"I hesitate to define it in absolute terms," notes Baird.
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In absolute terms its salary bill has soared (see chart).
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Yet immigrants' social mobility is still low in absolute terms.
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Their operating costs fell in absolute terms in many cases.
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How much of a risk is that in absolute terms?
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They have more in relative terms, but less in absolute terms.
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They're not great in absolute terms but they're beginning to stabilize.
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In absolute terms, India's gasoline consumption is still dwarfed by China.
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The distance is relatively modest in absolute terms, about 193 miles.
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In absolute terms, the poorest have not in fact done too badly.
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In absolute terms, people generate more searchable information than they used to.
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America leads in absolute terms, with 975,000 foreign students in 363-15.
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In absolute terms, I'd give Warren's plan a B- for fiscal probity.
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However, in absolute terms, Kapital is small relative to Turkey's financial sector.
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However, in absolute terms, Destek is small compared with Turkey's financial sector.
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In absolute terms, impaired loans declined 55% while problem loans fell 45%.
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In absolute terms, the Pac-12 is nowhere near the poor house.
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Still, in absolute terms, those valuations are starting to get pretty stretched.
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In absolute terms, that is more than twice as many as in America.
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China in absolute terms was the champion of currency manipulation during this period.
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In absolute terms, this translated into about a 0.6 percent lower risk of cancer.
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Moreover, equity valuations look close to fair value rather than cheap in absolute terms.
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And I think that seems fair based on what's going in in absolute terms.
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And the most prestigious schools tend to offer the largest payoff in absolute terms.
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But its scams are larger in absolute terms—and reflect its financial system's distortions.
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The racial wealth gap, however, remains large and continues to grow in absolute terms.
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Jobless rate seen at 5%, with an increase of 4,000 people in absolute terms.
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AND IN ABSOLUTE TERMS, THE REVENUES HALFED FROM 73 BILLION TO 27, OR 200 BILLION.
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Our research suggests that in absolute terms, the performance of Labour councils is indeed better.
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However, polyethylene demand for the devices is expected to increase in absolute terms, said Vallabhan.
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This disruption is the biggest supply shock in absolute terms in the last five decades.
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However, in absolute terms based on annual EBITDAR, Eurotorg is substantially smaller than Russian peers.
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This disruption is the biggest supply shock in absolute terms in the last five decades.
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In absolute terms that may sound impressive—800,000 streaming subscribers is better than zero streaming subscribers!
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I say that not because I was a consultant to the defense, but in absolute terms.
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It increased in absolute terms to RUB22.2 billion at end-2016, from RUB21 billion in 2015.
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Poverty can be defined in absolute terms—as having too little to pay for life's essentials.
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In absolute terms, India has wealth roughly comparable to Switzerland (population 383m) or South Korea (238m).
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More people meant more workers, which can mean more yield from a farm in absolute terms.
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In absolute terms, Portugal's 10-year government bond yields dropped 6 basis points to 2.43 percent.
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In absolute terms, the hike is not too different from past proposals to increase the levy.
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But in absolute terms, the share of poor residents has dropped by nearly half since 1960.
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In absolute terms, 2018 debt was revised up by 58.3 billion euros to 2.38 trillion euros.
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More exposed in absolute terms is Japan, whose economy accounts for almost 6% of global output.
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Gun rights advocates have had more success in those courts, both in absolute terms and proportionally.
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In absolute terms, dark web intellectuals enjoy far more access to the mainstream than genuine leftists.
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Goldman Sachs reported a strong quarter in absolute terms, but it simply wasn't as good as JPMorgan's.
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It is weak on innovation, spending half as much on R&D in absolute terms as America.
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In absolute terms, they probably are, simply because wars are rarer than they were a generation ago.
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Salaries for graduates are supercharged by the greatest amount in absolute terms: $71,600, or a 150% increase.
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Turnout also increased by more than the UK figure, though it was slightly lower in absolute terms.
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The bank has successfully reduced these, both in absolute terms and as a percentage of gross loans.
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But in absolute terms, it's a tiny number in a world where workers number in the billions.
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It allows them to cut taxes in absolute terms without paying for it with increased revenue elsewhere.
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Leishenshan has been slower to fill, both in absolute terms and as a proportion of its capacity.
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On Wall Street, the Dow posted its biggest ever intraday decline in absolute terms, falling almost 1,600 points.
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In absolute terms, the number reported on Friday was much higher than the 9.05 million in agency forecasts.
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But India is notably grubby not just in absolute terms, but also relative to its level of development.
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Average salaries increased by $2100,22018 in 2017, the largest increase in absolute terms in more than 12 years.
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"In absolute terms, European equity valuations look extended...," said Pierre Bose, head of European strategy at Credit Suisse.
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"Of course, on the individual stock level, we're seeing a lot of breakouts in absolute terms," Stockton said.
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"Addressing a small proportion of an enormous problem can produce large benefits in absolute terms," the report concluded.
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But in absolute terms, African Americans have worse health outcomes and a shorter life expectancy than white Americans.
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Answers are denoted in percentage points, while the poll and reply totals are represented in absolute terms. 1.
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In absolute terms, France was the largest source country for fighters who had left to fight alongside Islamic State.
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In absolute terms, caregiver depression was associated with an additional 0.7 emergency room visits per dementia patient per year.
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In absolute terms clean energy can barely keep pace with growth, so the proportion of fossil fuels remains unchanged.
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"They may not be correct in absolute terms, but the error would be similar across the years," he said.
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The ratings also reflect a small equity base in absolute terms and relative to the bank's total business volume.
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BOE'S CARNEY SAYS WORST-CASE BREXIT SCENARIO SEES INITIAL PEAK TO TROUGH GDP DECLINE TO 5.5% IN ABSOLUTE TERMS
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A 20 percent increase in relative risk may be small in absolute terms, but the calculation changes with age.
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In absolute terms, however, the numbers are large: about 20163 million Indian students are enrolled in colleges and universities.
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"We will continue to grow our sales and we will increase our R&D in absolute terms," Buskhe said.
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In absolute terms, output has fallen by around 375,000 bpd between the peak in April 2015 and November 2015.
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The Washington, D.C., Dallas-Fort Worth and New York metropolitan areas have the highest average debt in absolute terms.
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In absolute terms careful choice of construction sites or relocation is the best defense against soil liquefaction, scientists said.
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In absolute terms, Roku reported an estimated 11.7 billion total streaming hours in Q4 2019, a 60% YoY increase.
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So hotels and real estate companies that sell houses to foreigners could find themselves worse off in absolute terms.
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To do so would require cutting some members' stakes in absolute terms, rather than merely freezing them as others expand.
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Syria was the largest recipient of aid in absolute terms in 2016; the Palestinian Territories received the most per person.
