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There are 316 million people in the United States of America. About six million of them watch 'Homeland,' Showtime's thriller about world terror, paranoia, and bipolar disorder. That's about 2 percent of the population; roughly what the guy with the beard running on the Libertarian Party ticket gets when he runs for Congress.

Our foreign-exchange reserves when I took over were no more than a billion dollars; that is, roughly equal to two weeks' imports.

According to the IRS, the wealthiest 400 Americans, who earned an average of roughly $270 million in 2008, paid an average tax rate of just 18.2 percent that year. That's about the same rate paid by a single truck driver in Rhode Island. It's not right, and we need to restore fairness to our tax code.

Smallpox, which spreads by respiration and kills roughly one in three of those infected, took hundreds of millions of lives during a recorded history dating to Pharaonic Egypt. The last case was in 1978, and the disease was declared eradicated on May 8, 1980.

I view the work I've done related to statistics and economics as, roughly speaking, how to do something without having to do everything.

When I was at Berkeley, the framework of quantum field theory could calculate the dynamics of electromagnetism. It could roughly describe the motion of the weak nuclear force, radiation. But it hit a brick wall with the strong interaction, the binding force.

All evidence shows that we are actually getting smarter. Roughly we are getting 10 IQ points smarter every decade. The speed of innovation is also faster.

With a rescue dog, you take what's at the centre as long as it roughly fits the bill. When you buy a dog from a breeder, you can choose everything from its personality to how shiny its coat is.

If I wanted to make something that actually made a difference roughly in this industry, I would make a documentary. That would be the closest I could come to actually try and make a difference.

Women ought to be fully guarded by law in all rights of property, labor, profession, etc.; but, roughly stated, the voting population ought to represent the fighting population.

If the world were an orange with 18 segments meeting at the top (the North Pole), roughly 8 of them would be in Russia, Canada would have 4, Denmark 2, and Norway, Sweden, and the U.S. just one apiece. Only a sliver of Alaska, on the Beaufort Sea, lies above the Arctic Circle.

Each year, thousands of UFOs are sighted and reported, which is an impressive tally of unidentified aerial phenomena. Surveys show that roughly one-third of the populace believes that at least some of this sky show is due to extraterrestrial spacecraft, here to probe our airspace and, when that proves boring, our bodies.

Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.

Jaipur, like Florence or Kyoto, other artisan-rich cities to which it roughly compares, has always been known for its craftsmanship.

The math is dead simple: it seems that the frequency of planets able to support life is roughly one percent. In other words, a billion or more such worlds exist in our galaxy alone. That's a lot of acreage, and it takes industrial-strength credulity to believe it's all bleakly barren.

The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.

A huge segment of the country has always felt overtaxed. In 1938, when taxes were roughly 17% of income, a 'Fortune' survey found that nearly half of all Americans thought they paid too much relative to what they got in return.

'What was there before the Big Bang?' That's a question that both kids and adults love to pose to anyone who seems sympathetic. After all, if the universe has only been around for roughly 14 billion years, isn't it legitimate to ask what was in existence before the mother-of-all-events cranked up the cosmos?

Work is winding down. We have almost cast all 452 segments, and as of March 31, we should have somewhere in the teens to go, probably roughly 15 segments to go, so we will eliminate our swing shift.

We feel that the downside in IT demand is roughly offset by the benefits of the actions we have taken.

With the number of transistors on some chips exceeding one billion, it is clear that improvements made for individual transistors can multiply into huge benefits for the entire device. Test chips made on Intel's ultra-low power 65nm process technology have shown transistor leakage reduction roughly 1000 times from our standard process. This translates into significant power savings for people who will use devices based on this technology.

With the number of transistors on some chips exceeding 1bn, it is clear that improvements made for individual transistors can multiply into huge benefits for the entire device. Test chips made on Intel's ultra-low power 65nm process technology have shown transistor leakage reduction roughly 1,000 times from our standard processes. This translates into significant power savings for people who will use devices based on this technology.

We're seeing our Internet sales roughly double or triple every year, ... We were at $18 million a day in the first quarter. It continues to grow. It was 30 percent (of total sales). We think it goes to 50 percent, then to 70 and 80 percent.

We reach a point, roughly coming into Tuesday, where existing contingency plans have been completed.

We've seen growth and a real doubling of funding in all sectors. The proportions are really unchanged over the decade, with roughly 60 percent coming from industry and the remainder coming from government and foundations.

