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With energy prices at least roughly flattening out, and with the labor market continuing to strengthen, those are probably two of the main reasons people are starting to get more optimistic.

Unemployment rates tend to rise and fall in roughly equal proportion at all rungs of the ladder, and that happened between 1973 and 1985.

Two guys, roughly our age, they jumped on the stove and took it off down the street.

Figures are very sketchy at present, but roughly we expect around 8000 to 10,000 applications a month through the 78 post offices of Emirates Post located throughout the country.

The governor's strongest desire is that the 148th Fighter Wing be given a strong and viable mission with roughly the same number of jobs on the base today." ()

We're in 24-hour-a-day operations to adjust the canal levels roughly a foot (30cm) in most areas, ... We know they're going to fill back up.

We're talking about transporting roughly 70,000 metric tons of deadly waste from nuclear facilities in 39 states across our nation's highways, railways and waterways to Yucca Mountain,

We've been aware for some time roughly the number of people who have trained overseas and they've been the focus of the attention of both ASIO and the AFP and also the state police in our joint operations,

While unit demand is going up at roughly 50 percent, the bit demand, meaning the number of wafers we have to make, is going up at about 100 percent. I believe that's going to keep the shortage going at least through this year, and well into next year - possibly through all of next year.

We've had three calls in reference to that rope swing in the past roughly six months, in reference to injuries,

This week is probably a week for keeping heads down. Turnover in the European market continues to drift lower, with the three-month trend running roughly one-quarter below its mid-April peak.

What I was writing was not a planned thing, it was organic, with the characters working out their own destiny. Sitting there in the grey old empty bungalow, I felt like a man driving a coach and four, roughly knowing the direction in which the coach would travel, but being pulled along by forces only just under his control.

What I was pleased at was we maintained roughly a 12-point lead. I thought we controlled the ball. We had a lot of guys in there.

We want to focus more on rest periods than on working periods to try to give some consistency to drivers' schedules so they can expect to rest roughly at the same times day to day.

Under a forehead roughly comparable to that of Javanese and Piltdown man are visible a pair of tiny pig eyes, lit up alternately by greed and concupiscence.

Twelve studies (940 patients) reported that Chinese herbal medicines reduced the risk of death at 12 months by roughly one-third." ()

With his excellent skills and background with customers, as well as handling and managing multiple projects and orders concurrently, we are excited to have Paul join our operation. As a small company, it has always been our priority to put the customer first. When building our equipment or solving issues in the field, this has worked well. Now that we have increased our order book dramatically?we've grown roughly 50% in the past year?it is vital that we handle both our own soda blasting projects as well as the needs of Buster Blaster contractors with efficiency and effectiveness. Paul's skills and personality fit perfectly with these needs.

We went in the studio ... to make music. And I think Neil liked that. When he came down to play on one song, he stayed roughly for about three months.

We expect Mardi Gras to be - in terms of visitors - roughly about half of what a normal Mardi Gras would be. Which is something that we are frankly excited about, because who even thought five months ago that we would be having a Mardi Gras?

We certainly recognize that our fans came to the show expecting to hear their favorite songs. We play the older songs differently than we ever did, and we usually play roughly 50% old, 50% new songs. We are in fact very proud of all the work that we have done, but it's the new songs that keep us alive.

We had probably three charges filed in the year and a half the law was in effect ... That roughly indicates the frequency of these offenses.

Both candidates seem to be proposing roughly equal deficits over time. Both plan on cutting it in half but doing it by growing the economy as opposed to lowering the dollar amount.

At one time, he had roughly eight of the top 10 times in the late 1970s in the world.

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness -- a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion. The mind grappling with great aims and wrestling with mighty ingredients, grows, by certain necessity, to their stature. Scarce anything so convinces me of the capacity of the human intellect for indefinite expansion in the different stages of its being, as this power of enlarging itself to the compass of surrounding emergencies.