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The constitution's tipping of the scales towards small states was not limited to those with small populations in absolute terms.
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In absolute terms, the number is high, but not out of line with a number of other markets, Goldman said.
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This partly mitigates the group's small capital base in absolute terms, as CET244 capital stood at CHF76bn at end-2530.
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However, it needs to be recognized that delinquencies are high in absolute terms because lending is at an elevated level.
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The country's third-biggest lender by assets has the highest non-performing loans in absolute terms among non-state banks.
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Furthermore, the income sharing agreement model doesn't necessarily mean that Lambda School is cheaper than its competitors in absolute terms.
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"Rural areas suffer less in absolute terms but have much lower incomes, so the percentage hit is greater," Muro says.
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Fundamentalism fostered in believers a sense of urgency and certainty and a vision of the world defined in absolute terms.
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While it was large in absolute terms, Facebook's share of the global advertising market was still "relatively small", said Clegg.
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In absolute terms, that likely surpasses the amount of activity we saw even at the height of the Vietnam War.
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"Today it is probably the lowest, in absolute terms and also when taking into account the weaker Australian dollar," Klein said.
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Italy's public debt runs at more than 1.3 times its domestic output and is the world's third-largest in absolute terms.
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In absolute terms China (including Hong Kong) now has the biggest concentration of crony wealth in the world, at $360 billion.
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External finances are robust in absolute terms and relative to peers, and are expected to remain so over our rating horizon.
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In absolute terms, compared to other sectors they have the highest average number of touch points, both in-person and total.
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That means, for the first time, a cut in absolute terms—of around 5%, says Alan Matthews of Trinity College, Dublin.
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Regardless of how often golfers actually won trophies, what should matter is how their scorecards stack up in absolute terms across eras.
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The group NPL ratio of 1.0% at end-March 2016 is the highest since mid-653, but still low in absolute terms.
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In absolute terms, the US is expected to have 17 million obese children by 2030, the largest number after China and India.
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In absolute terms, the biggest offenders are two drug giants, Sanofi and Novartis, and the National Cancer Institute, an American government body.
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Castle sees the world in absolute terms, and if he knows that someone is committing evil, he has no problem ending them.
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Countries are allowed to impose retaliatory duties against a state that imposes such tariffs when imports have not increased in absolute terms.
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"In the same period demand will increase by maybe 60 percent, so in absolute terms it's more than a half," Solberg said.
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Despite widespread concerns about backsliding, that figure is the lowest in the past half-century, though it remains high in absolute terms.
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"That goes for governments, businesses and other players," he said, adding it was vital that emission targets are set in absolute terms.
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In absolute terms, the state does not lack money to pay its debts; it still has nearly $600 billion in overseas assets.
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The United States incarcerates more of its citizens — both per capita and in absolute terms — than any other country in the world.
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From 1975 to 2016, in absolute terms, the amount of fossil fuel burned for electricity in the state rose by 203 percent.
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The republic's interim direct debt (bonds and bank loans) decreased in absolute terms to RUB9.4bn by end-August 2016, from RUB12bn in 2015.
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"We don't see an increase in corporate (bond purchases) in absolute terms," Nowotny told reporters on the sidelines of a conference in Florence.
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A 10% chance of a magnitude 7 on a given day is still a high risk ... but in absolute terms it's still small.
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We tend to see our own emotional state in absolute terms — depressed or buoyant, anxious or calm, good or bad, happy or sad.
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Paying 450bp-475bp is still a pretty good rate in absolute terms as the base rate is zero, which is not that expensive.
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Nossa is the fifth-largest insurer in Angola by gross written premium (GWP), but is small in absolute terms (2015 GWP: approximately USD46m).
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It takes Jon Jones stepping onto a crowded mat and roughhousing with normal people to see how dominant he is in absolute terms.
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While Slack is small in absolute terms right now, with 2.7 million daily users and 800,000 paid seats, its momentum is extremely strong.
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That's a tiny fraction of the tens of millions of people who lack health insurance, but a catastrophically high number in absolute terms.
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The problem is that China's debt burden is so much larger than ever before — both in absolute terms and compared with the economy.
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In absolute terms, investment in upstream oil and gas totaled $230 billion last year, representing the biggest single portion of investment in energy.
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The statesman, facing a dire threat, has two choices: To embrace extremism is to acknowledge the magnitude of the danger in absolute terms.
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As Cyrela has now concluded its projects in those regions, the rate should fall in absolute terms over the coming months, he said.
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In absolute terms, the proportion of vegetarian meals sold in cafeterias after the menu changes rose by about 8 to 15 percentage points.
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While this might not be as much of a multiple as what we saw in 2017, it is much higher in absolute terms.
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"In addition to being cheap in absolute terms, valuation looks even cheaper if taken in context of low global interest rates," Lakos-Bujas said.
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Planet-warming gasses from transportation grew more in absolute terms than any other sector between 1990 and 2017, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
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It found that the support of sports stars seemed to boost the sales of products, both in absolute terms and relative to rival returns.
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The world's biggest companies are not only getting bigger in absolute terms but are also turning huge numbers of smaller companies into mere appendages.
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The company may also need to keep capex parity with its peers in absolute terms, with Tele2 having invested over KZT20 billion in 2016.
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Fitch views Northwestern's results as favorable on a risk-adjusted basis, though profitability measures appear modest in absolute terms when compared with the industry.
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Although recent new light vehicle sales have been impressive in absolute terms, they are still weak when measured relative to the driving-age population.
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"The high standards here in the U.S. have made our banks stronger in absolute terms and in comparative terms" against foreign banks, Curry said.
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The Bank of Greece said the total value of exported goods and services grew by 23.2 percent but imports fell more in absolute terms.
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In absolute terms, they are still doing better than their black and Hispanic counterparts, with nine times the wealth and a higher median income.
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In absolute terms, China is still by far the most affected, with 80,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and a death toll of 2,981.
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In absolute terms, the ideal is to neutralize him, but we all know that he is capable with very little to make the difference.
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"Even if it's only 5% or so of one of their funds, it's still a huge amount of money in absolute terms," Maellare said.
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The numbers are likely to be staggering in absolute terms, but what's more remarkable is how easily the American economy can absorb the blow.
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The capital base is small in absolute terms, and net income is fully distributed to the partners, a consequence of RCB's legal partnership structure.
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The cuts he favors will be painful for vulnerable communities around the globe, since the U.S. remains the biggest international donor in absolute terms.
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Confirmed cases rose to 15,113 from a previous 12,13, the biggest daily rise in absolute terms since the contagion came to light on Feb.
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In absolute terms, of course, a poor country with low wages is almost always going to be cheaper than a country with high living standards.
