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That wasn't really a problem in the warm 2009 vintage, where even the basic village-level wines from less-favored exposures got more than enough rays to ripen, and even Mr. Bize's less-conscientious neighbors managed to produce some pretty voluptuous juice.
The Death-Defying Values of Savigny-lès-Beaune Jay McInerney 2011
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Past studies have found that less-favored siblings may suffer emotionally, with decreased self-esteem and behavioral problems in childhood, while adult children who were even slightly favored report higher well-being.
Mom's favoritism can affect kids, sibling rivalry as adults 2010
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On one hand, advertisers continue to lower the bar as, through their careful mappings and tracings of US cultural practice, they identify newly precise and targeted means of siphoning off income - making less-favored demographic groups more coveted than before.
Is YouTube the Successor to Television -- Or to LIFE Magazine? Dan Schiller 2010
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On one hand, advertisers continue to lower the bar as, through their careful mappings and tracings of US cultural practice, they identify newly precise and targeted means of siphoning off income - making less-favored demographic groups more coveted than before.
Dan Schiller: Is YouTube the Successor to Television -- Or to LIFE Magazine? 2010
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In Dallas, fund manager Colby Harlow says he landed on J.P. Morgan's less-favored "low touch" list even though his small $150 million hedge fund broke even in 2008 -- a far better performance than most hedge funds and the markets in general.
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It could cost tens of trillions (in expenditures and foregone economic growth, here and in less-favored parts of the planet) to try to fine-tune the planet's temperature.
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It was a war in which Britain's favored and more strongly backed colonial project took on other less-favored client regimes of Britain scrapping over the remnants of Palestine.
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Being on banks 'less-favored lists doesn't necessarily mean a death knell for hedge funds -- private investment partnerships that cater to institutions and the rich and have wide discretion in their strategies.
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Even those constrained to spend the 21st century in some less-favored city will inevitably feel the tug of Seattle's gloom.
Seattle Reigns 2008
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If a society takes it upon itself to prescribe and proscribe certain streams of belief — to prohibit certain less-favored strains of conscience — it may be the non-believer who is among the first to be condemned.
Props to Mitt Romney Julianne 2008
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