A study of granite countertops was done ( initiated and paid for by the Marble Institute of America ) in November 2008 by National Health and Engineering Inc of USA, and found that all of the 39 full size granite slabs that were measured for the study showed radiation levels well below the European Union safety standards ( section 4. 1. 1. 1 of the National Health and Engineering study ) and radon emission levels well below the average outdoor radon concentrations in the US.

In 2007, the average cost of an engagement ring in USA as reported by the industry was US $ 2, 100.

In the USA, carpal tunnel syndrome results in an average of $ 30, 000 in lifetime costs ( medical bills and lost time from work ).

Disney Channel is ranked as the second most watched cable channel among total viewers during primetime, behind USA Network in first place with an average of 2. 8 million people.

Bichon Frise in ( combined ) UK and USA / Canada surveys had an average life span of about 12 – 13 years, with Bichon Frises in the UK tending to live longer than Bichon Frises in the US / Canada.

By 1985 In Another Land had sold 120, 000 copies in the USA alone, compared with average sales of less than ten thousand for other gospel albums,

, its average weekday circulation was 582, 844, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, making it the fifth largest newspaper in the country by circulation, behind USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times.

Livingston, Montana has some of the warmest winters in the state, but the temperature feels cold because Livingston is also one of the windiest places in the USA, having the 2nd highest average wind speed among airport / AMOS stations from 2000 to 2010.

In the year of 2008, while VC fundings were still majorly dominated by U. S. money ($ 28. 8 billion invested in over 2550 deals in 2008 ), compared to international fund investments ($ 13. 4 billion invested elsewhere ), there has been an average 5 % growth in the venture capital deals outside the USA, mainly in China and Europe.

In a 2008 study of Chicago, USA street prostitutes, economists Steven D. Levitt and Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh found that women working without pimps work for an average hourly rate of about $ 25, and those working with pimps make 50 % more.

At its mouth at Saskatchewan River Forks, it has an average discharge of 280 m³ / s, and has a watershed of, 1, 800 of which are in Montana in the USA, and in Alberta and Saskatchewan.

* Computer average: An average of the rankings of a team in three different computer polls were gathered ( Jeff Sagarin / USA Today, Anderson-Hester / Seattle Times, and New York Times ), with a 50 % adjusted maximum deviation factor.

USA Today reported in 2007 that most adults in the USA get about an hour less than the average sleep time 40 years ago.

* 12 November — second running of the American Grand Prize takes place at Savannah, Georgia over 415. 200 miles ( 17. 300 miles x 24 laps ) and is won by David Bruce-Brown ( USA ) driving a Benz GP in 5: 53: 05. 35 at an average speed of 70. 55 mph.

The median longevity ( the age at which half of the population has died and half is still alive ) of Bearded Collies from recent UK and USA / Canada surveys ( the weighted average of all surveys ) is 12. 8 years ; Beardies in the UK surveys lived longer ( median ~ 13. 4 years ) than their USA / Canada counterparts ( median 12. 0 years ).

The average daily intake of β-carotene is in the range 2 – 7 mg, as estimated from a pooled analysis of 500, 000 women living in the USA, Canada and some European countries.

English Cocker Spaniels in UK and USA / Canada have an average lifespan of 11 to 12 years, which is a typical longevity for purebred dogs, but a little less than most other breeds of their size.

The Timeshare concept in the USA caught the eye of many entrepreneurs due to the enormous profits to be made by selling the same room 52 times to 52 different owners at an average price in 1974-1976 of $ 3, 500. 00 per week.

The limitations on ground effects, limited size of the wings ( requiring use at high angles of attack to create sufficient downforce ), and vortices created by open wheels lead to a high aerodynamic drag coefficient ( about 1 according to Minardi's technical director Gabriele Tredozi ; compare with the average modern saloon car ( sedan in the USA ), which has a C < sub > d </ sub > value between 0. 25 and 0. 35 ), so that, despite the enormous power output of the engines, the top speed of these cars is less than that of World War II vintage Mercedes-Benz and Auto Union Silver Arrows racers.

