According to analyses conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 100 grams of fresh tomato today has 30 percent less vitamin C, 30 percent less thiamin, 19 percent less niacin, and 62 percent less calcium than it did in the 1960s. But the modern tomato does shame it's counterpart in one area: It contains fourteen times as much sodium.
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BILL MCCLOSKEY Three years ago, almost 80 percent of child care facilities (in Pitt and Martin counties) were one s... MARTA KOESLING Over the past year, our U.S. pro forma operating loss decreased from 24 percent of net sales in the ... WARREN JENSON Over the past year, our U.S. pro forma operating loss decreased from 24 percent of net sales in the ... WARREN JENSON Less than 10 percent of the people actually file a claim, JAMES DUNN Let us invest less and less in war and tax cuts for the richest 1 percent, and more and more in jobs... BENJAMIN TODD JEALOUS That's ten times bigger than the world's largest supercomputer ... for less than 1 percent the cost. PAT GELSINGER Less than 3 percent of workers make straight minimum wage. JAMES HARDWAY To the organizer, compromise is a key and beautiful word. It is always present in the pragmatics of ... SAUL ALINSKY The standard of 'affordable' housing is that which costs roughly 30 percent or less of a fam... 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JIN YIHUA With less than half the population, to have 80 percent of the votes cast in 2002 _ clearly that's a ... GREG RIGAMER It's got the exact same grams of fat. If we take the calories from fat, which are 30, and divide it ... MARGO RODRIGUEZ There's been a 100 percent increase in taxes over the last three or four years. Insurance is up 30 t... AL HOLMES More than 30 percent of our channel revenue comes from those markets outside the U.S.. HANS GEYER About 51 percent of nonprofit executives have been in their positions five years or less. ANN JOHNSON The probability of a large and damaging earthquake in the San Francisco Bay Area in the next 30 year... DAVID SCHWARTZ We had forecast a loan growth of 30 percent (this year) and in the first half it was 32 percent. ANIL KHANDELWAL I think I have the best job in the world. Seventy-one percent of the planet is covered by water, we&... EDITH WIDDER For the full year, the currency impact should be less than the 4 percent impact in the first quarter... DOMENICO SCALA We can't see the starting price at less than 19. The worry with this is that 50 percent of its reven... HOWARD WHEELDON India is at the peak of attractiveness for retailers right now, with a $350 billion retail market ex... FADI FARRA Just because you pay 5 percent less than somebody else doesn't mean it is a good price. THOMAS SKINNER History indicates that less than 10 percent of the meat recalled over a time period such as this is ... LEONARD TEITELBAUM In the Palestinian Authority area unemployment is 30 percent and maybe more. The area needs to grow ... GORDON BROWN Now they are less than 50 percent confident that there will be any rise. MARC CHANDLER We're expecting premiums to continue moderate. The increase in 2005 should be smaller than last year... JEANNE SALVATORE Pharmacia reported earnings growth of 19 percent, but the pharmaceutical side was up more than 20 pe... JEFF CHAFFKIN You're 50 percent less likely to die if you're buckled up. CHARISSA MCAFEE In terms of production output costs, Thailand is approximately 20 percent higher and the Philippines... MICHAEL AUSTIN Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world... ISABEL ALLENDE In 1973, America imported 30 percent of its crude oil needs. Today, that number has doubled to more ... GARY MILLER We're at less than 10 percent done with this ... planning when you consider the buses and the people... DON DAY In January I placed the likelihood of a Federal Reserve Rate hike in May at less than 10 percent. I ... ERNIE GOSS As of the mid-90s, over 50 percent of women have a bachelor's and master's degree, compared ... PETER DIAMANDIS Our challenge is to put them back to work at no less than 85 percent of their salary. CLARK JACOBS It is something we'd like to plan for. With 30 percent of our registered nurses here less than a yea... MARGARET HEFFERS Dilution looks to be about 11 percent, which is a touch less than the benefit from the synergies, KEVIN ASHTON According to Babette, 98.3 percent of lawyers end up in Hell. That's in contrast to the 23 percent o... CHUCK PALAHNIUK We're real close to the schedule. We just did a check of the schedule and I think 30 percent of the ... DUANE MOFFAT The industry should take note when nearly half of frequent airline passengers are experiencing probl... STEVE COHEN Our studies have shown that good house keeping practices in industries can reduce 30 percent of wast... SUMITH PILAPITIYA Even as sufficient pledges have been made for recovery and reconstruction, relief is still less than... ANDREW MACLEOD Blacks and Hispanics are going to save, but they will save less than whites both in absolute dollars... DR. WALID GELLAD About 95 percent of the time, weather is an unrealistic excuse, ... Less than 5 percent of the time,... BURT FLICKINGER When antiques started to decline, I shifted more of my square footage over to new furniture and deco... CAROL CUNNINGHAM On average, people miss about 70 percent of the posts in their 'Instagram' feed. What this i... KEVIN SYSTROM Revenues were, according to well-informed sources, more than $550 million for 2009—up from less th... DAVID KIRKPATRICK The issue of small rural schools must also be resolved, as must the urgent matter of the 178 schools... EDUCATION MINISTER NALEDI PANDOR Historically, the turnout for a special election is in the mid-30 percent range to 40 percent, BRUCE MCPHERSON The thing I have the most problem with is the discount. Each and every percent hurts me. Some guy th... HUGO PAPSTEIN As ratios go, that's actually pretty low; we're talking in the less than 10 percent range, which is ... PATRICK MCGURN According to FBI statistics for 2008, only 22 percent of murder victims were killed by strangers. Mo... ALAFAIR BURKE It's going to be difficult to stimulate the real economy in the U.S. at a faster rate than 2 per... BILL GROSS We're at less than 10 percent done with this trans (sic) planning when you consider the buses and th... DON DAY In November, I was forecasting 18 percent occupancy and at the end of the month, we were looking at ... ACHIM BRUECKNER What life companies have to do is get their costs down to less than 1 percent of funds under managem... JOHN RUSSELL Four more (free throws) would have meant overtime, five would have won it -- and we'd still be less ... MIKE RUSZKOWSKI In the areas of Florida that got the heaviest hurricane winds, we've lost 15 [percent] to 30 percent... CHARLIE MARCUS No matter our talent, we all know in the midnight of our souls that 90 percent of what we do is less... ROBERT MCKEE If ethanol production eventually takes 30 percent of the U.S. crop, as now predicted, much of that i... LARRY BERGER There's nothing magical or mysterious about it, but you don't do it to everyone. You use statistical... ADIL SHAMOO I expect it will cut my truck sales 30 percent. Next January my diesel sales will be 10 percent, the... BARRY LEHMER Our camp is 50 percent less than other families, and we take into special consideration for disadvan... DAVID BIGDA Fred's 100 percent. He has been 100 percent for a while. We thought it was in our best interest to m... BYRON LEFTWICH The House continues to be up for grabs in the next two years. There are 25 Republicans who won with ... MARTIN FROST I bet we shot 20 percent or less. We couldn't buy a bucket. CINDY GUTHALS Clearly our city is less than half the size it was previously ? maybe 200,000 people. Yet we had 80 ... GREG RIGAMER In this category you have swings of 30 to 40 percent in one quarter, KUNAL KAPOOR
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