Rhode Island may have seen the worst outages relative to its size, with over 180, 000 customers losing power.
Rhode Island may have seen the worst outages relative to its size, with more than 180, 000 customers without power.
The big culprit there is the Missile Defense Agency, which relative to its size has probably wasted more money on canceled technology projects than any other federal organization in modern times.
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The problem is that dung alone does not produce all that much energy relative to its size, says Geraint Evans, head of biofuels at the UK's National Centre for Biorenewable Energy, Fuels and Materials.
Relative to the size of its economy, China's intervention is small in both years, and smaller in 2010 than in 2006.
The next use of GERS deployed by nationalists is to highlight the finding that Scotland's deficit, relative to the size of its GDP, is rather smaller than the UK's - and it's been that way for five years.
It can be the way a company records revenues or handles costs. (An example would be a firm that constantly claims extraordinary or one-time write-downs.) It could be that you are just not comfortable with the amount of money a company paid for an acquisition relative to the size of its balance sheet.
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Its large size relative to the form factor gives plenty of room for viewing multiple applications and documents while also making room for a full-sized keyboard for typing with ease.
Its public debt, relative to the size of the economy, is lower than that of Britain or the United States.
Since the country opened up to trade in 1976, the relative size of its manufacturing sector has declined.
And neither involved raising nearly enough in tax revenues, relative to the size of America's economy or its long-term appetite for public spending.
Luxembourg also took issue with comments by some officials that boiled down Cyprus's problems into a simple question of the size of its banking system, relative to its overall economy.
The effects have been magnified by the large size of Cyprus's financial system relative to its economy.
Its banks have far more bad loans, relative to the size of the economy, than America's thrifts ever had.
Their government kept its debt low, and their banks, though large relative to the size of the economy, weren't dependent on flighty wholesale money markets but were rich in stable deposits.
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