No one can deny that the number of workers paying into the system at the base of the pyramid is declining relative to the number of retirees.
Because the sample of households is small relative to the total number of households, the series is notoriously volatile.
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This system simply cannot work when the number of payers shrinks beyond a certain size relative to number of the recipients.
Relative to the size and number of new projects in the pipeline, the current pool of expertise to build these projects is quite limited.
In compiling this list, we concluded that the best way to rank a coach relative to his peers is not to do so based on the number of wins and loses alone, but instead on how much a coach wins and losses as compared to the resources he has.
Compares the number of wins per player payroll relative to the rest of the Football.
Compares the number of wins per player payroll relative to the rest of the MLB.
Compares the number of wins per player payroll relative to the rest of the NBA. Playoff wins count twice as much as regular season wins.
Compares the number of wins per player payroll relative to the rest of the NFL. Playoff wins count twice as much as regular season wins.
Compares the number of wins per player payroll relative to the rest of the NHL. Playoff wins count twice as much as regular season wins.
Relative to the total job market, the number of jobs in industry fell from 17.4% in 2005 to 16.6% in 2010.
Lawrence Brown, of Georgia State University, has calculated that from 1984 to 1997, there was a tripling in the number of firms beating analysts' estimates relative to those falling short.
Simple systems merely require you to keep track of the number of high cards (9, 10, A) dealt relative to low cards (2, 3, 4, 5, 6).
In addition to a chart that compares FBIOX to health care and the MSCI World Index, it also provides the performance for a number of different time periods, as well as how the fund performed relative to other similar funds or benchmarks.
The most cosmopolitan city in Africa, Jo' burg has always been thoroughly multicultural, but a wave of xenophobic attacks in May 2008 highlighted the tension between locals and the huge number of African immigrants who have moved to the city, attracted by its relative economic vigor.
But as will surprise no regular readers of this column, the federal government utilized a number of weapons in its arsenal to convince Milken to plead guilty regardless of the relative merits of the prosecution.
But since we established our blogging platform two years ago, we do have concrete information about how our pieces perform relative to our colleagues, in the form of a page view number at the top of every post.
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But I think we just heard what's really - what will work and, you know, I just - I haven't spoken to Senator Kirk relative to this, although we've worked together in the past on a number of issues.
The steady loss of wage competitiveness relative to Germany has been one of the troubling and underlying causes of economic difficulty for a number of euro-zone members since the launch of the single currency.
Crime fell relative to the control in all but one of those areas, with a particularly steep reduction in the number of burglaries.
But they have definitely coincided with a period when the number of public companies in America has dropped in both absolute terms and relative to other countries.
An unspecified (and impossible to compute accurately) number of trades take place at exchange rates that do not reflect the relative bargaining of buyer and seller but, instead, are determined by other social and gaming factors.
Congress forced the Bush Administration to accept a limit of twenty a number that made no sense relative to any other number than zero.
Congress forced the Bush Administration to accept a limit of twenty -- a number that made no sense relative to any other number than zero.
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