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How much of a difference should investors expect when General Motors -- or any company -- brings in a new chief executive?

That last stat is something of a surprise because steals are a defensive category, and Melo has never been much of a defensive player.

Journalist: How much of a risk is it for a footballer to come to a new country and league in a World Cup year?

They had chosen those limits so as not to alienate themselves from friends and family, and it had never felt like much of a constraint.

Well, I am not much of a techie, but let me see what I can do to help.

The goal doesn't seem too daunting and will allow you to begin developing the habit without too much of a crunch on your budget.

I'm starting to feel like a broken record, but I really can't tell you how much of a difference slight alterations make.

How much of a tip should I leave the water at the restaurant.

And if avian flu hits, or for any other reason the world decides that malaria is no longer as much of a priority, everybody loses.

It's kinda easy to just fall into a habit of doing stuff or consuming things without really having much of a reason for doing so.

One fundamental question is how much of a role does inflammation play in repair to a muscle?

Indeed, England are expected to take 60, 000 fans, more than any country except the hosts. How much of a help could this be?

His looks are bland, his voice is soft and he would be the first to admit that he is not much of a public speaker.

Women can tell from other women's voices how much of a threat they pose to their relationships, anthropologists have claimed.

When all is said and done, there doesn't seem to be much of a mystery to explain.

The most basic: how much of a public health toll does air pollution take around the globe?

changes that will be beneficial no matter how much of a threat global warming turns out to be.

It sometimes seems as if God played a cruel trick on humanity by putting so much of a precious resource in such rough places.

But you know how much of a headache I get reading subtitles .

How much of a setback to growth do these twin crises represent?

how much of a discount do I get on that stuff?

How much of a fool am I? How did I not see this?

HP did not offer much of a description in their announcement of his appointment.

Scale 4 measures how much of a Negotiator you are.

Because in real systems, all these things interact, we just can't know exactly how much of a local change is due to greenhouse warming.

We don't see this as much of a headache, because data backups should be performed regardless of whether you're switching to a new OS.

Amanda: Look at those carrots. They still have mud caked all over them. I wish I could grow stuff, but I've never had much of a green thumb.

From the bacterial point of view, methane is just as much of a waste product as faeces are from the human viewpoint.

The hijab is now so popular, in many places where it is not compulsory, that it is no longer much of a political statement.

For him, personally, how much of a wrench was it to leave it all?

How much of a directing role al-Qaeda plays is uncertain.

However, we can get a general idea of how much of a bandwidth hit your limited data cap will take.

Yet part of the new president's entourage feels this would be too much of a concession to a losing party.

How much of a financial outlay is needed?

And I'm wondering how much of a sense of discovery there is in playing with these forces.

If the announcement had come from any other company, it would not have made as much of a splash.

There were never more than 4 peopleaside from myself and there was enough space for everyone for it to be not too much of a scene.

The factor that really seemed to make a difference was how much of a hurry the students were in.

How much of a premium are you willing to shell out for something as cool as a Star Trek Enterprise Pizza Cutter?

But in today's economy, unless the military need one, I'm not sure how much of a market there is.

How much of a volume discount are you prepared to offer?

Now that everything is set up, it is time to see how much of a difference it makes.

We are also familiar with that little voice in our heads reminding us how much of a failure we are.

However, getting too much of a day on the ship that evening, unfortunately, was destroyed by the storm.

It would be too much of a gift to hardline Republicans if he also extended his hand to Mr Kim's clenched one.

Financial globalisation itself, they imply, ought to be seen not so much as a bad thing, but as too much of a good one.

In fact, Marvel did not put up much of a fight, accepting what most analysts think was a generous price.

Until then, such folk had been booted out without much of a hearing, as they were in most countries.

No matter how much of a monster he was before you met him, he just needs the love a good woman to turn him into Prince Charming.

Reports of the paper's imminent death are exaggerated, but it would not be much of a stretch to say that the Times is in intensive care.

For a seriously autistic kid, the best prognosis might be getting into a mainstream school without being too much of a shadow.

