For marketers, we can use this technique to increase the percentage of people that show up for in-person and on-line events.
The company not only stands to win new subscribers, but also to increase the percentage of its customers who pay for data service each month.
Their coupons are not directly taxed, but they can raise your Medicare premiums and increase the percentage of your Social Security benefit subject to tax.
While 39% plan to hire full time workers in the next year, 21% expect to increase the percentage of contract or temp workers that they employ.
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In addition, she decides to increase the percentage of her salary that she will save by 1% each year until she will be saving 10% beginning her fifth year.
The Nevada legislature has voted to increase the percentage of renewable resources in how the state produces electricity in four out of the last five sessions, according to the National Governors Association.
To address relatively low rates of women in the workforce, Jordan will work to increase the percentage of women workers, particularly university graduates, from 14.7% to 25% of the workforce, in the next three years.
The secular trend is confirmed by the significant increase in the percentage of people describing themselves as having no religion from 15% to 25%.
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One of the big developments that occurred during that time was the gradual increase in the percentage of girls who were succeeding in GCSE generally and particularly in science GCSEs, he said.
The programme is produced by local school teachers of the four ICT centres and focussed on areas that will help increase the pass percentage from the present dismal rate of 26.43% in Palpa District.
My hunch is that at current tax levels, a higher tax on earned income, and perhaps dividends would increase the tax take but by much less than the percentage increase in the tax rates.
Any defense of U.S. ethanol policy must embrace a series of fallacies which include: that ethanol produced from corn makes the U.S. less dependent on fossil fuels, that ethanol lowers the price of gasoline, that an increase in the percentage of ethanol blended into gasoline boosts the overall supply of gasoline, and that ethanol is environmentally friendly and lowers global carbon dioxide emissions.
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Only 8% of 401(k) participants who are offered the active choice of signing up for an annual increase in the percentage of their pay that they save for retirement will do so, says Michael Skinner, head of research at T.
The findings suggest that overall population aging and rising obesity led to a decline in the quality of livers being harvested, and ultimately to an increase in the percentage of unused organs, the researchers write.
However, as Kayak gets more partners on board this scheme, we expect to see a gradual increase in the percentage contribution.
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Dr. GROVER WHITEHURST (Acting Commissioner, National Center for Education Statistics): In mathematics, we see an increase in the percentage of fourth-graders performing at or above proficient for all five of the nation's major racial ethnic groups.
Possible explanations cited by experts include obesity, a rise in drug use among less-educated whites, persistently high rates of smoking among less-educated white women, and an increase in the percentage of uninsured families among the least-educated Americans.
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In summer 2009, the Dow averaged about 9500, 48% above the low, basically the same percentage increase the Dow had had in early 1975 from the 1974 nadir.
The increase was three percentage points for the whole survey, but it has been very marked in a few countries, including Spain, where the jump was 26 percentage points and India, where it was 15.
In my first year, we achieved the largest percentage increase in the VA budget in 30 years.
The dozen authorities with the highest percentage increase in the white British population are almost all found in eastern England.
In fact, programs in India and Singapore experienced the largest percentage increase in the number of GMAT scores reported between 2005-2009.
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The council areas showing the highest percentage increase over the year to February 2013 were Larne, 24.8%, probably reflecting the lay-offs at FG Wilson, Magherafelt, 16.1%, and Ards, 11.3%.
The 0.5% decrease compared with economists' expectation for an increase by the same percentage.
After controlling for population and the number of police officers in each county, the study found that a one percent point increase in the local unemployment rate leads to a 6.4 percentage point increase in the number of traffic tickets.
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Look behind the numbers: In the fourth quarter of calendar 1998, Dell's sequential growth, or the percentage increase in unit sales from the third quarter, was 12.6%, according to market-research firm International Data Corp.
Even sales as high as 15.5 million this year would represent only a 7-percent increase over 2012, or just barely more than half the percentage increase in 2012 over 2011.
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The increase in overhang--the percentage of a company's stock allotted for options--isn't necessarily good for shareholders.
By region, it expects a mid-teens percentage increase in sales in the Americas, a mid-twenties percentage increase in both Asia-Pacific and Europe, and a modest sales decline in Japan.
Jim Marshall, a Georgia Democrat who lost his re-election bid, had the largest percentage increase in payroll of the departing members, more than doubling his spending on salaries in the fourth quarter, compared to the average for the previous three quarters.
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