One trial, done in Europe, found that screening and aggressive treatment reduced relative risk of death by 20 percent, but it also found that 48 men had to be diagnosed and treated to save one life about 10 years later.
This reduced their performance relative to the long-term benchmarks.
The group said it had reduced carbon emissions relative to the turnover of its UK businesses by 5.6% in the two years to 30 April 2011 as a result of a package of measures designed to make the group more sustainable.
Mr. STEVE GUY (Developer, Easton): We found in one of more recent projects that there is a demand for condominiums that would mimic the type of condominiums that people would find in urban areas in northern Jersey and, actually, in New York, and that same product can be found here in Pennsylvania at a much-reduced price, relative to what it is in New Jersey.
This technique reduced the average market cap relative to the cap weighted index and helped boost the return.
Whether tax rate increases are totally self-defeating or only partially so, their cost in reduced economic activity is high relative to tax revenue gained.
For even though we've reduced the deluge of job losses to a relative trickle, we are not yet creating jobs at a pace to help all those families who've been swept up in the flood.
The relative strength of the euro and sterling have greatly reduced the pain of dollar-price increases for firms in Europe (see chart).
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The relative strength of the euro and sterling has greatly reduced the pain of dollar-price increases for firms in Europe (see chart).
It is claimed that the approach has reduced hospital admissions for violence by 42% in Cardiff, relative to 13 similar cities in Wales and England.
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"Furthermore, unintended consequences are sometimes difficult to quantify, " Goldberg says, citing higher costs to consumers and businesses, reduced availability of credit, lager banks being placed at a relative disadvantage to smaller ones and so forth.
So while our foreign counterparties are still better off relative to Americans who've seen their buying power reduced by governmental fiat, our weakened buying power eventually shows up in reduced profits for those who'd like to complement us with imports.
Over the three-year observation period, the African-American students who took part in the study had higher grade-point averages relative to multiple control groups, and the minority achievement gap overall was reduced by a dramatic 50%.
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