It's unclear how much of a blow to its business Google would suffer by pulling out.

Howell recalled those silver teeth. He didn't have much of a recollection of his mother.

Nico, how much of a difference does knowing this circuit make to you?

The unfamiliar handicap of playing all year round with the sun on your back might prove too much of a burden.

It all depends on how much of a planner you are.

It remains unclear who commissioned "Project Cyber Dawn" and how much of a role the U.

To layfolk, that may be a distinction without much of a difference, but to astronomers it's an important piece of the astrophysical puzzle.

He has not much education, but he seems to be very much of a gentleman.

But the bank, which this summer was Britain's largest, is now neither Royal nor Scottish nor much of a bank.

Function to calculate how much of a payment is interest when all the payments are of equal value.

More quietly, many people wonder how much of a fortune there is to inherit.

Now formation wise it's not so much of a problem as we only play with one up front now anyway, but it's still a little step backwards.

It's amazing how much of a discount and better treatment you receive when you're willing to commit to a long-term relationship.

YOUR correspondent, as regular readers of The Economist will be aware, has never been much of a fan of the Space Shuttle.

A couple of these annoying little habits are not enough to make much of a difference.

Adaptive Server Anywhere uses this capability information to determine how much of a SQL statement can be forwarded to a remote server.

Just how much of a boost IT can provide is a subject of some contention.

So far the main hurdle has been getting RNA into the target cells, but the eye's accessibility means this is not so much of a problem.

So much of a national issue that Obama's popularity took a hit, especially among white voters, according to a poll released Thursday.

The only reason they didn't win multiple World Series was that the playoffs in MLB are so much of a toss up in comparison to football.

This is a good place to explain that you require a deposit up front, and how much of a deposit you require.

How much of a role should be allowed for the market?

One woman says she does not think Poland will be able to make much of a difference over the next six months.

And of course I grew up with baking. And my mother was an excellent baker. She wasn't much of a cook, but she was an excellent baker.

It is asking much of a wealthy man to come down and bury himself in a place of this kind. . .

The narrowness of the way into the slum made it hard for the fire brigade to douse the flames, not that Nairobi has much of a fire brigade.

This way, you can adjust at run time how much of a message is logged, without ever having to redeploy the module.

As you can see from the data, the size of this value directly affect color separation, but colors will not be there much of a change.

Adam: As you know , I'm not much of a sports fan. Are there any news shows ou talk shows on?

But Smith noted that the corporate market remains weak and said Intel does not expect much of a change in the second half of the year.

What kinds of choices would you have and how much of a difference could you make?

I have no idea how much of a scholar he is.

So it's hard to know how much of a loss it is.

How Much of A Future Vision?

But I guess that would be too much to ask, too much of a case of wishful thinking.

How much of a bonus can I expect?

If I had an iPad, I'd get this app in a snap, and I'm not even much of a baseball fan.

On today's Moment of Science we'll learn how too much of a good thing can be deadly, at least for microorganisms.

How much of a nudge would be required to do that?

How much of a bonus can I expect?

If I had an iPad, I'd get this app in a snap, and I'm not even much of a baseball fan.

On today's Moment of Science we'll learn how too much of a good thing can be deadly, at least for microorganisms.

How much of a nudge would be required to do that?

Too much of a good thing can cause harm: High amounts of vitamins in supplements plus what you get in food can put you over the safe limit.

'It doesn't make much of a difference for us whether we're authorized or not, ' he said.

How much of a problem?

However, with 70 plus per cent of this gain going to the government, private citizens have not been able to feel much of a wealth effect.

Function to calculate how much of a payment for a specific period is principal when all the payments are of equal value.

As is generally agreed, a family without love is not so much of a family as a body without soul in a man.

Function to calculate how much of a payment for a specific period is principal when all the payments are of equal value.

As is generally agreed, a family without love is not so much of a family as a body without soul in a man.

A tricky question in investing is how much of a role ethics should play in your stock selections.

You said you were a spoilt kid. How much of a princess are you?

JH: It has not been as much of a problem as we feared it might be.