Liberty ship sections were prefabricated in locations across the USA and then assembled by shipbuilders in an average of six weeks, with the record just over four days.

Functional electrical stimulation ( FES ) of paraplegics allows paraplegics with complete paralysis due to spinal cord injury at the thoracic level of their spinal cord to walk distances that average 450 meters per walk under some training procedures and 110 meters per walk when undergoing less demanding training, when using the noninvasive Parastep FES system that received the USA FDA approval in 1994.

In the USA, teachers may sometimes introduce insect life cycle to their students by raising silkworms in the classroom as a science project.

Trend, seasonality, cycle, and irregular fluctuations in primary productivity at Lake Tahoe, California-Nevada, USA.

The 1980s saw the rise of two new powers in cycle polo, India and USA.

The Cycle Polo Association of India was officially created in 1966 and the Bicycle Polo Association of America was created in 1994. International cycle polo matches staged a comeback in the 1990s with the first world championship organized in 1996 in the USA.

Today there is organized cycle polo being played in Brazil, Argentina, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, India, Ireland, Malaysia, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland and USA.

Anthropologists were recruited from England and the USA, setting the foundation for the unique Canadian style of anthropology.

On January 26, 2000, van Vogt died in Los Angeles, USA from Alzheimer's disease, and was survived by his second wife, the former Lydia Bereginsky.

They reproduce slowly either by bulb division or seeds and have gradually naturalized from plantings in urban and suburban areas throughout the lower elevations and coastal areas in much of the West Coast of the USA since these environments mimic their native South African habitat.

Dial + 64 ( 8 ) 320-1231, from USA / Canada and rest of NANP dial 011-64-8-320-1231 to hear your 3 digit area code & 7 digit local number read back to you from N. Z.

* American Baptist Convention, name of American Baptist Churches USA ( ABCUSA ) from 1950 to 1972, a USA-based Christian denomination

Another successful a cappella group is Straight No Chaser ( SNC ), which is actually two separate but related groups, one of which is an a cappella, collegiate group from Indiana University in the USA.

At the time of the design of ATM, 155 Mbit / s Synchronous Digital Hierarchy ( SDH ) with 135 Mbit / s payload was considered a fast optical network link, and many Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy ( PDH ) links in the digital network were considerably slower, ranging from 1. 544 to 45 Mbit / s in the USA, and 2 to 34 Mbit / s in Europe.

The region was a major producer of raw opium ( hence the name Afyon ) until the late 1960s when under international pressure, from the USA in particular, the fields were burnt and production ceased.

A case has been made out for borrowings of many place-names and even misremembered rhymes such as " Here we go looby-loo ... " – chiefly from one of the Luba varieties – in the USA.

Another group emigrated to British-ruled Kenya, from where most returned to South Africa during the 1930s, while a third group under the leadership of General Ben Viljoen emigrated to Mexico and to New Mexico and Texas in south-western USA.

Casinos in the USA say that a player staking money won from the casino is playing with house money.

Nicaragua's legal system also is a mixture of the English Common Law and the Civil Law through the influence of British administration of the Eastern half of the country from the mid-17th century until about 1905, the William Walker period from about 1855 through 1857, USA interventions / occupations during the period from 1909 to 1933, the influence of USA institutions during the Somoza family administrations ( 1933 through 1979 ) and the considerable importation between 1979 and the present of USA culture and institutions.

Music for the evening is typically performed by a live band, playing jigs and reels from Ireland, Scotland, Canada, or the USA.

The People's Bank of China's independence can thus be read more as independence from the USA which rules the financial markets, than from the Communist Party of China which rules the country.

The USA is the only Western country that does not distinguish sludge-source compost from green-composts, and by default in the USA 50 % of states expect composts to comply in some manner with the federal EPA 503 rule promulgated in 1984 for sludge products.