What struck the team as particularly intriguing was that participants asked to engage in general prayer showed an average rating of 3.2, a value much lower than they were seeing for the other two control conditions.

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His public stock picks have outperformed the general stock market by an annual average of 7.0% over the past 13 years.

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In general, Indians chat for an average of 346 minutes a month, benefiting from extremely low rates of 0.5 rupee (less than half a cent) a minute.

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In general, the number of options an average human can process is seven, so try to keep categories at this size.

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The broadly unchanged picture is an average across the UK. In general, surveys show that London and the South East of England have seen price rises, but there have been falls elsewhere, notably in Northern Ireland.

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Eight hours is the general rule, but Dr. Hirshkowitz says that is an average.

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More in general, for the past 30 years, we have been losing an average of 370, 000 jobs per year in manufacturing, and not just during recessions.

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In general, I think a 12-month moving average is probably not a bad place to begin thinking about an appropriate value.

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Small wonder foreign car makers such as Daewoo, General Motors and Ford, which had rolled out sleek cars with price tags 10 times more than what an average urban Indian household earns in a year, are shifting gears.

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But this conclusion, even if reached by way of an impeccable philosophy, is in danger of leaving the average Joe, not to mention the average General Carter Ham, Odyssey Dawn's American commander, scratching his head in puzzlement.

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