Word: percents
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...detrimental effects of these policies are twofold. Ninety percent of Intel-based personal computers now come with Windows pre-installed, giving Microsoft effective control over the course of technological development in the software industry. Furthermore, the fact that Microsoft has discouraged innovation from its competitors has undoubtedly curbed the introduction of new products onto the technological market...
...have the biggest impact on the global spread of AIDS. The magnitude of the pandemic could range from 100 million to 1 billion, depending largely on what happens in India and China. Four million people have already become HIV-positive in India, and infection is likely to reach several percent in a population of 1 billion. Half a million Chinese are now infected; the trajectory of China's epidemic, however, is less certain...
...panic. That's TIME Digital editor Josh Quittner's advice to Microsoft investors Monday, as the stock price fell 5 percent in the first hour of trading following last Friday's antitrust case setback. (It later recovered to 89.93, and finished down just 1.8 percent on the day.) "Microsoft is the same company it ever was - one of the greatest concentrations of brainpower on the planet," says Quittner. "That's not going to change, and the company shouldn't be worth any less Monday than it was on Friday. Moreover, most investors had good reason to expect this ruling." Judge...
...largest health insurer, will announce on Tuesday that it plans to place more faith in its member doctors' diagnoses. The health plan, which insures more than 14 million Americans, spent $100 million in the past year scrutinizing doctors' recommended treatments, and, according to plan officials, ended up approving 99 percent of them. To trim these costs, executives have turned to a novel idea: Let the doctors decide what treatments are medically necessary, and let it go at that. "It's just extraordinary," Robert Blendon, a Harvard University professor of health policy, told The Dallas Morning News. "Here they are saying...
...tallies Monday had the ruling party candidate, Guatemala City mayor Oscar Berger, with a 1 percentage point lead over newcomer Alfonso Portillo, of the opposition Guatemalan Republican Front. Portillo, however, has an excellent shot at taking the December 26 election, because he's likely to absorb the 7 percent of voters who favored the candidate of a Marxist party fielded by ex-guerrillas. While Portillo's party, like the ruling party, is considered right-wing and is run by a former military dictator, Portillo himself is considered a centrist and wooed peasants with his campaign promise to "overthrow the oligarchy...