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The court heard she was in the bottom 1% of the population in terms of intellectual function.
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The bottom line: A large population, a large labor force, and a dose of markets may be the necessary condition for leading the global economy.
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Thus the ratio between the incomes of the top fifth of the population and the bottom fifth has risen pretty steadily, to about 22:1, since the early 1980s.
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The most recent analysis of this data, by Stephen Jenkins of Essex University, shows evidence of considerable income mobility: only 7% of the population remain in the bottom 20% of incomes for four consecutive years.
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Unilever benefits from India's continued reliance on small family shops (compared with the supermarkets prevalent in China), with which it has long-established relationships, and from India's far larger bottom-of-the-pyramid population.
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The court heard that Mr George had an IQ of 75, in the lowest 5% of the population, and scored in the bottom 1% for tests of memory, planning and carrying out tasks.
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The ecology of the oceans is all about who eats what, and small changes in the population of certain creatures near the bottom of the web could have large effects on larger ones that eat them.
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In the mid-1980s, the employment-population ratio recovered less than two years after hitting bottom.
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While the overall GPAs of scholarship student-athletes outperform the general student population, football tends to be consistently near the bottom of all sports.
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All three top countries all had a considerable gap between the rich and the poor, however, with the top 20% of the population earning between four and six times as much as the bottom 20%.
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The investing sweet spot is a market where strong job growth is predicted over the next three years, the population was expanding rapidly before the recession began and home prices are at or near their bottom.
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