"But if you eat what you like, you decrease cravings.
You demolish a society, you decrease the population, and off you go again.
"It's a classic dilemma: when you build more highways, do you decrease pollution or increase traffic?
That is, if you increase the number of questions you ask on a death certificate, you decrease the accuracy of the answers.
For example, Germany and Argentina can both be #1 when you decrease the weight of friendlies and the Confederations Cup, in which neither team played.
There is a rule of thumb, says Naumann, according to which "by every 1% you decrease the journey time, your passenger numbers increase by the same amount".
Or, as usual, should you submit the wrong answer, you decrease the amount of Picarat points you win by completing the puzzle, but this is like losing Nectar points in that you hardly care.
"There is inevitably a year when you decrease" the amount you give away, said George Vera, the chief financial officer for the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, one of the very largest foundations, with about $13 billion at the end of 1999.
When you narrow spreads, you decrease the profitability of marketmaking.
"If you decrease perfusion of blood into inactive tissue, you decrease oxygen consumption, heat production, and temperature," says team member Yves Handrich, a physiologist at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Strasbourg, France.
