• Before serving as governor, Palin was the mayor of Wasilla, an Anchorage suburb with a population of less than 7, 000.

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  • And I pointed out last year that our trade with Russia is only about the same as our trade with Thailand -- a country with less than half the population of Russia.

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  • Payday loan companies justify the charges by noting that they are serving a riskier part of the population, with less documentation and fewer ties to the community.

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  • The UN's reason for naming a symbolic date as seven-billion day is to draw attention to the speed of population growth, with less than 13 years having passed between the six-billion and seven-billion milestones.

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  • With a population in the USA of less than 500 million people, he just saved himself several hundred billions in loans to those banks that should have gone under.

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  • Its murder rate in 2011 was 17 oer 100, 000, 24th in the country among cities with more than 200, 000 population and less than half Detroit.

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  • Mrs Palin, who has been the governor of a state with a population of 670, 000 for less than two years, is the most inexperienced candidate for a mainstream party in modern history.

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  • The Hispanic population is comparatively less skewed, with 27 congressional Democrats and eight Republicans.

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  • The company favors a specific demographic: neighborhoods with median incomes of less than forty thousand dollars and a population that is at least twenty-five-per-cent African-American.

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  • China has only around 3, 000 cinemas, with less than a tenth of the screens in America for a population five times as big.

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  • Muslims make up less than 10% of the population and have generally good relations with the Sinhalese Buddhist majority, says the BBC's Charles Haviland in Colombo.

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  • As in other states, the Latino population in Texas is younger, poorer and less educated than the general population: all these characteristics correlate well with low turnout.

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  • But with just 7% of the British population now without a phone, this is less of a problem.

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  • Over half the population lives off less than 2, 400 calories a day, compared with an average of a third for all of India.

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  • Which helps to explain the weaker tradition of public stock ownership in Europe: As of 1999 less than 10% of the German and French population owned individual stocks, compared with 21% in the U.S. But as state-owned companies and pension funds are privatized, more companies issue stock options and cross-border investments increase, equities are the order of the day.

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  • In a country in which half the population is less than 30-years-old, Ireland seems to be teeming with start-up entrepreneurs or people with aspirations to become a startup entrepreneur.

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  • But for people with celiac disease, which according to the National Institutes of Health afflicts less than one percent of the population, to eat or not eat gluten is no small thing.

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  • Canada, with its relatively small population of 34 million, has the lowest debt burden of any G8 country and less than half the per capita debt burden of the U.S. The country can continue to free ride on the U.S. in certain areas, especially defense, though Canada's contributions in Afghanistan have been significant.

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