Knighthoods are also conferred on Professor Timothy O'Shea and Professor John Savill, both of Edinburgh University, for services to higher education and clinical science respectively.
That's probably why, in the NBA, the Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers teams of the '80s, led by Larry Bird and Magic Johnson, respectively, rate higher than the Michael Jordan-led Chicago Bulls clubs of the 1990s.
The 2012 data show that traditional labor-intensive products such as textiles, suitcases and toys grew by 1.2 percent year over year, 5.7 percent and 5.8 percent, respectively, while higher-value added products such as mechanical products grew 8.7 percent, and auto exports were up 20 percent.
Suzhou, one of 280 prefecture-level cities, has a per capita GDP which is 70% and 46% higher than Beijing and Shanghai, respectively.
States where poverty exceeded 18 percent, the immigrant population exceeded 15 percent and the C-section rate exceeded 33 percent had 77 percent, 33 percent and 21 percent higher risks of maternal mortality, respectively, a 2007 report by Gopal K. Singh of the Health Resources and Services Administration indicated.
Doing without a sales tax obliges Messrs Gingrich and Perry to propose higher flat taxes, of 15% and 20% respectively.
History reveals that the only way revenues will find their way back to the historic 18% benchmark is through faster economic growth. (The economy grew a dismal 0.04% and 1.3% in the first and second quarters respectively.) Any effort to generate higher revenues artificially by raising tax rates will merely depress economic growth further and prolong below-par Treasury receipts.
This helped push the overall euro area Services PMI and Manufacturing PMI unexpectedly higher to readings of 56.0 and 56.5, respectively.
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Nonetheless, this would still be higher than the 493 billion and 533 billion registered in July 2011 and 2010, respectively.
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There are also strict seniority rules for promotion to higher office like colonel or general, which require 20 years and 22 years, respectively.
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