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In absolute terms, the US is expected to have 17 million obese children by 2030, the largest number after China and India, the report found.
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Indeed, Census data show that youth turnout collapsed in 2012, in absolute terms and as a percentage of the overall electorate, to below 403 levels.
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Although President Donald Trump has vowed to help Christian refugees, in absolute terms his administration has taken in 40 percent fewer of them last year.
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"Objectively, it matters to the audience in absolute terms: even though when I&aposm watching, it&aposs fiction, a sort of virtual reality," he added.
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Exxon's venting and flaring has surged since 23 to record highs, both in absolute terms and as a proportion of gas produced, the numbers show.
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"There is obviously more competition ... because there is less growth in absolute terms, which is probably related to Brexit uncertainties," CEO David Duffy told reporters.
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In absolute terms, $200 million per year is over $6 per second around the clock, equal to the global median annual income every eight minutes.
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"I knew there were individuals who had told me in absolute terms that they were with us, who weren't when the moment came," he said.
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In absolute terms, Friday's data was much higher than expected, with output of 9.32 million bpd versus the 9.05 million bpd expectation in the EIA's forecasts.
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"While growth has not been robust in absolute terms, current bottom-up expectations are low," equity strategist Adam Parker wrote in a note to clients Tuesday.
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Wang added in absolute terms, prices of many food items are at their highest points since China's National Bureau of Statistics started collecting data in 2009.
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In absolute terms, it attracts the most foreign students, thanks to its size, its outstanding universities and the lure of Silicon Valley and other brainworking hotspots.
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Part of the problem for Trump and his allies is that, in absolute terms, there isn't really an "immigration crisis" in the way they conceptualize it.
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Even though a 4,000-square-foot house has more room in absolute terms, the 3,000-square-foot house has more relative value compared with its neighbors.
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In absolute terms, its nuclear generation capacity will have increased eightfold over the same period, to 750 billion kilowatt-hours a year, roughly America's current level.
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Until 2007, overall growth in electricity consumption enabled coal-fired and gas-fired generation to increase in absolute terms, even as coal went into relative decline.
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The company said that during the 2019 financial year the climate footprint of the chain had decreased for the first time by 4.3% in absolute terms.
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The NOAA statement, which said that the NWS Birmingham office was wrong "to speak in absolute terms" about Dorian not targeting Alabama, also angered agency staff.
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This is anathema to Rome, because most of Italy's sovereign debt, the biggest in Europe in absolute terms, is held domestically by financial institutions and households.
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"Given the massive increase in the Chinese travel market, the impact in absolute terms will be much larger than from the SARS crisis," the report said.
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The United States has the world's largest prison population, both per capita and in absolute terms, with 1.5 million prisoners and 73,000 jail inmates in 2017.
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The economy that would expand the most in absolute terms would be the U.S., but only by $3.3 billion — 50 times less than the impact on China.
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If you look at the costs in absolute terms or in relative terms versus your revenue compared to banks of similar size, it doesn't come out top.
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In absolute terms, a woman's miscarriage risk rose from 10 percent (at the lowest levels of radiation exposure) to 24 percent (among the higher levels of exposure).
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"The executive board and the supervisory board regard the price per Innogy share offered by E.ON to be fair in absolute terms," Innogy said in a statement.
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"This year, we're going to add almost 22015 percentage points to our growth rates, and in absolute terms we will probably double our growth," he told Reuters.
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Conte told the lower house that his government aimed to increase growth and simultaneously reduce the debt mountain — the third largest in the world in absolute terms.
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Only 3 percent of men die of prostate cancer, so the benefit of screening, in the number of prostate cancer deaths averted, is small in absolute terms.
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Though DuckDuckGo is a well-visited site in absolute terms, with an Alexa rank of 187 as of November, it&aposs small fry when compared with Google.
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If your salary goes to $2000,2333 from $220,230 and you keep saving 240 percent of your income, you'll be saving more in absolute terms — an extra $215,103.
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To date, clean sources of energy have barely managed to maintain their ratio of global energy use, even as fossil fuels grow much faster in absolute terms.
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" — Chrissie Thompson, The Cincinnati Enquirer "Trump was the strongest, both in absolute terms and relative to what he needed to do given his current standing in the polls.
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Russia's forests spread more slowly in percentage terms between 2005 and 2015, but, because Russia is so big, more than in the entire European Union in absolute terms.
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These foreign investments may be tiny relative to the size of China's economy, but China's wealth is now so great that they are still big in absolute terms.
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The world's biggest coal consumer used 2000 percent more coal in absolute terms last year than in 21, China's National Bureau of Statistics said in an annual communique.
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While incomes are growing faster than America in percentage terms, they are growing from a much lower base, meaning that in absolute terms the gap is still increasing.
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So gender wage gaps will be bigger in high-wage industries, even if "in absolute terms [women] do much better than in the low wage sector," Goldin said.
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Your house would be smaller in absolute terms, but because it would be bigger than most other people's, you would be more likely to regard it as adequate.
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In absolute terms, that means the mortality risk went from 11.5 percent among the patients of male doctors to about 11.1 percent among the patients of female doctors.
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It's the highest daily increase in mortality in absolute terms registered anywhere in the world since the respiratory illness emerged in China at the end of last year.
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The e-commerce founder is now worth more than Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates ever was, in absolute terms, but Gates has donated billions through his charitable foundation.
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"It is oversold in an uptrend using that 200-day moving average as a proxy for trend both in absolute terms and relative to the market," said Wald.
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According to the Brookings Institution economist Carol Graham, poor whites are far more unhappy and pessimistic than poor blacks, even though, in absolute terms, they are better off.
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But that cannot explain how it manages to be the world leader in locking up its own citizens, both in absolute terms and as a share of the population.
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Trade continued to grow in absolute terms from 2007 to 2017, but during that period exports in those same value chains declined from 28.1% to 22.5% of gross output.
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In truth, even though the national debt is large in absolute terms and projected to grow in future years, there's little reason to believe it's a big problem currently.
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In absolute terms, the value of investment in commercial property worldwide topped $650 billion at the end of 2015, more than four times 2009 levels, data portal Statista estimates.
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Although FITB's CET1 is below the peer median of roughly 10.8%, it is still viewed as acceptable in absolute terms, and above the fully phased-in requirement of 7%.
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Apple shares have nearly doubled since the end of fiscal 2015 and its forward price-earnings multiple has climbed, both in absolute terms and relative to the broad market.
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J.P. Morgan is neutral on the Eurozone, where stocks "will advance in absolute terms, but are unlikely to outperform the U.S." and underweight U.K. based on the political backdrop.
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Asia Pacific's tourism industry overtook Europe in 2014 in terms of travel and tourism total contribution to GDP in absolute terms, according to World Tourism and Travel Council data.
