But it seems likely that government policy, which has pushed up the proportion of youngsters going to university by nearly a quarter over the past ten years, and plans to increase it from its current 43% to 50% by 2010, has also had an effect.

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Then Bendersky and Shah waited for the ten-week academic quarter to pass and went back to the students to ask them how their team members had done.

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Mr. JACKIE MCLEAN (Saxophonist): We'd go downtown at 8:30, see Charlie Parker walking to the clubs, stand outside the club until about quarter of ten and make a mad dash for the subway so we could get home.

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Eight of the ten sectors are projected to report revenue growth for the quarter, led by Utilities at 12.2%, Financials at 7.0%, and Health Care at 6.8%.

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But at a site 50km east of the eruption, a quarter of the ash falling to the ground was in the form of particles of ten microns or less.

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In the second quarter of 2011, three out of ten small business owners reported that credit was difficult to get over the previous 12 months and 36 percent reported that borrowing would be tough to access over the coming year.

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If it continued to expand at this pace, China might grab around one-quarter of world exports within ten years.

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Following its ten percentage-point increase in the third quarter, the Swiss firm increased its exposure to American equities once again in the fourth quarter.

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Ten points adrift after Myler's third penalty, Quins tried to rally in the final quarter but Evans sliced two late penalties wide to deny them even the consolation of a losing bonus point.

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