Sentences with phrase «sharply as a percent»

Large deficits today mean that the public debt will rise sharply as a percent of national income.

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In other words, oil prices have shot up sharply on the news already — WTI and Brent were up more than 8 percent by midday Wednesday — but more gains could be coming as OPEC is set to severely tighten the market.

Japan's stock market nose - dived nearly 11 percent, leading world markets sharply lower on Tuesday, as an escalating nuclear crisis threatened to compound the devastation from last week's earthquake and tsunami.

Average solar panel prices have fallen by 55 percent since 2010 even as German government support has begun dropping sharply.

And while wind energy had been growing at an average annual rate of 27 percent and solar photovoltaic, too, was surging as costs fell sharply, so - called clean coal remained a long way off and governments» ambitions for fuel efficiency and electric vehicles were well ahead of reality.

If the world somehow manages to sharply reduce carbon emissions soon, such reductions may amount to as little as 0.5 percent, they say.

This initial advantage in academic achievement dissipates sharply over time, however, and appears to vanish by high school when, as a 9th grader, the redshirted student is at most 7 percent older than his peers.

They have followed much the same trajectory as all Americans, but declining more sharply, going from about 48percent in the 1970s, to 24 percent in the current decade, a 50 percent drop.

As a result of the program, milk consumption increased sharply and was still up by 15 percent after six months.

The report, which surveyed nearly 500 consumers, found that a large majority of shoppers have cut back sharply on their non-essential pet care purchases, some by as much as 90 percent from just several years ago.

Before the CARD Act sharply limited the fees it could charge, it had boasted an APR as low as 9.99 percent.

Shamefully, even as law school admissions dropped sharply after 2010, private law school tuition went up annually by 4 percent (more than twice the rate of inflation).

Overall, because female arrest rates increased more sharply and then fell more gradually, the share of female juvenile arrests grew from 20 percent to 29 percent between 1980 and 2003.4 Consequently, boys are now about twice as likely as girls to be arrested, down from four times as likely in 1980.

Reports of slowing in the job market reverberated this week as monthly job openings fell sharply in August, down 7.3 percent to 5.443 million, according to the Labor Department's Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey.

And Millennial homeowners» confidence fell twice as sharply — 5.3 percent.

The downtown office vacancy rate rose sharply during the fourth quarter, to 15.1 percent, as downtown businesses continue to contract.