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UBAF's equity base remains small in absolute terms (end-2016 FCC: EUR337 million) and therefore unlikely to be able to absorb material shocks without support from the bank's shareholders.
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In the Baltic countries that have been most in the spotlight in recent months, foreign deposits are falling both in absolute terms and as a share of total deposits.
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With the U.S. bull market now well into its ninth year, U.S. equities are no longer cheap, both in absolute terms as well as relative to other equity markets.
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"But what you can expect is that MENA will continue to be positive, and increase the EBITDA in absolute terms and not at the cost of investment," he said.
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If all goes according to plan, he could preside over the transition when China eclipses the United States as the world's largest economy in absolute terms within two decades.
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In absolute terms where you look at the difference in cost versus what you&aposll make, a higher education level is better no matter how you look at it.
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In addition, UBAE's capital base is small in absolute terms, exposing the bank to event risk from high credit concentrations and operational risks, which are prevalent in trade finance.
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In that case, the exchange lost 17 percent of its financial assets to North Korean hackers, though it refused to specify how much that amounted to in absolute terms.
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Other parts of the reforms plan include a larger dividend payout in absolute terms as planned asset sales in the coming months boost profits, two of the sources said.
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Italy's debt is the highest in the region in absolute terms and the highest barring Greece as a percentage of economic output at around 133 percent, according to Eurostat.
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Facebook pays well in absolute terms, but if you're a single-income family you have to live pretty frugally, as those rent checks eats into your monthly disposable income.
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Right, so the ad numbers are growing in absolute terms but going down pretty significantly in overall ... And this is the new normal for publishers, they want that. Yeah.
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In absolute terms, Los Angeles county in California would be the worst affected (176,693 jobs), followed by Cook county, Illinois (Chicago) with 91,000 and Harris county, Texas (Houston) with 89,000.
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In absolute terms, Los Angeles county in California would be the worst affected (176,000 jobs), followed by Cook county, Illinois (Chicago) with 91,000 and Harris county, Texas (Houston) with 89,000.
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The small size of the bank's capital in absolute terms, in combination with a concentrated loan book, results in a limited loss absorption capacity in case of material unforeseen losses.
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"This risk was small in absolute terms, yet raises important questions about policies toward driving," said lead study author Dr. Anna-Karin Nume of Copenhagen University Gentofte Hospital in Denmark.
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It has swallowed Aer Lingus, Iberia and Vueling and since 2014 the combined group, IAG, has made more profit in absolute terms than any other European airline group (see chart).
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"Even a 20 percent increase in the risk of lethal disease – if that is in fact the true relative risk – is still quite small in absolute terms," Rider said by email.
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In absolute terms, Ryanair's 9.9 million tonnes of CO2 output placed it among Europe's top 10 emitters in 2018, a group dominated by coal-fired power stations, according to EU data.
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While perhaps true in absolute terms, users affected by the issue were understandably disturbed that Apple's initial response to complaints was merely to direct people to contact the company's support team.
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In absolute terms, Ryanair's 9.9 million tonnes of CO2 output placed it among Europe's top 10 emitters in 2018, a group dominated by coal-fired power stations, according to EU data.
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Although yields on Kuwait government debt instruments are low in absolute terms, they are high in relative terms because of the instruments' low level of risk and good liquidity, Nahedh said.
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Nossa is the fifth-largest insurer in Angola by gross written premiums (GWP) with a market share of around 9%, but is small in absolute terms (2016 GWP around USD36 million).
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In absolute terms, many of those countries have actually boosted their economic output significantly over the past half century, and as a result, inequality between countries has declined in recent years.
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In absolute terms, the total amount of people living in extreme poverty peaked in 20.6 when 24.3 billion of the world's 3.70 billion people lived on less than $1.25 per day.
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"In absolute terms, I don't think you can say that this investigation as special prosecutions go is overly long," Paul Ware, who served on the Iran-Contra prosecutorial team, told me.
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"NOAA noted in its recent statement that the Birmingham National Weather Service had "spoke in absolute terms that were inconsistent with probabilities from the best forecast products available at the time.
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Guaranteed debt is high in absolute terms (EUR311 million at end-2016), but Fitch views its risk as low, since the guarantees are mostly to low-risk regulated social housing entities.
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" It added that "employment and investment intentions had weakened in absolute terms, pointing to expectations of little change in staff numbers and capital spending over the coming six to 12 months.
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Yields on 10-year British government bonds or gilts fell more than 13 basis points to 0.73% and were set for their biggest one-day fall in absolute terms since March.
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"The Birmingham National Weather Service's Sunday morning tweet spoke in absolute terms that were inconsistent with probabilities from the best forecast products available at the time," NOAA said in the statement.
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LONDON, Sept 16 (Reuters) - An attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities has caused the biggest supply disruption in absolute terms in the last five decades, according to International Energy Agency figures.
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In absolute terms, fund managers had amassed a bullish net long position of more than 900 million barrels, the largest since oil prices started to slump at the start of October 2018.
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In absolute terms, however, its 9.9 million tonnes of CO2 output placed Ryanair among Europe's top 10 emitters in 2018, a group dominated by coal-fired power stations, according to EU data.
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Mobility is measured not only in absolute terms—that is, how well people fare compared with their parents—but also in relative terms, meaning how well they do compared with their peers.
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In absolute terms, we suffer, but we win relative to others, so I think the markets have understood that the U.S. is in a better place than the rest of the world.
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In absolute terms, fund managers had amassed a bullish net long position of more than 35 million barrels, the largest since oil prices started to slump at the start of October 2018.
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But, but, but: Carbon emissions from coal-fired plants are nonetheless growing in absolute terms as the chart above shows, and coal remains the largest source of worldwide electricity production, IEA said.
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"The NOAA disavowed itself from that tweet, saying that the Birmingham National Weather Service "spoke in absolute terms that were inconsistent with probabilities from the best forecast products available at the time.
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German officials point out that in absolute terms, German military spending has increased for five straight years, up 36 percent, and that Germany is NATO's second-biggest contributor of funds and troops.
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After losing £531m in 2010, BA swallowed Aer Lingus, Iberia and Vueling, and since 3.53 the combined group, IAG, has made more profit in absolute terms than any other European airline group.
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The chart below shows that, in absolute terms, China's total debt has ballooned from about $6tn at the time of the financial crisis to nearly $28tn by the end of last year.
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Even so, in absolute terms, print ads brought in slightly more money than digital ads during the second quarter, $62.7 million versus $58 million — a sign that ads on paper remain lucrative.
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DIVIDENDS AND DEALS Other parts of the reforms plan include a larger dividend payout in absolute terms as planned asset sales in the coming months boost profits, two of the sources said.