Even if it was work at first, she'd try to just relax. She'd try not to be bitter, try not to be too much of a widow.

So the question is, even if they are allowed to do it, how much of a victory is this actually ultimately?

Whether you need cataract surgery depends on how much of a problem the cataract causes for daily activities like driving and reading.

A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading.

Oh boy, you know I'm not much of a speech maker. I might just send everybody heading for the door. Where should I begin?

A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading.

Oh boy, you know I'm not much of a speech maker. I might just send everybody heading for the door. Where should I begin?

I can't see much of a downside for this potential drug, unless the act of not forgetting what you see causes problems or trauma.

The host: But one of the products I read about was the bang-free bomb or a bomb that wouldn't make so much of a noise when it exploded.

But the security forces themselves seem to be as much of a danger as the protesters.

It would not take much of a disaster to bring such leveraged entities close enough to insolvency to panic uninsured creditors.

But in the case of oil prices, it's hard to see that speculators are playing much of a role.

Just how much of a crutch the teleprompter has become for Obama was on sharp display during his latest commerce secretary announcement.

"Well, I do, " he answered. "If I were you I wouldn't think of it. It's not much of a profession for a woman. "

Estimating how big the output gap is, and how much of a deflationary threat it still poses, is not easy.

Estimating how big the output gap is, and how much of a deflationary threat it still poses, is not easy.

In another unfortunate choice, Safari 4 has done away with the progress bar that shows how much of a page has loaded.

How much of a company's technology does it create on its own?

But how much of a delay between neutrinos and photons would we expect if the OPERA result applied?

It was truthfully not much of a village, just an inn and a few houses crouching beside the road within a stone's-throw of the woods.

It's unclear how much of a role lower prices might have played in that shift.

Q. With these two nip and tuck, how much of a role are you personally playing in managing the situation?

It would be too much of a blow to my false ego if I were to lose.

But the germ appears to be spreading, and investigators are unsure how much of a threat it poses.

It is not much of a secret that most people would prefer their teeth embodied the classic pearly white appearance that can be a bit elusive.

I wonder how much of a raise I'll get this year.

It notes the United States will grow by less than three percent, not enough to make much of a dent in unemployment rates.

'It is not clear that the United States enjoys much of a privilege at all, ' the McKinsey economists write.

Proliferation to non-state actors is now as much of a threat as the spread of nuclear weapons among states.

I never mentioned it to Johnny, but I thought she was too much of a flirt.

I don't care how much of a genius he is: Nobody is perfect.

He was too much of a dog to try to look to be a martyr or to plot revenge.

But it is too much of a mouthful to say such a long name for a country, so people just say Britain, the United Kingdom or simply U. K.

I'm not much of a fashionable man. If you left me to my own devices it would probably be a hoodie and jeans 365 days a year.

Declining GDP would not, in itself, be much of a worry, provided that output per person continued to rise.

A: You know how much of a workaholic you are.

How much of a pay raise did you get?

I know, not much of a chance, but I had to give it a shot.

The only thing they tell us is how much of a certain chemical it takes to kill a rabbit.

Although it may be tempting to create audit policies that track every possible event, there is such a thing as too much of a good thing.

But those who knew him from those days said that he failed to leave much of a mark.

Fitting your personal life-style into these routines will not be so much of a challenge as one minght think.

How much of a market do you buy or sell at any time?

Actually, it wasn't much of a vacation after all, and I was wondering if I could get a refund or a discount.

Scale 2 measures how much of a Builder you are.

How much of a tip should I leave?

determining how much of a problem is due to inconsistencies in the measurement process.

How much of a queen you are to me.

It's worked out very well. But how much of a risk is it just having one buildup tournament?

No matter how much of a raver you are, the idea of dancing and dancing until death by exhaustion no doubt sounds horrific.

Michael had brought Kay to the wedding so that she would slowly and perhaps without too much of a shock, absorb the truth about his father.

I missed the crocuses, but my life was busier than ever, and I had never been much of a gardener.

How much of a priority is it that you improve yourself, your skills, and your life?

