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Below this critical ratio , most competitors move individually and tend to separate . Sales of conventionally grown bunched spinach are about 80 percent what they were before the September outbreak , he said . " The survey showed nearly 9 out of 10 consumers said they heard about the recall , but nearly 1 in 3 said they did n't know the recall was over when the survey was taken . An arithmetic progression is a sequence of numbers in which each number is bigger ( or smaller ) than the number before it by a constant amount . The example below shows a category product tree for ice cream that has six nodes , corresponding to two sizes ( 8 oz . The example shown above can be drawn with a single loop . " The House last month approved an increase in the minimum wage from $ 5.15 to $ 7.25 over two years . Chertoff is due on Thursday to make his first appearance before the subcommittee since Democrats took control of Congress . In a test of their modeling framework , Tang and his colleagues used shopping information from 548 households gathered over a 2-year period to examine purchases of ice cream , frozen pizza , regular cereal , spaghetti sauce , yogurt , coffee , hot dogs , and potato chips ) . The corresponding sona reflect the paths that light would follow starting near one corner ( S in the diagrams , right ) and traveling at an angle of 45 degrees and bouncing off the walls . " To address the growth of entitlement programs , Bush 's budget proposal contains about a 1 percentage point cut in the rapid growth in Medicare to squeeze about $ 66 billion in savings over five years from the federal health care program for the elderly . In recent weeks , Giuliani 's cautious and noncommittal attitude has caused some critics to question whether he would abandon his bid even before formally entering the race , as he did in 2000 when he was considering a Senate campaign against Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton . For the coloring shown above , the three red numbers 1 , 5 , 9 form an arithmetic progression with a common difference of 4 . Gravel , capitalizing on his rare chance to be heard before such an influential crowd , was the worst offender at 25 minutes . Fifty percent of people with Medicare coverage have incomes below $ 20,000 a year , and nine out of 10 Medicare beneficiaries have at least one chronic health problem , she said . Above the critical ratio , " packs form that catch and absorb individuals , " they observed . The example above has 4j + 1 ( where j = 1 ) , or 5 , columns , so can be drawn with a single curve . President Bush used the same economic reasoning when he rejected the Kyoto Protocol in 2001 , an international treaty requiring 35 industrial nations to cut their global-warming gases by 5 percent on average below 1990 levels by 2012 . Iraq continues to weigh on the nation 's finances , accounting for well over half of the current year 's projected deficit of $ 244 billion .