According to the data supplied by taxing districts, the most common average salary increase is 4.0 percent.
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That's better than what the average common stock has returned in this century.
Besides, many of the claims that the USDA is recognizing now have little in common with the average American's understanding of discrimination.
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Top level raiding, she said, has as much in common with the average experience of WoW as a bike ride in the park has with the Tour de France.
"It's a common assumption that the average individual investor has zero allocation to commodities, " says Matthew Carvalho, director of investment research at Loring Ward, a financial-advisory firm in San Jose, Calif.
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Add in the various over-the-counter remedies for flatulence, constipation, diarrhoea, hay fever and the common cold, and the average American might seem to be a pill-popping hypochondriac.
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Berkeley economist James Robinson examined 27 hospital markets across eight states, and found that hospitals in more concentrated markets charged 44 percent more, on average, for common medical procedures like coronary angioplasty and knee replacement.
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Komen for the Cure foundation, investigated eight locations in an effort to identify common reasons for their above-average mortality rates from the disease.
Beane disregarded the gut instincts of scouts and the use of common stats (such as batting average) in favor of arcane figures such as runs created.
"If you take an average of the 10 most common cancers, men are more likely to die in seven out of the ten, " he added.
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But something tells me that, nowadays, Constitutional interpretation is much less of a common-sense slam dunk for the average American than the simple conceptual problems stuffed into that trillion-dollar coin.
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"To make a living, " is a common answer, as if he does an average nine-to-five job.
On Tuesday night, the local bar scene had more in common with a typical Saturday night than any average weekday.
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Yet, the average adult today would have difficulty reading Common Sense, let alone understanding the arguments, and articulating the basic premise.
While the number of young people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance in Ludlow remains well below the national average, the group said low incomes common in rural areas disguised the full picture.
The search for the genetic roots of heart disease, diabetes and other common ills has yielded surprisingly little useful information for the average person.
The common demographic found among consumers who shop for toys is their average age.
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One reason is that they are contributing profit margins of more than 20% on average, compared with the mid-teens more common at creative agencies.
At strip centers, the rows of shops facing a common parking lot and often anchored by a grocery store, average vacancy declined to 10.7% in the fourth quarter from 10.8% in the third.
He practices a conservative investment philosophy, pursuing the common stocks of established firms that are expected to pay above-average dividends and appear to be out of favor, or undervalued.
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While the two styles share many common principles, growth investing focuses on identifying companies with above-average growth rates, whose share prices today are considered inexpensive relative to their intrinsic value over the long term.
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Astronomers said Wednesday that each of the 100 billion stars in the Milky Way probably has at least one companion planet, on average, adding credence to the notion that planets are as common in the cosmos as grains of sand on the beach.
If people in this population meet and breed at random, it turns out that you only need to go back an average of 20 generations before you find an individual who is a common ancestor of everyone in the population.
Those in the Dow Jones Utility Average yield 6% or more, versus 4.2% for the common stocks in that index.
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One common character of the companies he bought is that all of them have underperformed the market average over the past year.
And last--but certainly not least--our new earnings ranking, provided by PayScale, looks at average salaries (base pay, not including bonuses) for a basket of common professions.
Although there are always diamonds in the grimiest seam, and I know some, it is common sense to see that if you crush the attractiveness of a job you will lower the average quality of the employees.
The ratio of common market capitalization to sales, at 1.8, is well below the long-run average of 2.6.
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