According to the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, indirect comparison indicates that side-effects from benzodiazepines may be about twice as frequent as from nonbenzodiazepines.

According to a recent opinion poll, 39 % of Americans believe the US has a crony capitalist system.

According to the CIA World Factbook, Costa Rica's GDP per capita is US $ 10, 900 ( 2009 ); however, there is a lack of maintenance and new investment in infrastructure, 21. 3 % of the people living below the poverty line and 7. 8 % ( 2009 ) unemployed.

According to the US, the Cuban Government has taken no action against al-Qaida or other terrorist groups.

According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics the median wage for commercial and print models was only $ 11. 22 per hour in 2006.

According to a study, " in most areas studied, the various ventures that prompted deforestation rarely generated more than US $ 5 for every ton of carbon they released and frequently returned far less than US $ 1 ".

According to the US General Services Administration:

According to the Bank for International Settlements, the total outstanding notional amount is US $ 708 trillion ( as of June 2011 ).

According to US President John Adams, Ponet's work contained " all the essential principles of liberty, which were afterward dilated on by Sidney and Locke ", including the idea of a three-branched government.

According to its website, the US National Security Agency ( NSA ) is " a high technology organization ... on the frontiers of communications and data processing ".

According to World Bank estimates, Eritrea lost US $ 225 million worth of livestock and 55, 000 homes during the war.

According to the World Tourism Organization, international tourism receipts in 2002 were only US $ 73 million ( compared with US $ 730 million for Tanzania ).

According to the International Monetary Fund, in 2003 foreign reserves were just US $ 17. 2 million, sufficient to cover only two weeks of imports.

According to the US Department of State 2009 human rights report there are hundreds of political prisoners in Ethiopia.

According to Herbert Weinstock's 1968 biography ( see below ), the composer's estate was valued at 2. 5 million francs upon his death in 1868, the equivalent of about 1. 4 million US dollars.

According to Lipper, the average US domestic equity mutual fund decreased 37. 6 % in 2008.

According to the Hague and Geneva Conventions, the US, as an occupying power, was responsible for the human rights and security of Iraqi civilians.

( According to the PGP FAQ, the US patent expired on May 25, 2010.

According to the Canadian Encyclopedia " its grand plaza and lower office buildings, designed by internationally famous US architect I. M.

According to former Indian diplomat G Parthasarathy, " only after we got nothing from the US did arms supplies from the Soviet Union to India commence ".

* According to the US Department of Justice, prison time as a percentage of the time sentenced to jail was 73 % in 1993 and increased to 86 % in 1997.

According to Federal Election Commission data, Spacey has contributed US $ 42, 000 to Democratic candidates and committees.

According to Keith Mayes, the author of Kwanzaa: Black Power and the Making of the African-American Holiday Tradition, the popularity within the US has " leveled off " as the black power movement there has declined, and now between half and two million people celebrate Kwanzaa in the US, or between one and five percent of African Americans.

According to the Food And Drug Administration ( FDA ), `` Doctor '' Ghadiali, Dr. Albert Abrams and his clique, and Dr. Wilhelm Reich -- to name three notorious device quacks -- succeeded, respectively, in distributing 10,000, 5000, and 2000 fake health machines.

According to Brazilian law, BCG is given again to professionals of the health sector and to people close to patients with tuberculosis or leprosy.

According to the World Health Organization, physical inactivity is second only to tobacco smoking as a health risk in developed countries, and this is associated with many tens of billions of dollars of healthcare costs.

According to The General History of the Pirates, published more than 25 years after the event by an author whose very identity remains in dispute, Kidd made peaceful overtures to Culliford: he " drank their Captain's health ," swearing that " he was in every respect their Brother ," and gave Culliford " a Present of an Anchor and some Guns.

According to legend, the publication of his poem Hymn to the Pillory caused his audience at the pillory to throw flowers instead of the customary harmful and noxious objects and to drink to his health.

According to a report in the British Medical Journal, use of DDT in Mozambique " was stopped several decades ago, because 80 % of the country's health budget came from donor funds, and donors refused to allow the use of DDT.

According to the FSM U. N. deputy ambassador, Micronesia has since sought close bilateral relations with Israel in areas such as agriculture, technical training and health care training.

According to David Biello and John Pavlus in Scientific American, Singer is best known for his denial of the health risks of passive smoking.

According to d ' Eslon, Mesmer understood health as the free flow of the process of life through thousands of channels in our bodies.

According to castmate Todd Bridges ' autobiography Killing Willis, Coleman was made to work long hours on the set of Diff ' rent Strokes despite his age and health problems, and this contributed to his being unhappy and separating himself from the cast.

According to the compendium of Charaka, the Charakasamhitā, health and disease are not predetermined and life may be prolonged by human effort.

According to followers of Unani medicine, these elements are present in different fluids and their balance leads to health and their imbalance leads to illness.

According to the Committee, when systems fail to do so they risk infringing upon the human right to food and health, and to cultural participation and scientific benefits.

According to Article II of the IAEA Statute, the objective of the IAEA is " to accelerate and enlarge the contribution of atomic energy to peace, health and prosperity throughout the world.

According to Hufeland, macrobiotics is a medical philosophy on a higher level than the curative, preventative, or health levels of medicine.

According to Chee Soo in The Tao of Long Life, natural dietary therapy, or ch ' ang ming, has been developed in China since prehistoric times, along with a range of health arts that have become what we now know as traditional Chinese medicine, or TCM.

According to the Worldwatch Institute, " Massive reductions in meat consumption in industrial nations will ease their health care burden while improving public health ; declining livestock herds will take pressure off rangelands and grainlands, allowing the agricultural resource base to rejuvenate.

According to Linda Lee Cadwell, soon after he moved to the United States, Lee started to take nutrition seriously and developed an interest in health foods, high-protein drinks and vitamin and mineral supplements.

According to Simon Chapman, a professor of public health at the University of Sydney, the burning agents in cigarette paper are responsible for fires and reducing them would be a simple and effective means of dramatically reducing the ignition propensity of cigarettes.

According to Szasz, " the therapeutic state swallows up everything human on the seemingly rational ground that nothing falls outside the province of health and medicine, just as the theological state had swallowed up everything human on the perfectly rational ground that nothing falls outside the province of God and religion.

According to some analyses of the U. S. health care safety net, EMTALA is an incomplete and strained program.

According to official sources, sensing the reduction of Lin's power base and his declining health, Lin's supporters plotted to use the military power still at their disposal to oust Mao in a coup.

According to a 2001 survey on the health of the Māori Language, the number of very fluent adult speakers was about 9 % of the Māori population, or 29, 000 adults.

According to Heikal, Nasser suffered something resembling a nervous breakdown and his health began to deteriorate after the dissolution of the union.