It is not a stretch, though, to say that the bankruptcy of one of the Detroit Three, what we used to call the Big Three, would be an economic catastrophe for some parts of the country, and have dramatic and negative effects in all 50 states.
Step three is what turns a hobby or lifestyle business into a real business.
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Even at that level, that's three times what the price was at the start of 1999.
I'll know in about three years what it was like, if that makes sense.
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They lose "only" 33 cents a share, three times what they were losing a year earlier.
Question Three: What are the most important things we can do to achieve this performance?
And the wages Wessely pays are a good three times what the Poles on his factory floor make back home.
We spend 17 percent of our food shopping dollars on refined grains (more than three times what is recommended).
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The population of harp seals has been estimated at about 6.9m, more than three times what it was in the 1970s.
Retail power prices can be as much as three times what they are in Texas and other parts of the country.
However, United gazumped the deal by entering negotiations and bidding three times what Arsenal offered for the recently-crowned 2008 Ballon d'Or winner.
So they weigh twice or three times what an ordinary car weighs.
Compost collection is nearly three times what the city expected, he adds.
We recently bought a home and will get two to three times what we could have gotten in California for less than half the price.
Then, just as I was settling to watch part three of what seemed to be Libya's favourite soap opera, the call came.
We asked him to describe in three words what it felt like when he won the Young Sports Personality of the Year award.
Valdiserri nets out his half of the costs and the rest is a profit margin three times what it gets for raw steel sheet.
There could be someone in the room willing to pay three times what they think they actually should because it fills out their collection.
However, despite leading with 20 minutes, the Dragons were outscored by four tries to three in what the head coach saw as a "disappointing" loss.
Currently, the community rating ratio is three to one meaning that insurers can charge older patients no more than three times what they charge younger ones.
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Africa is the world's most indebted and aid-dependent region, with 17% of GDP flowing out in debt repayments, three times what the Bank believes is a sustainable level.
Meanwhile, the Conservatives used other figures from PCTs to show the cost of providing out-of-hours GP care under a new contract, which came in in 2004, is three times what was expected.
Seven of those are regular absentee ballots, and three are what are known as federal absentee write-in ballots -- generic ballots that citizens can pick up at a U.S. military base or Embassy overseas.
He fell to the court without contact while trying to catch a pass in the first half of that game and sat out the next three with what was called a stiff and sore knee.
That's also more than three times what Amazon itself charges for cellular capability in the Kindle Paperwhite 3G (although, of course, that is a far less expensive radio being used to receive lightweight text-based products).
The recipients are hardly the most deserving: farm households make a third more than others, and the richest of them, which get most of the subsidies, bring in three times what the average non-farm household does.
Climate experts have argued that we ought to stop emitting greenhouse gases within fifty years, but by then the demand for energy could easily be three times what it is today: nine cubic miles of oil.
But it is still perverse that investors were happy to buy shares nine years ago, when the ratio of share prices to profits was three times what it is today, and are now determined to keep their money in cash and bonds.
While a typical 60-year-old today might pay five to seven times more for health insurance than a 20-year-old, the new law limits that ratio to three times what a typical young person might pay, says Robert Zirkelbach, a spokesman for America's Health Insurance Plans, the industry's trade group.
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