All eligible companies were then ranked according to a sales growth formula that combines percentage and absolute growth.
Yet the report itself makes no proposal to stem the absolute growth in human numbers, and no mention of population policy or contraception.
The company sees this as the area of "strongest absolute growth, " in terms of information technology spending by corporations, said Tom Yeates, Digital's business development manager for OpenVMS in Europe.
Indeed a recent Pitney-Bowes study projects that the largest absolute growth in households in the next five years will be in Houston, with a gain of 140, 000, or 6.7%, while Atlanta is projected to add slightly over 100, 000 households, 5.4% more.
Absolute job growth is good for political discourse, but not as much for consumer spending.
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And if you look at the data again, there are jobs being added -- first time in a long time that absolute job growth in manufacturing is occurring.
So the total number of motor vehicles is growing rapidly, and the absolute rate of growth is quite likely to increase.
Corporate profits depend upon the absolute rate of growth of an economy.
Unless preservation of capital is your absolute priority and growth is of no importance, the right approach is to find a balance between short-term safety and the pursuit of long-term results.
In PCCI, we are measured on both Absolute and Relative NPS growth.
For an historically fast-growing country like China, a large cut in intensity (40% below 2005 levels by 2020) is quite compatible with continuing growth in absolute emissions.
Interesting enough, Duerr came out a few weeks ago with a earnings release where revenue grew north of 40%, operating profit grew north of 100%, and the order book was up over 130% year-on-year, so just on an absolute basis, fantastic growth rates.
Even before the crisis, emerging Asia's consumer spending contributed slightly more (in absolute dollar terms) to the growth in global demand than did America's.
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On the other hand, the compound annual growth rates for patents granted, though minuscule in absolute terms by U.S. standards, from India and China stand at 25 and 22 percent respectively for the same period (Figure 2).
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Not long ago this country was faced with several years in a row of declining federal tax revenues (both in absolute dollars and as a percent of GDP), simultaneous declines in GDP growth from over 5% to less than 1%, and a 50% increase in the rate of unemployment.
And as I argue in the latest issue of Breakthrough Journal, we get absolute economic gains today comparable to those of the 1950s and 1960s despite having lower growth rates, because we are so much richer than in the past.
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Even if growth rates never return to their glory days, we are on the verge of realizing absolute annual gains that will be permanently larger than in the Golden Age.
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If it doubled in absolute size over the next year it would directly contribute just under 2.5 percentage points to GDP growth.
It is quite likely that in the past couple of years absolute levels of poverty have decreased, simply because employment has risen, while relative poverty has not, because economic growth has meant big increases in income for some at the top.
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