By their count, Federal stimulus added roughly 1.5 of growth to GDP out of the recession.

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MySpace had seen its user count dwindle to 34.9 million at the time of sale, down by roughly half from the prior year.

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Its goal, strange as it sounds, is to count only 90% of the households in each census tract (which contains roughly 4, 000 people).

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If we wish to have our federal government continue to spend 23 percent of the gross domestic product (closer to 40 percent if we count state and local spending), then we and our descendants must eventually be willing to pay roughly 23 percent of our incomes in taxes.

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