PwC reports that monthly deal volumes for software remained relatively even throughout 2012, hovering at 8-9 transactions per month and averaging just over 20 per quarter.

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While the move is something of a gamble--many think Idol is the ratings juggernaut it is because it only airs one time per year--it allows the team to keep series in their time slots throughout the year.

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Conversely, Sinai found that raising the U.S. top individual capital gains rate from the current 15 percent rate to 20 percent, as suggested in several deficit reduction plans, would cut annual economic growth by an average of .05 percent per year and job growth would decline throughout the economy by an average of 231, 000 from 2011-2016.

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