Several more countries have laws that set the minimum work age between 12 and 16, but the ILO cautions that few countries "have what could be considered a comprehensive prohibition of dangerous work for young children," and that even fewer have "measures to protect young persons from moral degradation."
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