Corporate America is on the mend. The only downside of stronger productivity growth is that it means hiring is lagging. As far as downsides go, this is roughly the equivalent of eating your broccoli. It may be tough to stomach at first, but it makes you stronger and healthier in the long run.

Competitors aren't sitting still. Toyota continues to gain a percentage point of market share a year. Ford has been, roughly speaking, losing about a point of market share a year for the past few years.

Current labor market estimates appear to be overstating the share of working Americans by 1.4 percentage points. This corresponds to roughly 3 million fewer people working almost as big a drop in employment as in a typical recession.

Drivers already pay roughly $30 billion a year in federal gasoline taxes; that ought to be enough to at least give them a decent federal Interstate highway system with maintenance costs.

Flows indicate that investors are nervous, with significant flows out of equities into asset allocation and fixed income funds over the quarter. The roughly 200% run from the lows of March 2003 is being interpreted by 'the bears' as a sign that the market must be in perilous territory.

There was a best-selling book in the late '60s and '70s called 'The Adventurers' by Harold Robbins. The lead character's name was Dax. Anyone that's roughly my age that's named Dax is named from that book.

ISIS controls a territory roughly the size of Maryland where 8 million people live. If it's attacked and toppled, who will fill the void?

The search engines all return roughly the same results.

The sea ice was a record minimum in the satellite era since 1979 and probably in the last century. Compared to where it should have been, you've lost an area roughly twice the size of Texas.

I've worked in communities that are the size of Marquette. My experience has been in communities of roughly 20,000 to 30,000 in population, with a very diverse service base. I believe I'm an excellent choice to be your next city manager.

I've only written two novels, neither of them published, where the book is dominated by a male point of view; in the 'Onyx Court' series, it's split roughly 50/50.

It would be pointless. We have only three trains (between 6 a.m. and 7:30 a.m.), and they arrive roughly every 30 minutes. If PATH ran every six minutes, nobody from Metro-North would be getting on them.

The storm will likely continue to grow before it makes landfall right near Fort Lauderdale, Fla., roughly between 11 p.m. and 3 a.m. is the projected time.

The strength of domestic demand seems real. I believe Japan will achieve roughly three percent growth this year.

The target date is a must. Every year, we are printing roughly 350 million tickets. We will not print any more paper tickets by 2007.

Thanks to the fact that the Earth isn't a perfect sphere, and invoking a bunch of Newtonian physics, you can deduce that our planet wobbles, too, taking roughly 26,000 years to trace out a small circle on the sky, a phenomenon known as precession.

Roughly two weeks ago, we had more than 4,000 online transactions.

roughly the same intelligence that the Clinton administration saw.

Roughly speaking, when you are dealing with business firms operating in a competitive system, you can assume that they're going to act rationally. Why? Because someone in a firm who buys things at $10 and sells them for $8.00 isn't going to last very long in that firm.

Roughly one million people are entering the middle class each month and government policies to increase consumption mean this is an ideal time for us to expand in China. The average person living in Beijing can buy four times as much from us as he could when we opened in the capital in 1999.

Roughly half of the new infections are sexually transmitted. The other 48 percent comes from intravenous drug users, and the remaining 2 percent are vertical transmissions from mother to child.

roughly consistent with an economy operating at potential.

Roughly 95 percent of the hedge funds that we contacted said their costs had risen in 2005, and nearly half of the respondents expect their compliance costs to rise yet again.

Roughly 40 percent of our business comes from south of Colorado Springs. Logic would tell you that it is probably a pretty good bet that we are concerned about the proposal.

Roughly 40 percent of older black and Hispanic women who live alone live in poverty.

Roughly 13 million American taxpayers filed their tax returns over the Internet last year and the industry is looking forward to another year of double-digit growth.

Sadly, it's the space the museum occupies that's needed. We've had roughly 2,000 new personnel move onto Fort Richardson in the last few months, and the number is only increasing. Office space is at a premium; new construction just can't keep pace with the influx of new troops.

