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 International Agency for Research on Cancer, preparations that include more than five percent of crude coal tar are Group 1 carcinogen.

According to the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, " China has been working with great determination in recent years to develop, implement, and enforce a solid environmental law framework.

According to the Agency for Toxic Substance and Disease Registry, a small amount of ingested lead ( 1 %) will store itself in bones, and the rest will be excreted by an adult through urine and feces within a few weeks of exposure.

According to the WWF and Digital Map of European Ecological Regions by the European Environment Agency, Macedonia's territory can be subdivided into four ecoregions: the Pindus Mountains mixed forests, Balkan mixed forests, Rhodopes mixed forests and Aegean sclerophyllous and mixed forests.

According to a 1998 report created by William Brankowitz, a deputy project manager in the U. S. Army Chemical Materials Agency, the Army created at least 26 chemical weapons dump sites in the ocean off at least 11 states on both the west and east coasts.

According to the International Atomic Energy Agency there are at least 100 research reactors in the world fueled by highly enriched ( weapons-grade / 90 % enrichment uranium ).

According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, radon is the second most frequent cause of lung cancer, after cigarette smoking, causing 21, 000 lung cancer deaths per year in the United States.

According to a 2011 projection by the International Energy Agency, solar power generators may produce most of the world ’ s electricity within 50 years, dramatically reducing the emissions of greenhouse gases that harm the environment.

According to a separate U. S. Central Intelligence Agency study, “ the effect of an FAE explosion within confined spaces is immense.

According to Central Bank of Venezuela, the government received from 1998 to 2008 around 325 billion USD through oil production and export, and according to the International Energy Agency, to June 2010 has production of 2. 2 million of barrels per day, 800, 000 of which go to the United States of America.

According to the United Nations Refugee Agency, there were almost 96, 000 African refugees in Yemen in 2006, including more than 91, 000 Somalis.

According to an internal memo from Philip Morris referring to the United States Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ), " the credibility of the EPA is defeatable, but not on the basis of ETS ( environmental tobacco smoke ) alone.

According to a white paper authored by Intel and the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, PCs with internal power supplies will require the use of active power factor correction to meet the ENERGY STAR 5. 0 Program Requirements for Computers.

According to Homeland security research, the U. S. federal Homeland Security and Homeland Defense includes 187 federal agencies and departments, including the United States National Guard, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the United States Coast Guard, Customs and Border Protection, U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, the United States Secret Service, the Transportation Security Administration, the 14 agencies that constitute the U. S. intelligence community and Civil Air Patrol.

According to a 2006 speech by Mitsuhiro Suganuma, a former officer of the Public Security Intelligence Agency, around 60 percent of yakuza members come from burakumin, the descendants of a feudal outcast class and approximately 30 percent of them are Japanese-born Koreans, and only 10 per cent are from non-burakumin Japanese and Chinese ethnic groups.

According to the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ), PCBs have been shown to cause cancer in animals, and there is also evidence that they can cause cancer in humans.

According to the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry ( ATSDR ), approximately 99 percent of the PCBs used by U. S. industry were produced by the Monsanto Chemical Company.

According to former CIA Director Richard M. Helms: " The code names for most Agency operations are picked in sequence from a sterile list, with care taken not to use any word that might give a clue to the activity it covers.

According to Peter Andreas, a border theorist, the creation of DHS constituted the most significant government reorganization since the Cold War, and the most substantial reorganization of federal agencies since the National Security Act of 1947, which placed the different military departments under a secretary of defense and created the National Security Council and Central Intelligence Agency.

According to the Central Intelligence Agency, 84 % of Rwandans and 85 % of Burundians are Hutu, with Tutsis the next largest ethnic group at 15 % and 14 % of residents in Rwanda and Burundi, respectively.

According to the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry ( ATSDR ), approximately 99 percent of the PCBs in the United States were produced by the Monsanto Chemical Company.

According to Britain's Food Standards Agency, the Indian food industry in the United Kingdom is worth £ 3. 2 billion, accounts for two-thirds of all eating out, and serves about 2. 5 million British customers every week.

According to several sources, Salameh served as a secret contact between the Palestine Liberation Organisation ( PLO ) and the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) from 1970 until his death, guaranteeing not to assassinate US citizens in exchange for financial and political support.