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  • Other less-ambitious exhibitions about videogames, such as one last year at Paris's Arts et Métiers museum, omit cultural references.

    The Art of the Videogame Gabriele Parussini 2011

  • "We're looking at medium-class missions" that will be smaller and less-ambitious than the original ones, Mr. Bolden said, while stressing that NASA remains committed to continued international cooperation for exploring Mars.

    NASA Seeks Cuts to Unmanned Missions Andy Pasztor 2012

  • The result is a less-ambitious bill that also stands a greater chance of clearing the House of Representatives and becoming law.

    Senate Passes Patent System Overhaul Siobhan Hughes 2011

  • The WTO's 153 members agreed to a less-ambitious Doha Round of global trade talks, making a deal feasible by the end of the year.

    What's News: Business & Finance 2011

  • Activists had used Internet fund-raising for charity and less-ambitious political projects, such as publication of anti-Putin literature.

    Internet Activism Increases in Russia Alexander Kolyandr 2012

  • So House Democrats are proposing less-ambitious proposals: a "Make It in America" plan, which closes tax benefits for businesses shipping jobs overseas and provides new hiring credits to local small businesses, and a proposal that would impose penalties on China for currency manipulation, the sort of measure that has often fallen flat in the free-trading Senate.

    Democrats uncertain about approach to midterms 2010

  • So House Democrats are proposing less-ambitious proposals: a "Make It in America" plan, which closes tax benefits for businesses shipping jobs overseas and provides new hiring credits to local small businesses, and a proposal that would impose penalties on China for currency manipulation, the sort of measure that has often fallen flat in the free-trading Senate.

    Democrats uncertain about approach to midterms 2010

  • Zale Corp. 's board rejected a private-equity firm's plan to buy a stake in the struggling jewelry retailer that involved a sale of assets, but is seriously considering another less-ambitious financing proposal from Sun Capital Partners Inc.

    Zale Weighs Proposal From New Suitor Ann Zimmerman 2010

  • Zale Corp. 's board rejected a private equity firm's plan to buy a stake in the struggling jewelry retailer that involved a sale of assets, but is seriously considering another less-ambitious financing proposal from Sun Capital Partners Inc.

    Zale Weighs Proposal From New Suitor Ann Zimmerman 2010

  • So House Democrats are proposing less-ambitious proposals: a "Make It in America" plan, which closes tax benefits for businesses shipping jobs overseas and provides new hiring credits to local small businesses, and a proposal that would impose penalties on China for currency manipulation, the sort of measure that has often fallen flat in the free-trading Senate.

    Democrats uncertain about approach to midterms 2010

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