About third had missed, and the remainder were delayed and unlikely to be met.
It will be hard to persuade farm- or textile-trade negotiators, for example, to care about third-world producers.
Then, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it has significant concerns about third party companies that secretly track consumers as they surf the Web.
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Born in northern California and raised in Orange County from about third grade on, Tomlinson soaked up every part of the gnarly lifestyle that is SoCal.
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One reason for scaling back, according to Ms. Newton: the complexity of dealing with the new Coppa, particularly the rules about third-party data collection and advertising.
About a third of firms surveyed complain about labour regulations.
For example, the law might require Facebook to disclose more about how third-party apps receive information about users through their friends, Ms. Ozer said.
When Mr. Roux said the calls were made from a third phone, Mr. Botha said he hadn't heard about a third phone until Tuesday.
Pain management consultant Dr Chris Wells says ibuprofen is a useful drug that helps about a third of people who take it, and reduces their pain by about 50%.
Using the traffic tool Alexa as a rough estimator, MarkMonitor found that pharmacies included in Alexa's top 100, 000 sites--about a third of the pharmacy sites the researchers traced--now each receive about 99, 000 visitors daily, more than triple the 32, 000 daily visitors per ranked site last year.
Meanwhile, China is moving up the value chain into high-tech capital goods and is poised to account for about a third of global manufacturing of advanced machinery and equipment within a decade, from about 8% today, Mr. Zhu said.
About one third added that they felt no need to talk to a person face to face about their problems because of the resources available online.
According to the Air Transport Association (ATA), the industry group that represents commercial airlines, corporate jets and other small planes use about a third of the nation's creaky air traffic control system but pay for only about 6% of it.
About a third of big pickup owners say they use their vehicles daily for shopping errands, and about 85% will take their trucks on a family vacation at least once a year, says Alexander Edwards of Strategic Vision Inc.
About a third of Japan's labor force are temporary workers who have no job security.
This contributes about a third of the observed 3mm rise in sea levels every year.
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Allowing graves to be reused would release about a third of spaces, Mrs Jacobs said.
Now, the yield on such a bond is only around 3.75 percent, down about a third.
"We have committed about a third of those already, " says David Rupert, HQ Global's chief executive.
About a third of the traffic is coming from iPod Touches, which are popular with children.
In terms of milestones, no more than about one third are said to have been completed.
Brazil accounts for about a third of world soyabean exports, second only to America.
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Mr Peach said customer numbers had fallen by about a third since their peak in 2005.
Just look at the price of Apple over the last six months, down about a third.
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Most relationships already last only about a third as long as they used to.
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About a third of the participants said they experienced mainly negative feelings, like frustration.
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It only helped about a third of smokers--albeit a significant improvement over the placebo--quit.
About a third of all deposits in Cypriot banks are believed to be held by Russians.
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