Mercury's shrinkage is at least one-third greater than previously estimated, Dr. Solomon said.
Online sales this season are expected to be about two-thirds greater than last year.
The average expenditure per couple is a third greater than the average wage.
Mr. Putin was especially solicitous of Mr. Zyuganov, whose support appeared almost one-fifth greater than pollsters had estimated.
Note that college costs continue to increase each year, so costs as a college senior will be about one-fifth greater than costs as a college freshman.
Los Angeles county created more than 78,000 jobs over the past year, more than any other American metropolitan area; at 2% a year, the area's rate of job growth is twice that of New York and a third greater than Chicago's.
Additionally, in Washington, where the improvement among black students was twice as great as in New York City and one-third greater than in Dayton, the reading scores of black students declined sharply in the first year that they attended private school.
Mohammad Mustafa, the vice-premier of the Palestinian Authority, told me last month that the gross domestic product per capita in the Palestinian territories was a third greater than Egypt's in 2006; now it is a third less.
In the early 21st century the death rate not only was above the world average but also was about one-third greater than the birth rate, which was significantly below the global norm.
In 1995, for example, American adolescents terminated pregnancies at a rate roughly a third greater than their Canadian, English, and Swedish counterparts, around triple that of French teen-agers, and six times that of Dutch and Italian adolescents.
