Foreign direct investment shrank by two-thirds, and aggregate economic growth dropped by 50%–in stark contrast to China's surging investment, exports and gross domestic product growth.
(By contrast, gross margins at the Gap and other well-run chain apparel stores rarely rise above 45percentt).
On a more significant level, top writers never earn a percentage of the film's earnings -- or "first dollar gross" -- in contrast to top stars, directors and producers.
"What about if we had a photo of his parents, who look nice next to gross stuff, for contrast?" Ms. Klein said.
By contrast, gross morphologic abnormalities of the bones and joints predict that individuals with THRA mutations may be predisposed to osteoarthritis (27, 28).
The method adopted was that of Price et al. (56), in which only the innermost, ∼20 μm thick layer (the true, FLS-rich synovial layer or intima) is harvested; gross dissection, by contrast, harvests also the less specialized, much thicker (>100 μm) subsynovial connective tissue.
In contrast, the gross domestic product grew at a rate of 2.7 percent over this period, with tax revenues increasing at about the same rate as the G.D.P. Spending on infrastructure and government services, excluding defense, has kept pace with gross domestic product growth.
Currie noted that Walgreens gross margin grew, in contrast to rival Rite-Aids gross margin decline reported on Thursday.
In contrast, their gross motor performance on a Rota-Rod test was similar to that of WIS rats.
Clear resection margins (R0) led to significantly prolonged overall survival in contrast to gross residual disease (80% vs. 29%, p = 0.0448).
