Sentences with phrase «percent say the events»

Additionally, 48 percent of respondents who participated in Small Business Saturday said they visited a local business they had never been to before, and 84 percent said the event makes them want to shop small all year.

Not exact matches

Here's what I'll say about the conference, why I think it needs to exist: It is a hundred percent different from every other startup and tech event that exists.

Halfway through the event, Trump told the attendees he would impose tariffs of 25 percent on steel imports and 10 percent on aluminum imports, the person in the room said.

Apps are now commonplace in the event planning space, and according to a Guidebook survey, 88 percent of event professionals utilizing them say they've seen an increase in the vital metric of attendee satisfaction.

Network viewership increased 93 percent or by about 2 million more viewers on average during the first four events this season that Woods finished inside the top 25, Nielsen said.

Fourteen percent said they will wait to see how events such as the fiscal cliff and tax policy play out.

Based on expectations that shareholders would demand a 35 percent premium to GM's market capitalisation, FCA would need to pay about $ 77 billion in an all - stock transaction in the event of a hostile bid, the sources said, adding that GM shareholders would likely demand a substantial payout.

The Prime Day sales event added 2 percent to the company's global revenue growth rate, Olsavsky said in a conference call with reporters.

There are a few progressive organizations that capitalize on employee passion for competition to build camaraderie, as 25 percent of employed Americans say their current employer has encouraged watching major sporting events at work, such as the Summer Olympics (11 percent).

65 percent of respondents say shopping for gifts and necessities for events is to blame for their stress

Nearly half of shoppers will gift a food or beverage experience, and 32 percent said they will give tickets to an event like a concert or sports game.

The European division reported a a COR of 95.2 per cent, up from 90.7 percent after being exposed to Northern American weather events in the second half, QBE said this was a «strong result» given the current environment.

But only 25 percent actually have the required donor identification papers that would allow a physician to take a needed organ in the event of a documented brain death, said Marita Völker - Albert, spokesperson for the Federal Center for Health Education (BZgA), a government agency that is promoting organ donation.

In the event of a reasonable market pullback (say, a few percent), and assuming market internals were still intact at that point, I would be inclined to increase our call option position toward about 2 % of assets, which would provide good exposure to any market advance that might begin from that lower base.

Eighty percent have a favorable view of Sarah Palin, and 57 percent say they trust Fox News most to give them accurate information about politics and current events.

In any event, saying «everybody» cheats seems to be a stretch; while it's hard to get an exact number of people who are cheating because it's all self - reported (and you have to think that those who are lying to their spouse are probably not going to be totally honest when it comes to a poll on infidelity), some studies indicate it's about 20 percent of married couples while others suggest it may be as high as 60 percent to 70 percent.

The organizers said the main goals of the event were to persuade Cuomo to block all new natural gas infrastructure in the state, including pipelines and power plants; move toward 100 percent renewable energy, and tax emissions to fund the transition.

McLaughlin, who harnessed the support of just 13 percent of poll respondents, said at a campaign event Monday that she could not be sure the poll was accurate if she could not see the zip codes that were called for surveys.

Donohue said it has increased the events coming to Albany by 77 percent in 2017, and will eventually generate $ 1 million a year in sales tax.

Only 32 percent of Americans said they're less likely to attend big events in the wake of the Las Vegas massacre, a Rasmussen poll found.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo says 2017 attendance at New York state fairgrounds events was more than 57 percent higher than in 2016.

Cuomo has said he supports Hochul «100 percent» at a People First event earlier this month, but said a roll out of his endorsement would be decided by her campaign.

Stringer, who left before dinner for babysitting duty, said he hoped the weeklong event will encourage people to stop by the more than 20 participating eateries, which are offering either 20 percent off menu items or a prix fix dinner for $ 20.16 — the year when the subway is expected to be completed.

In follow - up interviews two months later, four out of five said that the psilocybin experience had improved their well - being and satisfaction with life, about 70 percent rated the experience as among the most spiritually significant events of their lives, and nearly 70 percent called it one of the most personally meaningful events, comparable to the birth of a first child or the death of a parent.

New Zealand experienced an extreme two - day rainfall in December 2011; researchers said 1 to 5 percent more moisture was available for that event due to climate change, which is increasing the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere.

Although storms like Superstorm Sandy are incredibly rare, sea - level rise has made a Sandy - level inundation event 50 percent more likely than it was in 1950 in areas like the Battery and Sandy Hook, said William Sweet, a NOAA oceanographer.