Right now, we can make roughly 60 million doses domestically of a normal flu vaccine in a normal year, ... But according to recent research, the total amount of antigen required to immunize a person against H5N1 is four times as much as the total amount in a normal flu shot. In a pandemic, nearly everyone would need flu vaccines, but with the current version, we could immunize only 15 million Americans, just over 5% of the country.

Saudi Arabia is, of course, the keystone of OPEC. Saudi Arabia has had the distinction of remaining stable through all the escalating tumult of recent decades, reliably pumping out its roughly 10 million barrels a day like Bossy the cow in America's oil import barn.

Our analysis suggests that roughly 67 percent of institutional shareholders would need to vote in favor of the deal in order for it to pass. We view this as highly unlikely, particularly in light of Walter Hewlett's intention to publicly solicit proxies.

Of the 2.7 million jobs lost since employment's peak, roughly a third have been lost to overseas competition, and most if not all of those jobs are not coming back, ... And that trend is going to continue.

A decade or two ago, the market was not strong enough for new market-rate development to work in East New York; today it does. And with low interest rates, you see lots of market-rate construction that is affordable to people making roughly an average income for New York City.

After over three decades of implementation the Endangered Species Act (ESA) has recovered 10 of roughly 1300 listed species nationwide, ... The current law is just not working. TESRA is an innovative approach with bipartisan support that will turn the conflict under ESA into cooperation and refocus the law on actually recovering species. We can and must do better.

Something roughly equivalent in features could be worth more or less in a different setting,

Speak roughly to your little boy, and beat him when he sneezes: he only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases.

Speak roughly to your little boy, / And beat him when he sneezes: / He only does it to annoy, / Because he knows it teases.

Novell's Linux revenue increased 22 percent year over year to US$10.4 million. Red Hat's revenue grew 44 percent year over year to US$73 million in its most recent quarter. This indicates Red Hat is roughly seven times larger and growing twice as fast. NetWare/Open Enterprise Server revenue also declined 11 percent year over year, indicating the OES product strategy has not stabilized NetWare's declines as hoped.

Novell's Linux revenue increased 22 percent year over year to $10.4 million. Red Hat's revenue grew 44 percent year over year to $73 million in its most recent quarter. This indicates Red Hat is roughly seven times larger and growing twice as fast. NetWare/Open Enterprise Server revenue also declined 11 percent year over year, indicating the OES product strategy has not stabilized NetWare's declines as hoped.

Dell recently established a separate storage business... Dell has only been selling external storage for about two years, and it is already the number six player in the market, with roughly a $1 billion run rate.

Any potential shareholder looking at us today and the Terra-Lycos merger, there's a $15 spread between the implied value and the trading price of Lycos at roughly $58 a share, so the implied value is really $73. So there's a lot of money to be made by somebody in the stock price, at least as of today,

As fears about the energy and environmental crises reach a fever pitch, we're all searching for solutions. And one possibility is that we could fix everything if we'd just shrink our population back down to about 2 billion people - which would put us roughly where we were at 80 years ago.

The Bureau of Economic Analysis has estimated that in 1995 Americans spent roughly $300 billion on financial services ... Even if increased competition were to lead to savings of just one percent, that's $3 billion

A time will come when this ... whole discussion is entirely academic, because our technology and our shelf-space capabilities will be rising at roughly the same rate, in my opinion, as high-definition television begins to arrive throughout our society,

You're talking about one of the most endangered mammals in the world and the most endangered species in North America . There are roughly 90 cats. Will we ever know how many for sure.

Your brain forms roughly 10,000 new cells every day, but unless they hook up to preexisting cells with strong memories, they die. Serves them right.

This is an essential dose of protection for roughly 270,000 elderly and disabled people in Massachusetts who may experience a loss in drug coverage when they are switched overnight to the Medicare prescription drug program on January 1.

This is good news for Salem-Keizer. That's roughly equivalent to 1 percent of our yearly budget and will be considered in the budget process, which continues during the next couple of months.

This clarifies the existing status of many roads around the county. We completed roughly 99 percent of the roads last year and this is the final list given by the commissioners.