We're helping students from the roughly 30 schools that announced they are closed indefinitely in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.

When you consider that our technology has advanced from the first telephones to smart phones in roughly a century, it's easy to understand why it seems like tomorrow is arriving faster than it ever did.

We want to make sure when we send him out, that he's in condition to pitch again. With the resiliency of his arm, his athleticism and his youth, it doesn't take long for a young guy to get in shape. Essentially, he's not really behind arm-wise because he pitched roughly 2 1/2 to three weeks ago in the Caribbean finals. He got game innings. I suspect his arm is fine.

We're confident that high-quality crude can be produced from shale for roughly $30 per barrel.

One of the tricks of life is to have sense and money in roughly equal proportions.

My grandmothers are full of memories,Smelling of soap and onions and wet clay, With veins rolling roughly over quick hands, They have many clean words to say, My grandmothers were strong.

Now that the LCD and plasma TVs have come into the marketplace, they're so much more affordable, roughly a third less than a year ago. The newer TVs are much more decor friendly, so you combine that with the natural sort of affection men have for big TVs during the Super Bowl, and there's a lot of activity out there.

Obviously, we are never going to be satisfied with a losing quarter but quite frankly we remain upbeat. The loss itself was a result of a $270,000 increase in allowance for doubtful accounts receivable and an unrealized hedging loss -- marked -- to market at the end of the quarter. As of August 31, 2005 the majority of this unrealized loss has been reversed out. However, the coffee market continues to remain extremely volatile. Beyond these two one time events, the quarter was overall a positive considering prices declined by over 20% in roughly a 30 day period.

If these were really 'high wage jobs,' there wouldn't be any issue at all. They were using roughly 32 union members. They wanted to take advantage of their skill and expertise, but they didn't want to pay union wages and benefits in return.

IDC saw worldwide unit growth in 3Q of roughly 18.3 percent, while Dataquest saw worldwide unit growth around 15.2 percent. Averaging the two together puts it in the mid-to-high 16 percent range, which is roughly in line with our forecast 17 percent for 3Q.

China is an economy growing at roughly 10 percent per year, they should be pulling in U.S. exports like crazy. That's not happening. I think you have to attribute it: (a) to China's highly protectionist economic system and (b) to the American failure to open up Chinese markets.

China has existed within very roughly its present borders for over two millennia and for virtually the whole of that period saw itself as a 'civilisation state.' It was only when it was too weak to resist the western powers in the early 20th century that it finally acquiesced in an arrangement that was alien to it.

I don't think his fundamental views changed over the roughly 30 years he was on the court.

I get up late, have an espresso, and immediately start work. I try to get roughly caught up on email before I leave the house, then if I need to write anything or review a complex deal, I do that, and then I head to the office and work on my top few priorities for the day. I try to schedule my meetings in the afternoon.

He will have roughly 14 and 15 months to complete the work at that school, which is a fair amount of time seeing as we've had some other middle schools built in only 12 months. We think we're giving them a fair amount of time to complete the work.

We've been trying to price things at roughly half the market value.

We're projecting roughly a three percent growth this year and that could get even higher as we go forward.

We think given guidance is roughly in-line despite the negative currency impact.

What you see at the top of our list is that the companies have roughly a 65/35 ratio of white workers to workers of color. That far outweighs the labor pool in this country.

Having roughly the same purchasing power as Hispanics, African Americans tend to be left behind when it comes to marketing and advertising because Hispanics are expected to have more rapid population growth. Marketers would be wise, however, to tap into the African American segments that outpace their Hispanic counterparts, such as those with incomes greater than $50,000; owner-occupied households; married-couple families; and African American women-all sectors which offer huge potential in the consumer goods markets.

I write at home, from around 9.30 to midday, when I stop for lunch, then begin again at one, until roughly 3.30. Then I start again around seven and do a couple of hours. My writing environment is a quiet, book-filled study. Or, rather, it has been for the last twenty years.

It could make a substantial difference. The estimates ... have suggested that you might be able to cut mortality roughly in half.

It is a concern that citizens already are touring the Titanic and some Atlantic vent sites with deep-diving submersibles. When Yellowstone Park -- which features geothermal geysers analogous to deep-sea vents -- was established in the mid-1800s, no ordinary person could get there because it was a four-day trip by horse from the nearest rail line, but roughly 3,000,000 visited Yellowstone last year.

