On the face of the statistics (which, like many in the Caribbean, conceal wild divergences under average figures), tourism has made them fairly well off.
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Everyone else comes in under average.
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Coming in a close second was Verizon with their Inpulse service, scoring 736, followed by T-Mobile, Boost Mobile, and TracFone, while Cingular's GoFone and Alltel both scored under the average of 717.
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Under Reagan federal sending averaged 22% of GDP, and that was higher than the 19% average under LBJ-Nixon-Ford-Carter.
The annual average under President Bush was 62 and under President Clinton 56.
So far, the average under Mr Bush has been less than 250 days.
The average under Mr Netanyahu was around 3, 000 new houses a year.
The price to book multiple, generally a more conservative measure, has Boston Beer trading at 5x, just under the industry average of 5.3x.
Some have argued that zeroing must be permissible under the exceptional method because otherwise its prohibition would yield results identical to those obtained under the weighted average-to-weighted average method.
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Under Clinton, the average annual increase in spending was at about 1%, while, under Ike, it was negative.
That mellowing process may already be under way as the average game-player gets older.
We also looked for places where the median price of existing single-family homes is at or under the current national average.
Such policies have helped keep the country's unemployment rate (7.6%) under the European Union average (9.2% in September), even in the depths of the recession.
The data provided shows eight of the forces answered in under 10 seconds on average with Kent, Suffolk, Devon and Cornwall and Merseyside proving to be the fastest.
Could Vaughan now lift his game to a new level and begin improving a record of 439 runs in 10 Tests at an average of under 28?
China and India are predicted to grow fastest, with Indonesia and Malaysia third and fourth, respectively, growing up to 7%, compared with a global average of under 4%.
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This is when the way a choice is structured nudges you into making a choice that is believed to be better for you, meaning that people are under-choosing on average compared to what would maximize their welfare.
The final chart is of JP Morgan ( JPM) and I merely want to touch on the fact that JPM is also well under its key moving average and not appearing interested in taking a leadership role.
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The Chilean personal account system that has been so successful for 30 years now includes a government guaranteed minimum benefit for the personal accounts that is roughly equal as a percent of income to the average benefit under the U.S. Social Security system.
The increase in margins is supported by increase in premiums due to the implementation of the new variable annuity products and increase in fee income due to increases in average assets under management resulting from improvements in equity markets and increased deposit activity as equity market improvements created an environment where investors were willing to re-enter the capital markets.
Pension expenditure in 2009 was 12.1% of GDP, under the euro-zone average of 13.4% of GDP.
The fees average a little under 2 percent of the price of a purchase, but may vary.
Alas, over the next 12 months that most popular sector lagged behind the average by just under three percentage points.
At just 16 years old, rising table tennis star Ariel Hsing has more accomplishments under her belt than the average teenager.
Currently, their dividend yields average a little under 4%, compared with the yield of 1.6% or so on Japanese government bonds.
This looks like great news for millions of people with under-diagnosed genetic conditions that currently fly under the radar of your average physician.
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At present, the long backlogs of cases means it takes an average of just under two years for asylum claims to be assessed and processed.
Under the new agreement, average savers' deposits with all Cypriot banks of up to 100, 000 euros will be guaranteed by the state in accordance with the EU's deposit insurance guarantee, the diplomat said.
With 39 games left, Strasburg is slated to receive seven more starts in the regular season, which if he keeps to his average of just under six innings, would put him over the 180-inning total.
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Another subsidy is in the works, in the form of a mileage rating of 100 mpg -- allowing GM to make and sell that many more low-mileage SUVs under the cockamamie "fleet average" mileage rules.
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