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It used to be that when there were price swings, it would be half a cent a day. But now you're getting changes as high as 6 or 7 cents in a single day. That is very unusual.

It tastes nasty, but it's so good for you and 100 per cent natural. That's all that I care about.

It wiped out every cent of capital the Allstate companies had realized since their inception in the state of Florida.

This is just a normal, healthy bout of profit-taking. It's been a one-way street since the October lows and the index was up close to 20 per cent in that time.

On average, 80 per cent of all asphalt pavement is now recycled. That's taken a great deal of weight off landfills.

The new collection is expected to contribute about 15 per cent of company's growth in the country.

It's not a surprise that the business was sold and it's not a surprise they didn't receive much for it. It was a total disaster moving into Brazil, we've always believed that, and it was a disaster getting out, and they're still not out because they have 15 per cent of the company.

It's really with the Legion now, to obtain 66 per cent of the funding from provincial and federal sources. That goes back to the original three-way partnership proposed last fall.

Six years ago it was up to about $1.20 a litre, then down to below $1, ... But that was over a period of six years. Think about what's happened to the prices of houses and cars and most goods in that period -- they've gone up 2-3 per cent a year. In real, inflation-adjusted terms, we've seen oil come down.

The last few days, I really made a huge step in my skiing. Before that, I wasn't 100 per cent ready, and that showed in my results.

The cost of servicing this debt, while still low, nevertheless increased from six and three quarters per cent of disposable income in the third quarter of 2005 to 7% in the fourth quarter.

I'm really 100 per cent invested in 'Suburgatory' right now - I'm really focused on that and really like taking it all in. It's so much fun and I just love this character and I love the guys I work with so I'm just enjoying this right now.

I'm 90 per cent plus sure, but once again, in our business we have to be 100 per cent sure. And that is why the investigation is needed; to look at the volumes, the prices, at a whole cross-section of the trusts and the dividend paying stocks. And there's a third category of other stocks that will benefit from the trading.

I, Lydia and Ryan want to make sure that every single cent you pay is used for your benefit.

Inflation for August was 0.1 per cent a welcome reduction from the previous months. While increases in bus fares and oil-related increases are likely to have a negative impact in September, assuming we have no adverse weather events, food prices are likely to fall as supply increases. The trend, therefore, should be for the inflation rate to return to lower levels.This should have a positive effect on inflation expectations.

In India, for example, we could step back from 7-8 per cent growth to 3-4 per cent growth very easily within five to six years if unemployment and underemployment is not addressed.

In December 2004, U.S. interest rates were at 2.25 per cent and people were expecting them to top out at 3.0 per cent -- the Fed hikes this year have been the catalyst for an end to the dollar's bear run.

In Canada we're going to see a fairly good growth number in Q4, 2.7 per cent below Q3's 3.6 (per cent).

I'm not 100 per cent certain what my wages budget will be for next season and while it is still up in the air I can't afford to re-sign anyone who is out of contract.

If I was to say where we were, I'd say we were at about 80-85 per cent where we can be.

I had my first full-blooded throw-downs today and it's coming along. Hopefully I'll have a bat tomorrow and the next day. I'm pretty confident that I'll be 100 per cent fit.

I had stage one uterine cancer, and after my surgery it was considered 95 per cent non-recurring.

I never saw Jim as a man who really lived for boxing at all. To me, the story was interesting because of his change of fortune. I thought, 'This is a great story, because it's true. You couldn't make it up.' Braddock had been a very responsible young man when he was doing well as a boxer. He'd saved his money, he hadn't wasted it. He hadn't lived outside his means. He did the thing everybody said to do at the time, which was to invest his money in the stock market. And in October 1929, he lost 85 per cent of his total net worth and was brought to the brink of bankruptcy. Suffice it to say, things turned bad.

Industry data shows it's not unusual for an IT environment to have 30 to 60 per cent of all identities being orphan identities.

In a smaller analysis, looking at people who used aspirin eight or more times a week, for at least a year, they had about a 90 per cent reduction in risk.

I'm the captain of one of these giant new planes, and 90 per cent of it takes place on board,

I listen to everything just to see what they're all doing. I really do. I listen to 50 Cent to Faith Hill. Because I want to know what everybody's doing, I just want to hear it.

I'm a visual thinker. Research tells us that only 20 per cent of people think visually. So what about the other 80 per cent? Don't they think in pictures? I mean if you imagine washing and preparing potatoes you visualise the process, right?

I'm as close to 100 per cent healthy as I can be. I'm ready to go.

I personally did not sign one contract, did not receive one cent from the Iraqi side and was not involved in commerce.

If you give people proper compensation, over 80 per cent in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) will want to leave tomorrow plain and simple.

If you're not 100 per cent familiar with the territory, this can be a very good idea. An architect or a surveyor will know the industry, and be able to talk the same language as the builders. Even if it's 10 per cent of the total cost of the project, it can be money extremely well spent when it comes to securing your own peace of mind.

