The UK was performing well compared with the US, where CD sales were down 20% in the first three months of the year, he added.
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Compared with the US's current version of GPS, Galileo promises more accurate and more precise fixes, although the Americans themselves are planning to upgrade their infrastructure in the coming decade.
Banks in Europe, including the UK, are far more important to the provision of credit than is the case in the US. Roughly, European banks provide 80% of our credit needs, compared with 20% in the US - where securitisation that allows investors to lend is massively more significant.
According to results of a recent study this month by Truven Health Analytics, hospital employees are less healthy compared with those in the US workforce at large.
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Many of Europe's leading industrialists laid out an array of problems facing the continent's manufacturers, from more expensive energy compared with US competitors to the lack of financing, especially in countries such as Italy and Spain for small companies.
Most prominent was the difference between how the US treats data privacy compared with the European Union (EU).
Of that, 16% is held in UK stock, compared with 28% in the US. Less than 2% is held in China's stock market, but that may grow.
Based on the report, hospital employees had higher overall healthcare costs and consumed more medical services compared with workers in general in the US workforce.
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" He adds: "Customers get cost savings with us compared to the legacy guys but also the ability to see what the heck is going on in far-flung divisions.
Growth for 2012 as a whole came in at 2.2%, up from 1.8% in 2011, but still unusually slow compared with previous economic recoveries in the US following recessions in the post-War era.
Last year, the US created 19.9 per cent of world manufacturing output, compared with 18.6 per cent for China, with the US staying ahead despite a steep fall in factory production due to the global recession.
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He repeated his criticisms of the current direction of the US human spaceflight programme, saying it lacked ambition compared with the big thinking of the 1960s.
Any one with a mouse can see that the US pays a scant amount of taxes compared with the rest of the developed nations, while at the same time getting less bang for the buck.
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No wonder the ratio of judges is as low as 14 per one million people, compared with over 100 judges per million citizens in the US. Some years ago, a Delhi High Court judge reckoned it would take more than 450 years to clear the backlog given then judge numbers.
It's true they have double the number of bones in their neck compared with us - 14 versus seven cervical vertebrae.
Full of metal and built like battleships, they had a feel and performance that were the stuff of legend, especially compared with what most of us type on today.
Of the top 100 institutions 17 are from the UK, two fewer than in 2007, compared with 37 US universities.
Television made up about 40 per cent of total media spending in the US in 2012, according to eMarketer, compared with less than 2 per cent from online video.
This is nothing compared with say, Canada, (18, 347 units) and the US (13, 647 units).
Researchers at the University of Iowa, studying the 2009 swine flu pandemic, compared fluctuations in the use of certain phrases on Twitter with flu cases reported through the US Centre for Disease Control, which has its own sophisticated flu surveillance system.
The US and Japan have seen a greater focus on stimulus measures compared with Europe, where austerity measures have taken precedence.
The IEA predicts that the US will be producing 11.1 million barrels per day by 2020, compared with 10.6 million from Saudi Arabia.
If those stimulus measures are not extended, the US will be cutting borrowing by around 3% of GDP in 2012 - compared with tightening of 1.7 percentage points in the UK. That sounds like a lot, if the recovery continues to stumble.
But the Fed nonetheless forecast that the US economy would grow by 3.25-3.50% this year, compared with 2.8% in 2002.
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