The larger answer is that no, the United States is not a mean country made up of mean people getting meaner, because a call for spending cuts is not indicative of a lack of care for others unless you are convinced that the spending is actually working to lift people out of poverty.
In that data, the average or mean income of the top 10% of households seems to increase much more from 1989 to 2004 than the average or mean income of the next highest 10%, or of any lower income group.
It could mean loyalty in the sense of commitment to principles, or it could mean loyalty in the sense of willingness to do exactly what you are told to do.
And the fundamental problem is the same: a failure of alignment, by which I mean of the elusive ability to link strategic intent at the top of an organization to tactical performance at the bottom, via an unbroken internal narrative.
By technology here we do not mean just shiny electronic gewgaws: we mean all of the new knowledge that pours into the world each year about how we can do things better.
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Does this mood of emancipation mean the end of the famous French-German marriage?
One model which materialists use for their reductive view of consciousness is from physics: for instance, in the reduction of thermodynamics to statistical mechanics, the temperature of a gas is explained in terms of the mean kinetic energy of its constituent molecules.
If you don't like me, you can call me a media tart, but I mean I'm so completely out of politics now, I mean I've left the artificial world of Westminster for the real world of tele and show biz.
When they speak of "ending Israeli occupation" they mean of Tel Aviv.
As the authors, Bremer et al., note in Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Intake Trends in US Adolescents and Their Association with Insulin Resistance-Related Parameters, (J Nutr Metab. 2010), teens who are low and medium soda drinkers consume considerably less sugar sweetened beverages than high consumers (an overall mean consumption between .05 and 2.5 servings per day respectively, compared to an overall mean of 7.1 servings, or 57 ounces per day).
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Rapper Eminem married his high school sweetheart, Kim, in 1999, divorced her in 2001, wrote a bunch of mean songs about her, married her again in 2006, divorced her by the end of the year, and wrote some more mean songs about her.
The implication of the above is that any average or mean of incomes in the top 20% will always be much higher than the median of incomes in the top 20%, which is defined as the income level with half of those in this fifth above, and half below.
According to recent studies, indigenous Mexicans have an average of 4.6 schooling years compared to a mean of 7.9 years among non-indigenous people.
What does a worldview lacking an expectation of privacy mean for the rest of society?
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What does taking care of yourself mean in the context of your partnership?
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But the criteria already being applied for the release of prisoners mean that only 71 of the 340 will still be in jail in two years' time.
Capturing the value of this content can mean millions of dollars in savings and better use of corporate assets due to a more knowledgeable, efficient and effective workforce.
Looking at periods in which the same party controlled both the White House and House of Representatives, the average return was of 12.9%, vs. an overall mean of 11.8%.
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Benedict also pointed out something that makes a lot of sense: with the proliferation of devices as well as their short lifespan (figure a mean of 18 months versus 3 years for a PC), mobile devices have become a disposable commodity.
This clearly limits officers' room for manoeuvre but it does not mean the untimely death of police bail nor does it mean villains walk free.
So could the increased use of portable devices mean the end of traditional in-flight entertainment?
I'd rather say nyet to this particular tranche, which would, of course, mean opting out of the BRIC.
If the demise of nuclear does mean the return of King Coal to power, it is unlikely to be German coal.
The density of the housing and lack of firefighting equipment mean large numbers of shelters are often destroyed, but Friday's death toll was unusually high.
An R2 of 1 would mean that all of the points would fit perfectly along the line: in that particular experiment one could perfectly predict return using GDP.
For PNC, a sale of BlackRock would mean the divestiture of one of its marquee businesses at a time when the company is attempting to overcome slow growth in its core Pennsylvania markets by reaching into new territory.
In a world where there are still relatively few women in positions of power just 2% of Fortune 500 CEOs and 16% of boards of directors, as noted in Deborah Rhode and Barbara Kellerman's book "Women and Leadership" it is an understandable assumption that the rise of one would mean the ouster of another.
They're demanding co-operation and they're demanding progress and they'll hold all of us, and I mean all of us, accountable.
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