Meanwhile, the number of independent booksellers has fallen nearly 57% over the past decade.
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Many are affiliated with the government, but a growing number are independent, local and increasingly vocal.
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There are a number of independent arguments now coming together showing that this value may have been overestimated.
Besides stocks, a number of independent investment advisers are recommending that investors shift their assets overseas in 2006.
While the U.S. has a number of independent toy retailers, Wal-Mart and Target fight Toys R Us for consumer sales.
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It would also mean the A-level system adopting features of the International Baccalaureate preferred by a number of independent schools.
Under the Bamford Review, the priority remains to promote independent living with a number of units on acute hospital sites instead.
And given the number of independent Grid initiatives, much of the work under way is going to be redundant in any case.
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The council says it has had filming requests from the BBC, ITV and Channel 4, along with a number of independent production companies.
In the first half of 2012, the number of independent retailers in Scotland increased by 2.3% while the multiple retailers declined by 0.48%.
But the continued disintegration of the world's post-1945 structures, and the steady growth in the number of independent states, could bring similar dangers elsewhere.
His thesis was based on algorithms that describe how a large number of independent devices could beam data to one another, an approach called mesh networking.
The underlying reason is the ever-growing number of independent voters.
As a growing number of independent observers note, this institution is ultimately in the lending business, which is why useful reforms such as financial system transparency, the depoliticizing of banks, etc.
Amazon Mechanical Turk used to be a popular one, but now a number of independent sites are around, such as Death by CAPTCHA. Clever hacks have even been developed for audio CAPTCHAs that merely deconstruct waveform shapes to identify what numbers are being spoken.
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Put only non-executives on the board, apart from the chief executive, to maximise the number of supposedly independent voices, as most American companies do?
Discussing this with independent researchers revealed a different number, but each of them concurred that it was on the rise, and is somewhere between 60 and 65.
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The Administrative Reform Council will recommend setting up British-style independent agencies to do a number of administrative jobs (such as vehicle licensing and managing teachers' pensions) currently performed by bureaucrats.
The population of the city already numbers more than half a million, and if you count outlying suburbs and independent cities, the total number of people in the metro area is fast approaching two million, more than double what it was just a decade ago.
At the other extreme, scavenging spare computer power from personal computers on the internet is proving an increasingly effective approach for problems that can be split into a large number of small, independent parts.
While no one tracks the number of regional or independent broker-dealers that have gone out of business, analysts who track the industry say that at least a dozen have closed their doors due to insufficient capital or issues with complex investments like private placement in just the last six months.
The independent Afghanistan Rights Monitor group put the number of civilians deaths at 70.
The institute offers a number of suggestions to help independent retailers hold their own.
Between 1990 and 1998 the number of voters registered as independent or third-party increased by 57%.
So a growing number of pupils in the independent sector is divided among fewer, but better, schools.
That should change next year when the council is scrapped in favour of a more independent body, which will have a number of full-time members, chosen for their technical expertise, alongside a 50-strong permanent staff of specialists.
The process is neither cheap nor easy (Mattel already has 60 of its people working on the programme, and the independent auditors will employ several times that number), but the company reckons that, as the largest toy maker, it is vulnerable to a Nike-like scandal.
Police said a "significant number" of pupils at the independent boarding school are international students.
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It is worth remembering that although more than 15, 000 independent shops opened last year, the same number also closed down.
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