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As the general population improves, standard deviations shrink and outliers move closer to the average.
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The AMLs are different from other forms of leukemia in the age of the population affected, the standard treatments used and the chances of cure.
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Bangalore started out with an advantage neither KL nor Hong Kong enjoy: a high standard of education among the local population.
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In contrast with SNS usage in the U.S., Japanese users are more mobile-centric: in a population of 127 million, more than 100 million mobile phones in Japan belong to the 3G standard, about 30 million more than in the United States (with a population of 300 million).
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Other retail banks, such as Standard Bank, target the low-income population by offering accounts with limited transactional features at reduced charges.
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Worse still, population growth currently stands at around 2%, so the standard of living is hardly rising at all.
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Fiat means by decree, and under the gold standard, a given currency is forced on the population by law, regardless of what anyone desires, needs, or judges to be best.
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As part of the CNN iReport cultural census, which examines some of the more intangible characteristics that define the American population, we asked people around the country to read a standard passage aloud so we could evaluate their regional accent.
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Over time, the proportion of the population living in poverty, as measured by some objective and absolute standard, should be declining.
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Pepper: And as you raise the standard of living for people, and expose a greater percentage of the population to, what we would call, Western standards of living, those folks are going to want the same thing as everybody else has.
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Over the years, the personal exemption and standard deduction have not kept pace with inflation, so today 70% of the population is subject to income taxes.
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