And perhaps not surprisingly, only 19% reported increasing their head count, down from 22% six months earlier.

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That count is down from 8, 434 ten years ago.

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Last week Argentina announced its latest (half-yearly) count of unemployment: a rate down to 13.8% from 16.1% in May and 18.4% at its recessionary peak in 1995.

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It seems like whenever we have our back against the wall, whenever we are cornered, and whenever we look to be down for the count, a special class of citizens frees us from uncertainty and doubt.

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MySpace had seen its user count dwindle to 34.9 million at the time of sale, down by roughly half from the prior year.

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And in the West, from the start, many religious authorities were hostile to science in too many cases to count (down to the present day).

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The prescriptions count at comparable stores in November was down just 3% y-o-y, a seven percentage point improvement from a 10% decline in June.

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