Sentences with phrase «than the rest of the country at»

While the median household income of $ 61,757 came in slightly higher than the rest of the country at $ 57,617.

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In Sydney, host of the 2000 Olympics, foreign tourism grew at a slower rate than the rest of the country in the three years following the Games.

Those rates are relatively on - par with the rest of the world, yet Americans are ten times more likely to die at the barrel of a gun than people in other rich countries.

Spain could therefore either use the imported German capital to (a) increase domestic investment (which it did in the form of a real estate bubble)(b) binge on consumption and sharply reduce its savings as a function of GDP (which it also did)(c) accept higher unemployment (which it is now forced to do) which forces GDP to fall faster than consumption falls or (d) try to emulate Germany by passing off a trade imbalance at the expense of the rest of the world (which Europe as a whole is trying to do and which will go nowhere in the long run because only one country is even remotely capable of accepting such massive inflows, and it is increasingly unwilling to import the unemployment caused by German and Asian policies).

This is the next great challenge for Beijing, and when the regulators finally do start to repair overextended balance sheet, with a much higher debt - to - GDP ratio than any other country at China's stage of economic development, according to a presentation Monday night by my very smart former student, Chen Long, I expect annual GDP growth rates will continue dropping steadily, by 1 - 2 percentage points a year through the rest of this decade (and there has been increasing talk in the past month or two that GDP growth rates are already 1 - 2 points below the printed rates).

At the same time, South Floridians have contended with a higher cost of living than the rest of the country, said economist William B. Stronge, an FAU professor emeritus.

«These are the places that are head and shoulders hotter than the rest of the country,» said Jonathan Smoke, chief economist at Realtor.com, «and they're also accelerating.»

The risk of a second referendum may cause the rest of the UK to be reluctant to adopt schemes or make decisions that benefit Scotland at the expense of the remainder of the country: why buy warships from Scottish shipyards, rather than from their English competitors, when Scotland may become a separate state at any time?

«I think the whole country now recognizes that the community colleges are more nimble than the rest of us,» said SUNY Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher, who plans to step down at the end of the 2016 - 17 academic year.

The Federal Reserve says Midwestern manufacturing has seen 28 consecutive months of growth — at higher rates than the rest of the country.

Out of every 10 teachers in this country, fewer than two are serious users of computers and other information technologies in their classrooms (several times a week); three to four are occasional users (about once a month); and the rest — four to five teachers out of every 10 — never use the machines at all.

Thanks to some unfortunate statistics that we'll look at shortly, drivers in Washington DC pay considerably more for their car insurance than those in the rest of the country, on average.

While the South in general has a reputation for moving at a slower, more comfortable pace than the rest of the country, as one of the fastest growing metropolitan areas in the country (and as the home of the world's busiest airport), hustle and bustle are easy to find in and around Atlanta.

Although there are many laws that are specific to Texas, and some that don't apply here at all, the state has more in common than not with the rest of the country when it comes to traffic law.

[207] At current estimates, this will be nearly 20 years earlier than the rest of the country.