In our view, there is still is every reason for the Bank of Canada to continue to nudge its rate higher, and we are not changing our call for a four per cent (overnight) rate by April.

I regret disappointing everyone and am very sorry to put Frank and everyone in a bad situation but no fighter should fight when anything less than 100 per cent fit.

I'll keep doing it as long as they want me to. Im not overly fussed, its not my 100 per cent chosen life career. If they do decide to get a new cast, its OK, fair enough, on to bigger and better things, but as long as they want me to do it Im more than happy to trailer on.

I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.

In the past two years, sides beaten by 100 points or more - 70 per cent have won the next week. It doesn't mean it happens automatically, but people come out pretty determined.

In the business I meet some beautiful women, but to be honest, 80 per cent of them are raving lunatics and are to be avoided. It's just insecurity; actors are generally quite insecure. I wouldn't date, or I've never had a fling with an actress, and I'd quite like to keep it that way.

In terms of screen time, about 50 per cent of the film is reconstruction, based largely on those phone calls. There are some dialogue scenes on the plane, and 90 per cent of these are based on tape evidence and the memories of people who spoke to passengers on the flight. There are a very few occasions where we have invented dialogue and it was based on consultation with people who knew the passengers.

In places where there still are some empty seats, there are fewer empty seats than there were in the past. I didn't expect we'd come back from the work stoppage to 100 per cent of capacity overnight, but the fact that we're up 5 per cent is spectacular. I knew that when we got everything put to bed and fixed the right way, the result would be compelling enough that our fans would respond.

If you see a gaggle of teenagers walking towards you, you tend not to make eye contact, because you know they're going to recognise you. You learn to adapt: 99.999 per cent of people aren't looking to be harmful or unpleasant; they just want something, a photograph or an autograph.

In my home state of Western Australia, we've already identified a 25 per cent reduction in rainfall over the last 30 or 40 years. The government has basically put in place close to $2 billion in domestic measures.

In 2005, 20 per cent of phones shipped with a card slot. We expect that to be 28 percent in 2006.

I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty.Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doingquite well for themselves.

Being able to dedicate 100 per cent of my time to impacting more businesses without being operational, it just gives me a bigger platform.

Canada may even regain G7 leadership by the end of this period if, as we expect, the pace of U.S. activity moves down to a sub-three per cent trajectory for the first time in nearly half a decade.

But I do mean to say, I have heard her declare,When at the same moment she had on a dressWhich cost five hundred dollars, and not a cent less,And jewelry worth ten times more, I should guess,That she had not a thing in the wide world to wear!

Household saving fell from 2.5 per cent of after-tax income in the third quarter of 2003 to a remarkable minus 1.8 per cent two years later.

He's probably 70-30 (per cent chance of playing), so it's always a risk if you go down that track so a lot depends on how he trains this week.

I don't think I see the world in terms of stupid or clever, but in terms of being able to get irony. There's some awful statistic about only 20 per cent of Americans being able to understand irony.

I didn't see how it could work because we have a price-sensitive market and price dominates on sectors of an hour. People just aren't that fussed about comfort and Australia's not really that big on prestige and being seen to be travelling business class. If they can save 50 per cent on the fare, they'll save 50 per cent on the fare.

By 2020 the market for nuclear power generation is expected to grow 50 per cent compared to 2005. Toshiba is responding to this challenge by acquiring Westinghouse.

By 2008 we expect flat panel models to account for 84 per cent of TV shipment value.

Buying an apartment in New York was beyond my wildest dreams. I had to scrape together every cent to buy it. And I'm so happy I did.

Gas shipments are now down by more than 25 per cent after a 5 to 10 per cent fall in the morning so starting tomorrow, we're ordering big consumers to switch to oil.

If he's not 100 per cent healthy, he's not going to play because it's a long season and we're going to need him,

If he's 100 per cent I'm sure the owners will want to go,

If every country committed to spending 0.05 per cent of GDP on researching non-carbon-emitting energy technologies, that would cost $25 billion a year, and it would do a lot more than massive carbon cuts to fight warming and save lives.

If I'm a betting man I think my chances are in the 40 per cent up (range).

I can say without a shred of doubt that I have never, nor has anyone else that I have ever known, heard of gang members conducting a drive-by shooting while listening to Mozart or Vivaldi. But the same can not be said about 50 Cent - even the opening of his first and hopefully last movie spawned shootings at movie theaters across the country.

I can remember standing in a W.P.A. line with a gunny sack, and I remember having to buy chocolate milk instead of white because it was one cent cheaper.

I don't think that we're going to have any issues with this. The city has no other kind of debt other than this. It's all tied to that 1 cent sales tax.

I am pretty confident I will be 100 per cent fit. I don't know if it's an injury that you can go in at about 90 per cent fit.

I am not sure, but I think the way the South Africans play, I don't think the players are 100% per cent behind (Smith) so far because I don't think they like his tactics.

I am not a miracle worker, but I have done things of this nature before. It's 95 per cent down to the team and the players themselves to win. There is a five per cent gap that the fans can close to bring success.

