While rival Dell Computer had 55 % growth in U. S. PC sales in the first quarter of 1999, Compaq could only manage 10 %.

* 1962 – Mercury program: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the earth, making three orbits in 4 hours, 55 minutes.

* February 27 – While trying to circumnavigate the world in a hot air balloon, Colin Prescot and Andy Elson set a new endurance record after being aloft for 233 hours and 55 minutes.

While 900 C-97s were supplied to the military, only 55 were produced for civil aviation.

While personnel and aircraft remained on Davis-Monthan AFB, operational control of the 55 ECG was assumed by the 55th Wing at Offutt AFB, Nebraska.

While the stainless steel element of the towers entices the illustrious sun, highlighting the magnificent towers, they are composed of 55, 000 square meters of 20. 38 mm laminated glass to reduce heat by reflecting harmful UV rays.

While some 55 ionic species have been reported in fresh ash leachates the most abundant species usually found are the cations Na < sup >+</ sup >, K < sup >+</ sup >, Ca < sup > 2 +</ sup > and Mg < sup > 2 +</ sup > and the anions Cl < sup >-</ sup >, F < sup >-</ sup > and SO < sub > 4 </ sub >< sup > 2 -</ sup >.

While the Nazis emerged with a majority, they fell short of their goal, which was to win 50 %– 55 % of the vote that year.

While the ruling SPD suffers substantial losses during the 2002 parliamental elections and only barely manages to become the biggest faction in the Bundestag, the Green Party gains 1. 9 points compared to the 1998 elections, for a total of 8. 6 %, yielding 55 seats.

While 55. 2 % of the student body was from Indiana, students from 49 of the 50 states, Washington D. C., and 165 foreign nations were also enrolled.

While the company's debt increased from $ 55 million in 1999 to $ 493 million in 2002, the company's revenue also increased from $ 246 million to $ 650 million during the same period.

While designed to counter the T-54 / 55 tanks, both tanks were placed at a disadvantage by the new smoothbore gun fielded in the T-62.

* February 27 – While trying to circumnavigate the world in a hot air balloon, Colin Prescot and Andy Elson set a new endurance record after being in their balloon for 233 hours and 55 minutes.

While " The Cage " has a running time of approximately 63 minutes, " Where No Man Has Gone Before ", ran just over 55 minutes with additional footage and formatting later cut to reduce it to the usual series running time of around 50 minutes ( excluding commercials ).

While Pino and driver Banfield remained in the getaway car, seven other men entered the building at 6: 55 PM.

While most House committees maintain membership in a rough proportion to the full chamber ( If the majority party controls 55 % of the House, it will tend to have 55 % of committee seats ), membership on the Rules Committee is disproportionately in favor of the majority party.

While the Third Section served as the Tsar ’ s deputy for 55 years, the organization had its share of failures and administrative shortcomings.

While Rodríguez wanted to leave Detroit due to Tigers manager Jim Leyland's decision to use rotating catchers, he wound up sharing catching duties with back-up Yankee catcher Jose Molina, starting only 26 of the remaining 55 games of the 2008 season.

* February 20-Mercury program: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn orbits the Earth three times in 4 hours, 55 minutes, becoming the first American to do so.

While only 0. 5 % of U. S. households had a television in 1946, 55. 7 % had one in 1954, and 90 % by 1962.

While during the 18th century hundreds had been executed for trivial crimes, by the 19th century only about 55 people were being sentenced to capital punishment each year.

While US 61 followed a more direct route from Dubuque to Davenport, the new US 55 extension followed the western shore of the Mississippi River.

While the ES 53 had been purely experimental, the L. 55 was Lualdi's first step towards a marketable aircraft.

While in Puerto Rico slavery was 2 % of the population and blacks were less than 11 %, Cuba was 30 % black and slaves wee the backbone of the plantation economy.

While controlled clinical trials of atypicals reported that extrapyramidal symptoms occurred in 5 – 15 % of patients, a study of bipolar disorder in a real world clinical setting found a rate of 63 %, questioning the generalizability of the trials.

While the Dines anemometer had an error of only 1 % at it did not respond very well to low winds due to the poor response of the flat plate vane required to turn the head into the wind.

While the numerical difference between the decimal and binary interpretations is relatively small for the prefixes kilo and mega, it grows to over 20 % for prefix yotta, illustrated in the linear-log graph ( at right ) of difference versus storage size.

While unemployment remained at 20 % in 2000, GDP growth recovered to 3. 1 %.

While these tests are not required in US, an estimated 75 – 90 % of the blood supply is currently tested for Chagas, including all units collected by the American Red Cross, which accounts for 40 % of the U. S. blood supply.

While there is not a large body of academic work examining the relationship, Hironaka's statistical study found a correlation that suggests that every major international anti-secessionist declaration increased the number of ongoing civil wars by + 10 %, or a total + 114 % from 1945 to 1997.

While this aspect is similar to Scotch and Irish whisky regulations, it contrasts with the maximum alcoholic proof limits on distillation ( 80 % abv ) and aging ( 62. 5 % abv ) purity allowed in the production of straight whiskey in the U. S. All spirits used in making a Canadian whisky must be aged for at least three years in wooden barrels of not greater than 700 L capacity ( a requirement similar to that for Scotch and Irish whisky and longer than for American straight whisky ).

While dominatrices come from many different backgrounds, it has been noted that a considerable number are very well-educated, with a recent survey of New York dominatrices revealing that 39 % had attended graduate school / university, including well-regarded institutions such as Columbia University.