I think a payrolls number that varies widely from estimates will shake up stocks, ... But as long as we're roughly in line with forecasts, there probably won't be much stock reaction.

I think it's probably on the high side. I've seen other estimates more in line with a half-percent hurt to GDP growth in the third quarter and fourth quarter -- but with a pick-up of roughly that order for '06,

I think that we all stand on the dartboard of life. Roughly 30,000 people a year are going to catch a dart labeled pancreatic cancer, and that's unfortunate. It's not what I would have chosen. But I in no way feel like I deserved it.

Jeez, Louise, the subsidy value is roughly three-quarters of the investment. Aside from whether this is right or wrong, when you get right down to it, this kind of behavior can't continue for very long. . . . Taxpayers are going to go broke.

Land ownership in Guatemala is more unequal than anywhere else in Latin America. Roughly 90 percent of Guatemalan farms are too small to support a family. A tiny group of Guatemalans owns a third of the country's arable land; more than 300,000 landless peasants must scrounge a living as best they can.

I saw that I could now rank the earthquakes one above the other. Also, quite unexpectedly the attenuation curves were roughly parallel on the plot.

I said roughly that I was starting all over again. I don't think the past buys you anything.

Over a three-year period we'll look to invest the fund in roughly 40 companies across a set of industry sectors that include mobile computing, Web-enabled software, biotech, medical devices, semiconductors, and then an area that we are highlighting this time that we call green tech, which is new energy sources and things like that.

Over the past 50 years, the average gain in the stock market has been roughly 16 percent a year. That, considering where we closed at the end of 1995, would put us just under 6,000. Those are big numbers, but on a percentage basis they're within the scope of a bull market.

Overall impact of the three tournaments is roughly $3.5 million of economic impact. That's flowing into hotels, restaurants, shopping, gas stations, et cetera.

Previous research has shown that every spring there are massive dust storms in Asia that transport soil eastward to Japan and across the Pacific to the United States. Now we've found that sulfate and organic aerosols are also present, and in roughly the same amounts.

Spending on the battle against AIDS in the developing world needs to rise to roughly five times its present level, ... The developing countries themselves are ready to provide their share ... but they cannot do it alone.

National benefited not only from lower labor costs but also because it is now closer to where many of the world's mobile phones are made these days, and that is China. Roughly half of the world's research and development, and production of the world's handsets, are in China these days.

National benefited not only from lower labor costs, but also because it is now closer to where many of the world's mobile phones are made these days, and that is China. Roughly half of the world's research and development, and production of the world's handsets, are in China these days.

London is still seen as the crossroads of all markets. Europe is roughly on its doorstep, one hour distant, New York is five hours distant and there's the cross-over with the Asian markets.

It covered roughly half the costs of mounting the exhibit.

I think markets will stay roughly where they are with the outlook slightly positive,

We number the current economic damage at roughly 140 million euros ($167 million). We are currently in talks with federal and state governments about financial support measures.

The answer is that we have surveyed roughly half of the sky and found one object bigger than Pluto and two that are almost the size of Pluto. As we finish the other half of the sky we will almost certainly find a few more of around the same size and maybe one or two even larger.

That would be roughly equivalent to the number of doses that are used in a typical flu season.

That will provide roughly 10 percent more gasoline for California users and hopefully stabilize availability, which we hope will stabilize prices.

I would like for the offense to look good, but that's not going to be easy against one of the best defenses in the league that I've gone against, ... It will kind of depend on how the game goes for us, but our game plan would be roughly a third, a third and a third.

Wireless consumers across the nation have demonstrated a strong willingness to become part of important public policy debates that affect their wireless freedom, ... Facing an average tax burden of roughly 17%, wireless consumers are speaking up and being heard.

Where you have 20 people who all share roughly the same educational and life experiences, they're going to come up with the same solutions to the same problems.

We can produce ethanol at roughly a buck a gallon and that's going to be going down. We can produce soy diesel, biodiesel, at around $2 a gallon. That's probably going to get less expensive, ... These products in the ag community become very, very competitive against traditional fossil fuels and I think that means nothing but good things for ag in Michigan.

We hope to arrive roughly in the first half of the 45-day review period and inject some rational thoughts into the debate early in the process.

We do not expect any significant increase in capital spending for new restaurants since net new unit growth is expected to continue at 1% to 2% in the near term. In addition, we expect to return roughly $5 billion to $6 billion to shareholders via dividends and share repurchase over the next two years.

We need $200,000 roughly in donations. We will soon be putting information on our Web site as to what we need.

