defection rate

Just as alarming for corporations is the defection rate of returning managers.

"We have a 20 per cent defection rate now.

AOL had the lowest defection rate, keeping 79 percent of its customers.

The Afghan army's defection rate was about 10,000 per year between 1980 and 1989, the average deserters left the Afghan army after the first five months.

While Republicans often have lower defection rates than Democrats, the difference between the rates involving Mr. Bush are greater than usual.

The latest example is Father Greeley's report that the Catholic Church is stable because "the Catholic defection rate has remained constant over 30 years.

Few experts expect Apple to climb back to its old heights, but at least it has a chance now to stanch the 10 percent annual defection rate from its current base of Macintosh users.

Prof. Michael Hout of the Survey Research Center at the University of California at Berkeley has demonstrated that the Catholic defection rate has remained constant over 30 years.

The defection rate today is not much different than in the 1950's. . . There exists a high rate of contentment with the changes of Vatican Council II, especially among the intellectuals.

Jones was certain that after word got around about the additional PAAC victories on the Kansas River, at El Dorado Lake and elsewhere, would only add to the Circle's defection rate.