The data shows the average tax that a medium-size American company must pay or withhold in a given year, as well as measures of the administrative burden in paying taxes, equates to 46.7% of total profits in the U.S. compared with 42.7% in the OECD despite having less number of taxes to pay than its advanced economy rivals (11 for U.S. vs 13 different taxes for OECD).
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Conservatives have a lot to like about it because it promotes free-market competition and consumer choice (more than 1, 000 different plan options exist) and, unlike every other major social program ever created, actually costs less than number crunchers first forecast it would.
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What matters, says Khaleda Jarrar, who runs a prisoner-support group in Ramallah, is less the number of prisoners released than the kinds, such as those who are very young, or old, or ill, or were jailed before the Oslo accords of 1993, and whose release would be a genuine concession.
When the number of new jobs being created is less than the number of new entrants into the work force each month, the country is going backward.
First, the average number of voters in Labour-held seats (66, 997) is 5, 000 less than the number of voters in Conservative-held seats (72, 849).
In December less than half the number of companies announced new stock buybacks, less than half the dollar amount of new cash takeovers of already public companies were announced and insiders are also buying less than half as much as during all of 2011.
Even this would be less than the number of netbooks expected to be sold this year.
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If we subtract 0.465 from that we get a number less than 19.19.
The Iberian lynx, for example, is confined to about 10 isolated pockets of Spain and Portugal where they number less than 800.
The answer is, of course, in a world where there are alternatives to almost every software program, less than the number of copies which were stolen.
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Most are comfortable taking in more or less the same number of students they have historically educated, responding to rising demand by making admissions more selective and raising tuition.
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Difference in leverage, borrowings (short duration vs. long duration), asset holdings (adjustable mortgages vs. long-term mortgages), and hedging strategies are the main differences among the Agency Mortgage REITs, who number less than a dozen names.
Welsh high jumper Julie Crane, who won silver at the 2006 Commonwealths, won the Welsh championship with a jump of 1.75 metres - but the that is almost 20 centimetres less than British number one Jessica Ennis' season's best.
The world's largest mountain gorilla population, thought to number less than 500 animals, is found in a mountainous region known as the Virungas, incorporating Volcanoes, Uganda's Mgahinga Gorilla National Park, and Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
River dwelling tribes that number less than a thousand strong worry that when the diversion is through, the river will no longer be navigable and may see some Xingu tributaries dry out for good, impacting their way of life and a key route to the city of Altamira nearby.
English Heritage said only 13% of the castle's annual visitors go outside the summer months - and the number in January had been less than 1% of the number expected to visit during the whole of 2011.
The consultation focused on extending and reforming community sentences, including the use of curfews and tagging - but Mr Grayling is not keen on reducing the number of prison places, so maybe he's less keen on increasing the number of crimes for which community punishment is the default option.
The number of wet days is rather less than in western Europe and the number of hours of sunshine rather more.
Symantec estimates that the number of computers still infected is down to about 270, 000, slightly less than half of the number that was reported a week ago.
As a result, in 2010 the number of establishments less than a year old was 91.9 percent of its 1994 level, but the number of jobs in those businesses was only 59.6 percent of its 1994 height.
Runoff elections tend to draw less than half the number of voters as regular primaries.
Evan Smith, editor of Texas Monthly Magazine, says that less than 10 percent number comes from traditional polls.
Median prices in Manhattan rose, in part because of a drop in the number of less pricey sales.
Stocks slumped April 5 when the government said 88, 000 jobs were added, less than half the number forecast.
In 2005-06 the number was less than half of that - and during the in-between years it varied wildly.
Not only are a few large wireless firms likely to innovate less than a larger number of small firms.
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Proving less popular than GMTV, ratings fell to 600, 000, less than half the number of viewers BBC Breakfast attracts.
In Oakland, California, the police department is now barred from using a number of less-lethal weapons for crowd control.
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan noted in a news conference that the number is less than 1 percent of the nation's approximate 100, 000 schools.
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How exactly is 1% a representative sample of anything???? That number is less than any reasonable margin of error for anything other than a MASSIVE sample size!
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