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Even so, in absolute terms, print ads brought in slightly more money than digital ads during the second quarter, $62.7 million versus $58 million — a sign that ads on paper remain lucrative.
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In theory, all OPEC members would benefit in absolute terms if an output cut produced even a modest and sustained rise in oil prices, so there are strong financial incentives for a deal.
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And although a 22.9,21-point fall in the Dow Jones Industrial Average on February 22019th was the biggest ever in absolute terms, it was still smallish beer in proportionate terms, at just 233.4%.
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Christian Savings has weak capitalisation in absolute terms and relative to other small Fitch-rated New Zealand-based lenders, leaving its capital base more susceptible to shocks that lead to impairments or losses.
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Jon Ralston, editor of the Nevada Independent and the peerless expert on the state's political scene, put it in absolute terms Thursday: Heller won't vote for the bill if the governor opposes it.
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All told such debts are now roughly the same size as subprime mortgage debt was in 2007, both in absolute terms and as a share of the broader market in which it sits.
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"The actual figure is even lower than we expected...a 22 percent deficit would be about 29 trillion yuan ($26 billion) in absolute terms, which equals to the 2016 level," said ANZ's Wang.
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - IKEA, the world's biggest furniture group, pledged on Friday to cut greenhouse gas emissions from its production by 80 percent in absolute terms by 2030 from their levels two years ago.
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The researchers found that workers who got higher wages because of the minimum wage law also experienced an improvement in their mental health, both in absolute terms and relative to the comparison groups.
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"The macro fundamentals remain robust in absolute terms and relative to the semi-core a view which we don't think is yet fully priced in by the market," wrote rates strategist Robert Brown.
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This, against the backdrop of persistently high consumer inflation - reported at 12.9% yoy in 2015 and 443% yoy in May 2016 - has resulted in profitability margin pressures and EBITDA contraction in absolute terms.
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The world's biggest coal consumer used 20303 percent more coal in absolute terms last year than in 590, China's National Bureau of Statistics said in its annual National Social and Economic Development communique.
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Among the larger banking systems, US, Canadian, French and Japanese banks reduced the funding they take from US prime money funds the most (in absolute terms), according to Crane data compiled by Fitch.
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Inter IKEA set a so-called science-based target for IKEA Group to cut the climate impact of stores and other operations by 80 percent in absolute terms by 2030 compared with 2016.
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The European right-wing—as well as the American—doesn't have that much support in absolute terms, if you take into account all the people who haven't voted and have voted against them.
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Though poisoning replaced firearms as the most common method in 2014, the overall use of guns by women in suicides rose in absolute terms as more American women killed themselves than ever before.
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" After days of controversy, NOAA released an unsigned statement Friday that suggested the Birmingham tweet "spoke in absolute terms that were inconsistent with probabilities from the best forecast products available at the time.
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"The macro fundamentals remain robust in absolute terms and relative to the semi-core — a view which we don't think is yet fully priced in by the market," wrote rates strategist Robert Brown.
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"In absolute terms, about the same area has been cleared, but in relative terms, the Cerrado is much more threatened, with more than three times more loss than the Amazon," Gardner told CNN.
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"In absolute terms, $25 million is not a big number, but it puts into question management's credibility," said Jon A. Baumunk, an accounting lecturer at San Diego State University's Fowler College of Business.
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Unemployment was still fairly high — more than 7 percent — in November 1984, but what matters for elections is whether things are getting better or worse, not how good they are in absolute terms.
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Chenoweth cautioned me that while 4.2 million Americans protesting on Saturday may be the largest turnout in US history in absolute terms, she wasn't sure if it was the largest protest proportionally speaking.
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"We're aiming for a dividend policy that's on par with our competitors and for dividend growth in absolute terms," Chief Executive Johannes Teyssen said in a letter to shareholders after presenting first-half results.
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But this volume remains low in absolute terms as port-to-port shipping is legally restricted to a relatively small pool of Brazil-linked companies that have ships flying the country's flag, he said.
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In absolute terms, in 2015, near the end of the study, the rate of death within 90 days of surgery was slightly above 6% at affiliated hospitals and slightly below 113% at nonaffiliated hospitals.
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Photo: Sam Rutherford (Gizmodo)In the end, while in absolute terms a Pixel 3 or Galaxy S21080+ might be a better overall phone than a OnePlus 216T, are those phone's really worth $220 more?
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In absolute terms, 0.73 million people were employed in the euro zone in the first quarter, the highest number ever recorded and surpassing the previous peak in the first quarter of 2008, Eurostat said.
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If you go back and look at all the data in those earlier studies, in many cases humans pull a similar amount of mass or jump with similar power as chimpanzees in absolute terms.
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Although the number of Chinese transactions reviewed rose in absolute terms, it fell as a share of overall Chinese acquisitions, the report noted, and the vast majority of deals reviewed by CFIUS were cleared.
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The close on Wednesday of $44.50 means iron ore is a mere $7.50 away from the all-time low, with the modest gains in absolute terms providing context to the more impressive percentage rise.
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Although guaranteed debt is high in absolute terms (EUR293.8m at end-2015), Fitch views risk related to the guaranteed debt as low, since the guarantees are mostly to low-risk regulated social housing entities.
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Evidence from the social sciences demonstrates that beyond a certain income threshold, people's sense of well-being depends much more on their relative purchasing power than on how much they spend in absolute terms.
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This comparatively poor performance is not explained by the diversion of resources to corporate political spending; the sums involved, while large in absolute terms, represent a tiny fraction of total revenues at large firms.
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Her position is better in absolute terms in Michigan, but a new poll from the Detroit Free Press released Friday afternoon had her lead down to four points from seven points a week before.
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"As a group, children born after medically assisted reproduction are, in absolute terms, at increased risk of adverse birth outcomes," said lead study author Alice Goisis of the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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In absolute terms, bitcoin's electricity consumption is still small potatoes: De Vries' index estimates it at 0.05 percent of world energy consumption as of March 1, or about as much as the country of Paraguay.
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Italy, whose banks hold the bloc's largest stock of soured debt in absolute terms, has reduced NPLs in recent months but has repeatedly argued against hastening the offloading process to avoid excessive costs on lenders.
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"Here's the spin, though: we are seeing strength in our other indicators where we don't think the world pulls down the U.S., but we actually think the U.S. keeps the world afloat in absolute terms."
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"The complainant has provided evidence that imports of the product under investigation from the countries concerned have increased overall in absolute terms and in terms of market share," the Commission said in the Official Journal.
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But in absolute terms, global coal consumption is still projected to be around 21770 quadrillion British thermal units (BTUs) in 21974 up from 21999 quadrillion BTUs in 21910, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
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Here are how things have changed over the last two years: As you can see, solar and wind consumption are jumping considerably - but in absolute terms, our note from two years ago still remains true.
