In any case, estimates Derek Holt, an economist at the Royal Bank of Canada, the cattle industry, including its offshoots, makes up a modest 0.4% of Canada's GDP.But Marvin Shauf, vice-president of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture, says the problem is that "if one person gets hit, another person feels the pain".
Expenditures on diplomacy and foreign aid make up a very modest part of the over-all budget, and virtually all national-security experts agree that they promote America's "soft power": its ability to advance its interests without resorting to military force.
Last year Norwich Union and Royal & Sun Alliance, two British insurance firms, began offering car insurance based on driving patterns, made up of a modest fixed rate and a variable element depending on where and when the customer drives.
But over the entire ten-year period they made up a relatively modest 35% of the total, with new firms contributing 24% and firms with new products or entering new markets as much as 42%.Mr Bernard says these findings are at odds with the conventional view that export growth is the result of domestic firms becoming more productive.
Although Xbox and Xbox Live revenues make up only a modest percentage of the company's overall revenue, MSFT's E3 announcements about discounts on the Xbox One X make the stock all that much more appealing.
Salaries at Schwa are modest, but food costs make up an astronomical 60% of the take-in.
No one doubts that the Bay Area could do more to help its neighbors in the valley, but even officials here concede that the smog that blows this way makes up only a modest part of the problem.
For example, when investigating the MYC-induced global amplification of transcription in lymphocytes and ES cells, the Levens group noticed that the activation of genes that contain the E-box, which are traditionally defined as the MYC-target genes, makes up only a modest fraction of the total number of genes activated in these cells (Nie et al., 2012).
The Motown Historical Museum, 2648 West Grand Boulevard, (313) 875-2264, a k a "Hitsville USA," is made up of two modest homes that gave birth to the Motown sound.
