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In doing so, he gave up a future higher than average salary for an almost guaranteed life of relative poverty in an instant.

There is a higher than average chance of developing an infection in the lining of the heart or aorta known as bacterial endocarditis.

Strongly religious and family-oriented societies seem to have a higher than average age for children leaving the parental nest.

While equities are not pricing in a global depression, higher than average volatility makes it expensive to put on tail risk hedges.

Growth Company Companies that show higher than average gains in earnings which they generally do not distribute as dividends.

A higher-than-average valuation implies that investors expect better-than-average profits growth.

And while Cassandra's genetic marker for nonverbal IQ is three points higher than average, Laszlo and I are just normal.

Growth is likely to be led by business investment and exports, both of which benefit firms with higher-than-average productivity.

CONS: Higher-than-average housing costs, sluggish employment growth, accelerating urban sprawl and unplanned development, long winters.

A number of studies over the past 20 years have also found sales workers to be at higher-than-average risk of bladder cancer.

The pages per second evaluation shows that mail-related workloads demonstrate a higher than average pages per second value.

There is already some evidence that 1950s children in St Louis grew into adults with a higher-than-average rate of cancer.

But air temperatures above the Barents and Kara Seas have been higher than average.

They're also really into pop culture with music, movies, TV and reading ranking higher than average.

But others have found that having a slightly higher than average body mass index when one is very old is good for the brain.

if you're behind the wheel, you should expect higher than average levels of children playing touch football.

That was partly offset by Spanish banks' higher-than-average profitability.

Higher than average fasting blood glucose levels are only weakly related to later development of heart attacks or strokes.

The share of claims filed by men rose more in some states with higher than average unemployment rates.

Small Midwestern cities such as Fargo, North Dakota, have experienced higher than average population and job growth over the past decade.

For 2006 hybrid models, the costs to the insurer of comprehensive coverage were 75 percent higher than average.

The study confirms that joint international collaborative papers tend to have a higher-than-average citation impact.

The difference for higher-than-average IQ scores was significantly smaller (16 points versus 4 points).

A 2005 German study concluded that people who take above-average risks have a higher-than-average index of life satisfaction.

With rainfall about 42 per cent higher than average across Thailand this year, this is certainly force majeure territory.

Airborne pollutants such as carbon monoxide were 4 times higher than average readings - the worst seen to date in the Russian capital.

In addition, they have noted that temperatures thisyear are higher than average.

Other workers face higher-than-average rates of nonfatal occupational injuries and illness es involving days away from work;