As the general population improves, standard deviations shrink and outliers move closer to the average.
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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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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Other retail banks, such as Standard Bank, target the low-income population by offering accounts with limited transactional features at reduced charges.
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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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.
Worse still, population growth currently stands at around 2%, so the standard of living is hardly rising at all.
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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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.
Over time, the proportion of the population living in poverty, as measured by some objective and absolute standard, should be declining.
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.
He added that AQA had reneged on guidance to schools about the standard needed to achieve a C grade and said that this had hit the most vulnerable part of the student population hardest.
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