The indexation should be to the average wage, not to the general price level.
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If markets were truly efficient, price-earnings ratios should be lower than average at the top of the cycle, since investors should anticipate a reversion to the mean.
The idea underpinning a legal system where a jury is made up of one's "peers" is that court cases should be understandable to the average person.
Which sales should be included in calculating average prices?
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Earnings Acceleration : EPS growth for the current quarter (vs. the same quarter last year) should be greater than the average growth for the previous three quarters (vs. the respective three quarters from a year ago).
And shares outstanding should be higher than the market average, which is 643 million shares.
Ministers believe public sector salaries should be more closely linked to average wages in the local labour market.
As all of these worker punishing factors began at roughly the same time as millions of Americans who are now reaching the age of retirement would have begun saving for their non-working years, should anyone be surprised that the average American is now facing a longer retirement without anywhere enough money to pay for it?
Nonetheless, a close above the moving average from here should be treated as a positive by traders.
The worthy Mr Gore is more interested than the average alpha male should be in carbon emissions.
All told, AvalonBay should be able to deliver 8% average annual earnings growth over the next five years, figures Bear Stearns analyst Ross Smotrich, who has a buy on the stock.
Frustratingly, he should be more successful there than his average of 31 suggests and if he fails this week, I really have no idea who will be batting at number at three in the first Test against South Africa this winter.
Average tax payments in Greece should, if tax were paid, be more than 30% of average income.
An average HD movie download should be between 4-5GB, and a two hour SD movie would be 1.6GB.
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Long-term interest rates should be within two percentage points of the average of the three members with the lowest rates.
Corporate tax reform should be based at most on a global average 25% corporate rate, with revenue neutral loophole closing, also scored dynamically.
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It should be obvious that not everyone is an average consumer: some people will drink far, far less, while some will drink much, much more.
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Business Secretary Vince Cable told BBC Radio Tees that he believed "most people" agreed with the "basic principles" of the changes - that no-one should be getting more in benefits than the average wage of someone in employment.
In a year of average rainfall, its output should be around 180GWh of electricity.
With theater owners converting an average 500 screens per month, there should be enough screens sometime in the near future.
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This is relatively deep for the average leisure diver and the wrecks should ideally be visited only by professional divers with experience.
Thirdly (and closely related to the second point), under the efficient market hypothesis, no investor should ever be able to beat the market, or the average annual returns that all investors and funds are able to achieve using their best efforts.
OECD, which praised Britain's competition policy in a report published on October 24th, does not think Britain cartel-free: it says that, in the industries that have been investigated, the presence of cartels keeps prices, on average, 20% higher than they should be.
This should be especially good news for those who want to dollar cost average.
But ST Micro's estimated earnings growth rate in 2000 should be nearly 40%, well above the European technology group average of 29%.
Since life expectancy has leapt by nearly 30 years since the war, to 82 on average, then the minimum age for pensions should be raised swiftly at least to 67 and preferably to 70.
To the average movie viewer it might seem mysterious that there should be any controversy about who produced a film.
To explain the graph a bit more clearly, the X axis is months and years, while the Y axis is the volume of industrial activity as a percentage of the average monthly output of 2009 (which, it should be noted, was depressed as a result of the global financial crisis).
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If you just ask the average American, they'll say, why should we be giving money to other countries?
What product models should be collapsed together and treated as a single model for purposes of calculating average prices?
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