Revenues were expected to decrease by 10%, but instead dropped by 19%, he added.
Historically, consumer deleveraging cycles see debt relative to income decrease by 30 to 35 percent.
If fast food prices were increased by a mere 10 percent, the obesity rate would decrease by 0.7 percent.
So if mortality decreased by 5% in January-November 2011 compared to January-November 2010, I estimate that it will decrease by 5% for the full year.
Property taxes that have risen more than 43 percent since 1998 are actually slated to decrease by .4 percent by the end of this year.
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It wants the industry's water use to decrease by 10 to 15% by 2010 and in the south east of England by between 20 and 25%.
Patients on Lipitor saw their artery plaque decrease by a median 0.4% after 18 months, compared with a statistically significant increase of 2.7% for patients on Pravachol.
For a metropolis twice the size of another, the length of electric cables, number of gas stations and other bits of infrastructure decrease by about 15% per inhabitant.
The price of medicines in the UK has been reduced by 7% in 2005, a further 3.9% this year, and will decrease by a further 1.9% next year.
For instance, if a stock yields 2%-4%, then the price of the stock can decrease by that amount over the next year, therefore shielding your loss to some extent.
In a dose-ranging study presented at the American College of Cardiology in March, patients who received the top 120 milligram dose of ETC-1002 saw their LDL decrease by a still-respectable 27%.
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According to Mr Gref, in 2006 the Russian workforce will decrease by 30, 000, while the next year will see a fall of more than 10 times that, culminating in a drop of half a million in 2008.
Researchers at Harvard Medical School found patients with either of two mutations--single-letter changes in their DNA--saw their cholesterol decrease by about 20% less than other patients when they took the same cholesterol-lowering drug, Bristol-Myers Squibb 's (nyse: BMY - news - people ) Pravachol.
To prevent double taxation, shareholders are required to increase their basis in the S corporation stock by income and decrease it by losses, distributions, and nondeductible expenses.
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Now, the economy looks weaker than foreseen, and Citi anticipates a 2.7% decline in real gross domestic product in 2012, followed by a 1.2% contraction in 2013, worse than the 1% decline projected by the European Commission in February and the 1.7% decrease seen by Spanish authorities.
We decrease stress by empowering people with all the tools necessary to successfully influence the outcome.
If we increase energy conservation, we can decrease consumption by 1 billion barrels.
This theory predicted that policymakers could permanently decrease unemployment by increasing inflation.
Decrease bureaucracy by scrapping unconstitutional agencies, departments and cabinet posts.
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Hon Hai's move inland has included an effort to decrease turnover by hiring workers who live close to factories, instead of using migrant workers who live in dormitories, according to analysts.
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"In real terms, alcohol is 62% more affordable now than it was 30 years ago and research indicates that a minimum unit price of 40p and a ban on promotions could decrease consumption by 5.4%, " he said.
These efforts are making a difference: In less than a decade, we have sent more than 6 million anti-malaria bed nets to Africa, helped to reduce global polio cases by 99% and helped to decrease measles mortality by 74% worldwide.
The legacy report showed that non-commercials increased gold gross longs, by 8, 006 contracts, and decrease gross shorts by 133 contracts, lowering their net-long position to 182, 467 contracts.
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Some say you increase audit risk by going on extension, while others say you actually decrease audit risk by doing so.
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The importance of such a decrease is highlighted by the statistics presented below.
Basically, the increase or decrease in spending by Napa wine fanatics at the auction portends a similar movement in the Dow for the year.
Although effective obesity prevention leads to a decrease in costs of obesity-related diseases, this decrease is offset by cost increases due to diseases unrelated to obesity in life-years gained.
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Tricor did decrease heart attacks by a statistically significant 24%, and it made it less likely that patients would have to undergo heart surgery or angioplasty, a procedure in which balloons are used to unclog arteries.
The average of forecasts for Nvidia Pro Graphics Cards Market Share created by Trefis members in the last week indicated a projected decrease from 85.6% in 2010 to 81.5% by the end of the Trefis forecast period, compared to the baseline Trefis estimate of a decrease from 86% in 2010 to 83% by the end of the Trefis forecast period.
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