11.   In other markets, corn rose after the USDA said farmers have made less progress planting crops than previously thought.

12.   It has made even less headway with the Chinese.

13.   It made them less flexibile.

14.   It makes you less provincial, for one thing.

15.   Like most notions that command almost universal assent, the proposed ban on genetic discrimination makes far less sense the more you think about it.

16.   Northwest made less money on each available seat, however, due to the reinstatement of a federal ticket tax and the weaker yen.

17.   Once the mutation process begins again, some of the highly effective B cells will be made less effective, and one or two may get better.

18.   Prosecutors have made even less headway on that case.

19.   Summit has also made far less money from bank fees than most of its competitors, which has weighed on its stock price for years.

20.   The bill would have delayed tax cuts until the federal budget was balanced and made less deep cuts in Medicare.