Although lots of companies are supplying natural ingredients, most of them offer the same ones. There are roughly 500 natural products traded in Europe. Yet around 100,000 plants are used locally around the world for food or medicine and few of these are in commercial use.

They played all-around solid games ? all of them played roughly half the game and they did very well.

This phenomenon cuts across all demographics. You'll find it in families both rich and poor; black, white, Asian and Hispanic; urban, suburban and rural. According to the Census Bureau, fully one-third of young men ages 22 to 34 are still living at home with their parents ? a roughly 100 percent increase in the past 20 years. No such change has occurred with regard to young women. Why?

This is troubling because there are about 35 million contact-lens wearers in the USA and, of those, roughly 25 million or 26 million are soft lens wearers. Basically, everybody who wears soft lenses is at risk for this type of infection.

This is a very potent vaccine. It took roughly about 30 days to make the vaccine from when we received the sequence information from CDC in Atlanta.

As we entered this quarter, we expected desktop units to be relatively flat, with revenue down sequentially due to continued pricing pressures, ... However, pricing pressures have been more severe than expected, with the sequential rate of price decline roughly double that of the prior two quarters.

It's a $2 million expense for the city, and so far the city has paid $1.5 million to the state. We give out the money in phases as per request. It's roughly $500,000 per request.

It was roughly in line with what I'm looking for, ... They lowered the boom. They're talking about doing all the right things, but there wasn't a lot of detail. It's going to be a long drawn out recovery, but it still doesn't make me want to run out and buy the stock.

for every dollar that's provided in additional aid now, roughly 1.5 American dollars will be coming off the aid budget after 2015.

For every dollar in additional aid now, roughly $1.5 will be coming off the budget after 2015.

The number of transistors on some chips exceeds one billion, and 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 process. This translates into significant power savings for people who will use devices based on this technology.

It looks to me like the act is roughly working as it was expected to. We never found huge impact -- but certainly in our work we found improvement in growth, capital expenditures and jobs coming from the measure.

It's roughly in line with what people expected, and if you discount the Chinese New Year effect, the number would probably not look so high.

It's roughly 4% to 5% of the American refinery capacity will be delayed and starting up I would guess in another couple of months,

That's roughly equal to 432 Olympic-sized swimming pools every hour.

It's still very early days, but the economies appear to be heading in roughly the same direction. A small measure of convergence is already there.

The 'big 3' reporting agencies maintain files on roughly 90 percent of all American adults.

The average urban household income in India is about $3,000 a year, roughly in line with China, and the consuming class has grown from 35 million families in 1996 to an expected 80 million this year. That's roughly in line with the U.S., ... This is a very big opportunity for us.

The average residential customer is paying roughly twice as much for natural gas as he did in 1999. These high prices strain the budgets of all homeowners and, even worse, many low-income households must choose between heat and other life necessities.

No matter what size, how bright, or how many stars they contained ? all the galaxies seemed to be sitting in roughly the same amount of dark matter.

It varies on any given day, but if you take the winter season, ... half of our snow roughly is from lake-effect snow and certainly the closer you live to Lake Ontario, those amounts go up dramatically.

It will spend a lot of time well away from Central Florida. But on Sunday, it will make a curve back toward the Panhandle and that's when we will probably see the most rain in our area. The projected landfall is roughly between Apalachicola and New Orleans.

They believe there's at any one time roughly five, 50-thousand undocumented workers in West Virginia and the cost to the state can be as much as 17-million to the state in lost revenue,

The U.S. is roughly 300 million people and the rest of the world is 6 billion people, so when you think of the opportunity of international markets, that's the best example.

They'll do roughly the same amount of stuff during that hour and a half.

Serbia still has some weeks to achieve full cooperation -- roughly at the end of March.

At the rate we've grown, roughly every three years we need another million square feet of warehouse. We purchased enough land here to expand to 2 million square feet.

Exercise is roughly equivalent to an oil lube and a filter for a car. You don't have to do it, but when you do, it makes the car run a lot better.