A common rule of thumb is that two consecutive quarters of falling real GDP constitute a recession.

It is a common rule of thumb in business e.g., 80 of your sales come from 20 of your clients.

The general rule of thumb is to ascend no more than 300 meters (1,000 ft) per day to sleep.

Researchers in conservation biology have tended to adopt the 50 500 rule of thumb initially advanced by Franklin and Soule.

But the historical rule of thumb is that the chances of a fast, hard landing have now surpassed 25 , and continue to climb.

The rule of thumb that chemical and biochemical processes double in speed with each increase of ten degrees Celsius is a reasonable approximation here, too.

For a typical power system, the rule of thumb is that the base load power is usually 35 40 of the maximum load during the year.

Thumb And Pouch

So, what he found is that in all cases of thumb mutations, instead of having a thumb, you would either get another opposable thumb, or you would get four fingers.

How far will the dollar have to fall? The first historical rule of thumb is 10 on the dollar for each percent of GDP's worth of unsustainable current account deficit.

, having a hitchhiker's thumb and a straight thumb, eyes of slightly different colors, differential hair growth on opposite sides of the body, etc.

Give people rules of thumb, not product manuals.

Actions The flexor pollicis longus is a flexor of the phalanges of the thumb when the thumb is fixed, it assists in flexing the wrist.

Indeed, a CBO rule of thumb equates a sustained one percentage point shortfall in real GDP growth with budget deficits that are roughly 3 trillion larger over a ten year period.

While it is common to refer to pareto as 80 20 rule, under the assumption that, in all situations, 20 of causes determine 80 of problems, this ratio is merely a convenient rule of thumb and is not nor should it be considered immutable law of nature.

That is what I and all of Ukraine s democrats want for our country a society of opportunity, under the rule of law and not under the thumb of cronies and oligarchs, in an open Europe.

A good rule of thumb for the average growth rates of the G 7 countries would be to attribute about one percentage point in productivity gains to the growth rate of the working age population.

Watch the fingers grab. The thumb comes up. Wrist.

However, as with many rules of thumb, there are many caveats and exceptions.

These rules of thumb work (at least tolerably so) as a result of evolution.

The second historical rule of thumb is that currencies on the decline tend to overshoot near the bottom, international currency speculators require a substantial risk premium out of the fear that the currency crash might trigger something even worse.

So, instead of trying to find the ideal type or the ideal average, he'd always look for the exception. So, in this example, which is an example of what's called Bateson's Rule, he has two kinds of mutations of a human thumb.

OK, now, cross your hands over, so your right hand goes over, interlace your fingers like this, then make sure your right thumb is outside your left thumb that's very important.

Tuscola County is a county located in the Thumb region of the U.S. state of Michigan.

Now there are a number of diagnostic tests, akin to marketers rules of thumb, for certain conditions.

OK, I want you to pinch right here with two fingers and your thumb.

And it is biased toward universal recipes model institutional arrangements, best practices, rules of thumb, and so forth.

The abductor pollicis brevis is a muscle in the hand that functions as an abductor of the thumb.

Now he's going to pick up a pen with his opposed thumb and index finger.

The opponens pollicis is a small, triangular muscle in the hand, which functions to oppose the thumb.

Despite decades of careful data collection and mathematical and statistical research, on many large questions we have little more than rules of thumb.

In human anatomy, the adductor pollicis muscle is a muscle in the hand that functions to adduct the thumb.

Historically, both state and federal attorney generals have preferred to prosecute occasional traders, who stick out like a sore thumb.

If you hit your thumb with a hammer, these wires in your arm that, of course, we call nerves transmit the information into the junction box in the spinal cord where new wires, new nerves, take the information up to the brain where you become consciously aware that your thumb is now hurt.

Even the existence of mundane uncertainty gives rise to conventions and rules of thumb that embody the best of human experience in dealing with the unknown.

These rules of thumb are decidedly inaccurate when describing two or more bodies of similar mass, such as a binary star system (see n body problem).

Assuming it was roughly the size of my wife's hand, I made some measurements of her thumb, and I scaled them out to the size of the skull.

Somebody said the test we're facing now, a scientist told me, is whether the combination of an opposable thumb and a neocortex is a viable combination.

Sarkozy can afford to thumb his nose at his party, given the total collapse of the opposition Socialists, who will almost certainly lose the 2012 election.

In the absence of the rule of law, the rule of man, mob rule or the law of the jungle will prevail.

The normal rules of thumb would say that the market is now expecting 8.75 years of near zero short term interest rates before the economy returns to normal.

For example, Greece s debt stock, including required bridge financing under the IMF program, should peak at around 150 of GNP in 2014 much of this debt is external. If a country can support debt totaling 80 of GNP (a rough but reasonable rule of thumb), then we need approximately 50 haircuts on this existing and forthcoming debt (reducing it to 75 of its nominal value).

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