• On Wednesday, a joint study by Babson and Baruch Colleges reported that the average rate of early-stage entrepreneurial activity in the U.S. rose to nearly 13% last year, up from 7% in 2008 and the highest level in more than a decade.

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  • The historical average for economic growth at that stage of recovery is well over 5%.

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  • And now, the drug, in combination with the chemotherapy Taxol, allows patients with early-stage breast cancer an average of four months without their disease progressing.

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  • The study, which began in May 2006, also found trainee doctors are now more likely to enter the medical profession at a later stage of life - the average age of respondents was 27, compared to 24 in 1995.

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  • Performers take the stage 10 times a week plus an average of 12 hours of training, but otherwise say their jobs aren't so different from anyone who works eight hours a day.

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  • But it was the off-stage drama that prompted more than double the average State of the Union audience to tune in.

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  • What should matter is not so much your degree or grade point average but how well equipped you are for the next stage in life.

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  • Download ....Average weekend, decent line-up marred by poor sound on the main stage.

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  • In August ViroPharma of Exton, Pa. said data from an early-stage trial of its polymerase inhibitor reduced the virus 99% on average after 14 days of treatment in combination with interferon.

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  • In August ViroPharma (nasdaq: VPHM - news - people ) of Exton, Pa. said data from an early-stage trial of its polymerase inhibitor reduced the virus 99% on average after 14 days of treatment in combination with interferon.

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  • Nearly 5 percent of Detroit homes were in some stage of foreclosure last year 4.8 times the national average.

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  • So long as all that money is chasing a relatively small number of opportunities, and especially now that valuations for early-stage tech companies are going through the roof, the chances that the average LP will make any money at all in VC are slim indeed.

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  • But the really big news here is if we were looking for proof that Brady is smarter than the average player, it is his doing precisely this kind of a deal at this stage of his career.

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  • Studies from Regeneron's middle-stage human trials released last year show that obese patients weighing 220 pounds lost an average of 4.7% of their weight, or 10.4 pounds, over 12 weeks, while those on a sugar pill gained a pound.

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