Sunweb's Tom Dumoulin has retained the pink jersey, albeit with a significantly reduced advantage, after an extraordinary and controversial stage 16 of the Giro d'Italia, eventually won by the home rider Vincenzo Nibali.
The corollary of rejecting equality as a goal, and placing greater responsibility on individuals, must be to increase opportunity by reducing unfair advantage.
Rivals of the new world champions are pushing for at least one development step during a season, in the hope of reducing Mercedes' advantage.
In parallel with the designer cellulosome approach, another interesting attempt to increase enzyme synergism, in the form of multifunctional enzyme conjugates, has been reported recently, and it is believed that this strategy may provide a component cost-reducing advantage over designer cellulosomes in future industrial applications (Moraïs et al. 2010).
Over the long term, however, reversion to the mean tends to reduce even that slim advantage.
And the reporting around the Goldman speeches" — speeches given to Goldman Sachs executives — "might have reduced her advantage, the normal Democratic advantage, in the eyes of working people, that we were standing for them.
To be sure, the web has been grinding down barriers to entry for 20 years, reducing the advantages of incumbents.
The lawsuit alleges that the merger would reduce Medicare Advantage competition in 21 states, affecting more than 1.5 million Medicare Advantage customers.
Dougie Freedman threw on Marvin Sordell and Afobe to bolster Bolton's attack and the latter helped them reduce the advantage again.
The paper also shows that a distortionary aggregate emission cap reduces the advantage of differentiated policy.
And media firms have reduced this advantage further by releasing TV shows almost simultaneously in different countries.