I feel 100 per cent better. I feel much better symptom-wise and better spirit-wise.

If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search.I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.

I don't worry about chemicals. There are enough chemicals entering my body through all the fizzy drinks I consume to worry if my lip balm is 100 per cent organic.

I believe 100 per cent in continued running after 40, and racing too, if one so desires.

Healthcare is growing now at about 10 per cent per annum in the U.S. top line, versus 3 per cent for the economy. As someone with a sharp pencil and an eye for this kind of thing, this can't last.

Government might want to consider how it can wriggle more cleverly to balance the 25 per cent increase against its commitment to lift economic growth,

For only 3 per cent of people to complain that they have been affected by racism when something of the order of 48 per cent -- almost 50 per cent -- come from Asian, North African or Middle Eastern backgrounds, I think it evidences a society that is very accommodating,

For people who live paycheck to paycheck, and every cent is already spent, they're living on the edge.

You could estimate 50 per cent of the aircraft had fallen apart in the sky.

The market expects 10 per cent earnings growth for this year in Europe and I don't think it's excessive. The risk is low. We are now at fair value.

The majority of people here in LA are people, who work every day, who are not involved in gang banging or violence. The media focuses in on people like 50 Cent who exploit those images and give Los Angeles a bad reputation.

The key factor that probably constrained confidence was the 4 per cent jump in petrol prices in the last week before the survey.

The iris scan is the most stable technology in terms of near zero per cent for false acceptance rate and less than one per cent false rejection rate.

The unemployment rate stood at 6.1 per cent in November - the lowest rate since mid-2001. The return to higher growth in 2006 should allow the annual unemployment rate to decline slightly in that year.

This is a company that makes 25 per cent gross profit when the norm is 12 per cent. I am sure they could act very positively to make bus travel a more pleasurable experience.

The EU ignores the fact that 98 per cent of shoe manufacturers are funded by private and foreign capital. Refusing to grant market economy treatment to Chinese shoe makers is a discriminatory action violating the principles of fair trade.

The handball was an absolute definite - a screamer, a 120 per cent penalty.

The great post-Katrina inflation scare has vanished, with gasoline prices coming back down to Earth and core inflation on track to match the Bank of Canada's latest estimate of 1.6 per cent for Q4.

The immediate need of the industry is a relaxation of the cap on FDI from the present rate of 26 per cent to 49 or 74 per cent.

Although an inverted yield curve does not always imply an economic recession, it has predicted a profit recession 100 per cent of the time.

Already more than 50 per cent of people registered on voter lists have taken part.

Age, they say, is only important if you're cheese. or a wine. They also say, if you are stuck behind one on a golf course, that a tree is 90 per cent air. How come, then, that you invariably send your ball crashing into the remaining 10 per cent?

The economic growth of India at seven per cent range is very positive. We want to be part of it.

The climb in annual house price inflation to 2.5 per cent in November from a nine-year low of 1.8 per cent in October reported by the ODPM adds to the recent evidence that house prices have firmed to a limited degree recently amid stronger housing market activity and increased buyer interest.

The first two years of operations were pretty tough - as they were for much of the commercial property sector - with returns going backwards, about negative 7 per cent a year. But the last five years have been brilliant, with Capital Properties providing returns in excess of 20 per cent per annum.

The first ruling was that (Canadian softwood producers had) an advantage, but that the 18 per cent tariff was too high. At that point, I think a deal should have been made.

The chairman has agreed a deal with his agent for the framework of the deal we're 90 per cent down the road.

The finance minister may announce a deficit target of about 4 per cent of GDP, but spending pressures will mean that achieving such a target will be quite a challenge in fiscal 06/07.

The company issued three contradictory media releases concerning its forecasts. An overly optimistic forecast was made on February 28 and on April 28 the profit was downgraded to 20 per cent below the 2003-04 results.

The difference between full control and 80 per cent is the ability to integrate the businesses and not being able to integrate the businesses takes away some of those $55 million in synergies (cost savings).

The dirty little secret of foreign correspondents is that 90 per cent of it is showing up. If you can find a way to get there, the story, the reporting, it's the easiest you'll ever do. 'Cause the drama's everywhere.

The director's testimony on behalf of the mayor offers us a magnificent 16 cent reduction in our residential property tax rate. That's just about to me and the people I'm speaking on behalf of an insult.

The dimension of the current Five Year Plan (2001-2005) ending on December 31, 2005, entails economic balance and sustainable growth. Conservatively, the focus has been on real average income per capita by targeting annual GDP growth of not less than three per cent at constant rates. As the plan comes to a close, we expect to have achieved this target comfortably.

Amid increasing pressure on us to respond to crises, we urge the international community to remember that we can only provide as much assistance as we ourselves receive ? whether in cash or food. We have to appeal for every cent that we spend on the hungry poor.

All of the worst stereotypes about women and shopping come true at sample sales. But if you have a chance of getting a fabulous pair of shoes for 10 per cent of the retail price, it might be worth throwing an elbow for.