Sentences with phrase «as average americans»

When she began, of course, the term «tiger parent» didn't exist, but scholars had the same impression as average Americans, that «Asian - American parents are more controlling, yet their children are also doing very well academically,» Kim recounts.

This excellent ensemble cast is portrayed as average Americans who are navigating a dangerous and unstable environment, trying to flourish in the face of seemingly insurmountable obstacles.

That's no surprise, since airlines are cramming more seats into their coach sections, even as the average American is growing larger.

Houston employs twice as many engineers as the average American city and boasts several sectors including agriculture, shipping, storage and distribution that continue to grow the Houston economy.

With one serving you will eat as much fiber as the average American gets in a whole day!

(Also, Barea is about the same height as an average American adult male.)

No country could ask such a thing of India, where the average person uses just 6 percent of electricity as the average American, Javadekar said.

Nature deficit disorder has become a legitimate diagnosis as the average American spends 93 percent of their lives indoors.

The Inuit (Eskimos) of Greenland have only 3 to 4 times as much mercury in their bodies, even though they consume about 100 times as much mercury, PCBs, and other marine pollutants as the average American.

As the average American woman now wears a size 14, where can she find style inspiration that speaks directly to her size and shape?

It has a good deal less violence, obscenity and sex than Homer's «Odyssey,» and not nearly as much as the average American folk song.

As the average American reads 5 books per year, they will be able to keep 300 years worth of reading on their Valentine's or birthday gift.

This is especially true in recent years — as the average American has become more aware of the link between red meat and chronic illness, many people have started to turn to fish as a healthier alternative to beef.

What if everyone on earth produced as much as the average American.

Pretty soon they'll be as poor as the average American.

These changes are possible (the average Western European uses half as much energy as the average American while leading a quality life), but they will take real political leadership on issues ranging from mass transit to sprawl to the size of cars.

«Today we're driving as many miles in one day as the average American adult drives in a whole year,» a spokesperson said.

In addition, the Digiconomist found that a single bitcoin transaction requires as much energy as the average American family home needs for one day.

The average practitioner drives nearly twice as much as the average American, and the median annual business expense for using a car was $ 1,680 in 2010.

Not exact matches

While Sequoia acknowledged that Facebook «has unquestionably committed sins for which it must now atone,» the firm explained that it chose to purchase a stake as it believes «it remains a far more competitively advantaged, economically attractive and faster - growing enterprise than the average American business.»

American teens may know the mall like the back of their hand, but their knowledge of financial topics such as saving, spending and investing is average at best.

(Undoubtedly, the recent stock market rally certainly has some Americans feeling a lot richer as well, but since average U.S. families tend to have most of its wealth tied up in real estate rather than the financial market, the impact of housing is probably the more relevant one.)

As you can see, the gap between what the average Americans can afford and the median sales price is much larger than it had been prior to the housing bubble.

Not only is the Wells Fargo scandal easy to grasp for the average American — it's a slam - dunk issue for politicians as well.

In some cases, shoppers can save as much as 97 % — welcome news considering American households are projected to spend an average of $ 370.75 this Fourth of July.

The average North American office worker uses 10,000 sheets of paper a year, and the amount actually rose significantly with the advent of computers and e-mail as we printed the floods of new communication.

Using the average American household income of $ 54,000 as a guideline, your 15 percent money mansion contribution becomes roughly $ 5,100 per year after taxes.

When lumped in with still - rising federal levies like the Universal Services Fund, they add 12 percent to the average American's cell bill and as much as 19 percent in many of our most populous states, says Scott Mackey, economist and partner with government affairs firm Kimbell Sherman Ellis.

The average full - time employee in America puts in 8.15 hours a day, as reported in the 2016 American Time Use Survey data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Exactly how much taxpayers will save if Republicans succeed in overhauling the US tax code will depend on many factors, but tax cuts for average Americans aren't likely to be as sweeping as Republicans make it sound.