The film was very well received with critics, currently holding a 96 % " Certified Fresh " approval on reviews aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, with the site's consensus stating, " While frothy to a fault, Four Weddings and a Funeral features irresistibly breezy humor, and winsome performances from Hugh Grant and Andie MacDowell.

While it cannot be determined why exactly the government does not allow private cars to be fuelled by diesel, it has been pointed out that the government does receive a tax that is 150 % of the actual fuel cost.

While European immigrants accounted for nearly 60 % of the total foreign population in 1970, they accounted for only 15 % in 2000.

While industrialised countries saw an increase in premiums of around 1. 4 %, insurance markets in emerging economies saw rapid expansion with 11 % growth in premium income.

While a 1987 study showed that 11 of 14 ( 78 %) patients had a > 50 % reduction in pain, another study ( published in 1993 ) found no beneficial effect.

While Maroger medium is usually mixed directly with oil paints, its proportion should be kept to no more than 20 % of the mixture.

While the retrieving information from the Internet may be efficient and time saving than visiting a traditional library, research has shown that undergraduates are most likely searching only. 03 % of the entire web.

While Liechtenstein produces only 15 % of its energy requirements.

While obliged to concede governments in East Europe allied with the Soviet Union instead of opposed to it, we thought we had preserved our social and economic system in East Europe.

While Anne gave no reason for leaving Thorp Green, it is thought she wanted to leave on becoming aware of the relationship between her brother and Mrs Robinson.

While Aquinas's theory follows generally the model of Aristotle, he develops a singular aesthetics which incorporates elements unique to his thought.

While the British foreign affairs were in favour of support of the Canadian argument, the event resulted in what was thought of as a betrayal, leading to alienation of the British from the new nation of Canada.

While Yahweh demands animals that are " without blemish " ( Leviticus 1: 3, NRSV ), the priests, who were " to determine whether the animal was acceptable " ( Mason 143 ), were offering blind, lame and sick animals for sacrifice because they thought nobody would notice.

While substantial water was detected spectroscopically, it was not as much as predicted beforehand, meaning that either the water layer thought to exist below the clouds was thinner than predicted, or that the cometary fragments did not penetrate deeply enough.

While in popular usage the term " myth " is often thought to refer to false or fanciful stories, creation myths are by definition those stories which a culture accepts as both a true and foundational account of their human identity.

While other knowledge could be a figment of imagination, deception or mistake, the very act of doubting one's own existence serves to some people as proof of the reality of one's own existence, or at least that of one's thought.

While there is no scientific basis in Darwinism for the Darwin Awards, the stories are nevertheless entertaining, and can be thought of as an example of schadenfreude – deriving entertainment value out of the misfortune of others.

Silvermintz notes that, " Historians of economic thought credit Plato, primarily on account of arguments advanced in his Republic, as an early proponent of the division of labor .” Notwithstanding this, Silvermintz argues that, " While Plato recognizes both the economic and political benefits of the division of labor, he ultimately critiques this form of economic arrangement insofar as it hinders the individual from ordering his own soul by cultivating acquisitive motives over prudence and reason.

:“ While I am convinced of the critical importance of historiography in the study of esotericism ( and for this reason all of my academic books are firmly grounded in historical method ) I do not believe that historiography is adequate in itself to convey the complex, multivalent nature of esoteric thought, traditions, or most of all, experience.

While people expected elements with higher atomic number to form from neutron bombardment of lighter elements, nobody expected neutrons to have enough energy to actually split a heavier atom into two light element fragments, and it was thought still more unlikely that slow neutrons could accomplish such a task.

While Fascism claimed that corporatism gave workers power alongside employer in workplaces in reality the concept of " Fuhrerprinzip " gave employers and State-appointed workplace managers absolute control over the workplace as dictated by the State-owned German Labor Front ; based on the Social Darwinist ideology that certain individuals are " gifted " and " born to rule ", employers thought to be part of that group.

While rules are light to moderate, they allow depth of play, usually requiring thought, planning, and a shift of tactics through the game and often with a chess-or backgammon-like opening game, middle game, and end game.

While awaiting its convocation, he thought to remove the more serious defects by a reform of the monasteries, which had become exceedingly worldly in spirit and from which many of the inmates were departing.

While he usually does not use his powers in lethal ways his powers are so vast that it extends to the molecular level, to the point that he can freeze all of the molecules of an object / being with a thought ; he once froze every single molecule of water within the body of David Haller.

While the exact location of the grave is unknown, a stone was added in the 19th century to mark a grave traditionally thought to be Calvin's.

While it was once thought that Locke wrote the Treatises to defend the Glorious Revolution of 1688, recent scholarship has shown that the work was composed well before this date, and it is now viewed as a more general argument against absolute monarchy ( particularly as espoused by Robert Filmer and Thomas Hobbes ) and for individual consent as the basis of political legitimacy.

While Marxist thought may be used to empower marginalised and dispossessed people, it has also been used to prop up governments who have utilised violence to remove those seen as impeding the revolution.

While moderately successful, the modification would cost about three times as much as originally thought, and the project was dropped due to lack of money.

While it had long been thought that Manichaeism arrived in China only at the end of the seventh century, a recent archaeological discovery demonstrated that it was already known there in the second half of the sixth century.

While an antimanic agent such as valproic acid or carbamazepine cannot treat depression directly as the former two drugs can, it is widely thought to help ward off depression in bipolar patients by keeping them out of mania and, thus, preventing their moods from cycling.

While living at the Parkwood Apartments, neighbors thought that Mihdhar and Hazmi were odd.