However, the overall measure masks significant variation across the country.
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Both the overall homeowners measure and separate mortgage gauge peaked in the third quarter of 2007.
Overall, Britain performs badly by this measure: in Sweden, 93% of hospital managers are former doctors, nurses or other clinical staff.
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In addition to a 30-day overview of users' app data usage, Onavo Count also gives users individual App Profiles, complete with charts that track weekly data usage and gauges that measure individual app's overall mobile data usage.
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Abouhossein sees regulation cutting into bank profitability overall, with return on equity, a measure of profitability, falling to 12% from 19% for big banks.
What is relatively new is the zeal in medical-research circles to use extensive biomarker testing as a quantifiable measure of a person's overall health and, possibly, as a warning flag for potential health problems down the road.
Core inflation, which is a better measure of the underlying inflation trend than overall inflation, seems likely to moderate gradually over time.
And it said that the Office for National Statistics had made its migration statistics clearer, so that it was more easy for students to be identified in emigration flows "to give a more accurate measure of the contribution of students to overall net migration".
Given that virtually all US telecom equipment is produced in China, in some measure, the Committee's narrow focus addresses the overall issue of risk to US telecom infrastructure so narrowly that it omits from the Committee's inquiry the suppliers of the vast majority of equipment used in the US market.
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The four Democrats and four Republicans responsible for assembling the overall "Gang of Eight" plan are on track to unveil the sweeping measure next Tuesday, the sources said.
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Peterson leans on some interesting technology (as well as old world techniques such as concrete fermenters) using sensors in the vineyard to measure exactly how much water is moving through the vine and the overall stress on the plant.
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Overall GDP shows the size of the UK's economy, but does not necessarily measure people's economic wellbeing.
On that measure, MINI was the most successful brand in the BMW group, outstripping overall BMW sales that were up by 4% compared with July 2011.
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Accounting ignores these critical details while finance incorporates them by using cash flow metrics rather than earnings metrics and a cost of capital measure that reflects current interest rates plus a component for a company's overall riskiness.
This year, though, he's had the measure of Vettel -- he's 16 points ahead in second place overall after heading off Alonso and Vettel to win the British Grand Prix, and he's arguably getting on better with this year's Red Bull.
"The text of the Clean Air Act makes plain that Congress intended it as a measure to 'clean' the air of pollutants, not to alter the overall composition of the Earth's atmosphere, " argues the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, an auto industry lobbying group, in a brief.
However the effect is created immediately when the overall employment rate rises to 9.8%, and that is surely not a good measure for a period that includes the holidays and a congressional debate over whether or not tax cuts should be kept in place for everyone.
The companies in these industries are either not using the metrics that are most strongly correlated to value or, when the overall correlations of financial metrics to shareholder value are poor, they are not sufficiently using TSR as a direct measure of shareholder performance.
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