But by a lot smaller margin than people generally recognise: or than by he numbers that are generally bandied about.

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The possibility to make a great deal of money relatively easily by manipulating numbers became too strong for a lot of people to resist.

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These numbers can tell you a lot but are by no means the entire story.

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That was more than enough to take the progress represented by the above numbers and turn them into something that looks a lot like running in place.

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The projections that the economic team made at the time were based on the numbers that everybody had at the time, and were reflected in the projections made by a lot of outside economic analysts and institutions.

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If McKinsey has its numbers right, both software vendors and their customers could be saving themselves a lot of money by paying more attention to the organisational aspects of introducing new software.

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