According to comics historian Coulton Waugh, a 1947 poll of newspaper readers who claimed they ignored the comics page altogether revealed that many confessed to making a single exception: Li ' l Abner.

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

According to these critics who use data from the 1997 poll, the poverty rate rises to 29 %.

According to a poll at a Quantum Mechanics workshop in 1997 ,< ref > the Copenhagen interpretation is the most widely-accepted specific interpretation of quantum mechanics, followed by the many-worlds interpretation.

According to a survey released by the " Beirut Center for Research and Information " on July 26 during the 2006 Lebanon War, 87 percent of Lebanese support Hezbollah's " retaliatory attacks on northern Israel ", a rise of 29 percentage points from a similar poll conducted in February.

According to one poll, 33 % of American visitors to Scotland believed haggis to be an animal.

According to a 2005 poll, most of Finns at that point were reluctant to join NATO.

According to a 2012 poll, 51 % of the Turks in Germany, who account for nearly two thirds of the total Muslim population in Germany, believe that homosexuality is a sickness.

According to a poll conducted in 1947, Robinson was the second most popular man in the country, behind Bing Crosby.

According to a 2005 Gallup poll 20 percent of U. S. adults believe in reincarnation.

According to one poll, about 24 % of the United States population identifies itself as spiritual but not religious.

According to a 2008 Gallup poll, 99 % of Sri Lankans considered religion an important aspect of their daily lives.

According to a July 2005 poll, 32 percent judged Chirac favorably and 63 percent unfavorably.

According to a poll taken by USA Today in 2005, majority of Americans support affirmative action for women, while with minority groups though, it is more split.

According to a June 2008 poll from a Taiwanese mainstream media TVBS, 58 % of people living in Taiwan favor maintaining the status quo, 19 % favors independence, and 8 % favors unification.

According to the same poll, if status quo is not an option and the ones who were surveyed must choose between " Independence " or " Unification ", 65 % are in favor of independence while 19 % would opt for unification.

According to an October 2008 poll from the Mainland Affairs Council, on the question of Taiwan's status, 36. 17 % of respondents favor maintaining the status quo until a decision can be made in the future, 25. 53 % favors maintaining the status quo indefinitely, 12. 49 % favors maintaining the status quo until eventual independence, 4. 44 % favors maintaining the status quo until eventual reunification, 14. 80 % favors independence as soon as possible, and 1. 76 % favors reunification as soon as possible.

According to a December 2009 poll from a Taiwanese mainstream media TVBS, if status quo is not an option and the ones who were surveyed must choose between " Independence " or " Unification ", 68 % are in favor of independence while 13 % would opt for unification.

According to a poll conducted in 2001 for French Catholic magazine La Croix, numbers are: Roman Catholic 69 % ( only 10 % being listed as regular churchgoers ), Agnostic or Atheist 22 %, Protestant ( Calvinist, Lutheran, Anglican and Evangelical ) 2 %, others are 7 %.

According to a CBS poll, 92 % of Panamanian adults supported the U. S. incursion, and 76 % wished that U. S. forces had invaded in October during the coup.

According to a poll conducted in September 2009 by The Des Moines Register, he maintained a 70 % favorability rating from Iowans compared to Governor Chet Culver's rating of 50 %.

According to a March 2010 Rasmussen poll, 64 % of voters nationally view the speaker unfavorably, and 29 % have a favorable opinion of Pelosi.

According to a poll by the Peruvian Research and Marketing Company conducted in 1997, 40. 6 % of Lima residents considered President Fujimori an authoritarian.

According to a Reuters poll, approximately " one in five workers around the globe, particularly employees in the Middle East, Latin America and Asia, telecommute frequently and nearly 10 percent work from home every day ...".

According to Asser, because of Pope Marinus ’ friendship with King Alfred, the pope granted an exemption to any Anglo-Saxons residing within Rome from tax or tribute.

According to Brown ( 1971 ), the increased professionalization of tax collection did much to destroy the traditional structures of provincial life, as it weakened the autonomy of the town councils in the Greek towns.

According to the Federal Board of Revenue's 2006-2007 year book, tax and customs units in Karachi were responsible for 46. 75 % of direct taxes, 33. 65 % of federal excise tax, and 23. 38 % of domestic sales tax.

According to the Ministry of Economy, the state regulates the prices of goods and services provided by monopolies and the prices of electric or thermal energy, land, medical services, and services offered by local tax regions.

According to the estimates of Jacques Necker in 1788, the capitation tax was so riddled in practice, that the privileged classes ( nobles and clergy and towns ) were largely exempt, while the lower classes were heavily crushed: the lowest peasant class, originally assessed to pay 3 livres, were now paying 24, the second lowest, assessed at 10 livres, were now paying 60 and the third-lowest assessed at 30 were paying 180.

According to William A. Niskanen, one of the architects of Reaganomics, " Reagan delivered on each of his four major policy objectives, although not to the extent that he and his supporters had hoped ", and notes that the most substantial change was in the tax code, where the top marginal individual income tax rate fell from 70. 1 % to 28. 4 %, and there was a " major reversal in the tax treatment of business income ", with effect of " reducing the tax bias among types of investment but increasing the average effective tax rate on new investment ".

According to Paul Krugman, " Over all, the 1982 tax increase undid about a third of the 1981 cut ; as a share of G. D. P., the increase was substantially larger than Mr. Clinton's 1993 tax increase.

