Only 9% of surveyed Sarasota metro area employers plan to hire between July and September, while 10% expect to reduce their staff levels.

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in a morbidity and mortality report released in February, said that 32.9 percent of the populace surveyed in an area that included Huntington and nearby Ashland, Kentucky, is obese.

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But Mr Lindsay said the emphasis placed on erosion by the developer was unjustified, because some 67% of peat in the area surveyed is either stable or recovering: "The current general trend is... towards wetter more actively-growing bog, " he said.

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In Polish waters - the area they surveyed - they only heard two.

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Only 11% of surveyed New York metro area employers plan to hire between April and June, while 13% expect to reduce their staff levels.

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In the study, Tammemagi and his colleagues surveyed more than 600 nonsmokers from the Detroit area -- half of whom had been diagnosed with chronic sinusitis -- about their exposure to secondhand smoke at home, at work, in public places (such as bars, restaurants, and bowling alleys), and in private social settings over a five-year period.

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"Because we have this really traditional value of marriages here in this state, in this area, then I think we have surveyed couples that are staying together no matter what, " she said.

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The most recent leg of the mission, carried out via an exploration vessel called the Nautilus, surveyed the massive Eratosthenes Seamount (an underwater mountain), which covers an area more than 120km long by 80km wide and stands 2, 000m high.

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Fingerman and her colleagues surveyed more than 600 parents between the ages of 40 and 60 who live in the Philadelphia area and collectively have about 1, 250 children over the age of 18.

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