Many of today's multinationals are huge, not only in absolute terms but relative to recent history.
But in absolute terms, Mexicans have grown much richer by coming to the United States.
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Even large relative increases in their cash income may not be very significant in absolute terms.
What was important to her was that everyone in her country be better off in absolute terms.
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Non performers in absolute terms either stabilized (over 90 days late) or improved (over 60 days late).
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Yet results are getting worse, both in absolute terms and relative to other countries in South-East Asia.
Every small percentage drop in the stock means a change of billions of dollars in absolute terms.
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Life expectancy at birth for US women is rising in absolute terms but falling relative to other countries.
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Indeed, some authors describe the relationship between information aided by advanced technologies and victory almost in absolute terms.
Yes, the boom was big in percentage terms but not as big in absolute terms as I had expected.
So defining the middle class in absolute terms is hard (see article).
In absolute terms, the country alone consumes one-fourth of the cigarettes in Asia.
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Low inflation implies that prices may have to fall by more in absolute terms to return to fair value.
The skew means a problem that is moderate in absolute terms could still clobber big parts of the system.
The M is the quantity of money in absolute terms but it has to be described as broadly as possible.
Sports records, too, are always presented in absolute terms, where they have far less meaning than they do in relative terms.
Total farm employment in both relative and absolute terms has, as every elementary school student knows, collapsed from early American days.
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This is true both in absolute terms and, strikingly, relative to the improvements made to U.S. forces over the past decade.
In absolute terms the UK consumer is one of the richest human beings to ever walk the face of the planet.
In other words, after a certain point, getting paid more than your peers matters more than getting paid more in absolute terms.
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In absolute terms, 1.7 million fewer people worked in establishments less than one year old last year than did so in 1994.
In fact there are many countries with worse debt burdens, both in absolute terms and relative to the size of the economy.
Things have improved in absolute terms, said Stephen Timms, the welfare-reform minister.
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Conveniently, this ensures that, however poor results are in absolute terms, there will always be more headlines about better-than-expected profits than about disappointments.
While this is true in absolute terms, it precludes a sophisticated view of massive relative imbalances in the availability of these fuels across the continent.
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Even with compensating income transfers to poorer people, who benefit in absolute terms less than the better-off from the tax relief, the idea is politically unpalatable.
But they have definitely coincided with a period when the number of public companies in America has dropped in both absolute terms and relative to other countries.
Most important, the sequester involves no spending cuts in absolute terms, but only a very slight (2%) abatement in the rate of spending increase already scheduled by Congress.
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And because people generally judge their fortunes not in absolute terms, but by comparing themselves to others, the super-success of the top 1% can make Mr. and Mrs.
They would learn that Israel, with a population of fewer than eight million, has more startup companies (in absolute terms) than anywhere in the world outside Silicon Valley.
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