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We do have a problem with people trying to join ISIS , but the number of people going from Belgium dwarfs the number going from here, even in absolute terms, let alone relative to our populations.
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The lucky beneficiaries were pleased, of course, but their increased happiness was much more than offset by the increased unhappiness of other households, which lost nothing in absolute terms but suddenly saw themselves falling behind.
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There was also a more than twice as much violence on shows rated TV-22019 in the 2017-18 television season than in the 2007-08 season, both in per-episode averages and in absolute terms.
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In absolute terms, the state's oil revenue spending has never been higher, at 231 billion Norwegian crowns ($29.2 billion), accounts for a record 7.7 percent of mainland-trend GDP compared with 3.0 percent a decade ago.
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By contrast, 61 of the nation's largest 100 metropolitan areas have either seen their share of the national sector go sideways or actually shrink since 2010 — and six of them actually lost jobs in absolute terms.
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While high in absolute terms, investors reckon both markets can go further as they remain below their March 2015 peaks, when Indonesia's market was 3.6 times its book value and the Philippines stood at 3.39 times.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Global coal consumption is set to remain steady in absolute terms through the middle of the century, even as its relative share of total energy consumption declines in favor of oil, gas and renewables.
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Eleven firms have paid fines in excess of 10% of their market capitalisation (see chart), with Bank of America having spent the most in absolute terms ($77 billion) and in relation to its net worth (50%).
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"The Birmingham National Weather Service's Sunday morning tweet spoke in absolute terms that were inconsistent with probabilities from the best forecast products available at the time," read the unsigned statement from the NOAA on September 6.
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Although your house in the wealthier world would be larger in absolute terms, its relatively small size in that universe would mean that your children would be more likely to attend schools regarded there as substandard.
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The deficit has ballooned, even in a time of relatively rapid growth, because Mr. Trump's tax cuts reduced tax revenues — both in absolute terms and compared with forecasts — and because of the spending increases he approved.
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Lawton says thinking of money in absolute terms can be restrictive and ultimately demotivating, so it's important to accept there is no "silver bullet" to all your financial worries and be realistic about with your goals.
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"Our gross NPLs (non-performing loans) in the next six months or 12 months could go up in absolute terms... as a share of loan book it need not," Lall told a news conference on Wednesday.
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Poverty fell not only proportionally but in absolute terms as well: The number of people in extreme poverty fell by 1.17 billion between 1981 and 2015, even as the global population grew by almost three billion.
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"While it's an impressive gain, February 2017 was, unfortunately, also the second worst February in absolute terms for coal since sometime before 1988," John Gray, AAR Senior Vice President of Policy and Economics, said in a release.
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For all but a handful of allies, defense budgets — in absolute terms, as a share of economic output — have been chronically starved for adequate funding for a long time, with the shortfalls compounding on themselves each year.
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"Given the outlook for falling revenues, we instead think costs must be cut in absolute terms," analysts at Berenberg said in a note, calling the growth strategy at BNP Paribas and SocGen "poorly focused and self defeating".
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Although banks in "vulnerable" countries—a category that includes Italy, Portugal and Spain—have not increased lending in absolute terms, they have at least been cutting corporate lending more slowly than they had been, as the scheme requires.
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"In absolute terms, both Turkey and Poland would face the highest exposure to trade disruptions with domestic value-added exports of around $12 billion being directly and indirectly exported to the UK in 2015," an EBRD report said.
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"Our ambition is to reduce more greenhouse gas emissions in absolute terms by 2030 than the entire Ikea value chain emits, while growing the Ikea business," the Inter Ikea Group's CEO, Torbjörn Lööf, said in a statement Thursday.
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Which reminds us that the truly odd thing about Trump is not that he's extraordinarily unpopular in absolute terms, but that he's almost freakishly unpopular for a president who is overseeing a national situation that is basically okay.
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Gazprom on Wednesday posted a 2.0833 percent increase in first-quarter revenue to 1.74 trillion rubles ($26.9 billion) year-on-year, due to higher gas sales to Europe in absolute terms and despite a fall in the gas price.
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Banks would have to publish the impact of rate rises in on their total capital in percentage terms but there is no requirement for them to publish how much capital in absolute terms they hold to cover rate risks.
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In absolute terms, the number of oil and gas companies in leading stock indices varies, with 14 in the STOXX 600 index of leading European companies, or 2.3 percent; and 26 in the S&P 500, or 5.2 percent.
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While the three-month U.S. dollar London interbank offered rate has surged 263 bps in absolute terms since the end of 270, the three-month Saudi rate is down slightly and the UAE rate has edged up only gradually.
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If you faced a choice between being a relatively low earner in a high-income society or being near the top in a society in which your income was lower in absolute terms, the answer would be less clear.
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"Whereas we are upgrading our ... forecasts by around 3 percent to reflect the reduced tail-risk of a disorderly Brexit in 2019 ... we nevertheless still expect sterling to weaken in absolute terms over a 1-year horizon," they said.
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The drone attack over the weekend has cut the kingdom's oil production in half, creating the biggest disruption to global oil supplies in absolute terms since the overthrow of the Iranian Shah in 1979, International Energy Agency data show.
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The commission's president, Jean-Claude Juncker, cited the danger of a crisis like the one that engulfed Greece and warned that giving Italy special treatment could even doom the euro (in absolute terms, Italy's debt stock is far higher than Greece's).
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The United States, as the largest and richest nation of the Pacific group, would benefit most in absolute terms, but "the agreement will generate substantial gains for Japan, Malaysia, and Vietnam as well, and solid benefits for other members," it said.
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In absolute terms, the researchers calculate, HRT is associated with 9 to 18 additional cases of Alzheimer's disease per year detected in every 10,000 women ages 70 to 80, especially in those who used hormone therapy for over 10 years.
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In absolute terms, the repression's 2018 death toll — at least 300 — is comparable to that of Venezuela, but relative to Nicaragua's much smaller population, it ranks as one of the worst human rights crises Latin America has seen in decades.
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In absolute terms, Italy is the EU country with the highest level of non-performing loans (NPLs) on bank balance sheets, data from the European Banking Authority (EBA) show, a burden that reduces their ability to lend to companies and households.
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By using a slightly different definition of low-skilled worker—high-school dropouts—he found that their wages fell precipitously after the influx of labour in 1980, both in absolute terms (see chart) and relative to other workers in Miami.
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"Given that credit growth has been picking up in absolute terms since around August/September and overall lending rates have moved lower, this cut may have come in too soon," said Trisha Peries, product head of economic research at Frontier Research.
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Refining profit margins, also known as cracks, for gasoil with a sulphur content of 10 parts per million (ppm) plunged to as low as $11.70 a barrel over Dubai crude on Wednesday, their lowest in absolute terms since June 2017.
