While it is true that 95 percent of professional drivers are men, there are nearly 200, 000 female big rig drivers in the United States.
Sixty-six percent of those who knew the statement was true support Gov. Romney compared to 26 percent for President Obama.
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Some studies put overvaluation at 40 percent and this rings true to me.
Yet when asked if that statement about top five percent of taxpayers was true or false, the 800 Independent Coloradans were about equally divided on its veracity.
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Most of us (myself included) will also readily agree that, if equilibrium money wage rates have been increasing at an annual rate of, say, 4 percent (as was approximately true of U.S. average earnings around 2006), then an unexpected decline in that growth rate to another still positive rate can also lead to unemployment.
In Brazil, for instance, 84 percent of respondents said that starting a business was tough for people like them, while only 13 percent thought this statement was not true.
The reverse is true in the U.S. where 80 percent of wealthy shoppers say that luxury has become less important.
But the underlying facts to almost a hundred percent of what we say is obviously true to anybody who makes a decision to actually research this.
Officially, the Iranian government has said that national inflation stands at some 25 percent, but informed estimates suggest the true rate could be as much as double that figure.
But she says that wasn't true and that the interest rate rose to 9.4 percent.
True, global carbon dioxide emissions have risen more than 33 percent since the year 2000.
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The only Republican true to stereotype is Ronald Reagan, who cut domestic spending by 2 percent of GDP.
Were it not for this bit of accounting legerdemain, the true Debt to GDP ratio would show up as a ratio of 119 percent.
And it's true for our workers as well, when a college graduate earns over 60 percent more in a lifetime than a high school graduate.
Ohio political experts diverged on the true number of undecided voters -- measured at a between 4 and 6 percent in the mid-August poll -- or whether either candidate could pull away substantially.
Our forecast has 3.8 percent, so we're certainly being, I think, very true to history, if anything, erring on slightly below the historical average.
" But he said the number of people who expressed no preference -- 27 percent -- suggests that "a lot of people are scared to admit their true preferences.
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