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• Some independent experts, while critical overall, praise the administration for its role in spacing out the negative shocks from the record home repossessions taking place, lessening the chances of the economy suffering a fatal blow. Bailout Oversight Panel Slams Obama Administration Over Foreclosure Crisis
• It can avoid approximate factorization or block-bidiagonal matrix, and has obvious superiority in enhancing accuracy, lessening amount of calculation, improving stability.
• A three-year courtship enabled them to paint realistic portraits of one another, lessening the chances of a rude awakening after marriage.
• The business contended with difficult market trends and an industrywide lessening in demand for exchange-traded funds, which track markets. Times, Sunday Times
• The Reading Room, with its broad encircling staircases, appears somewhat out of proportion, lessening the impact of the porticos in the courtyard, which are grand in their own right but diminutive by comparison.
• Skin grafting has great value after extensive burns, not because it hastens healing, which it probably does not do, but because it has a marked influence in lessening cicatricial contraction. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
• One major reason for satisfaction is that American medicine has been astoundingly successful in lessening mortality from the two most feared killers, cancer and heart disease. Stromata Blog:
• Another method described in an ancient text is sugar-candy taken with rice-wash in the form of a linctus to produce sterility in a woman without lessening her passion.
• The researchers think this lessening of friction may occur among the grains in granular flows, such as snow cascading down a mountainside.
• A mid-stage trial showed that when TC-5214 was given to patients who did not respond well to citalopram, an antidepressant sold under the name Celexa, patients experienced a significantly greater lessening of their depression than those who took citalopram plus a placebo. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion