The company has pledged to buy palm oil certified by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil and to use proprietary NExBTL technology that produces fuel with lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions 40 to 60
percent less than those of conventional diesel fuel.
-LSB-...] carbon dioxide output will be less than that of today's cleanest production cars and 75
percent less than that of competing vehicles, on average.»
Local police said that the accused were setting up mining operations at industrial complexes with electricity costs running 10
percent less than that of the area.
Not exact matches
Those business owners have long complained that the disparity is unfair, especially in view
of the fact that many multinationals pay much
less than the 35
percent statutory corporate tax rate by exploiting abundant loopholes and tax breaks available to large, global corporations.
By way
of pay, while the average worker at a startup earns about 6
percent less than a worker at a more established firm, the youngest workers earn about 3
percent more
than they do at older firms.
A report from the National Women's Business Council shows that only 1.8
percent of women - owned businesses earn $ 1 million or more, and 68
percent make
less than $ 25,000.
Over the same period, the proportion
of American workers employed by companies
less than five years old has dropped, from over 20
percent to
less than 11
percent.
The so - called kids» table is for the lower polling candidates, those with support from
less than 3
percent of likely Republican voters.
In fact, a November 2017 report from CareerArc
of 1,162 respondents found that female job - seekers surveyed were 33
percent less likely
than male job - seekers to apply to a one - star rated company.
A recent digital wallet survey conducted by data analytics company Thrive Analytics, reported on by trade publication Payments Source on Wednesday, shows that while 80
percent of consumers are aware that digital wallets exist,
less than one third use one.
Moreover, Quattlebaum, a biotechnology entrepreneur himself, estimates that only 20
percent of high tech or biotech companies ever generate revenue, and
less than 10
percent will be profitable.
Secondly, the site is focusing on traditional, web 1.0 display ads, with
less than 15
percent of its ads utilizing social data to reach a more targeted audience.
If you want to reach local customers and keep them coming back to your business, text - message marketing is one
of the most effective strategies for doing so: While email marketing messages are opened by
less than 20
percent of recipients, text message ads are typically viewed by at least 95
percent of recipients, according to Mashable.
Half
of those executives saw their pay decrease or rise by
less than 1
percent.
Energy represents
less than 1
percent of the portfolio.
Foreign direct investment is
less than 1
percent of Saudi Arabian GDP, which is very low compared to most emerging economies, where FDI runs between 2
percent to 3
percent of GDP, according to the Institute
of International Finance.
Another culture that treats women as
less than men (such that female infanticide still happens regularly), India, nevertheless, finds females in 30
percent of programming jobs, compared with 21
percent in the U.S.
Ninety - five
percent of exporting firms in the NSBA survey had
less than 100 employees.
The drug at the heart
of four lawsuits in New Jersey is insulin — «a century - old medicine that for most
of its history cost $ 15 or
less,» write Barrett and Langreth, but «whose list price has risen more
than 270
percent over the past decade.»
From October through mid-January — the period when the market was obsessed with the implication
of tax reform on earnings — the S&P 500 went from 2,500 to almost 2,900, or a 16
percent increase in
less than four months.
For those who export, two - thirds said they did so to increase company sales and profits, and roughly 70
percent said they devote
less than 5
percent of annual operating revenue preparing to export.
Elon Musk's new recycled / reusable rockets will cost $ 40 million per launch, 30
percent less than a first - time flight and well below
than the industry standard
of roughly $ 150 million.
Parents, for their part, would readily comply with kids» expectations:
Less than 5
percent of those surveyed said that they wouldn't let their child move back in after graduating from college, although nearly 25
percent said that they would charge them rent.
With 22
percent of boomers having
less than $ 100,000
of retirement savings, many will opening their own business for financial security and a purposeful later stage
of life.
But cryptocurrencies are a much smaller part
of the global economy, whether you compare it to US GDP or global GDP, it's
less than one
percent of global GDP.
Less than 7
percent of private tech company board seats are held by women.
«I think far
less than 1
percent of the 7.4 billion people on earth are driven by the environmental benefit
of plant - based food.
Verizon's legacy wireline business generated about 29
percent of company revenue in 2015, down sharply since 2000, and
less than 7
percent of operating income.
Specifically, the last sentence
of the official statement weirdly calls out the fact that the number
of complaints the company has received regarding its sun block lotion is»...
less than one half
of one
percent of all units actually sold.»
The study found that nearly 40
percent of small business owners who didn't know their business credit score anticipated growth
of less than 5
percent, while nearly three quarters who did, envisioned growth
of up to 20
percent.
A survey I conducted with colleagues showed 38
percent of U.S. workers have signed one, and 12
percent of those without a bachelor's degree who are earning
less than $ 40,000 a year had one in 2014.
Eighty - six
percent of employed millennial college graduates are more likely
than those with a high school diploma or
less to say they have found a «career.»
«Even at their recent peak, their combined global market value was
less than 1
percent of global GDP,» he said.
Although Istanbul is now known as the «Digital Bosphorus,»
less than four
percent of Turkish residents had access to the Internet at the time, and most food deliveries happened by phone, if at all.
The latest data shows that
less than 2
percent of VC money goes to women - led startups.
As
of last June,
less than 2
percent of active participating security SBICs had losses high enough to be considered «impaired,» compared with 20
percent a few years ago.
Which means
less than 1
percent of streams account for all other music.
The value
of commercial and industrial loans
of less than $ 1 million — a common proxy for small business lending — was 17
percent lower in June
of this year
than it was at the beginning
of the recovery — when measured in inflation adjusted terms.
Most parents are aware that over the course
of an adult's working life, high school graduates can expect, on average, to earn $ 1 million
less than those with a bachelor's degree and are 50
percent more likely to be unemployed.
In any case, she suggests, the SBA's role in the American economy is statistically insignificant —
less than 1
percent of all businesses receive SBA loans each year — yet constitutes unfair competition to businesses that don't need such help and a potentially huge liability to taxpayers should the economy tank.
In fact, according to a 2013 survey, 43
percent of small business owners are taking
less vacation time
than five years ago.
«There is just
less fear from people who feel like they might lose their jobs... Our shoppers seem more confident
than they did a year ago,» said Reed, 63, whose chain
of four stores clocked a roughly 10
percent jump in sales from Thanksgiving to this week, compared to the year before.
Only 5
percent of Fortune 500 companies are run by women, according to New York magazine, who receive a median pay that is $ 1.6 million
less than their male counterparts.
From Vox, citing a study at the University
of Texas: «If 10
percent of the vehicles... were self - driving cars, the country could save more
than $ 37 billion a year due to fewer deaths,
less fuel, more free time, etc..
International revenue, where Twitter has said it expects to derive most
of its future growth, increased 200
percent to $ 66 million, although that makes up
less than one quarter
of Twitter's total revenue.
It should be no surprise, therefore, that 57
percent of U.S. workers have
less than $ 25,000 in savings.
And yet Ceres — the largest object in the asteroid belt — is
less than one - tenth
of a
percent the size
of Earth and
less than 2 % the size
of the moon:
It put out a clarification statement after the report, giving two clues about the number: that daily users make up
less than 50
percent of monthly users, and that there's a lot
of room for growth.
That's
less than half the cost Lunapads was paying for the production
of pads to distribute through Pads4Girls, and about 20
percent what Uganda girls pay for commercial disposable pads.
When you're honest with yourself about all five
of these things, you're automatically dealing with the tippy - top
of the pyramid —
less than 1
percent.