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  • Retired Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Emerson Gardner, who previously oversaw cost assessment at the Pentagon, said it wasn't "good analysis" to put that round dollar figure out without a point of comparison—for instance, the cost of sustaining the less-capable aircraft the new plane would replace.

    The $1 Trillion Fighter-Jet Fleet Nathan Hodge 2011

  • Personally, my prediction was that the rumors were too good to be true, and that the best we could expect was perhaps a lower-priced bundle for the main SKU, with the introducton of the Slim as a somehow less-capable alternate SKU (think of how well the Arcade model has worked out for Microsoft!)

    Archive 2009-08-01 SVGL 2009

  • Every serious investor, on the other hand, has a stack of these in their in-basket email or real plastic awaiting review, and is looking for the flaw or less-capable entrepreneur in each that predicts failure, allowing them to discard it like another piece of junk mail.

    Marty Zwilling: 10 Business Plan Follies That Make Investors Cringe Marty Zwilling 2011

  • Every serious investor, on the other hand, has a stack of these in their in-basket email or real plastic awaiting review, and is looking for the flaw or less-capable entrepreneur in each that predicts failure, allowing them to discard it like another piece of junk mail.

    Marty Zwilling: 10 Business Plan Follies That Make Investors Cringe Marty Zwilling 2011

  • Personally, my prediction was that the rumors were too good to be true, and that the best we could expect was perhaps a lower-priced bundle for the main SKU, with the introducton of the Slim as a somehow less-capable alternate SKU (think of how well the Arcade model has worked out for Microsoft!)

    So, PS3 Slim Is Officially Here... SVGL 2009

  • To add to the pathos, the two former CEOs named in the SEC complaints, Fannie's Dan Mudd and Freddie's Richard Syron, were brought aboard after accounting scandals and sought to appease Congress by upping loans to less-capable borrowers.

    The Fannie and Freddie Hate Storm Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2011

  • The hockey-rink-shaped Kin One, $49.99 after $100 rebate and two-year contract, is cheaper, smaller and cuter, though it has a more cramped 2. 6-inch display, less memory and less-capable digital camera.

    Microsoft's Kin One, Two off to good start, need tweaking 2010

  • From the boogie woogie of "Crabbuckit" to his frenetic rework of a classic club jam on "Superstarr Pt. Zero," K-OS fluidly incorporates a variety of influences in a way that might have come across as dilettantism in less-capable hands.

    Nightlife Agenda: Paul Oakenfold, Michael Mayer and outdoor parties 2010

  • But Verizon's bizarre decision to replace the phone's native Google-powered search box with Microsoft's less-capable Bing has prevented a very good phone from being even better.

    First Look: Samsung's Fascinate smart phone is fine, though flawed 2010

  • But Verizon's bizarre decision to replace the phone's native Google-powered search box with Microsoft's less-capable Bing has prevented a very good phone from being even better. —

    First Look: Samsung's Fascinate smart phone is fine, though flawed 2010

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