Although restrictions have been easing for years, the proportion of problem gamblers in Britain has barely changed since 1999, the survey holds, and, at about 0.6% of adults, it is lower than in more puritanical America.
Like its sibling, stress is an economic, medical and social problem of epidemic proportion and is making us emotionally depleted, physically sick, and, incidentally, fatter.
If they could collect and recycle a larger proportion of their bottles, that problem would be solved.
But this rise exaggerates the problem, because the proportion is of a much lower total of days lost.
The problem was that a growing proportion of them did not pursue careers in their field of study.
The survey suggested that Lloyds TSB, with 30%, had the highest proportion of customers who had experienced a problem in the previous 12 months while First Direct had fewest, with 9%.
There's a small problem, but one that was blown out of proportion by the press.
Internet infringement certainly could cause some harm to some companies, but it is critical to understand the size and scope of the problem before applying prescriptions that cause unnecessary, out of proportion collateral damage to other industries and the Internet.
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The problem is not on the same scale: synthetic ETFs and ETNs are a small proportion of the industry.
Mr Frum believes that a future agreement to cut spending - he thinks America spends much too big a proportion of its GDP on health - and raise taxes, could very quickly bring the debt problem down to the level of quotidian normality.
The survey found the problem of an ageing oil and gas sector workforce had been effectively tackled, with a sizeable proportion of employees now aged under 25.
One problem: nearly one-third of the domestic restaurants are still company owned restaurants, a relatively high proportion.
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