1.   Contractor recordable and lost time accident rates were also a fraction of the industry average.

2.   Operating efficiency ratios show that Technosystems runs a lean operation, with all ratios above the industry averages.

3.   State Farm, an insurance company, keeps its agents for twice as long as the industry average.

4.   And the number was far higher than the industry average among all automobiles.

5.   Another survey, carried out for a rival oil company, found that the proportion of highly paid black workers at Texaco was consistently below the industry average.

6.   As long as the fee requests are not far above the industry average, managements feel well within their rights to ask for more.

7.   A price index for each store was developed by comparing its prices for those goods against an industry average.

8.   About half of Universal cardholders, higher than the industry average of about one third, pay off their balances in full each month, he said.

9.   Advertising revenue growth at the Times has been lagging behind the industry average, said Peter Appert, an analyst for BT Alex.

10.   Bronfman acknolwedged that the profit margins at the film division were below the industry average but felt they could be significantly increased.