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Earlier in November the Commission forecast Italy, which has the largest debt in absolute terms in the EU, would see its debt burden increase to 136.2% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) this year and rise further at least until 2021.
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"The Birmingham National Weather Service's Sunday morning tweet spoke in absolute terms that were inconsistent with probabilities from the best forecast products available at the time," the parent agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, said in the statement.
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"The Birmingham National Weather Service's Sunday morning tweet spoke in absolute terms that were inconsistent with probabilities from the best forecast products available at the time," the parent agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, said in the statement.
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Use of fuel wood continued to grow in absolute terms until 2100-22040 even as it declined per capita and as a percentage of total energy consumption continuously from the 1840s ("Fuel wood used in the United States", U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1942).
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Italy, which has already the largest debt in absolute terms in the EU, is to increase its debt burden to 3.03% of GDP this year, and it would continue rising next year to 136.8% and 137.4% in 2021, according to the Commission.
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While the rich spend a lot in absolute terms, their spending is miserly as a share of their income, in contrast to the budget constrained non-rich, especially those who live, literally, paycheck to paycheck (assuming they have a job, of course).
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" After days of controversy, NOAA — which is part of the Commerce Department — on Friday released an unsigned statement Friday that suggested the Birmingham tweet "spoke in absolute terms that were inconsistent with probabilities from the best forecast products available at the time.
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" The anonymous letter even scolded the Birmingham, Alabama National Weather Service for clapping back at Trump on Twitter on September 1st, saying that the tweet "spoke in absolute terms that were inconsistent with probabilities from the best forecast products available at the time.
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As it happens, in Q2 seed and early-stage venture — despite reaching post-dot com highs in absolute terms — make up for a smaller percent of total dollar volume than in any quarter since at least Q3 2013, the last records we had readily available.
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"The company continues to cite mobile and programmatic as drivers of overall increases in TAC, which we believe will likely continue to increase in absolute terms and as a percentage of revenue for the foreseeable future," Goldman Sachs analysts wrote in a client note.
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Diane Garnick, from TIAA, a financial-services firm, says that many women think that so long as they put the (default) recommended share of their pay into a savings pot they are on track, even if in absolute terms the number is too low.
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"In absolute terms, states with a medical marijuana law had about 1,700 fewer opioid painkiller overdose deaths in 2010 than would be expected based on trends before the laws were passed," said Marcus Bachhuber, a University of Pennsylvania professor who worked on the study.
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ROME, March 6553 (Reuters) - The death toll from an outbreak of coronavirus in Italy has leapt by 2655 to 22,2498, officials said on Friday, an increase of 18.4% — by far the largest daily rise in absolute terms since the contagion emerged a month ago.
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ROME (Reuters) - The death toll from coronavirus in Italy has jumped in the last 24 hours by 250 to 1,266, a rise of 25% and the largest increase in absolute terms since the start of the outbreak, the Civil Protection Agency said on Friday.
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"It is true that financial conditions have tightened, not in absolute terms to a point where it jeopardizes the expansion, but the pace, whether through the currency or rates or peripheral bond spreads moving forward, is important," said Pictet Wealth Management economist Frederik Ducrozet.
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In absolute terms, a quarter of all EU bad loans are held by Italian banks, with Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, which is negotiating the terms of a multi-billion-euros bailout with EU regulators, holding the largest proportion of bad loans compared to its capital.
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Japan and South Korea have seen their workforces shrink in absolute terms but, by investing in robots and software to perform repetitive tasks, and by retraining workers for employment in caring professions, both countries softened the blow of the demographic transition and maintained high productivity growth.
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On the recent earnings, Cook encouraged everyone to look at Apple's $10 billion in revenue in absolute terms, rather than as a percentage:The $10 billion is more than any other company, so it was a pretty good quarter but not up to the Street's expectations clearly.
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Furthermore, the ten most moderate candidates in our database of toss-up races have raised about a third as much as the average candidate, both as a percentage of total donations and in absolute terms, while the candidates outperforming their peers are those at the ideological extremes.
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Every administration struggles with how aggressively to project growth, but that's still an unusually large gap; a difference of 20003 percent in GDP growth translates in absolute terms to a difference of more than $22000 billion a year in economic output for the $22008 trillion U.S. economy.
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Every administration struggles with how aggressively to project growth, but that's still an unusually large gap; a difference of 1 percent in GDP growth translates in absolute terms to a difference of more than $180 billion a year in economic output for the $18.6 trillion U.S. economy.
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ROME, March 13 (Reuters) - The death toll from coronavirus in Italy has jumped in the last 24 hours by 250 to 1,266, a rise of 25% and the largest increase in absolute terms since the start of the outbreak, the Civil Protection Agency said on Friday.
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Each has an incentive to use it as intensively as possible: since it is open to all, restraint exercised by one herdsman simply frees up grass to be chomped by another's animals, leaving those who hold back worse off, not just relatively, but in absolute terms.
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While in absolute terms the white working class — those without college degrees, in pollster shorthand — have higher levels of marriage and cohabitation, homeownership and self-reported health ratings than members of the black working class, the trends are downward for whites and upward for African-Americans.
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Sure, in absolute terms, Google's Night Sight Mode on the Pixel 3 is slightly more adept at taking low-light shots than Samsung's Bright Night option, but the results are often quite close, and it's clear the Note 10's image quality is still top tier.
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Perhaps most important for people drawn to quickie exercise, interval training, especially S.I.T. workouts, often burned more fat, in absolute terms, than prolonged, moderate exercise, with interval trainers dropping an average of about 3.5 pounds of fat during most studies, versus about 2.5 pounds for moderate exercisers.
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Another way to look at the numbers, though, is more favorable to the narrative of Democratic energy: In absolute terms, donations to the left from Silicon Valley residents rose by $54 million while right-leaning donations grew by only $8.7 million since the last midterm cycle in 2014.
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Numbers released on Friday showing Britain's economic productivity rose at its fastest rate in over six years during the three months to the end of September - though in absolute terms still barely above its level of nearly a decade ago - did not give the pound any additional support.
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Coal use in China, by far the world's largest coal consumer, peaked in 2013 and declines very slightly during the five-year analysis period, while India sees the largest increase in absolute terms as its coal-fired power generation is predicted to grow four percent annually through 2022.
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ICICI, which has the highest bad loans in absolute terms among private-sector lenders in the country, said its total provisions, including for loan losses, were 45.03 billion rupees in the September quarter, higher than 26.09 billion rupees three months ago, but 36 percent lower than a year ago.
