That share is used to compute the salary cap, which teams use, in turn, to negotiate individual player contracts.

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Two big factors behind these differences are the dissimilarity of the rental and for-sale inventory being used to compute the simple price-rent ratio and the big differences in property taxes between these two cities.

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It reflects a formula that is used to compute wage and salary increases, and is lower than it's been in the past because inflation is lower than it's been in the past, and so follows from that observation.

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This is the same criterion used by the actuary of Social Security to compute the ultimate measure of the long-term financial condition of Social Security and used by private lenders in determining whether the purpose to which a prospective loan is put will increase the present value of a company's future cash flows by more than the amount of the loan.

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Blomberg and colleagues used a database of 12, 164 world-wide terrorism incidents between 1968 and 2001 to compute the macroeconomic effect of such acts, and found that on average they are linked to a decline in a country's economic growth of half a percentage point.

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