With the largest one-year percentage increase in VA's budget in over three decades, President Obama has made it very clear that serving our nation's veterans is a top priority in his administration.
In my first year, we achieved the largest percentage increase in the VA budget in 30 years.
The figures, which look at three-year periods, suggest the biggest percentage increase in self-harming resulting in hospital admission since 1999-2001 is among younger girls, aged 10 to 14.
There was double the percentage increase from the year-ago period.
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The council areas showing the highest percentage increase over the year to February 2013 were Larne, 24.8%, probably reflecting the lay-offs at FG Wilson, Magherafelt, 16.1%, and Ards, 11.3%.
While 39% plan to hire full time workers in the next year, 21% expect to increase the percentage of contract or temp workers that they employ.
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Award availability at United for this year scored a sizable increase of 15.7 percentage points, IdeaWorks found.
Could they not analyze cash flows of loans comprised of adjustable rate mortgages with interest rates that would increase by several percentage points after year one.
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After each year, the employee receives an additional half a percentage point increase of the pretax profits.
Throughout the 2000s, there were no one-year percentage increases in revenue that even approached the 64% increase generated from the new stadium effect.
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Sixty-five percent of U.S. homes now own at least one HDTV, an increase of 13 percentage points from last year, making it the top industry growth driver of the past 12 months.
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Yet that percentage will fall this year to 5% because of the increase of multinationals pitching their tents in the country and offering not only opportunities for career advancement and professional development, but good salaries.
This year the fourth quarter included an extra selling week that boosts the percentage increase.
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In our survey, we asked where people plan to cut back on holiday spending and the top choice was gifts at 51%, a 12 percentage point increase over the number who said that a year ago.
Meanwhile, Moody's Economy.com projects unemployment in the L.A. metro area will increase by two percentage points by the end of next year, to about 10%.
According to a study by Young Lee and Roger Gordon of Hanyang University, South Korea and University of California, San Diego, that alone would increase economic growth by between one and two percentage points a year for five years to come.
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In addition, gross margin percentage on home sales improved over year-earlier levels on the back of an increase in average sales prices and lower valuation adjustments.
Comcast said it expects the fees it pays to carry networks--one of the biggest expenses for distributors--to increase in the high single-digit percentage range for the full year.
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He has also issued a second budget estimate based on evidence from the 1960s, 1980s and 2000s that tax reform and spending restraint will increase GDP by about 0.5 to one percentage point a year.
Hence, we expect Amazon to increase its share in US retail markets by about a percentage point this year.
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The numbers are an increase of eight percentage points over last week and dramatically higher than last year at this time when it was just 11%.
In addition, she decides to increase the percentage of her salary that she will save by 1% each year until she will be saving 10% beginning her fifth year.
An increase of 0.53 percentage points in economic growth over the 75-year period would bring average GDP growth up to 2.75% and would increase the PV75 of Social Security tax receipts by the required 20%.
Even sales as high as 15.5 million this year would represent only a 7-percent increase over 2012, or just barely more than half the percentage increase in 2012 over 2011.
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The authors examine the likely impact of the 10-percentage point increase in the top income tax rate, which was imposed as an election-year stunt by former Prime Minister Gordon Brown and then kept in place by his feckless successor, David Cameron.
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The CBO has warned that the government spending cuts, along with the Social Security tax increase and higher taxes on top earners, could slow growth by 1.5 percentage points this year, to 1.5 percent.
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