Comparing U.S. education's GNP share with that of other countries is also disillusioning.
Kentucky will also use these funds to expand the scope of its REAL ID Pilot Project by comparing U.S. foreign born citizens applying for a REAL ID driver's license with the U.S. Department of State's foreign born citizen birth record information.
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Thus, they computed a baseball-to-football ratio (BFR) for every state in the U.S. by comparing the number of MLB ticket orders with the sum of NFL and NCAA ticket orders.
In August, 2010, The Wall Street Journal reported that not only was Yun still in business, but he and another North Korean offical, Chun Byung-ho, were running an international weapons-trading network that U.S. officials were comparing in scale and tactics to those of A.Q.
But Representative Dan Burton of Indiana countered critiques that the bill would crimp U.S. business abroad by comparing those concerns to arguments in 19th century Britain over the fiscal sacrifices associated with ending slavery.
Comparing the total outlets to U.S. population, one gets a gruesome but meaningful ratio (mouths per deep fryer?), and sees that during the years 2007-2009 fast food outlets grew scarcer relative to the overall population.
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For example, American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) Magazine often contains articles comparing and contrasting cities around the U.S. and their attractiveness to retirees.
Based on information from NPD's monthly Mobile Phone Track service, when comparing Q3 2012 with Q4 2012, U.S. iPhone 4 sales increased 79 percent and iPhone 4S sales grew 43 percent.
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While the poor are getting richer in Brazil while the poor get poorer in the U.S., there is still no comparing poverty and even middle class incomes in the two countries.
He touched on issues that have generally divided Europe and the U.S. such as climate change as well as comparing Berlin's Cold War struggle with today's international challenges like fighting terrorism.
Comparing the global sales figures released yesterday with the U.S. sales figures released last month reveals that all but one of these medicines won most of its dollar sales in the United States.
For example, it will bring vivid memories of Kris Kobach, architect of the harsh Arizona SB1070 law, Romney's own "self-deportation" comments that won him the not-so-honorary title of being the most right-wing GOP presidential candidate on immigration, U.S. Rep. Steve King's remarks comparing immigrants to dogs and GOP Kansas State Rep. Virgil Peck's comments on fixing immigration by shooting immigrants from helicopters like feral pigs.
When he concludes that the U.S. oil companies are heavily taxed, Helman is comparing apples to oranges.
The market share of U.S. visits for Groupon.com increased 564% comparing last week vs. same week in 2010.
He continued his criticism Tuesday, after Obama's remarks, comparing the Boston attack with one last year at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, which left four Americans dead.
That big caveat aside, the report somewhat persuasively puts the Chinese economy in context by comparing market penetration in various sectors with the history of U.S. economic development.
In the U.S. last summer Cooks Illustrated magazine convened its first salt tasting, comparing nine different varieties.
One way of comparing wages and salaries with stock prices is that in 1982 the market value of all U.S. stocks compared to wages and salaries was 0.6 to 1.
By comparing prices in the Netherlands, where grass was de facto legal, with prices in the U.S., Miron and Waldock figure the price of dope would fall by as much as half if the drug were legalized in the U.S. The RAND authors conclude it would decline even more, so legal weed (including tax) would cost only one-quarter to one-third as much as illicit marijuana.
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