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Other US states with a notable number of MENA-linked patent applications were Texas and Massachusetts;Texas, for example, had only slightly fewer than Saudi Arabia during the 2009-2013 period.
But with more people of MENA origin subjected to so-called extreme vetting, fewer people from the region will be moving to the US.
In particular, allowing women to decide if, when, and how often they become pregnant leads to fewer deaths in childbirth and fewer infant deaths.
Technological innovations make whatever is produced primarily by machines more useful, albeit with relatively fewer contributions from unskilled labor.
They also tend to vote at higher rates, engage in more civic activities, commit fewer crimes, educate their children better, and get sick less frequently by adopting healthier lifestyles.
Instead of waiting for the next crisis to erupt, Germany should see to it that European banks hold fewer domestic government bonds.
This is the upshot of an intellectual movement that began almost 35 years ago – and that has facilitated no fewer than a dozen interventions in just over two decades.
Syrian, Libyan, and Yemenite victims are faceless; the lionization of the incomparably fewer Gazan casualties makes them unique.
A 2012 study reported that its use averted an estimated 272,040 maternal deaths in 2008, 44% fewer than might otherwise have occurred.
And, on average, fewer than one in three job seekers in OECD countries received unemployment compensation during that period.
Fewer than one in five eligible Californians knows about the state’s EITC, which translates into $2 billion in unclaimed credits each year.
The agreement will also spur major manufacturers such as Boeing, Airbus, Bombardier, and Embraer – which are already investing in quieter, more fuel-efficient aircraft and efficiency improvements for existing models – to develop cleaner technologies that will allow them to purchase fewer emissions offsets.
No fewer than 187 countries – large and small, developed and developing – announced emissions-reduction targets in the months before the conference, which created the momentum to reach a landmark accord.
Less room for industrialization will almost certainly mean fewer growth miracles in the future.
Fewer still have addressed the need for vertical coordination betweennational and city governments.
To the extent that their breeding ground can be destroyed, as Al Qaeda’s was in Afghanistan, there will be fewer newly minted terrorists to worry about.
America’s relatively high rate encourages US companies to locate their investment, production, and employment in foreign countries, and discourages foreign companies from locating in the US, which means slower growth, fewer jobs, smaller productivity gains, and lower real wages.
But, as capital becomes more mobile, relatively immobile workers are bearing more of the burden in the form of lower wages and fewer job opportunities.
They found that of the 31 million German workers questioned, 30% want fewer (but pay-adjusted) working hours, but that 26% want to work longer hours.
Improved education is associated with many positive developments, including fewer child marriages, lower death rates among children under the age of five and mothers during childbirth, more effective HIV prevention, higher wages, and greater economic growth.
Over-medication would affect fewer Americans if we could rein in such clear examples of over-diagnosis.
If I consume fewer calories and exercise more, I should lose weight.
The only principle that has some ethical basis is equal emission rights per capita (with some adjustments – for instance, the US has already used up its share of the global atmosphere, so it should have fewer emission allowances).
Although Europe is roughly the same economic size as the US, it has far fewer winning corporate teams.
Loans from the China Development Bank carry higher interest rates than the West’s traditional lending mechanisms, but they also come with fewer restrictions on policy, and allowed Venezuela to escape the worst of the bondholders’ wrath – at least so far.
Compared to patients who received sham acupuncture or no treatment, far fewer of those who received acupuncture died or became invalid within three months.
No fewer than 210 Congolese nongovernmental organizations, including those enjoying the widest recognition and respect across the country, recently joined in challenging President Joseph Kabila’s attempt to take control of the National Assembly (the lower house of Parliament) that came into office after historic elections in 2006.
Debt relief created fewer problems for banks in the US because a significant proportion of the subprime loans packaged into AAA-rated securities had been sold to gullible foreigners.
We have done reasonably well at ensuring that a child born in 2015 is likely to face fewer material burdens than his or her parents.
Each year 1.2 million fewer people die from indoor air pollution, despite an increase in population.
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