Sentences with phrase «percent less force»

Competitive gamers will be pleased to hear the sticks require 25 percent less force to move, allowing you to adjust your aim in a first - person shooter or execute a half - circle sweep in a fighting game faster and more accurately.

Not exact matches

The numbers are stark: America's population is 13 percent black, but in the Silicon Valley work force, that portion is less than 1 percent.

The number of women, African - Americans and Hispanics employed at companies such as Google, Facebook and Yahoo lag far behind the U.S. work force as a whole; meanwhile, only 3 percent of venture funding is earmarked for female founders, and founders of color claim less than 1 percent, according to U.S. chief technology officer Megan Smith.

The unemployment rate fell to 6.7 percent, from 7 percent, but that was less about job creation than about people, fed up or unsuccessful in their job searches, dropping out of the labor force.

The labor force participation rate has not been this low — 63.3 percent — since 1979, a time when women were less likely to be working.

This group of super spenders is expected to see its population double over the next five years to 100 million households, and as an economic force they are poised to eclipse the impact of rising but less - wealthy consumers: Their consumption is currently growing at 17 percent a year, compared to just 5 percent among emerging - middle - class and middle - class consumers.

People with disabilities demonstrate the same passion, independence and self - direction as all Americans, and given certain characteristics — including being on average older and less educated — it is not surprising that the rate of self - employment for people with disabilities in the labor force in 2011 was about 50 percent higher than the corresponding rate for people without disabilities -LSB-...]

In Bosnia as of mid-1998, for example, our troops represented less than 20 percent of NATO forces and only 10 percent of the International Police Task Force.

The study, released today, finds that using SMAs costs 23 percent less than employing a direct sales force at retail.

Meyer says the company has less than 3 percent turnover annually with its 288 - employee work force, and it offers training on all of its processes.

Ethnic minorities make up less than ten percent of the work force and fewer than one in ten board members are female.

The proposed property tax cap would force Oswego to keep any tax increases to less than five percent.

It should be noted that the bargaining unit that agreed with the governor represents less than 1 percent of the state work force and is a very specialized unit that has been working without a contract since 2005,» he said.

Paul LePage is governor because an independent candidate forced a three - way race, meaning he was elected by less than 40 percent of the voters.

The Syracuse metro has a labor force of a little less than 310,000 people and an unemployment rate of just 5 percent, so it might be a big challenge for the company to fill all those jobs here.

After exposure to the full force of Martian UV rays, less than 1 percent formed new colonies.

By evaluating aspirin guidelines by the American Heart Association, the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force, and other organizations, researchers determined aspirin use to be inappropriate in patients with a 10 year cardiovascular disease risk of less than 6 percent.

The firm reports on its own unpublished «preliminary results» with elite Olympic ski jumpers showing a 31 percent improvement in their propulsion force, with significantly less wobble when airborne.

The latest version of the Sensor Fish — a small tubular device filled with sensors that analyze the physical stresses fish experience — measures more forces, costs about 80 percent less and can be used in more hydro structures than its predecessor, according to a paper published today in the American Institute of Physics» Review of Scientific Instruments.

Less than a year after Cuomo wanted to link 50 percent of a teacher's evaluation to student test scores, he called for a «total reboot» of the system and formed the Common Core task force to investigate.

The participation of women in the labor force grew rapidly during the 20th century, from less than 20 percent of women in 1890 to well over 50 percent today.

Although people of color constitute more than one - third of the U.S. labor force, less than 20 percent of teachers identify as people of color.

There, United Teachers of Los Angeles vice-president and English teacher Cecily Myart - Cruz slammed charters, saying «If we lose 50 percent of our students to unregulated charters, that means we're going to have 50 percent less of a teaching force.

Thirty - nine percent of teachers in high - minority Mississippi schools have less than four years of experience, while rookie teachers make up just 15 percent of the teaching force at low - minority schools.

Nationally, 16 percent of public - school students are black, but the proportion of black teachers is less than half that: only 7 percent of the nation's teaching force.

While people of color make up more than one - third of the labor force, 11 less than 20 percent of teachers identify as people of color.12 Recruitment is essential to ensure that highly qualified candidates consider a career in teaching, as well as to combat current diversity disparities in today's schools and within the teaching profession.

A CFRP part typically weighs 50 to 70 percent less than a steel part that can withstand the same forces, but carbon fiber doesn't have the elasticity of the metals it replaces.

Just as they enter the work force, women are earning 7 percent less in their first year than their male peers, according to research from the American Association of University Women (AAUW).

Many people are forced to pay private mortgage insurance (PMI) because their down payment is less than 20 percent.

Cornell University's December 2002 issue of the «Cornell Chronicle» mentions the results of a 14 - year study, which found that eating less results in healthier, longer lives and that dogs forced to eat 25 percent less of the same balanced diet than their littermates lived significantly longer and suffered fewer canine diseases.

Using the more standard approach as proposed by the I.P.C.C., the increased 2007 - 2011 climate forcing from methane is less than 8 percent of the increase in CO2 forcing.

-- Changes (order of a few percent) in globally averaged column ozone forced by the solar ultraviolet irradiance 11 - year cycle are now better understood, but ozone profile changes are less certain.

The solar forcing in our reconstruction is determined by the relative values of the modulation potential, which means that change to a different LIS model will introduce only several percents of correction, which is much less than the estimated accuracy of the reconstruction.

In the past several years, courts of most states have been forced to operate with at least 10 percent less funding than they had back in 2007, resulting in frozen or reduced salaries for judges and staff, furloughs, or a cutting back of hours of operation.

A trucking company that has less than 11 percent of its work force in the city of Roanoke, where it has only one client and in 2014 generated only 2 percent of its total revenue, does not conduct «substantial» business...

Due to a welfare system that guarantees government jobs, unemployment among Kuwaitis is less than three percent but is rising because of a growing influx of young Kuwaitis into the labor force.

The Solomon Islands is a lesser - developed nation, and more than 75 percent of its labor force is engaged in subsistence farming and fishing.

Borrowers with less than 20 percent down could then be forced to pay higher fees and interest rates.

Force yourself to move forward with incomplete information, take steps without a 100 percent clear outcome, or adapt to the less structured approach in some other way.

In a report issued by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) in January, average GDP growth was projected to be less than 2.0 percent per year between 2017 and 2020 due to sluggish growth in the labor force of 0.5 percent and productivity growth of less than 1.5 percent per year.