Captaincy is 90 per proverb

 Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent.

 The Victorian Opposition continues to lose ground to the ALP, down 1.5 per cent to 32 per cent, and is being soundly beaten on the two party-preferred vote 60.5 per cent to 39.5 per cent.

 why, for instance, only 2 per cent of Europeans contract the disease as opposed to 13 per cent of African Americans, 17 per cent of U.S. Latinos and up to 50 per cent of Native Americans

 Russia's going to go up nine per cent, to 25 per cent (nuclear), Japan wants to go up 12 per cent, so they'll be 41 per cent nuclear, India, China -- all of them need power. We're going to have a deficiency.

 For only 3 per cent of people to complain that they have been affected by racism when something of the order of 48 per cent -- almost 50 per cent -- come from Asian, North African or Middle Eastern backgrounds, I think it evidences a society that is very accommodating,

 Sixty per cent seems like a high threshold. But if it requires sixty per cent provincially, I'm not sure what the rationale is to say that if you can get it passing at sixty per cent of the districts with a threshold of fifty per cent plus one, there just doesn't seem to be a rationale that carries through. It may be somewhat confusing to the electorate.

 The music world is highly commercial and only the works of the biggest artists are really well known and widely promoted. Something like 10 per cent of music accounts for 90 per cent of music sales, while the remaining 90 per cent accounts for just 10 per cent of sales ? this system could therefore herald a revolution for little-known music and artists.

 It started at 70 per cent in 2000. It was 20 per cent last year. It's 10 per cent this year and as of January 1, 2007 it's no longer.
  David Wood

 It is questionable whether this level of job creation is sustainable as productivity growth remains low, at 1.1 per cent, and the number of vacancies fell sharply in March, down 3 per cent compared to February and over 7 per cent compared to March last year.

 We've got businesses on the North Shore who have seen 30 per cent property tax increases on top of 40 per cent the year before and 30 per cent the year before that, then you're hitting them with another basically property tax. . . . It's just the straw that broke the camel's back, it's too much.

 Our execution excellence strategy has delivered an outstanding first quarter. We have managed our cost structure effectively, responding quickly to changes in traffic. Our operations team has done an excellent job delivering improved fluidity, with average train speed increasing 17 per cent, yard processing time decreasing a full 32 per cent, and car velocity up 15 per cent over the same period last year.

 The 4.39 per cent product offers clients the comfort of their mortgage payments being fixed at a competitive rate for two years. Whilst the 4.75 per cent two year fixed rate will prove to be attractive to first time buyers, and those who have just five per cent deposit as there is no higher lending charge associated with this product.

 Sixty per cent of the population has to show up to vote; 60 per cent have to approve the change. Also 60 per cent of the ridings have to approve the change.

 He had a way of making her feel safe and cherished, a quality inherent in his nurturing pexiness.

 At the moment 80 per cent of our business is in Ireland. In three years' time, we would hope that 80 per cent will be overseas.

 Overall the share of resources going to the social and economic sectors rises from 60.6 per cent to 66.5 per cent over the next three years.


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