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Like many retailers, Best Buy chased the housing bubble increasing its store count roughly fourfold since the year 2000.
FORBES: Whoever Ends Up Running Best Buy Could Inherit Happy Shoppers
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By their count, Federal stimulus added roughly 1.5 of growth to GDP out of the recession.
FORBES: The Still Shrinking Local Governments
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The latest count shows there are now roughly 480, 000 more - with a 1 million increase in the number employed in the private sector easily offsetting the fall in public sector employment since the middle of 2010.
BBC: An economic mid-term review
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Depending on whether you count e-readers in the category, roughly a third of US consumers over age 13 currently own a tablet.
FORBES: What Does Your Tablet Say About You?
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Nor can Mr. Obama count on winning the support of 9% of Republicans or roughly 3.7 million as he did in 2008 (according to exit polls).
WSJ: Rove: Obama's Shrinking Majority
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Its goal, strange as it sounds, is to count only 90% of the households in each census tract (which contains roughly 4, 000 people).
ECONOMIST: Statistics
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At last count earlier this year, the U.S. intelligence community estimated that roughly 20% of all detainees released from Guantanamo, all of which have been transferred to foreign governments, have been confirmed or are suspected of having returned to terrorism.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The other Lockerbies
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MySpace had seen its user count dwindle to 34.9 million at the time of sale, down by roughly half from the prior year.
FORBES: Results Of The Facebook IPO Debut
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If we wish to have our federal government continue to spend 23 percent of the gross domestic product (closer to 40 percent if we count state and local spending), then we and our descendants must eventually be willing to pay roughly 23 percent of our incomes in taxes.
FORBES: What Do We Have To Give Up To Get More?