Then Monday morning, another report showed that U.S. durable-goods orders rose by a much higher-than-forecast 4.6% in December.
The Coke brand had market share of about 17% in the U.S. in 2009, much higher than its primary competitor Pepsi, which had less than 11% market share.
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But the jump in the index figure - to 47.9 from 43.6 - was much higher than had been expected, and suggests the rate of contraction is slowing.
Consumer-loan originations are expected to climb 5.9% this year, much higher than the slim 1.1% increase in 2010.
However, labor costs rose 1.7%, much higher than estimates of a 0.6% increase.
Since then it has fallen every year, but at 4.8% in 2006 was still much higher than pre-handover levels.
To prove his point, Sachs compared the U.S. with seven European countries that collect a much higher percentage of GDP in taxes than does the U.S. These nations were Norway, Switzerland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, and Denmark.
However, even if the money multiplier were to remain much lower, the M2 money stock would still be much higher than today.
The first is that America's potential growth rate is much higher than conventional wisdom suggests, because productivity is much higher than official statistics measure.
Our own Treasury Department published a study showing that Ireland raises more corporate tax revenue as a percent of GDP with that 12.5% rate than we do with our much higher rate.
Savings rates in the rest of the world are much higher than the U.S.' 3.5% of income.
The people in the education business will tell you that college grads have much higher incomes than nongrads.
Rumors swirled that the company was burning cash at a much higher rate than Youku.
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However, in many instances this resulted in Operation Compassion posting values much higher than its donors.
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We surmise it can coexist with an actual headline rate much higher than 2%.
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Defaults in the 2006 vintage of subprime loans have been much higher than expected.
Next-generation farmers are growing items like cut flowers and grapes, which get much higher prices than cane.
Then you can serve in public office, or charities and work for reasons much higher than money.
And they believe the number of officers who cheated on the exam may be much higher than 43.
The problem with this hopeful scenario is that the rate of inflation will likely be much higher than desired.
And any privatisation will involve administrative costs much higher than the 0.7% of expenditure incurred by the present system.
Needless to say, companies that double their revenue in a year usually trade at a much higher PE than 8.
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States such as Arizona that voluntarily expanded their Medicaid programs in the past have faced much higher costs than expected.
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However, the projected growth rate for Asia, the Middle East and Africa is much higher than the U.S. and Europe.
To be in Mensa, you must be in the top 2% of IQ, and she is probably much higher than that.
One potential setback for the share price lies in its profit margins, which have grown steadily and are much higher than competitors.
In the last census in 2001, 72% of people were classed as Christians - a figure which is much higher than other surveys.
He said that water companies "across the board" often set themselves the most expensive budgets for new schemes, much higher than they need.
Certainly, top lawyers can earn a much higher salary than engineers.
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