U.S. joblessness appears stuck between 9.5% and 10.0% whereas as the German rate has fallen to a level that is lower than when the recession began.
Years entered as 00-29 are assumed to be in the range 2000 through 2029, whereas years entered as 30-99 are assumed to be in the range 1930 through 1999.
One theory says Giuliani strikes evangelicals as principled in his beliefs, whereas McCain comes off as expedient and shifty.
The Left wants minimum benefit packages to be as extensive as possible, whereas conservatives want individuals to have as much flexibility as possible.
"The pattern across surveys is that men are more likely to identify as gay, whereas women are more likely to identify as bisexual, " explained social psychologist Justin Lehmiller.
Owners of real estate see their assets appreciate over time, whereas assets classified as chattel lose value.
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Whereas monetarism buckled as a policy, inflation targeting has proved far more effective.
The results show that many countries get excellent results without spending much money, whereas others such as Britain have splurged to no avail.
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Whereas countries such as Denmark and Singapore score highly for their "generally co-operative" relations, France is seen by the WEF as having the most confrontational workplace environment in the world.
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Whereas statesmen such as Monnet and Schuman considered the 1939-45 war as the final proof that traditional European political structures needed to be radically changed, the British tended to see it as a vindication of their own long-established democracy and as confirmation of their anti-continental prejudices.
Hot summers (in the U.S.) or wet ones (in the U.K.) are invoked as support for climate alarmism, whereas cold winters are dismissed as weather.
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All investments in which an investor takes part in the day-to-day management and operations of the company are treated as FDI, whereas investments in shares without any control over management and operations are treated as FPI.
Commodity producers, such as Russia, have benefited from very high raw-materials prices whereas for consumers, such as China and India, the gains from higher global activity have more than offset higher commodity costs.
Episodes that normally count as rather important, such as the Polish shipyard strikes in 1980, pass in a blur, whereas hobby-horses such as the decline of British universities get an energetic ride.
Kevin Daly of Goldman Sachs thinks there are modest grounds for optimism: the sectors that shrank most this time, such as oil and gas, are notoriously volatile, whereas those that grew, such as services, may be seeing sustainable improvement.
For example, in the metallurgical industry the financial burden was 3.3% whereas in construction it as 11.3%.
Whereas Bush viewed Israel as a key US ally and friend, from the first days of his administration, Obama has sought to "put daylight" between the US and Israel.
Mr Cable told the Business and Innovation Committee said he could not account for why some loans got the go-ahead whereas others - such as Sheffield Forgemasters - did not.
Some investors have brushed off the dismissal, whereas others view this as confirmation that the allegations did have adequate merit in the courts, and could therefore be actionable in other courts.
This has coincided with a quadrupling in top executives' pay, whereas company share prices as measured by the FTSE100 index have gone nowhere and average earnings for the rest of us have increased just a few percentage points a year.
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So did the fact that Mrs Arroyo had been trained as an economist, whereas Mr Estrada's main qualification for the presidency was his fame as a film actor.
And remember that a good teacher costs as much as an average one, whereas halving class size would require that you build twice as many classrooms and hire twice as many teachers.
In the past Turkey tended to see itself as an eastern bulwark of the NATO alliance, whereas its Middle Eastern neighbours were viewed as threats to be contained.
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Whereas Mr Ramadan comes across as prickly and humourless, Ms Hirsi Ali plays up her glamorous feminine side.
The difficulty, according to a foreign-ministry official, is that America wants to change as little as possible, whereas South Korea wants a comprehensive revision.
Typically, they could have 20 million barrels of oil, or its gas equivalent (boe), whereas the major fields had as many as 500 million boe.
Steve Blitz of ITG, a broker, notes that whereas business investment remains depressed as a share of GDP, net cashflow is near a record high.
Yet whereas Mr Cheney was seen as the grey eminence behind the sometimes buffoonish Mr Bush, Mr Biden seems a cheery backslapper compared to the professorial Mr Obama.
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