In December less than half the number of companies announced new stock buybacks, less than half the dollar amount of new cash takeovers of already public companies were announced and insiders are also buying less than half as much as during all of 2011.
The farmers were offered half or less than half of the outstanding money as they were told that the prices had fallen on world markets.
Perhaps surprisingly, more than half make less than 10 percent.
FORBES: What the Romney and Gingrich 1040s Tell Us About How We Tax The Rich
And news reports are practically becoming blips: only 20% of stories lasted longer than a minute, while half took less than 30 seconds.
This ultra-portable tablet looks and feels great, measuring less than half an inch thick and weighing less than a pound.
ENGADGET: Verizon Wireless: we might sell the BlackBerry PlayBook, if we feel like it
Buckingham buys when the stocks trade at half or less than what he thinks they're worth.
Meanwhile, at the nonunionized Toyota plant in Georgetown, Kentucky and the Nissan plant in Smyrna, Tennessee, the absentee rate is half or less than what it is in Detroit.
Today, as a percentage of GDP, we invest less than half of what Russia does in their infrastructure, less than one-third of what Western Europe does.
November saw less than half as many visitors as the year before, and less than a third as many as November 2000.
ECONOMIST: After the bomb, Indonesia finds a new type of tourist
Less than half would support such an idea, which is 17% less than the percentage that supported government health insurance when Bill Clinton first considered it in March of 1993.
Half an hour away by train and less than half the size, Bruges felt more packed than Ghent and far more touristy, the streets leading off the Markt choked with lace and chocolate shops.
More than half of those had less than a year in service and were still in Entry Level Training, a phase of development not even in a category that can be considered qualified, much less skilled.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Message from a Marine: Don��t Break the Military
It lasted just under four hours between charges less than half the stamina of the iPad on the same test and three hours less than the Surface RT.
WSJ: Review of Microsoft's Surface Pro: Hefty Tablet Is a Laptop Lightweight
They are higher than in England, but less than half that in Scotland and lower than in Northern Ireland.
People who lived within walking distance of shops--less than a half-mile--were 7% less likely to be obese than their counterparts who had to drive.
Yet under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the Medicare actuary projects that the program will be paying physicians less than Medicaid, eventually paying less than half of Medicaid rates!
Cohabitation is common in other parts of Europe too, but in Britain couples who live together unmarried seem not to last: half split up after three or four years and a little less than half go on to marry (before perhaps divorcing later).
ECONOMIST: The worst government agency around is finally scrapped
For tiny investments, the Is are a great deal, paying only half a point less than the tradable inflation-indexed Treasurys.
If the turnout of African American voters this fall is just a half-point less than in the last election, Mr. Obama would lose roughly 700, 000 votes.
Bednets treated with insecticide, for example, have been shown to cut infection rates by half, but less than one vulnerable child in 20 sleeps beneath one.
In Lillehammer even less time separated the two, and if all four runs had been run as a single race, Hackl would have won the three-and-a-half miles by less than 14 inches.
So, if US real GDP growth is a half percentage point less than expected and nominal GDP is reduced by a similar proportion (assuming no change in inflation), than tech purchases would be 0.5% to 0.75% lower.
FORBES: The Impact Of The Sequester On US Tech Market Growth
Williams checked back in with 7:17 remaining in the half and needed less than a minute to reach 8 for 8, and his streak ended when he was short on a step-back attempt from beyond the arc with 5:50 to go.
"These are just a fraction of what we as consumers spend on soft drinks each year which is almost half a trillion dollars - the total required for species and sites is less than half of what is paid out in bonuses to bankers on Wall street's biggest investment banks, " he explained.
Nearly half of those polled after voting in the Democratic primary -- a little less than half -- described themselves as angry, and Dean and Kerry each got about a third of their support.
Proving less popular than GMTV, ratings fell to 600, 000, less than half the number of viewers BBC Breakfast attracts.
And then there's good old fashioned panic: In a 2009 study, Jordet found that players who approach the ball less than 0.2 seconds after the referee blows the whistle succeed on less than half of their kicks compared with players who take longer (they score on 80%).
In the first five and a half months of 2011, Canadian energy companies sold a total of 231 million barrels of oil and gas reserves, less than half the 482 million barrels sold in the same period in 2010.
They frisked more than half of those, but charged less than 12%, statistics show.
All of a sudden, in 1981, more than half the Senate had been there less than six years.
应用推荐