PARIS — Financial institutions in Europe sought far less money from the European Central Bank on Wednesday than many analysts had expected, offering some reassurance about the health of the euro region's banking system.
Administration officials said the decision to narrow the case and seek a far less drastic means of regulating Microsoft's practices rather than splitting up the company was motivated by two forces.
Men with symptoms of depression and anxiety, particularly in the oldest and youngest age groups seek help far less frequently than women for a given threshold or condition [ 17].
Indeed, the aggregate information that we seek threatens privacy far less than the scrubbed anecdotes that Google has already released, or the notifications that it is giving to webmasters registered with Google webmaster tools.
The ouster came less than two years after Conseco made its largest acquisition, of the former Green Tree Financial, a mobile home financer that Conseco is now desperately seeking to unload for far less than it paid.
But while many criminal trials turn on the credibility of statements obtained by the police, prosecutors are seeking to use a far less common type of statement against the parents, Cesar Rodriguez, 28, and Nixzaliz Santiago, 29.
Telling a sceptical electorate that essentially conservative policies are consistent with "social justice" is less heroic than actually seeking the third way, but far less harmful, and voters lap it up.
The Israeli government and military elite believe that Saddam Hussein seeks devastating weapons but has far less capacity for mayhem than he had during the Persian Gulf war of 1991, when his forces fired 39 Scud missiles at Israel.
In spite of the statistics, "in reality men are just as likely to experience depression, but are far less likely to seek help, be diagnosed and seek treatment," according to Paul Farmer, the chief executive of the mental health charity Mind.
