Over half rate e-mail as essential to their work and most agree that e-mail is effective for both the simplest of tasks and for more complicated projects.
According to a survey of American bank customers in 2007 by Gartner, a research firm, more than half rate security features as extremely important when deciding whether to go online.
Although Chevrolet brand sales grew 6.3% to almost 961, 662 vehicles between January and the end of June, that rate is less than half the rate of overall U.S. auto sales which increased 15% over the same period.
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In the 1990s, the capital-gains rate was half the dividends rate.
In 1983, federal outlays, which had been increasing for a dozen years at well over the rate of economic growth, peaked, and then crawled ahead for the next five years at half the rate of economic growth.
Money supply is growing at some 6% now, half the rate of the early 1970s.
The number of civilians killed in such attacks in January was half the rate of a year ago.
Between September and March Belize averaged seven murders a month, half the rate for the previous six months.
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That's less than half the rate of New York City, according to F.
Gas was at 7.2% of consumer spending 20 years ago--but it is at only half that rate today (3.7%).
Sany officials said the plant can build 20, 000 excavators annually but recently has been working at half that rate.
But they say even at half that rate both firms are trading at a steep discount to their book value.
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If a trustee had invested in growth stocks, much of it could qualify as capital gains, taxed at half the rate.
In the US market, fully loaded interest rates range today 10-13% (far higher than in 2007-2008 when it was half that rate).
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He said this was the reason repossessions were running at half the rate of the last recession, under a Conservative government, in the 1990s.
Job growth in the San Francisco metro area is down to about 1.5% year over year, half the rate for California as a whole.
Sales are expected to rise 9.3% from the year before, just over half the rate of growth in the corresponding quarter a year ago.
Latin America's biggest country clocked just 0.6% growth in the three months to September versus the previous quarter, half the rate expected by analysts.
According to OPEN AMEX report in 2011, the number of men-owned businesses between 1997 and 2011 grew by 25%-half the rate of women-owned businesses.
Today it ranks a mediocre seventh in sales and has been growing a tepid 5.7% a year, less than half the rate of some of its big rivals.
Then, 19-24 months after prices bottom, inventory falls by roughly 1% per month, less than half the rate of decline than in the months just after prices bottom.
With the re-employment of less-productive workers, jobs now start being created when France's economy is expanding by just 1.5% a year, half the rate required in the 1980s.
Government data late February showed India's gross domestic product increased just 4.5% in the October-December quarter, about half the rate reported in the fiscal year ended in March 2011.
Patients on DBT had half the rate of attempted suicides over the next two years and were hospitalized less often for suicidal thoughts, according to the results in the Archives of General Psychiatry.
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However, government data Thursday showed gross domestic product expanded just 4.5% in the October-December quarter, about half the rate of growth seen in early 2011, stoking worries that a recovery could take longer than expected.
Alas, the same cannot be said for average earnings, which have actually now fallen even further behind inflation in October with average annual growth of just 1.3% - less than half the rate of inflation.
The Commerce Department said Friday that personal income growth slowed to half its rate during the third quarter, to 0.7%, compared with 1.4% in the second quarter of 2010, induced by slow-downs in the construction and real estate industries.
Structural metal workers and what the BLS calls extractive occupations (mining and drilling) round out the list of the top five most dangerous occupations, though neither group dies on the job at even half the rate of timber cutters.
Thatcher took power following Britain's "winter of discontent" of 1978-1979, in which nationwide strikes over pay by public-sector workers from gravediggers to garbage men brought an economy that had for years been growing at half the rate of its peers close to a standstill.
"We believe it is a positive reflection on our design process and disciplined, long-term planning that enabled us to increase prices for the first time in four years at only half the rate of inflation, " said George Blankenship, vice president of worldwide sales and ownership experience.
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