So you can see at a glance if anyone has invented them yet, allowing you to gauge how much of a priority you can give these technologies.

Since the number is so large, I decided to not bother finding a more-accurate value, since it wouldn't make too much of a difference.

Cynics might argue that the government didn't have much of a choice on either count, but the outcome is all that matters.

Hunting, loss of habitat and disease are decreasing chimp numbers and it's hard to figure out how much of a factor SIV is, he said.

That's pretty cool. How much of a discount?

How much of a setback to growth do these twin crises represent? And how should economic policymakers react to them?

They were cheap dates - I've never been much of a sport - but my results matched those of acquirers who courted higher-priced toads.

How much of a role does the Internet play in your daily life?

She read much of a desultory sort of literature and as a modern linguist had really made great proficiency.

Inflation hawks have been speaking up in the US lately, but are not getting much of a hearing.

How much of a difference did your new engineer make?

So much of a typical American's wealth is tied up in bricks that the threat of house- price deflation stokes panic .

Just how much of a typical project can you complete in an hour?

Too much saving may seem like an enviable problem, but there can be too much of a good thing.

The country's leaders, they say, are beginning to appreciate how much of a threat climate change poses to China itself.

If Gaddafi's long-winded speech to the General Assembly is any indication, the U. N. may not have much of a choice in the matter.

HOW much of a jerk do you have to be to oppose immigration?

She says banning her will not make much of a difference because she cannot be a member of parliament anyway.

Originally had much of a long the nurse of patience to knock very for a while, finally impatient, screwed on door to walked into.

Lei : Not quite. Then, if it isn't too much of a bother, would you call all the people on this list and tell them. . .

Recovering output has not much reduced the burden of unemployment, and individual tax payments have failed to provide much of a boost.

That would be handy for Mr Osborne if he needs to raise more tax without too much of a fuss.

Haley, though, is not optimistic that Western companies will be able to make much of a dent in the way China's real estate market operates.

I wouldn't be so proud if I were you. Sounds to me you don't have much of a choice.

They date back to at least ancient Roman times, but Friday the 13th superstitions won't be getting much of a workout this year.

You'll never get Victor to go steady with you. He's too much of a Casanova.

Cation, but he seems to be much of a scholar.

The something special turned out to be a new toy, which isn't much of a surprise.

For dealmakers, that means China's Commerce Ministry can be as much of a spoiler as the FTC and the EU commission.

Well, they're not always little angels, but they're not too much of a handful, thank goodness.

it's a funny, beautifully made romance, and it's not so much of a surprise that it is being released in a prime position for awards season.

Due in part to its proprietary requirements, e-speak failed to make much of a market impact.

I don't think much of a dance step where the girl looks like she was being carried out of a burning building.

In the past firms made a lot of money supplying content that was not too objectionable to people who did not have much of a choice.

Today, I took my new laptop into my house from my car, thinking it would be a too much of a target for kids grabbing it.

Making too much of a fuss about privacy could turn off users, he said.

Two factors lead to a situation in which so much of a nation's population knows life under only one leader.

Because of that, the ODR enforces a better utilization of your hardware resources and protects your server from too much of a workload.

"The trend is definitely increasing and breaking 7 million is pretty much of a landmark event, " he said.

Maybe dealing with a toddler has kept them awake for much of a few nights or their new job is giving them a lot to worry about.

Reading a blog can become as much of a habit as checking email, a new study looking at readers, rather than bloggers, suggests.

My colleague Todd is much of a friend and he is ready to help me any time.

Family lodging has never been much of a choice for those traveling to China.

What's more, there isn't much of a track record for the funds, many of which have less than three years of returns.

One side effect of all these operations is that common day-in-and-day-out bumps and bruises don't get much of a rise out of me.

The book, which Dr. Landau self-published in January, has not caused much of a stir so far.

For the kids, of course, all this stuff is much of a muchness, and here they go again.

I'm not much of a home handyman. I'm the kind of person who grabs the nearest heavy flat object to pound nails.

