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Percentage of workers who say that office meetings and corporate gatherings make them nervous: 28

Percentage who say they are easily distracted dis·tract·ed  
adj.
1. Having the attention diverted.

2. Suffering conflicting emotions; distraught.



dis·tract
 by the side conversations that take place at big meetings: 27.4

Percentage of women who feel that signing a prenuptial agreement prenuptial agreement (antenuptial agreement) n. a written contract between two people who are about to marry, setting out the terms of possession of assets, treatment of future earnings, control of the property of each, and potential division if the marriage is later  shows a lack of trust, according to according to
prep.
1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians.

2. In keeping with: according to instructions.

3.
 a survey by date.com: 11

Percentage of men who feel that signing a pre-nuptial agreement shows a lack-of trust: 12

Percentage of men and women who say they would give up their career for someone they loved: 71

Percentage of people who claim that exchanging common-sense information with others makes them smarter, according to a survey on common sense and sharing commissioned by SCOTT Tissue and Towels: 80

Percentage who believe it even makes them more successful: 68

Percentage who consider common sense important to their everyday lives: 99

Percentage who don't believe it can be learned: 40

Percentage of Canadians who say that their country is a good place to do business, according to a survey by TNS TNS

transcutaneous neural stimulation.
: 50

Percentage of Americans who say that their country is a good place to do business: 73

Great Britons: 48

Germans: 34

Japan: 5

Compiled by John MacIntyre John Macintyre (born 1857 - died 1928) was a doctor who set up the world's first radiology department at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary, in Glasgow, Scotland. Originally trained as an electrical engineer, he later graduated in 1882 from the University of Glasgow with the Bachelor of  
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