Income is the numerator in this fraction but the denominator, too, is changing over time.
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Nobody really knows the denominator, so you can't come up with a rate of that sort.
No matter how many new digital tools come out, the common denominator is still people.
This criticism depends on how you measure rich, that is, what you use as a denominator.
This raised the debt ratio, arithmetically, by nearly five percentage points, simply by shrinking the denominator.
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Their common denominator is flattish revenues, declining operating margins and little or no earnings momentum.
Surely that would expant the productive capacity of society, divided by a smaller denominator of useless moochers.
After all, the common denominator between the two issues is the prospect of new U.S. taxpayer liabilities.
The common denominator for gut plays is patience and then some proof that the prevailing consensus was myopic.
And best of all it does so by appealing not to the lowest common denominator but the highest.
But the United States should not accept the premise that we should tolerate whatever the lowest-common-denominator reforms are.
We fail to reward hard won experience and instead recruit and reward the cheapest and lowest common denominator.
Another common denominator for those four teams: star power and at least one player whom Knick fans despise.
The danger is not just that Germans may have to endure another coalition of the lowest common denominator.
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It does not happen by reducing our values to the lowest common denominator.
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The system was absurd, and adoption of decimal currency was good for the "lowest common denominator" and everyone else.
The reason: When it comes to exercise, people tend to match their activity to the lowest common denominator.
You may not realize it but everything in business can be translated into its lowest common denominator of money.
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Hence developers only have access to the lowest common denominator set of features.
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Just make sure the numerator and denominator are measured over the same timespan.
His passion is to keep the bar high in a culture that often opts for the lowest common denominator.
Water is the common denominator of all global challenges: energy, food, health, peace.
As that denominator is going down those non-income taxes you included in the numerator become more and more significant.
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Some startups have brilliant engineering, like Instagram, others brilliant marketing, like Pinterest, but the common denominator is rapid growth.
Stop judging the industry by the lowest common denominator, which is the independent, investment-challenged slug sitting on line at BART.
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The common denominator is that these are all things that the government decides how much to spend on each year.
Opposition parties have teamed up before, but could never get beyond their lowest common denominator: antipathy towards the prime minister.
Also, as you say, our first look must be to ourselves as we are the common denominator in all our relationships.
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The other is that when the denominator collapses, as it has a habit of doing in recessions, the ratio goes skyward.
Inflammation seems to be the common denominator, possibly the result of the body being subject to these variables over many years.
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