With any single line of evidence, you can say, «Oh, well, there's still a 25 percent chance it's random,» but what happens when you put all these events together?

«When we say five percent - probability high - impact event, people may dismiss it as small but it is equivalent to a one - in - 20 chance the plane you are about to board will crash,» said Ramanathan.

«If we're going to prevent diabetes, we've got to build on the 25 percent of the community that comes to our events,» she said.

Only 35 percent reported an ECG in the previous year and 46 percent said they had an ECG in the previous five years, reducing the possibility that the low number of cardiac events stemmed from at - risk runners being screened out before the race.

«We're seeing for Texas an event whose annual probability was 1 percent at the end of the last century, and it might be 18 percent by the end of this century,» Emanuel says.

Just days later, a real - time analysis by scientists working with Climate Central's World Weather Attribution program has found that global warming has boosted the odds of such an extreme rainfall event in the region by about 40 percent — a small, but clear, effect, the scientists say.

While there has been a 70 percent increase in heavy precipitation events in the region since 1958, most of that has been in warm weather rainstorms, Ken Kunkel, a researcher at the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C., said.

«Unfortunately, this global event has exposed 72 percent of the world's reefs to the sustained high temperatures that cause corals to bleach and / or die and half of them have been hit at least twice during the event,» Mark Eakin, the coordinator of Coral Reef Watch, said.

Dr. James A. Levine of the Mayo Clinic also said that people who sit four or more hours a day have nearly 50 % increased death of any cause, as well as «about a 125 percent increased risk of events associated with cardiovascular disease, such as chest pain (angina) or heart attack.»

Fifty - three percent of both men and women said they'd be ok if it was just once for a big event, and 31 percent responded with the more enthusiastic: «When do we leave?

Only 23 percent of women said they'd rather not go to a sporting event on a first date, compared to over 30 percent of men.

Promoting financial independence is more vital than ever, Young says, and she offers as proof the recent gloomy turn of economic events: Nearly 30 percent of families at one Jackson - area school have lost their homes due to recent mortgage foreclosures.

1) Providing constructive feedback to teachers At an event hosted by teacher group Educators 4 Excellence, 64 percent of teachers in the room said that their principals do not provide meaningful feedback.

Pagani says that the Diablo is about 50 percent composite, but that there was an all - composite project under Chrysler «s ownership that was stopped with the sale of the company, an event that probably precipitated Pagani's determination to build a car on his own.

Everything from the entertainment to the food at the dinner event was donated, so «100 percent of the proceeds will go to the (PHS) baseball program,» Fairbairn said.

Nevertheless, Cader has made the cogent point that such gossip - grabs as these events may (I said may) have consequences: «Barnes & Noble's stock fell 9.6 percent during the day to close at $ 7.32 a share, a new low for the company.»

A survey conducted by PEMCO Insurance found that while 51 percent of adults said parents should forbid their child from going to an after - prom party where alcohol would be present, another 20 percent gave it the thumbs up as long as the event would be chaperoned.

In fact, 23 percent said they would risk becoming a victim of identity theft for a good deal on Cyber Monday, the major online sales event the Monday after Thanksgiving.

With an overwhelming 92 percent of last year's attendees saying they would recommend the Top2Top Conference to someone who has not attended in the past, one thing remains clear: This year's Top2Top is shaping up to be another impeccable, dynamic industry event.

«After Bogey died, I decided to take 10 percent of what we were raising at our Days of Wine and Wet Noses event and put it towards this program,» Roberts said.

Dr. Karen Lange, director of veterinary services for EHS, says that when events include fee - waived adoptions, a 50 percent increase is generally seen in cat adoptions.

With more than 75 percent of survey respondents saying the sessions and networking events will help their businesses in the future, and 85 percent saying they found the conference worthwhile, the Pet Industry's Top2Top Conference is a must - attend event for all industry leaders.

Michael Goh, international sales senior vice president of Genting Cruise Lines, said during the company's Travel Partner Tribute Award event that the Genting Dream had previously included Surabaya and North Bali as its ports of calls, adding that over 15 percent of its passengers were Indonesians.

Looking at online hotel reservations that were not made through a company's own online booking tool, 54 percent of the travelers said they booked directly with a hotel, while 41 percent used a third - party website and 5 percent used an event registration site.