The Survey polled corporate counsels on litigation costs, which on average rose 73% over a six-year period.
While the data are too thin to provide an average for 2012 deal flow, these dividend trades are compelling indeed for private equity firms, which, on average, have recaptured 64% of their original contributed capital for deals executed since 2011.
European equities, which have on average underperformed American ones, look more attractive: the price-earnings ratio in the euro zone is 11.
Some student unions have begun putting up posters giving the real drinking statistics for students, which are on average often far lower than expected.
On Wednesday investors in the region fled equities following confirmation of the rate hike, dragging down Europe's main stock-market indexes, which were on average 1.9% lower in afternoon trading.
Packing a big 2500 mAh battery, the Note should come with plenty of battery life even with its huge screen which places it squarely between typical smartphones, which clock in around 4 in. these days, and tablets which boast on average about 7 in. screens.
Private equity investors will soon get word about recent mark-downs to their holdings, losses that probably won't reflect the 60 cents on the dollar bids--which are, on average, the high bids--now seen in the secondary market, says Colin McGrady, managing director of Cogent Partners, which advises on secondary transactions.
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To confirm this result, the researchers also looked at characteristics such as each participant's birthweight, his mother's age when she gave birth, the mother's level of education and her marital status, all of which differ, on average, between the poor and the middle classes.
Consider the recent Altimeter Group report which found that, on average, enterprise-level organizations manage a staggering 178 company-owned social media accounts.
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He quotes a study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety which suggests there is on average a 40% decrease in all accidents and a 90% drop in fatal ones when a traffic intersection is replaced by a roundabout.
The best you'll be able to do is hang on to a light pole, and while you're hanging on, the fire ants from all the mounds -- of which there is two per yard on average -- will clamber up that same pole.
On average, couples in which one partner is a workaholic divorce at twice the average rate, according to a 1999 study conducted by the University of North Carolina at Charlotte's Bryan Robinson.
Most conspicuous among the casualties has been commercial real estate, which is selling for, on average, one-fifth of its peak value.
They could also leave the hospital nearly a full day earlier on average (which saved some two thousand dollars per patient).
Building equipment contractors (NAICS code 2382) this year have collected payments in about 57 days, on average, which is pretty consistent with recent years.
The laggard first-quartile companies, which reported that sales shrank on average by 3.4% a year over the period, included such problem children as 7-Eleven, Unisys and Owens-Illinois.
We broke seven years of global gridlock and successfully negotiated the new round of GATT, which has lowered average tariffs on American goods around the world by one-third.
More important is the fact that it only has to be repaid in three years, which takes the average maturity on ECB loans to about 21 months, up from a mere ten weeks before the auction.
Commission costs are about 20 percent of the selling price on average, which are paid by the buyer as an add-on to the recorded sales price, according to a recent cost comparison published by Brandeis University.
Some volunteers also dropped out, most of whom had higher body mass index on average, which may also skew the results toward a beneficial effect of the Mediterranean diet, since the individuals who remained might have been more motivated to take care of their hearts to begin with.
Mr. Hempstead points to the math on the ease of creating or redeeming shares of the fund, which trades just 58, 000 shares on average each day.
"Blogs for Bush" editor Matt Margolis, 24, said it will refer to the campaign's fact-checking material during its coverage of the debates on the blog, which he says reaches about 12, 000 people on average.
The Dow Jones industrial average, on which blue chips such as Coca-Cola are listed, ended 1.6% lower at 10, 462.65.
For financials, the Buffett-based approach also looks at the return on assets rate, which must average at least 1% over the past 10 years.
But half of 401(k) participants have another, intriguing choice for a safe haven: stable value funds, which returned 2.36% on average over the past year.
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That's per a new report by the job information website Glassdoor.com, which ranked technology employers based on the average annual base pay they give their marketing managers.
The rest is devoted to stoppages like media timeouts, which are extended in the NCAA tournament and take up 20.5%, and halftime, which is more than 22 minutes on average.
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Late last week we were looking for it to take out the 50-day moving average, which it did on Friday.
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