We had ink on paper on Wednesday, the people were moved in the following Monday, and roughly a month later, we shipped a completely re-branded product, updated with new functionality.

We've got roughly four to six million people right now who are experiencing hurricane or tropical storm-force winds.

We've got roughly 4 to 6 million people right now who are experiencing hurricane or tropical storm-force winds.

We're very pleased with that number, particularly in light of how well 'Bringing Down the House' is doing. We're off to a really good start. It's the beginning of spring break and the school holidays roll across the country over the next four weeks, roughly at 20 percent different areas a week.

We have a lot of confidence in Chris, ... He came in and redshirted a year, and, at that time, we weren't real sure. But one year learning under Seth Marler, and the following year he came out in the spring and in the fall and he was a roughly 42-, 43-yard average. He's been in the fire for two years. He's done a great job.

Typically, at the present stage of an economic rebound -- roughly two years after the trough in economic activity had been reached -- corporations are borrowing aggressively, funding capital expansion projects, payroll additions and inventory accumulations,

The problem with Ebola is that it makes mistakes while it copies itself. The mistakes are actually good for Ebola because they help Ebola change, and as a result of this, as it jumps from one human body to the next, roughly half the time, it's got a mutation.

We know roughly where these people are. ... At the moment I would say there is a chance they can be released safely.

When we put all of these facts together, we conclude that the market today is roughly at fair value,

We're a town of roughly 300 people. I don't think we need seven people to run it. I don't see any sudden movement telling me that we're going to be expanding.

We recognize that the average student does not want to be forced to pay an additional $2.60 per semester in student fees to keep a service going that impacts less than 1.7 percent of the student body, or roughly 300 students. However, SGA also recognizes that however small this 1.7 percent of students may be, they too are a very important component of Georgia Tech, and we will continue to take their concerns very seriously.

We do eight episodes in nine days. Now, because there are roughly 40 actors in the show, it doesn't mean to say you're in every scene. So you bob in and bob out, a bit like a jigsaw. I've never done that before.

The fact that AMD has served a subpoena on another company isn't that new, given the fact that they've served subpoenas on roughly 50 companies in conjunction with the antitrust suit.

When Katrina struck in 2005, roughly 300 deaths were recorded at hospitals, long-term care facilities and in nursing homes, according to a recently published study of death certificates and disaster mortuary team records. Many of them might have been saved if they had been evacuated sooner.

Who's most likely to buy our products, who's least likely to buy them and who's up for grabs. This has given us a much deeper insight than we've ever had before using traditional demographic or vehicle segment-based models. One of the most important findings from this research is that there remains a huge market for American cars in this country. And the potential is significantly larger than the roughly 55 percent market share than GM, Ford and Chrysler together command today.

We roughly have death rates that are about 150 percent higher in the United States for 15- to 19-year-old females and males than those nations that have the lowest rates.

We've collected $4 million more from January to March over last year. And the number of land parcels has gone up as well. Automobile registration is following the same path. Last year we had roughly 125,000 vehicles and this year we're expecting to have 130,000 vehicles in the county.

We did not plan three years ago to create more than token Iraqi forces. Now we're at 230,000 roughly and counting. Our whole strategy is dependent on the success of the Iraqi army and the Iraqi police.

Weather in December has been roughly about 20percent colder than normal. So, our guess right now is that the increase in the December bill will be more than the 27 percent that we forecast, simply because the weather has been so cold.

We believe Oracle will have to cut Siebel's operating expenses by approximately 30 to 40 percent (or roughly $350 to $400 million) in order to meet previously stated accretion goals.

We believe Microsoft will be hurt by weakness in the consumer PC space, which represents roughly 10-15 percent of its business. As we have said, the shift to browser-based computing is slowing the need for upgrades, and perhaps the more sophisticated gaming platforms are removing the need for homes to have the latest high performance PC's. As a result, corporate PC's will have to pick up the slack in the next quarter.

The projected path of movement swings it away from Central Florida and then curves it toward the Panhandle by the time we get to Monday with a projected landfall roughly between Apalachicola and New Orleans. That is the uncertainty we still have with the next landfall. But the path of Katrina takes it toward the Panhandle and well away from Central Florida.

There are roughly 2 million businesses in the United States with between 5 and 100 employees. It's an excellent market to operate in.

We've identified roughly 300 of these businesses throughout San Diego County. It's one of those industries that demands skills in intellectual property.