Businessmen reckon that the cumbersome nature of the process puts them at a disadvantage compared with foreign competitors.
Unless companies can increase the returns on their pension funds, they will be at an increasing cost disadvantage compared with foreign rivals.
The problem for all these banks is the woefully inadequate amount that they spend on technology, compared with foreign rivals such as Citibank.
Firms have argued that these taxes will not only hurt their profits but also make them less competitive compared with foreign players in the sectors.
The chancellor is resisting, because he fears British banks would be put at an unfair disadvantage compared with foreign banks able to lend more relative to their capital.
Compared with foreign firms, Japanese software houses charge very little.
Whichever numbers you choose, central banks' increases in dollar reserves have been large compared with overall foreign purchases of American bonds, and huge compared with the size of the current-account deficit.
And foreign-born children whose parents were also born outside of the United States seemed to benefit from additional protection from these conditions: 18% of these children developed allergic disease compared with 33% of foreign-born children whose parents were born in the United States.
When they compared place of birth with allergic-disease prevalence, the scientists found that children born outside of the United States were less likely to develop asthma or allergies compared with those born in the United States: 20% of foreign-born kids developed allergic diseases compared with 34% of the American-born children.
In all, 21% live in London, compared with 41% of other foreign nationals resident in Britain.
Compared with these paltry returns, foreign assets, particularly dollar ones, look much more attractive to Japanese investors.
Malcolm Grant, provost of University College, says that around 35% of its 25, 000 students are foreign, compared with around 23% ten years ago.
This year the country is expected to see some 600, 000 foreign tourists, compared with 500, 000 last year.
Increased sales of strategic services helped mitigate lower revenues resulting from global economic impacts, including the adverse effects of foreign exchange rates compared with last year.
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That is big, but compared with the sums sloshing around in national foreign-aid budgets, it is not humungous.
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America's Department of Justice estimates that 70% of its cartel targets last year were foreign-based, compared with none in 1990.
The relative cheapness of such projects, compared with the use of big breaks for foreign investors, may also commend them to the English development agencies, which will have smaller budgets than their Scottish and Welsh counterparts.
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Each passenger is compared with a watch list of 293, 406 foreign nationals expelled for various reasons.
It accounts for 4% of foreign-exchange reserves, compared with 66% for the dollar and 25% for the euro.
The Independent Elections Commission said Tuesday that Karzai has just over 54 percent of the vote, compared with just over 28 percent for his former foreign minister, Abdullah Abdullah.
This year, it will make nearly 4, 000 hours of foreign-language television programmes, compared with 1, 700 hours of English-language programmes.
He compared the influx of foreign owners into English football with the situation in other European leagues like Spain and Germany, where fans are often the sole or majority owners of clubs.
The numbers for a hospital simply cannot be compared meaningfully with those of an art museum, or a foreign-aid charity.
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Currently, China has less than 2% of its foreign currency reserves in gold bullion, compared with more than 70% for the U.S. and Germany, according to the World Gold Council, a trade group.
Karzai has almost 46 percent of the vote, compared with slightly over 33 percent for his nearest challenger, former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah, the country's Independent Election Commission reported.
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Yet even Russia's official foreign ministry response was low-key, particularly compared with the rants of a few years ago.
This was only a small increase compared with 1992-93, when there were some 882, 000 foreign nationals working in the country.
Swansea and Bangor universities both said the number of applications to their institutions had risen compared to last year, with Swansea claiming a 25% increase across domestic and foreign student applicants.
And foreign investment, despite the billion-dollar bond, remains sluggish compared with what is going into other Crisis-hit nations.
They earn a scant 0.56% return on assets, compared with 1.15% for Indian private banks and 1.41% for foreign banks.
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