In the U.S., a whopping 59% started a business because of a perceived opportunity, vs. 21% who did so out of necessity.
Since the bear market lows the Dow Jones Airlines Index ( DJUSAR) is up a whopping 221% versus a 125% gain in the Spyder Trust ( SPY).
However, this penalty is doubled to a whopping 40% if there is a gross valuation misstatement.
There are also a whopping nine new restaurants that bagged a single star.
Brazilians aged 10 and older that did not finish elementary school fell from a whopping 65.1% to a still God awful 50.2% from 2000 to 2010.
Consumer purchase rates for 3-D TVs are expected to rise a whopping 500%, according to a recent survey by management consulting and technology services firm Accenture.
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For the statistics fans out there, that is a whopping three standard deviations away, a level that historically has been unsustainable and yielded to a sharp, albeit brief, upturn in stocks.
How to achieve such a whopping increase in efficiency over so short a time?
Many economists would also like to see Japan commit itself to a whopping fiscal stimulus in the hope that a faster-growing economy could drag the rest of the region out of the mire.
Average food inflation rose a whopping 14.8% in July from a year ago.
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Apple's App Store has a whopping 50, 000 applications available, and a number of its competitors recently launched their own stores in the hopes of catching up.
The book (for which she received a whopping quarter-million dollar advance) is a whack in the head for anyone stuck in traditional, linear, fixed ways of thinking about career and success.
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Of the U.S. adults who shopped at a Best Buy store in the last 12 months, a whopping 92.7% report they had a positive shopping experience, according to the GfK MRI Focus: Retail study.
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It includes a whopping 40 4cm speakers arrayed within, with a further two 11cm woofers, delivering what Yamaha calls 2.5.1 channel sound -- though it looks as if it can power two additional speakers at the sides if you want something a little closer to 7.1.
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Our research shows that the number of engaged employees in your organization increases by a whopping 11% when people feel they are part of a motivating team, receive regular peer-to-peer recognition and understand how the work of their group affects the larger organization.
On Friday, a whopping 85, 266 puts crossed the tape, compared to a measly 2, 384 call contracts.
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Shanghai housing sales continue their decline, falling a whopping 12.7% in one week, according to a report released Monday by Shanghai Deovolente Realty Co.
Lubin says that in the past two weeks since Gnarly Head carried out this campaign, he has seen a whopping 1, 000% sales increase locally in Memphis and a 20% sales increase nationwide.
Wendy's International (nyse: WEN - news - people ) said today that sales at restaurants that have been open for at least a year rose a whopping 6.1% in March--compared to a 2.6% increase last year--thanks to the success of its Garden Sensations salad lines.
WeChat of China, which claims a whopping 300 million users, is also working on building out a social platform, as are messaging apps LINE and Nimbuzz of India.
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In Orlando, the lower priced segment experienced a whopping 19.8% increase in prices in 2011, while on a price per square foot basis their distressed only sales increased by 4.4%.
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The company also shipped a record 14.2 million units in the three-month period, up a whopping 40 percent year-over-year, but subscriber additions fell a bit short -- 5.1 million versus the 5.2 million that analysts had counted on.
The Angels ranked second this spring with a whopping .300 batting average, but they were dead last in pitching with a 6.56 earned-run average more than a full run worse than the next team.
In the Globe Scan survey, a whopping 79 percent of Nigerians said they had come up with an idea for starting a business at some point in their lives, but only 27 percent of Russians reported having done so.
Based on corporate income taxes collected by the U.S. Treasury, the taxable earnings of all private and public U.S. corporations were up a whopping 60% in 2006 versus 2004--the fastest rate since we began tracking it a decade ago.
But at Berkeley, it was a whopping 19% and wit will grow to 20% this year, according to Janet Gilmore, a spokesperson for the University.
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Hollywood has trickled out a whopping 15 feature films, including such blockbusters as Galaxy Quest and Big Momma's House, plus a smattering of video productions.
According to CoinNews.net sales of gold bullion coins rose a whopping 39.6 percent last week, compared with the previous week, while American Silver Eagles saw a 10.8% increase.
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Android widened its margin to control a whopping 69.7 percent share of the smartphone OS market compared to 20.9 percent for iOS, a bump of 87.8 percent over the quarter.
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