Article: Survey Says Ad Supported Gaming Takes Off.

Article: When asked, only 17 percent of all Americans have ever heard of NAM.
Manufacturing & Technology News;  June 16, 2009 ;     467 words ......Interactive if they knew about NAM, only 17 percent said yes. More people have heard of PhRMA...Research and Manufacturers Association (19 percent); APTA, the American Public Transportation Association, (19 percent); the Heritage Foundation (27 percent...

Article: 22 percent of men always or often keep their resolutions in the new year, versus 14 percent of women.(take 5)
New Hampshire Business Review;  January 2, 2009 ;     42 words ...According to a survey by Dorthy.com and conducted by Harris Interactive, 22 percent of men always or often keep their resolutions in the new year, versus 14 percent of women. Howewer, 74 percent of women say they're making resolutions as opposed to 58 percent of men.

Article: The 'mythical' 5 percent: what makes a successful programmer is not all codes and commands.(an executive view)(Viewpoint essay)
Tooling & Production;  July 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......behave. The statistics are sobering: 50-80 percent of programming projects fail. These numbers...even more fascinating metric is this: 5 percent of programmers are 20 times more productive than the other 95 percent. Let's say that this follows the 80-20...

Article: 1/4tMOSCOW (AP) _ Dmitry Medvedev has won Russia's presidential election with more than 70 percent of the vote, according to final official results released Friday. 1/4tRussia's Central Election Commission said Medvedev won Sunday's election with 70.28 percent of the vote. Turnout was 69.81 percent. 1/4tCommunist Party chief Gennady Zyuganov trailed with 17.72 percent, while ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky had 9.35 percent and little-known candidate Andrei Bogdanov captured 1.3 percent. 1/4tMedvedev's landslide victory was virtually assured by a blessing from Vladimir Putin, the popular incumbent who said he would retain clout by becoming Medvedev's prime minister. Medvedev has repeatedly pledged to pursue Put_ ef policies. 1/4tPutin captured about 53 percent of the vote in 2000 and won a second four-year term in 2004 with more than 71 percent, just above Medvedev's result. But the turnout in these elections _ 60 and 64 percent, respectively _ was significantly lower than the hefty 70 percent on Sunday. 1/4tWhile Putin won about 49.5 million votes in the 2004 election, Medvedev was backed by more than 52.5 million voters, according to the final tally released Friday by Central Election Commission. 1/4tMedvedev ty leader. He said he would discuss possible "consequences" with Beck. 1/4tChancellor Angela Merkel, whose conservative Christian Democrats govern Germany in a tense "grand coalition" with Beck's center-left party, has accused the Social Democrats of breaking promises to steer clear of The Left and suggested that will be an issue in next year's national election campaign. 1/4tIn Hesse, which includes Germany's financial center, Frankfurt, the two parties fought to a bitter stalemate in a January electmber Yevgeny Kolyushin harshly criticized campaign violations and official efforts to boost turnout on the election day and demanded a recount. 1/4tThe commission shrugged off the criticism and endorsed Medvedev's election.
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Article: UN says global tourism falls 8 percent
AP Worldstream;  July 2, 2009 ;     136 words ......Tourism Organization says international tourism fell 8 percent between January and April compared to the same period...forecast downward. It predicts tourism will decline by 4 percent to 6 percent this year, but says the decline's pace should slow...

Article: New Hampshire's unemployment rate in May fell to 3.9 percent, down from 4.0 percent in April.(Concord)
New Hampshire Business Review;  June 22, 2007 ;     32 words ...Concord: New Hampshire's unemployment rate in May fell to 3.9 percent, down from 4.0 percent in April. The New Hampshire rate was more than a half-point lower than the national rate of 4.5 percent in May.

Article: French Polls: Sarkozy Gets 53 Percent
AP Online;  May 6, 2007 ;     15 words ...PARIS - Polls say Nicolas Sarkozy got 53 percent of vote, to 47 percent for Socialist Segolene Royal.

Article: 467K jobs cut in June; jobless rate at 9.5 percent
AP Online;  July 2, 2009 ;     700+ words ......the unemployment rate up to a 26-year high of 9.5 percent, suggesting that the economy's road to recovery will...months, and that the jobless rate would rise to 9.6 percent from 9.4 percent in May. If laid-off workers who have given up looking...

Article: Arkansas' unemployment rate rose one-tenth of a percent in June to 5.6 percent. (Business Briefs).(Brief Article)
Arkansas Business;  July 14, 2003 ;     29 words ...* Arkansas' unemployment rate rose **-tenth of a percent in June to 5.6 percent. U.S. unemployment advanced three-tenths of a percent to 6.4 percent. *[Text unreadable in original source]

Article: June jobless rate seen rising to 9.6 percent
AP Online;  July 2, 2009 ;     700+ words ......economists predict the jobless rate will rise to 9.6 percent in June from 9.4 percent in May. That would mark a 26-year high. The rising...rate over the next year. It's expected to hit 10 percent this year. Many think it could rise as high as...

Article: Turkish economy shrank 13.8 percent in Q1
AP Worldstream;  June 30, 2009 ;     330 words ...Turkey's economy shrank by a painful 13.8 percent in the first quarter compared to the same...announced on Tuesday. Exports declined by 41 percent in the year to May while imports dropped by 43.9 percent, the institute said. Exports to European...

Article: India says growth could revive to 7.5 percent
AP Worldstream;  July 2, 2009 ;     570 words ......and said growth could revive to as much as 7.5 percent this year if the U.S. economy bottoms out by September...for the fiscal year through March slowed to 6.7 percent from an average of 8.8 percent in the previous five years. The speed at which...

Article: New Hampshire's jobless rate in November rose to 4.3 percent, up two-tenths of a percent from October.(Concord)
New Hampshire Business Review;  January 2, 2009 ;     33 words ...New Hampshire's jobless rate in November rose to 4.3 percent, up two-tenths of a percent from October. New Hampshire's rate was more than two points lower than the national jobless rate of 6.7 percent for November.

Article: Poll: 64 percent say too much Jackson coverage
AP Worldstream;  July 2, 2009 ;     123 words ......Research Center poll published Wednesday, 64 percent of those surveyed said Jackson's death last...Angeles has received too much coverage, 29 percent said the story received the right amount and 3 percent said the story got too little attention...