In 2002 the city agreed to sell the building to the Museum of Arts and Design, which is squeezed into three and a half levels at 40 West 53rd Street.
Growth has fallen to 5%, half the level at the peak of the 2004-08 boom.
Productivity was half the level at Ford, though that was partly because equipment was often 40 years old.
That was only marginally higher than where it finished the year, and about half its level at the market top in March 2000.
More stable income from commissions and credit-card fees is only 13% of total revenues, half the level at Indian banks and just one-third of Thailand's.
Growth is 4-5%, half the level at the peak, inflation is 9% and rising (see chart), industrial production is declining and the public finances are a mess.
Before the summit Cameron wrote to EU leaders demanding that European aid be increased to €1bn from about half that level at the time, and that the EU dispatched a 2,000-strong 2,000-strongcal experteamofwest Africa.
LVMH's stock has sagged to half its level at the beginning of 2000, in part because the highly profitable luxury goods businesses have been dragged down by some newer acquisitions.
The ratio of world grain stocks to consumption — a measure of spare food capacity — is likely to remain historically low through 2010 and beyond, at around half its level at the start of the century, according to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the United Nations.
In earlier culture, the TFA content was almost the same at light intensities of 110 and 165 μmol/m2s, and it was nearly half the level at 220 μmol/m2s.
