From 2010 on, the target growth rate is gross domestic product plus one percent.
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Excess inventory sold by several dozen big companies--including Home Depot, Dell Financial Services, IBM and Sharper Image--accounted for 4%-plus of gross merchandise sales in the first quarter, up from about zilch a year earlier.
Evercore Partners analyst Kirk Materne this afternoon trimmed his EPS estimates for Microsoft for the next couple of quarters to reflect the current shortage of hard-disk drives that has resulted from the recent Thai floods, plus lower gross margin assumptions to reflect increased investment in services and online and a greater revenue contribution from the entertainment and devices segment.
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The state imposes a tax of 25 cents a gallon at the pump plus a 7% gross receipts tax on the sale of gasoline at the wholesale level.
Twenty-five-year contracts signed in the early and mid-1990s had management fees as high as 3.5% of total revenues, plus 6-10% of gross operating profit.
Current conditions also led Intel to knock a point off its gross margin expectations for the quarter, now at 62%, plus or minus one percentage point.
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Plus, the company forecast a better-than-expected gross margin of 67%.
Plus, Total Return has the longer record, though he admits Gross' strategy is ably at work in all three funds.
Gross total debt is the sum of consumer, corporate, state and municipal debt plus U.S. government debt including that portion held by Federal agencies and trusts.
The G20 summit is a meeting of 19 countries plus the European Union, which between them account for 80% of global gross domestic product and 80% of global trade.
Which is to say, the Gross Domestic Product of a country is equal to its total Consumption (personal and business) plus Investments plus Government Spending plus Net Exports.
Plus a 0.9% Medicare surtax on earned income is assessed over the same adjusted gross income thresholds.
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After that, the actor's total compensation (upfront pay plus any money earned from sharing in the film's profits) was divided into the gross income to get the actor's payback figure for the film.
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