Vanderkam points out that surveys in which people are asked to recall how much time they spent on certain activities usually get different results compared to experiments that ask people to keep a time diary.
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In most of these cases, Boards will agree to replace contracts with policies that offer enhanced protection to executives (compared to the broader employee population) to recognize the longer time that it takes to find comparable work at the executive level.
While the prison sentence (duration) for Ring was not that bad compared to the average federal prison term of 9 years, any prison time, or any conviction for that matter, for Ring sends a terrible message for lobbyists, and also for nearly every business person out there who is looking to entertain clients.
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The intention was to look back at that time and stay in that time, leaving any comparison with where journalism was or Congress was in that day compared to today to the audience to decide or think about.
An extreme example is the massive valuations of IPOs at the peak of the tech compared to similar (and even superior) tech IPOs since that time.
You can see that a new tax raises revenues compared to some prior year, or that it raises taxes for high-earners relative to what they paid at some time in the past.
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This was "over-optimistic" about the future of house prices, even compared to forecasts available at the time, as it suggested that there would be a 5% fall in house prices in 2008.
Most of them view it as a waste of time but a handful say that compared to making a long-distance phone call, it is still an inexpensive way to communicate with their friends and family who live in other countries.
Matthew Sinclair, chief executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance, which campaigns for lower taxes, said HS2 was a "great vanity project... poor value compared to more affordable alternatives, but there is still time to reconsider that white elephant".
"We're going through a very bad time in arable farming, but that is nothing compared to the hardship the sheep farmers are going through, " he said.
And today, because of that work, the number of women getting regular mammograms has dramatically increased, and the five-year survival rate when breast cancer is diagnosed in time is 98 percent -- and that's compared to 74 percent in the early 80s.
He also claimed the Ulster Hospital in Dundonald "had its pressures" and, on Monday of that week, it had experienced a 50% increase in admissions compared to the same time last year.
Hutchison Telecom started in mobile phones about 22 years ago, but I still believe ordinary 2G has at least another 10 good years of business. 3G is very young compared with 2G, and we believe that it will continue to be widely adopted for a long time to come.
For instance, that drug will extend life over a prespecified time or prevent tumors from growing compared to a placebo.
IdeaWorks tested award availability five to 15 days before departure for travel in April and found that seats were available on Delta 42.5% of the time, compared to the airline's overall 27.1% rate.
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However, with 5% real growth and assuming 2% inflation, at that time our legacy debt will amount to only 114% of GDP, compared with the 154% of GDP that it will reach by the end of this year.
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Nielsen also reported that the time spent watching online videos increased 45% for the month of January compared to a year ago.
Meeker shows bar charts that clearly show we spend way more time on the Internet and with our mobile devices compared to TV, Print, Radio or Billboards.
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Even so, Herman Van Rompuy - the official who will chair the summit - has said that "for the first time ever - there will be a real-terms cut compared to the current budget".
Results from a survey of 60 business schools -- 58 of them in the United States and one each in France and Canada -- conducted earlier this month found that 98% had seen increased recruiting activity during the fall and winter recruiting period compared to the same time a year before.
They analysed 323 resistance campaigns from 1900 to 2006, and found that non-violent campaigns achieved success 53% of the time, compared with 26% for campaigns of violent resistance.
Soon after assembling his new gang of direct reports--a mere 13, compared with 28 for Rollins--Dell decided it was time to hear from the public, knowing full well that he would get an earful.
Her big message in the Facebook IPO S-1 document is that the Web is still proportionately still a minuscule amount of advertiser spend per time spent on it compared to TV.
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The study compared and contrasted 11 companies that made the transition from good to great, and 11 peer companies that did not over a time period certain as judged by growth in stock returns.
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Although some Republicans signed on to raising taxes for the first time in two decades, the fact is that Democrats have agreed to tax rates which, compared to much of the 20th century, are extraordinarily low.
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