" According to historian and domestic policy adviser Bruce Bartlett, Reagan's tax increases over the course of his presidency took back half of the 1981 tax cut.

According to a 1996 report of the Joint Economic Committee of the United States Congress, during Reagan's two terms, and through 1993, the top 10 % of taxpayers paid an increased share of income taxes ( not including payroll taxes ) to the Federal government, while the lowest 50 % of taxpayers paid a reduced share of income tax revenue.

According to the Tax Foundation, the most important factor driving changes in Tax Freedom Day from year to year is growth in incomes, as the progressive structure of the U. S. federal tax system causes taxes as a percentage of income to rise along with inflation.

" According to this definition, for example, income tax is " direct ", and sales tax is " indirect ".

According to the arrangement, al-Dari and his descendants were only permitted to tax the residents for their land and the waqf of the Ibrahimi Mosque was entrusted to them.

* According to a 2010 study published in the Brussels newspaper L ' Anglophone, the tax burden for typical workers in Central and Eastern Europe's " flat tax " countries is slightly higher ( 40. 3 % versus 40. 2 % of the total cost of employment ) than that of the progressive systems elsewhere in the EU.

According to Michael Meacher, this change put an end to a previous inequity whereby two families, in otherwise identical circumstances, paid differing amounts of tax “ simply because in one case the child possessed property transferred to it by a grandparent, while in the other case the grandparent ’ s identical property was inherited by the parent .” In 1969, a “ save-as-you-earn ” scheme was introduced, designed to encourage new savings over a contracted period.

According to the provisions of this act pub hours were licensed, beer was watered down and was subject to a penny a pint extra tax.

According to tradition, the oystercatcher, the Faroes ' national bird returns this day.

According to the first dictionary of modern Serbian language ( published by Vuk Stefanović-Karadžić in 1818 ) vukodlak / вукодлак ( werewolf ) and vampir / вампир ( vampire ) are synonyms, meaning a man who returns from his grave for purposes of fornicating with his widow.

According to a 2012 Financial Times article, hedge funds are increasingly making most of the short term trades in large sections of the capital market ( like the UK and US stock exchanges ), which is making it harder for them to maintain their historically high returns, as they are increasingly finding themselves trading with each other rather than with less sophisticated investors.

According to returns announced on June 17, Yeltsin won 35 % of the vote ; Zyuganov won 32 %; Aleksandr Lebed, a populist ex-general, a surprisingly high 14. 5 %; liberal candidate Grigory Yavlinsky 7. 4 %; far-right nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky 5. 8 %; and former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev 0. 5 %.

According to former Congressional Budget Office analyst Christopher Barnekov, such contracts allowed the rail carriers and their shippers much more opportunity readily to develop more efficient transport arrangements which lowered costs for the carriers, yielding better returns for the carriers and lower rates for the shippers.

According to the official returns recorded by each British ship, and repeated in dispatches from Nelson and forwarded by Parker to the Admiralty, British casualties were 264 killed and 689 wounded.

Empirical evidence has been mixed, but has generally not supported strong forms of the efficient-market hypothesis According to Dreman and Berry, in a 1995 paper, low P / E stocks have greater returns.

According to local folklore, the priory is haunted by the ghost of a monk in a black habit who returns to the ruins annually to check that its buried treasure has not been disturbed.

According to the storyline, Bub returns to Ireland to help his Aunt Kate celebrate her 104th birthday.

According to the 2001 UK Census returns 29. 69 % of Llanelli town residents could speak the Welsh language.

According to Douglas, Georgia tradition would guarantee a Maddox victory though he had trailed Callaway by some three thousand votes in the general election returns.

( According to the school's 2006 calendar year tax returns, the endowment is worth over $ 368, 000, 000 today.

According to some estimates, about three percent of taxpayers do not file tax returns at all.

According to a study on ETF returns in 2009 by Morgan Stanley, ETFs missed in 2009 their targets by an average of 1. 25 percentage points, a gap more than twice as wide as the 0. 52-percentage-point average they posted in 2008.

According to the tradition, if Phil sees his shadow and returns to his hole, he has predicted six more weeks of winter-like weather.

According to IRS Publication 969: Health Savings Accounts and Other Tax-Favored Health Plans, you can generally make contributions to your HSA for a given tax year until the deadline for filing your income tax returns for that year, which is typically April 15.

According to the Form 990 returns of NTUF, the NTU and NTUF share staff, facilities, website and board members.

According to Buffett's essay, " The Superinvestors of Graham-and-Doddsville ," published in 1984, Munger's investment partnership generated compound annual returns of 19. 8 % during the 1962 – 75 period compared to a 5. 0 % annual appreciation rate for the Dow.

According to returns placed before the House of Assembly in 1836, title to some located in twenty-nine townships had at one time gone through his hands.

According to returns lodged with the Charity Commission for the year ending in March 2009, Arnolfini had 398, 000 visitors in 2008 / 2009.

According to the law, faster growth in output increases productivity due to increasing returns.

According to Diamond, the defining concept of dominionism is " that Christians alone are Biblically mandated to occupy all secular institutions until Christ returns ".

According to local Police Athletic Leagues, the program generally solicits funds, equipment, and volunteer help from members of the community, so that the cost to taxpayers is small while the returns are great.

According to Frank, " abortion is never outlawed, school prayer never returns, the culture industry is never forced to clean up its act.