Conventional wisdom does not give Dr Abdullah much of a chance of beating Mr Karzai in any circumstances, on ethnic grounds .

I stopped over in Bangkok twice but didn't have long enough to get the measure of the city or put it to much of a shade test.

This shouldn't be too much of a surprise: XPath is a core part of JAXP now, and JAXP provides integrated DOM support as well.

If you're the only one writing the applications that will be accessing your hardware, that's not much of a problem.

Well. I've never seen him in that much of a hurry to clean his room.

It was strange. When I did it, it wasn't much of a tackle, it was more the way the lad (Agbonlahor) fell on me.

Clearly the German legal and psychiatric authorities had badly let this man down. He was too hectic, too much of a handful, I reflected.

Here are the two charts for left handed pitchers , but there doesn't appear to be much of a continuation of the trend.

MF: Like so many things, I don't think there's much of a difference between these and any other kind of code.

'There is going to be a lot of strain and stress, and we'd like as much of a normal family life as possible. '

Mr. Buffett's move appears to be a bet that the freight industry is poised for recovery, though it hasn't shown much of a rebound yet.

I'll bet my bottom dollar he meant to cheat us -- probably thought we were in too much of a hurry to count our change.

Nor did the poor get as much of a happiness boost from weekends as those who were better-off, according to the researchers.

For most of this trial, I haven't bothered to stick to much of a routine. If this is a dream world, then what's the point?

When your heart and soul is in something, life moves at its own pace without having too much of a struggle.

If you used New Oil, the color change is not nearly as great and you may have problems seeing much of a color change at all.

Q: Is primary health care as much of a pressing priority now as it was then?

Our mother said that you're too much of a roughneck! --Me? ! A roughneck?

Perhaps fortunately, none of the above has much of a chance.

A spokesman, Beau Duffy, wrote saying that "There really isn't much of a local connection here" and that Tonko had no comment.

"Too much of a good thing, even supplements that are safe, can be bad for you, " Avitzur said.

He had hoped that he would have time to himself tonight, but an least David wasn't making himself much of a nuisance.

Joan: Maybe, but I couldn't work for you. You are too much of a jackal. I could never trust you.

But too much of a good thing isn't the only problem with contact management programs today.

Migration to a recession-hit United States no longer offers much of a safety valve.

"That's not a bad idea, " said Granddad gently, " I don't need so much of a blanket. "

In delicate negotiations like these, he's too much of a bull in a china shop. He's forever saying the wrong thing at the wrong time.

I mean, you're sittin' on a winning' lottery ticket. You're too much of a pussy1 to cash it in, and that's bullshit.

Banking on the youngest voters is not much of a winning strategy. But ignoring them may be a losing one.

"I would rather be a hawk, for no other bird reminds one so much of a bold and gallant knight. "

American forces, caught by surprise, were unable to offer much of a fight. Japanese losses were very low.

The French Open final this year was not much of a real contest due to Pierce's lack of form.

It's OK for a low turnover item like tennis nets. But for soccer equipment and tennis rackets, we won't make much of a satisfactory profit.

But Mr Obama knew it would not stand much of a chance.

Liverpool are as much of a mystery as a menace to all rivals in the Champions League.

And that way, even though I'm not bringing in as much of a paycheck, we're still saving on baby care costs.

While the greenhouse effect is an essential environmental prerequisite for life on Earth, there really can be too much of a good thing.

Even if those units are renovated, they may not provide as much of a lift to the construction industry as new housing.

The recession has been over for more than a year now, but so many people are out of work that it doesn't feel like much of a recovery.

It is influencing the borrowing costs of euro-zone governments directly, without much of a guide to what the rates on their bonds should be.

Alisa: It wasn't too much of a culture shock because I grew up in Rowland Heights, Los Angeles.

This makes for a great sport (for some people, anyway) but until recently, it wasn't much of a career path.

The Vice President confides in Kellerman, "God, I can't remember the last time I was this much of a nervous wreck. "

Also Sir Monty, who's fun, but too cartoonish for his inevitable exposure as a hypocrite to pack much of a punch.