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In 2008, Frank's idea was expanded by Thomas Leonard, an economist at Princeton: Housing is a positional good: we get additional satisfaction from a larger house not only because a larger house is better in absolute terms, but also because a larger house is better is relative terms.
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"After reported pressure from the Trump administration to get officials to back up the president, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration later defended the president, noting that the NWS Birmingham tweet "spoke in absolute terms that were inconsistent with probabilities from the best forecast products available at the time.
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For starters, while a $5.1 billion fine is large in absolute terms, it's a relative bargain for Google and its parent company, Alphabet, which had $103 billion in cash and securities warming its accounts at the end of March and had nearly $13 billion in profits last year.
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That's why we created the Vox Vacation Index, which combines exchange rate and inflation information to tell you which countries are getting cheaper to visit: In absolute terms, of course, a poor country with low wages is almost always going to be cheaper than a country with high living standards.
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The $22012 billion Parker probe will pass by the sun as close as 21859 million miles from its visible surface, the photosphere—a number that sounds large in absolute terms but is nonetheless close enough to the star to expose it to temperatures of nearly 224,500 degrees Fahrenheit (1,377 degrees Celsius).
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"While Google has apologized for the incidents, and while the scale of the underlying problem may be relatively small in absolute terms, for large marketers, any one instance of an inappropriate brand placement may be enough to seriously harm a brand's business value," Pivotal's Brian Wieser wrote in a report.
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Oman and Saudi Arabia are targeting a budget deficit of 13 percent in 2016, despite fiscal consolidation measures – Oman has increased corporate tax rates and cut subsidies by 64 percent and increasing corporate tax rates, while Saudi Arabia has cut government expenditure in absolute terms for the first time since 2002.
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Forceful advocacy of basic progressive values by a charismatic messenger thrilled long-suffering Texas liberals (who are numerous in absolute terms despite being outnumbered), while O'Rourke also proved to be an appealing fresh face for millions of suburban Texas Republicans who'd defected from the Trumpified version of the party in 2016.
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The depth and duration of the slowdown is impossible to gauge at this point, whether it turns out to be simply a mild and short-lived "soft patch", a longer but still positive "growth recession" with output falling relative to trend, or an "outright recession" with activity falling in absolute terms.
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"This easing in financial conditions suggests not only that global growth is likely to pick up somewhat in absolute terms, but also that growth may come in stronger than currently predicted by the forecaster community," Jan Hatzius, Goldman's chief economist, wrote in a report compiled with several other economists from the firm's team.
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While people who save the same percentage of their income save more in absolute terms — 10% of $75,000 is more than 10% of $65,000 — Morningstar's report contends they also need to strive to save more relative to how much they are now earning, so that they can keep up with their new lifestyle.
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Now, the UK, on its own, will have the opportunity to drive their regulation their own way, their tax system their own way, so there will still-, there will still be a very strong influx of money, but, in-, in absolute terms, they will, kind of, lose out against other global cities.
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Check out more videos from VICE: What is striking about Goldthorpe's study is that if we treat educational attainment in absolute terms, then decades of investments have yielded unprecedented results, but if we treat education in relative terms, then we find that the correlation between individuals' class origins and their educational attainment hasn't budged.
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Monday was the first time in 2018 that the S&P 500 closed in negative territory for the year-to-date; ** The Dow Jones Industrial Average's 4.6 percent loss on Monday was its largest in percentage terms since August 10, 2011, and the day's 1,11.53 point loss was its largest ever in absolute terms.
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"A U.K. departure from the EU could put sterling's reserve status at risk by deterring foreign direct investment and other capital inflows into the U.K." Because last year's current account deficit was the world's second-highest in absolute terms, any decline in capital inflows into sterling-denominated assets would most likely produce two effects, S&P warned.
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In a 2011 paper by Matthew Gentzkow and Jesse Shapiro, investing the different but related issue of ideological self-segregation, the authors write: We find that ideological segregation of online news consumption is low in absolute terms, higher than the segregation of most offline news consumption, and significantly lower than the segregation of face-to-face interactions with neighbors, co-workers, or family members.
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Just as small differences in the rate at which you put money into a savings account can lead to vast differences in your account balance 40 years down the road, thanks to the compounding nature of interest, a small reduction in the rate of economic growth can leave a society's least well-off people much poorer in absolute terms than they might have been.
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"It is hard to identify assets that perform well in absolute terms during hiking cycles, although we do detect relative outperformance at such times from defensive versus cyclical stocks and from large-cap versus small-cap stocks," Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh and Mike Staunton of the London Business School write in a study carried out as part of Credit Suisse's annual study of global investment returns.
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"The EU, which accounts for about one fifth of Chinese manufacturing goods imports, is particularly vulnerable to trade diversions in this area," Felbermayr said as manufacturing accounts for all the top 10 product groups that China imports from the EU. In absolute terms, the biggest losers in the EU are the manufacturers of aircraft ($-3.7 billion), vehicles ($-2.4 billion) and industrial machinery ($-1.4 billion).
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"The EU, which accounts for about one fifth of Chinese manufacturing goods imports, is particularly vulnerable to trade diversions in this area," Felbermayr said as manufacturing accounts for all the top 10 product groups that China imports from the EU. In absolute terms, the biggest losers in the EU are the manufacturers of aircraft ($-3.7 billion), vehicles ($-2.4 billion) and industrial machinery ($-1.4 billion).
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For some of the people who haven't lost jobs, there's now more competition for those jobs, for people internationally, so their wages– that's one of the factors, I would– the analyses have shown– that's preventing more wage growth; and there are 5 to 10 percent of people, according to a lot of the analyses that I've shown, who are actually in absolute terms worse off because of globalization.
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At the same time, the slower growth of the bottom half of the distribution relative to the top 1 percent can risk obscuring an important fact: In absolute terms, the bottom half of the world's income distribution has been gaining tremendously: The above chart, from Our World in Data, shows the decline in extreme poverty (defined on living on less than $1.90 per person per day) in all the major regions of the world, from 1987 to 2013.
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Ukraine up 20163%) * Q22016 Consolidated net sales revenue up 21% to 22.9126,945.2 million lira ($667.86 million) * Q4 Consolidated EBITDA (BNRI) up 0.6% to 180.0 million lira * Q4 net loss was 13 million lira versus net loss of 749.9 million lira * FY 2015 revenue was 10.21 billion lira versus 10.02 billion lira year ago * FY 2015 net loss was 197.8 million lira versus loss of 512.2 million lira year ago * Proposed to distribute FY dividend of 0.20825 lira per share * Expects Anadolu Efes' consolidated sales volumes to grow low single digit in 2016 * In 2016 Consolidated revenues expected to grow mid-single digit * In 2016 expects EBITDA (BNRI) to grow in absolute terms with flattish to slightly lower EBITDA (BNRI) margin.
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