We also had to examine whether the fees managers charged pensions were the lowest managers offered any other clients for accounts of similar size and with similar assets under management.
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At present consumer spending is negligible, while government spending accounts for 26 percent of GDP (compared with the U.S. where consumer spending accounts for 70 percent of GDP and wherein China consumer spending has grown to 37 percent of GDP).
With 38% of Liverpudlians (compared with 25% of Britons) working for the state, it occupies about 35% of available space and accounts for half of recent employment growth in the city.
But while the American and European allegiance to the fable of Fatah as the anchor of the two-state solution accounts for the indifference of both to Shabaneh's disclosures, what accounts for the Netanyahu government's behavior in this matter?
Fidelity and Charles Schwab, which hold the most IRA assets, said clients can name different heirs for different accounts of the same type.
Fidelity and Charles Schwab (nasdaq: SCHW - news - people ), which hold the most IRA assets, said clients can name different heirs for different accounts of the same type.
Marta Andreassen, now a UKIP MEP, said the report was so bad that if it was an audit for the accounts of a private company, the board of directors would be fired, and the company would be wound up.
According to social historian Joe Moran, author of Queuing For Beginners, the notion that imperial measures embody tradition and reassurance accounts for much of their appeal to the British.
For the heating of homes and businesses, which accounts for about half of Scotland's energy use, it said there would have to be a shift to more efficient systems and insulation.
The price of gas, which accounts for half of Argentina's energy consumption, plunged by two-thirds.
For a generation accustomed to a lot of structure, this is a sea change and it undoubtedly accounts for some of their stress and anxiety about their prospects for future achievement.
This lack of sales is probably what accounts for most of the skepticism.
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Data from the WWDR shows that the demand for food will increase by approximately 70%, leading to an increase of at least 19% in the water required for agriculture, which already accounts for 70% of freshwater use.
This dispute sparked concern within European Union nations about their energy security and the future reliably of Russian gas, which now accounts for much of European requirements.
He notes that RIMM is a material customer for Celestica, at about 21% of sales, while the company accounts for 15% of sales at Jabil and more than 10% for Flex.
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The Swatch Group's support for smart watches is significant, since this conglomerate of Swiss watchmakers accounts for some 25% of global watch sales by value.
But because of higher margins, international insurance accounts for one-third of earnings before taxes, whereas U.S. life insurance accounts for just 23%. that we anticipate high revenue growth for MetLife as the company seeks to expand in Asian markets.
EU. It is not for want of talent: Europe's drug industry otherwise accounts for 40% of medicines developed worldwide.
Nokia (nyse: NOK - news - people ), for instance, accounts for so much of Helsinki's volume and capitalization that it overwhelms its home exchange.
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Meantime Hanson will hunt for more growth in overseas markets--now 40% of sales--where coal accounts for 22% of primary energy consumption.
One of the reasons for the underfunding is the relative weakness of India's central government, which accounts for only 15% of total expenditure on education.
For half a century that has meant building boards out of polyurethane, which accounts for about 74% of the market.
He is responsible for checking the accounts of government bodies and Stormont departments, ensuring that they are providing value for money through their expenditure.
For KFC, delivery accounts for a third of sales in Egypt and nearly half in Kuwait.
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Because the value of imported inputs accounts for about half of the value of Chinese exports, a stronger Yuan reduces the prices of imported inputs used to manufacture and assemble products in China for export to the United States and elsewhere.
From tiny leptanilline ants that look like a dusting of pepper to Australia's 5cm (2-inch) bulldog ants, the weight of the Formicidae family is equal to that of the world's population of humans and accounts for 10% of the biomass of all the creatures on the planet.
The published figures for the breakdown of reserves by currency omit China, even though the country accounts for a fifth of foreign-exchange reserves.
But less than 1% of total U.S. groceries sales happen online, despite the fact groceries accounts for one of the largest retail categories offline.
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Not only did he put the financial sector first in last night's negotiations, in the critics' view, but he let the desire for an open-ended veto on all matters relating to the financial sector put us on the outside of Europe, perhaps irrevocably - potentially endangering our long-term relationship with a region that accounts for half of our exports.
The price of oil, which accounts for a third of the government's revenues, has fallen.
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