Two-fifths of American first marriages (and an even higher proportion of second and subsequent ones) are now likely to end in divorce.
Specialty coffees also have a higher EBITDA margin than the regular ones and hence the sale of higher proportion of these might help in improving the overall EBITDA margin for the company.
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This will manifest itself in companies devoting a lower proportion of pay in time-based equity, like restricted stock, and a higher proportion of pay in performance-based equity, like performance shares.
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If you listen to the pronouncements of public officials, people involved in education - university presidents, university executives - people in the not-for-profit sector, when they talk about higher education there is less and less reference - fewer and fewer references made to the public good that comes from higher education or comes from a populace a larger and larger proportion of whom have access to higher education.
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With high teenage pregnancy and IVF pregnancy rates, the UK has a higher proportion of young and old mothers than much of Europe.
Travel ball pitching and a higher proportion of games were associated with pitching with shoulder pain.
IT-service provider, which has about 5, 000 people in America, report increased delays in securing visas, and a higher proportion of refusals.
Britons are quite cheerful about the state of their economy and a higher proportion (58%) is satisfied with the performance of its government than is true in any other country surveyed outside Asia.
It has struggled to find the right payment mechanisms for the App Store, and the iPhone is not available officially on the largest operator, China Mobile, which has 700m of the 1.1bn mobile users in the country and a higher proportion of the best ones.
And the German industry spends a higher proportion of its revenue on research and development than that of any other country.
Buy companies like HSBC and Rolls Royce which derive a higher proportion of their sales from the U.S. and have less of their costs in dollars.
People whose mothers were still alive both gave birth to more offspring and raised a higher proportion of those offspring to adulthood.
According to official figures, bad debts amount to no more than 5% of the banking system's total loans, as opposed to 25-30% in Thailand and an even higher proportion in Indonesia.
Asia flights are profitable, of course, and carry a higher proportion of business travelers than Europe flights do, but it is possible to make the case that the relative weakness of American in Asia is not quite as drastic as it might initially seem.
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Considering the growing popularity of smartphones and tablets, we expect mobile devices to account for a higher proportion of DRAM sales in the future and estimate the rapid growth in mobile devices to accelerate DRAM shipments despite a slowdown in the PC market.
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Britain and America raise a higher proportion of their revenues from taxes on property than other countries.
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But most rely on textiles and clothing for a higher proportion of their manufactured exports than China does.
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Luxury cars also tend to have higher margins and therefore a greater proportion of Cadillac sales is likely to boost the overall margins.
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Hawaii, for example, is the only state with one unified school district operated at the state level. (Not surprisingly, the schools get poor marks.) Only Michigan and New York have a higher proportion of unionised workers.
The writeup at the Economic Policy Institute noted above says Novy-Marx averages the returns of stocks and bonds when he should assume that higher-yielding stocks will become a larger proportion of the fund over time and increase the expected return, even if fund managers rebalance periodically.
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That is a higher proportion than America's and twice as high as the share in Brazil, which elected a female president in 2010.
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According to a recent study by McKinsey and Company, companies with a higher than average proportion of women on their management committees deliver the best performance.
To mobilize the right resources and processes to ensure that a higher proportion of their investments will become run-away winners, some leading firms are subjecting their past deals to a detailed forensic examination.
This figure was higher than the proportion in ten countries and lower than that in 16 others.
They were then shown two jars of lollipops: one with a higher proportion of the color they like and the other with more of the lollipops they don't favor.
We highlighted that focusing on transactions is a well thought out strategy, especially for emerging nations like India, which have an ever growing middle class and a demographic profile that has a higher proportion of youngsters.
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And that is thought to be already substantially higher than the proportion of Latinos in the state.
Agriculture now accounts for roughly 70 percent of global water use, but as dietary changes in developing countries raise demand for water-intensive foods such as meat and dairy, this proportion will grow yet higher.
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As Mortensen would predict, the high growth states (Arizona, Colorado, Florida, George, Nevada, North Carolina, Texas, Utah, Virginia and Washington) had a somewhat higher (about 13 percent) proportion of income going for public higher education support in 1980.
In fact take a look at the figures from other European countries and you'll find only one where an even higher proportion of the population was born outside its borders - Luxembourg.
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