• That's the benchmark figure from which a group of economists are starting, when they try to figure out the value of the happiness that can be generated by the Olympics and Paralympic Games this summer.

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  • Take this time to have a group discussion and figure out which of the proposed initiatives are the top three to five most important for 2013.

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  • James has already demonstrated his generosity this week by reportedly being a leading figure in a group of Pompey players who have agreed to cover the wages of four club staff members, who would otherwise have been laid off as part of the administration-enforced cost-cutting measures at Fratton Park.

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  • But business groups criticised the remarks, accusing the Labour leader of "hyperbole" and conflating people with total assets worth more than a million with the much smaller group of people who earn a seven-figure salary.

    BBC: Labour conference: Miliband defends Cameron tax claims

  • His death denies the group its most unifying figure and the effective pitch of an elusive and seemingly invulnerable leader.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Larger clinical trials may be needed to figure out if there is a group of patients where the benefits of dapagliflozin exclude the risk.

    FORBES: Another Blow For Diabetes Pills

  • Nearly 40% of spending on schools and higher education is made by households by far the highest figure in the OECD, a group of mainly rich countries.

    ECONOMIST: Education in Chile

  • While Iran in recent years has claimed more than 12 million in the ranks of the group, Middle East experts put the figure closer to 300, 000 -- though they concede it's difficult to quantify a sprawling militia that has full-time and reservist cadres.

    CNN: Feared Basij militia has deep history in Iranian conflict

  • Armed with these guesses, banks must then try to figure out how much the creditworthiness of one group of companies is related to that of another.

    ECONOMIST: Discredited

  • Another monitoring group, the Local Co-ordination Committees, gave a figure of 133, not including members of the Syrian security forces.

    BBC: Syria fighting 'kills 100' ahead of ceasefire

  • According to our Forrsights Workforce Employee Survey, Q4 2012, around two-thirds of this group feel IT understands and meets their needs (see figure below).

    FORBES: Engaged Employees Expect IT Leaders to Understand Their Needs

  • San Francisco has set up a San Francisco Sharing Economy Working Group with startups such as Airbnb and Getaround to figure out some of these issues.

    FORBES: Will Ride-Sharing Apps Replace Car Ownership?

  • Chrystia Freeland, who went to Moscow in 1994 as bureau chief for the Financial Times, at the age of 26, was an outstanding figure in the latter group.

    ECONOMIST: Observing Russia

  • However, Francis Lun, chief economist of GE Oriental Financial Group in Hong Kong, said the actual figure was probably closer to 2 to 3 percent but was inflated by exporters seeking government rebates.

    NPR: Asia Stocks Rise On Heels Of New Dow Record High

  • That figure already represents 13% of the Jewish male age group (Arab-Israelis are also exempt from the draft) and is set to grow fast: among Jewish schoolchildren, 26% of first-graders are haredi.

    ECONOMIST: Israel is moving towards a more pluralistic Judaism

  • He added that the Leveson implementation group would feature a senior legal figure, like a current or past Court of Session judge.

    BBC: Scotland politics

  • Lichtenstein was a key figure in the coup, the most natural comedian in this group of cut-ups, and in many ways the least offensive.

    WSJ: Roy Lichtenstein | Cartoon Hero | By Richard B. Woodward

  • Abdel Rahman has been a totemic figure to Islamists since 1981, when his pronouncements gave a group of Egyptian army officers the spiritual justification for assassinating President Anwar Sadat.

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  • Mr Belmokhtar joined the conflict, which claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, and became a key figure in the militant Armed Islamist Group (GIA) and later the breakaway Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC).

    BBC: Profile: Mokhtar Belmokhtar

  • And Rami Bitar, associate product manager at YouTube, discussed one of the challenges the young Googlers hope they can master as his group tries to figure out new ways to grow the video site's user base.

    FORBES: Google's Young And Brainy

  • To figure that out, do you define your peer group by your customer base of consumer vs. business buyers, or by some other traits that are skills or industry based?

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  • The group decided to add points for the number of children in a family, reasoning that such a figure should augment a family's needs.

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  • Only 27% of this group believe that the deeply religious senator from Illinois shares their values a figure shaped partly by revulsion for his preacher, Jeremiah Wright, partly by the mistaken belief that Mr Obama is a Muslim, but mostly by his uncompromising support of abortion choice.

    ECONOMIST: Evangelical voters

  • Some 87% of the Taxotere group were still alive after five years, but in the standard treatment group the figure was 81%.

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  • He was in charge of recruiting people into the group in the Ma'areb region and was a "very important figure, the person who provided logistical support to all foreign nationals recruited in AQAP in Yemen, " the official said.

    CNN: Yemen says 6 al Qaeda leaders killed

  • This figure, 250mg a day, is, in the option of Dr Winkler's group, too low.

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  • The Altria Group (MO) is one of favorite holdings in VDC, one of two low-cost ETFs in Figure 1 to get my 4-star rating.

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  • Until the time I presented the group in model form, it had been assumed by all that the proposed statue was to be of a single figure.

    ECONOMIST: In transition

  • Warnings have gone too to another dissident, Leonel Morejon, a leading figure in the Cuban Council, a group that raised its head some years ago to the point of being soundly smacked down when it tried to meet publicly in February 1994.

    ECONOMIST: Cuba

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