Americans, on average, consume twice as much added sugar as is recommended, according to Marion Nestle, PhD., professor in the department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University who posted a comment on the nutrition label proposals.

BlackBerry still owns more than 40 % of the North American smartphone market, and though it continues to show healthy growth in emerging markets, investors worry about the declining average sale price for its products, about RIM's failure to make a dent in the consumer marketplace, and about the growing sense that it no longer offers an enterprise user anything that one of its sexier rivals doesn't do as well or better.

But it's hard to deny that there is something, sometimes, that happens when we travel, even as part of the regular hour - and - a-half the average North American spends doing it each day — a sense of dislocation, even in familiar places, that helps us notice new details about our surroundings or that gives a new cast to those we've internalized.

As of March 31, 2018, Amarin had approximately 293.6 million American Depository Shares (ADSs) and ordinary shares outstanding, 32.8 million common share equivalents of Series A Convertible Preferred Shares outstanding and approximately 25.7 million equivalent shares underlying stock options at a weighted - average exercise price of $ 3.35, as well as 12.4 million equivalent shares underlying restricted or deferred stock unitAs of March 31, 2018, Amarin had approximately 293.6 million American Depository Shares (ADSs) and ordinary shares outstanding, 32.8 million common share equivalents of Series A Convertible Preferred Shares outstanding and approximately 25.7 million equivalent shares underlying stock options at a weighted - average exercise price of $ 3.35, as well as 12.4 million equivalent shares underlying restricted or deferred stock unitas well as 12.4 million equivalent shares underlying restricted or deferred stock unitas 12.4 million equivalent shares underlying restricted or deferred stock units.

As of 2015, American parents spend, on average, US$ 233,610 on child costs from birth until the age of 17, not including college.

Americans who rate themselves as «very happy» volunteer an average of 5.8 hours per month, compared with those who describe themselves as «unhappy» and log only about 0.6 hours.

Discussing the topic on s lightly more political / economic scope, I wonder if the decline you see in America can be linked to the opening of China's economy, where marginal producers in America have been replaced by high performing Chinese producers (because of lower wages) the result has been to see the average wages of «more profitable» producers be eroded to take this production shift to China — thinking of the Chinese labor pool as an addition to the American labor pool bringing down wages across the board.

As of early 2015, the average American household owed $ 7,281 on their credit cards.

Based on data from the American Community Survey, there is a racial and ethnic pay gap as well: Asian Americans reported the highest average earnings in STEM occupations, while non-Hispanic whites also had above average earnings; black and Hispanic professionals earned below average wages in 2012.

As a result, it's estimated that the average American will save between $ 500 to $ 1,800 on their 2018 tax bill.

Creating a single token requires as much electricity as two years» worth of consumption by an average American home.

The 3 month average is especially applicable to North American investors in general, with the standard quarterly cycle as it stands.

As Tamsin McMahon wrote a couple of weeks ago in Maclean's, Canadians owe an average of $ 1.53 for every dollar they earn — just below where American debt stood when housemageddon hit south of the border.

Not surprising to Jay, the price of gold skyrocketed in the late 1970s as inflation wiped out vast amounts of wealth from average Americans.

As of 2018, with the average savings rate hovering around 4 %, a median 401 (k) of only $ 110,000, and an average 401 (k) balance at retirement age 60 of around $ 230,000, many Americans are financially screwed.

The average citizen in many Latin American countries has turned to Bitcoin in order to survive, and now many wealthy families are becoming a believer in the cryptocurrency and are buying as much as they can.

Stein is concerned about relatively new funds, known as «alternatives,» or funds with strategies that until recently weren't used in funds geared toward average Americans.

As of 2013, the top 10 percent of Americans owned an average of $ 969,000 in stocks.

Zuckerberg tried to give a longer answer about how the «average American uses eight different apps» to connect with their friends, attempting to frame Facebook as just one of many apps.

The American Association of Individual Investors, for example, notes that bullish sentiment — the expectation that stock prices will rise over the next six months — is above its historical average, as it has been for nearly three months now.