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  • Rex Nutting, in his commentary , devises a new labor-market measure he calls "person-years of unemployment," which he says is "the time that's wasted due to the lack of jobs, above and beyond the usual levels of unemployment.

    MarketWatch.com - Software Industry News 2012

  • At 34 to 36 weeks' gestation, the rate was 0.65 and at normal gestation 37 to 42 weeks, the rate was 0.46 per 1,000 person-years, according to the study.

    Study: Preemies may face higher death rates as adults 2011

  • Taiwan Business Council commissioned a study by the Perryman Group that found the Taiwanese order would create more than 87,000 person-years of U.S. employment.

    Obama and the Defense of Taiwan 2011

  • The results were unambiguous: After analyzing the children for a sum total of “2,129,864 person-years,” the study provided still more “strong evidence against the hypothesis that MMR vaccination causes autism.”

    The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011

  • Singhal wrote in his blog, We've invested thousands of person-years into developing our search algorithms because we want our users to get the right answer every time they search, and that's not easy.

    Google Accuses Microsoft Of Copying Search Results AP 2011

  • The incidence of death for young adults was 0.94 per 1,000 person-years for babies born between 22 and 27 weeks' gestation.

    Study: Preemies may face higher death rates as adults 2011

  • The results were unambiguous: After analyzing the children for a sum total of “2,129,864 person-years,” the study provided still more “strong evidence against the hypothesis that MMR vaccination causes autism.”

    The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011

  • For babies born between 28 and 33 weeks' gestation, the rate was 0.86 per 1,000 person-years.

    Study: Preemies may face higher death rates as adults 2011

  • The results were unambiguous: After analyzing the children for a sum total of “2,129,864 person-years,” the study provided still more “strong evidence against the hypothesis that MMR vaccination causes autism.”

    The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011

  • Singhal wrote in his blog, We've invested thousands of person-years into developing our search algorithms because we want our users to get the right answer every time they search, and that's not easy.

    Google Accuses Microsoft Of Copying Search Results AP 2011

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