In recent months, unemployment has been in the five percent range, but in August it jumped to 6.1 percent.
Of the five percent that take longer, 40 percent are denied because of criminal background or evidence of mental illness or other disqualifying factors.
The five percent rule of the London market seems a good idea too, but you could argue that hard coded fire breaks could lead to a kind of moral jeopardy.
"We've departed from industry convention in many of our premium product, marketing, sales and service approaches, and it's worked out pretty well, with Genesis and Equus now delivering a nine percent retail market share in their premium segments, higher than the five percent retail share Hyundai brand achieves in the overall industry, " said John Krafcik, president and CEO, Hyundai Motor America.
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The top five percent of the population paid 61.0 percent of all income taxes, up from 34.9 percent in 1980.
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But, if you want to be the best in your circle of friends or in the top five percent in the U.S. population at golf, swimming, Spanish, Japanese, whatever it might be, I firmly believe that you can accomplish that in most cases six months or less.
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The top five percent pays 58.7 percent, the top ten percent pays 70.5 percent, and top quarter pays 87.3 percent, and the top half pays 97.8 percent.
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During the twelve years the agreement has been in force, the U.S. economy has added thirty million jobs and unemployment has steadily declined to the current five percent level despite AFL-CIO fears to the contrary.
This is a world of parenting, if not for the one percent, maybe the five to ten percent.
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The top five percent pays 58.7 percent.
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Noda has also signaled that he will honor the previously-reached agreement with the opposition parties on restructuring government finances and putting welfare state programs on a sustainable financing footing, specifically raising the consumption tax from the current five percent to 10 percent by yearend 2015.
On Wednesday afternoon, legendary corporate raider Carl Icahn joined the chorus, revealing a 9.9 percent stake in the company The stock jumped close to 20 percent after the news, gaining close to 35 percent over the last five trading days.
They said that the undocumented immigration population totals about five percent of the workforce.
Every year the cost of national pension payments for these persons will increase by JPY 2.4 trillion, equivalent the revenues from a one percent sales tax. (The actual national sales tax rate is five percent, so we are talking about the equivalent 20% of current revenues.) Consider that today, 50 percent to pension payments are financed by issuing government debt.
Under the existing circuit breaker pilot, trading in a stock pauses across the U.S. equity markets for a five-minute period if the stock experiences a 10 percent change in price over the preceding five minutes.
Looking back to the first time I asked these questions in August 2009, the levels were 3.5 percent of current budgets and expected to increase to 6.1 percent over the next year and 13.7 percent over the next five years.
If the UK was to provide that for itself, five percent of the land would have to be utilized -- which is an extraordinary number.
Because the party has polled only slightly above five percent, even the loss of a few thousand voters could mean disaster.
Similarly, American companies, led by General Motors Company (NYSE:GM), have shown a nice increase from 11.7 percent five years ago to 15.5 percent today, and the Korean companies have increased their market share by over two percentage points over the past five years to 9.8 percent currently.
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Over the next year, that number is expected to increase to 11.5 percent, and in the next five years it will reach 21.6 percent.
Fifty-five percent of the homicide victims were black, far beyond their 13 percent share of the population.
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You have a Republican candidate, Tom Tancredo, saying that, you know, he wants to really end undocumented immigrants' life in the U.S. How realistic is it that we can deport five percent of the workforce?
The Kremlin then secretly bought up more than five percent of EADS through the Russian state-controlled Vneshtorgbank.
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As the federal government enjoyed a near twenty five percent increase in funding, the average American household saw its median income fall.
Fifty-five percent said the next pope should allow women to become priests, while 44 percent said he should not.
The level of rules from the FCC is up 5.7 percent over the past five years.
The sector saw explosive growth of over 180 percent over the past five years.
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On the proximate cause of the crisis, the securitization of bad mortgages, the bill did have a minor provision requiring the lender to keep some skin in the game five percent.
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In a PC market that was down ten percent year-over-year, the Company grew its PC shipments across the region by an impressive five percent.
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