According to BCG, over 40% of Chinese online shoppers read and post product reviews online, making them twice as likely as American online shoppers to do so and four times as likely as Indians.
Unmarried women were five times as likely to live in poverty as married men and four times as likely to live in poverty as married women.
Immigrants from countries with relatively small numbers in the overall population, such as Greece, are disproportionately more likely to own businesses, while immigrant women are twice as likely as U.S.-born women to be business owners.
The top 25% may be as good, as bright, as motivated as ever, and will likely be as successful as ever.
If Google Glass makes you look as cool as the guys in that Tumblr, that embrace is about as likely to happen as you hugging a Segway.
One level is the short term--what should we be doing immediately so that some of the really bad things we have seen won't be as easy to pull off or as likely to occur, such as the Madoff case.
The company could also strike a friendly deal with minority shareholders by spinning off the non-Mongolian assets, plus cash, to investors, the scenario analysts such as those at Credit Suisse AG see as most likely.
Others such as Meetup and Eventbrite are likely watching closely as well.
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Of course, they will face no consequences for these actions, as most likely have bright futures as corporate lobbyists.
Women in America remain the primary caregivers despite being just as likely to work as men.
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These people must have gone somewhere, and Angola is as likely a hideout as any.
College graduates (64%) are more likely to marry than those without a degree (48%), and blacks are half as likely to marry as whites.
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Moreover, the 3.4% missed by the census in 1990 was not randomly distributed: for example, blacks and Hispanics were six-to-seven times more likely to be missed than whites, and children were twice as likely to be missed as adults.
Moreover, American firms are as likely to be the buyers as the bought.
Second, as the housing sector gains steam, the financial sector could very likely improve as well.
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Conservatives are twice as likely as liberals to be married and twice as likely to attend church every week.
Blankfein will take up the CEO job as soon as Paulson's nomination is confirmed by the Senate, an event that is seen as highly likely.
Other corporate actions such as shifting more labor to cheaper regions overseas will likely prove permanent as well.
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Borrowers who drop out of college are twice as likely to be unemployed as borrowers who receive a degree and ten times as likely to default on their student loans.
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This is as dramatic a moment in history as you are likely to get.
Specifically, carriers of the BRAC2 genetic mutation were almost seven times as likely to develop throat (pharyngeal) cancer and eight times as likely to develop pancreatic cancer.
It finds nonviolent campaigns are more than twice as likely to succeed as violent campaigns.
Now, however, that voter is almost as likely to be female as male.
If you go into a hotel in Shanghai or Beijing, the business travelers you see are just as likely to be Germans as Americans.
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It seems to be as likely to encourage imitation as restraint.
Studies showed that the sub-standard silicone used posed no serious long-term threats to health, but the PIP products were up to twice as likely to burst as other implants.
Women and men in the U.S. are just as likely to be managers, but in the rest of the developed world women are half as likely as men to be managers.
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So a reporter is nearly twice as likely as the average American to live in New York and three times as likely to live in Washington.
Leslie Caron offers as pure a definition of grande dame as you are likely to find.
Nevertheless, bee sting fatalities remain about as likely as lightning fatalities.
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