11.   But a Germany united and unthreatened on its eastern border has less need of France.

12.   But in crowded Marin County, just north of San Francisco, they have less space to live, the scientists say.

13.   But Web sales and such will never offer Kodak the lush profit margins of conventional film, and that means the company has less leeway to combat setbacks.

14.   By having a variety of activities housed under one title, younger gamers have less chance of getting bored.

15.   Consumers rarely toted bulky Polaroid instant cameras on vacations, for example, so canceled trips would have less impact on Polaroid than, say, Kodak or Fuji.

16.   How lame is it that we in the sports business have less perspective than Hollywood?

17.   However, even if Advanced Cell Technology never uses cloning to produce a human, some fear that other researchers will have less reluctance.

18.   House Republicans would do better, he said, to have less a sense of revolutionary righteousness and more a sense of original sin.

19.   In Los Angeles, they have had far less support, seldom selling out the huge Coliseum.

20.   It has less inventory and fewer championship events than the other three.