In 2012, it was a minority of 47 percent in favor of stricter gun laws and 46 percent in favor of the status quo.
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Instead, she found that in 80 percent of the non-marital births, parents stayed romantically involved and in 50 percent of the cases they were living together.
Logitech's retail sales for Q4 FY 2012 decreased year over year by 2 percent, with an increase in EMEA of 13 percent, an increase in Asia of 12 percent, and a decrease in the Americas of 17 percent.
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According to Akamai, a global provider of Internet services, the United States ranked ninth in average connection speeds (7.7 Mbps) in the third quarter of 2012, and seventh in percent of Internet connections with speeds above 10 Mbps (18 percent).
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Twenty-one percent of students from the low socioeconomic group families were in vocational programs, but only 3 percent of students in the highest quartile and 13 percent of those in the middle two quartiles.
After falling from a 36 percent market share in January, to a low of 26 percent in August, the market share of the local car companies has recovered to 33 percent in the month of October.
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Meanwhile, in Europe the currency crisis did not stop 14 percent of wealthy shoppers in France and 17 percent of those in Italy from boosting luxury spending this year, according to the survey, which represents the top 10 percent in household income.
Overall approval ratings of the United States were at an unprecedented low of 2 percent in Egypt, 4 percent in Saudi Arabia, 11 percent in Morocco, 14 percent in United Arab Emirates, 15 percent in Jordan, with a high of only 20 percent in Lebanon.
According to the Council of Graduate Schools, temporary residents in 2010 comprised 45.3 percent of graduate students in engineering and 42.9 percent of graduate students in mathematics and computer science.
According to the Congressional Budget Office, the Federal debt held by the public (which does not include social security obligations) was 35 percent of GDP in 2000, 62 percent in the second quarter of 2010, and is expected to reach 70 percent in 2011.
We're spending about 23 percent of GDP and we take in 18 percent of GDP, and that gap is growing, because health care costs -- Medicare and Medicaid in particular -- are growing, and we've got to do something about that.
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More importantly, the deficit declined from 10 percent of GDP in 2009 to 7 percent of GDP in 2012.
The aedes aegypti mosquito appeared in Argentina in 1986 and is now being found in 36 percent of homes in Buenos Aires province, according to Dr. Alfredo Seijo of the Hospital Munoz.
In the space of four decades, mandatory spending has grown from 26 percent of our budget in 1962 to 53 percent of our budget in 2006.
Speaking of Redmond's Windows Phone ecosystem, it grew a modest 1.2 percent in Q4 to grab 3 percent of the market just behind BlackBerry, which tumbled 44.4 percent but stayed in third spot on 3.5 percent of devices.
Klein says rental properties are involved in 50 percent of all foreclosures in New York, and he is working on a law to warn renters of foreclosure proceedings ahead of time and to keep them from losing their security deposit and being evicted with nowhere to go.
Considering the trading markets for currencies themselves, the dollar figures in 90 percent of those transactions, nearly 70 percent of global central bank holdings are denominated in dollars, and with cross border trade in mind for individuals in countries with thinly traded currencies, the dollar is the go-between currency of choice 90 percent of the time.
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In fact, a UNICEF analysis illustrated that across 31 countries in sub-Saharan Africa less than a third of children in the poorest 20 percent of the population receive appropriate treatment for diarrhoea, compared to almost half of children in the wealthiest 20 percent.
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In this study, people with anxiety had a 26 percent increase in the risk of heart disease and a 48 percent increase in the risk of dying of heart-related causes.
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An average of 3.6 percent of the labor force worked in start-ups in the 1980s, while an average of 3.0 percent did so in the 1990s, and an average of 2.7 percent did so in the 2000s.
With 80 percent of whites living in suburbs and 80 percent of blacks and Hispanics living in inner cities (see PBS source), wait-time differences are fully explained by congestion by location not by race.
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This year's fighting season is the first in 12 years of war that Afghan troops are responsible for security in 90 percent of the country.
And when I was going to college, about -- and this was typical for I think college students -- the average student who needed financial assistance, about 70 percent of it came in grants and about 30 percent of it came in loans.
According to the website for MomsRising, a group that pushes for reform on issues like maternity leave, fair wages and paid family illness days, 55 percent of workers in the retail industry and 48 percent of workers employed in the general private sector don't receive paid sick days.
Other types of organophosphates were found in 27 percent of green beans, 17 percent of peaches, and 8 percent of broccoli.
It found that African-American actors were cast in 16 percent of all roles, Hispanics in 3 percent and Asian-American actors in 3 percent.
And deaths from all causes occurred in 11.3 percent of the patients who reported ED but in only 5.6 percent of those with no or mild ED at the start of the study.
By 2014, our goal is to halve malaria illnesses and deaths in 70 percent of at-risk populations, by accelerating and intensifying malaria control efforts in the high burden countries of sub-Saharan Africa.
Today's data reveal that real spending on travel and tourism increased at an annual rate of 2.1 percent in the second quarter of 2012 after increasing 4.9 percent (revised) in the first quarter of 2012, supporting 7.6 million jobs.
An increase of 10 percent in mobility of data led to 7.28 percent increase in asset utilization for businesses in the study.
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