Roughly half a percent of Americans feel that they save too much.

Optimists, touting GDP and other indicators, will continue to insist that Americans have never had it so good. If there is any continuity worth underscoring, it is the regular cohabitation of boosterism with declinism America s glass is always simultaneously half full and half empty.

Yet, despite the rivalry of nations and the bloodiness of modern warfare, democracy is spreading. Indeed, in but half a century, Latin Americans rid themselves of all of that continent's military and civilian dictatorships, and Africa has eliminated more than half of the despots that have blighted its era of independence.

One third of Americans.

A majority of public opinion polls taken in the last four years show that the views of Americans about Islam continue to be a casualty of the attacks of September 11, 2001.Washington Post ABC News polls from 2006, for example, found that nearly half of Americans regard Islam unfavorably, while one in four admits to prejudicial feelings against Muslims.

And the problem is that it s based on this half truth, which is that Americans eat too many simple carbs, so if you eat fewer simple carbs you re going to lose weight.

Anglo Americans, they did two and a half times more anagrams when they got to choose them, as compared to when it was chosen for them by Miss Smith or their mothers.

The other half of the counter insurgency strategy is to win the hearts and minds of populations that are susceptible to terrorist propaganda. The Americans did this in Vietnam by pouring in consumer goods and building up infrastructure.

You Americans.

Latin Americans and North Americans dream of creating a free trade zone. Europeans speak of building a United States of Europe.

It s a half truth. Actually, Americans are eating more fat than ever, and even more carbs. And so the percentage is lower, the actual amount is higher, and so the goal is to reduce both.

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But over half the oil Americans use goes for driving cars and trucks. The US will not solve its energy security problem until it gets better at fuel economy, possibly by a combination of technology, gasoline taxes, and regulations.

In the election of an African American president less than a half century after the end of official racial segregation in much of the country, these Americans see the triumph of the values enshrined in the US Constitution over America s legacy of social, political, and economic prejudice. They see a president committed to the advancement of all Americans, regardless of race, gender, creed, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, handicap, or economic status.

The Americans, they're rich.

They say, you Americans.

How many Americans? 11.

Will Americans Become Poorer?

Most Americans like hamburgers.

They must be Americans.

Many Americans are obese.

Americans are kind people.

Americans face several of these inflection points now.

Ten percent of Americans don't disappear every year.

Generally speaking, Americans are very fond of coffee.

Opinion polls indicate that one third of Americans believe that China will soon dominate the world, while nearly half view China s emergence as a threat to world peace. In turn, many Chinese fear that the United States will not accept their peaceful rise.

You don't understand the Americans.

Americans have an unprecedented opportunity.

Educating Americans about Muslim Voices

Half of her body was stricken, the other half not.

And I think, like most Americans, we're all proud of the helicopter and other military equipment that so many Americans worked tirelessly to do.

Narrator Of all things Americans are, we are makers.

75 percent of Americans think Alaska is part of Canada.

Some white Americans, however, have attempted to shift the blame for dying younger to African Americans themselves, citing their lifestyles. It is perhaps true that unhealthy habits are more concentrated among poor Americans, a disproportionate number of whom are black.

The first son took his half half of 18 is nine.

Which leads us to conclude American businesses fail faster than Americans, and therefore American businesses are evolving faster than Americans.

Although the new restrictions on travel did not enter into force until the second half of 2004, trips by Americans to Cuba decreased by 40.5 per cent compared to 2003 in 2004, only 51,027 persons travelled to Cuba as compared with 85,809 the previous year.

Most Americans are descended from immigrants.

Most Americans are descended from immigrants.

Quite a few Americans like sushi.

They don't seem to be Americans.

There are many Americans in Mexico.

For years, many Americans explained away this gap. The US is a more heterogeneous society, they argued, and the gap supposedly reflected the huge difference in average life expectancy between African Americans and white Americans.

It's far higher than the failure rate of, say, Americans.

Roughly a third of Americans say that they are Democrats.