Her party and Sloga split early last year and after SDS won the presidency and a relative majority in the Serb parliament in last November's election, she quit her parliamentary seat.

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In addition, relative TSR is used by vast majority (80 percent) of FTSE 250 companies in the UK for their performance share plans, due largely to the fact that their version of Say on Pay was implemented back in 2006.

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And Mr Guterres's cabinet of relative lightweights cannot rely on an outright majority in parliament.

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One is that it avoids the pitfalls of the majority of benchmarks which are relative measures within an industry.

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Under these conditions, equity is overpriced relative to a valuation which fully accounts for the conflicts of interest between minority and majority investors.

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The majority of respondents expect retail sales to be up this holiday season, especially relative to last year.

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Regarding the favored capital gains treatment that small businesses would receive relative to their larger peers, it's frequently said that small businesses create the vast majority of new jobs, hence the need for favorable treatment.

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Most of the sales are skewed towards the smaller, low-cost vehicles in developing countries which is hardly surprising since a majority of them are purchased by first-time owners or customers with limited earnings relative to the car prices.

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The majority of respondents believe profits will be higher both on a year-over-year basis and relative to the first quarter of 2010.

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