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Please help ... What is meant by 'less' here in this context?

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The same USSEC contractor also found for crushers, when comparing the NOL multiplier and typical vendor less guarantee, U.S. soybean oil has the advantage with lower loss numbers.

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  • 1 month ago
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    They ignored any guarantee included by a vendor (if there was any such guarantee) when doing the evaluation. Including the different guarantees that different vendors might offer would complicate the evaluation by introducing issues that are not strictly relevant and difficult to generalize.  The purpose of the evaluation is a generalized result.  Therefore, they ignored guarantees if they even existed.

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