I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a failure rate
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There is a high failure rate in the restaurant industry.
a flat (rate) tax (= a tax that is the same for different people or things )
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Corporate taxes are to be abolished and replaced by a flat rate tax.
a poll rating (= showing how popular someone is )
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His poll ratings keep slipping.
a rate of pay ( also a pay rate ) (= the amount paid every hour, week etc )
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Many workers in the catering industry are on low rates of pay.
a steady pace/rate
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He moved at a slow and steady pace through the maze of corridors.
accident rates/statistics
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There is a relation between accident rates and the numbers of drivers on the road.
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a survey of the latest airline accident statistics
at a rapid rate/pace
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Deforestation is occurring at a rapid rate as a result of agricultural development.
at an alarming rate
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The rainforest is disappearing at an alarming rate.
bank rate
base rate
baud rate
credit rating
cut taxes/rates
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The government is expected to cut interest rates next month.
death rate
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childhood death rates
discount rate
exchange rate mechanism
exchange rate
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a more favourable exchange rate
flat rate
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Clients are charged a flat rate of £250 annually.
force prices/interest rates etc down/up
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The effect will be to increase unemployment and force down wages.
foreign exchange markets/rates/transactions etc
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The dollar is expected to fall in the foreign exchange markets.
high level/degree/rate etc (of sth)
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High levels of car use mean our streets are more congested than ever.
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high crime rates
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high interest rates
(high/low) metabolic rate
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Fish normally have a high metabolic rate.
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Exercise can increase your metabolic rate.
hurdle rate
infant mortality rate
inflation rate
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an annualized inflation rate of 15%
interest rate
lending rate
overtime rates (= payments that are set according to a standard scale )
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Generous overtime rates are paid for late-night and weekend work.
peak rate
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If you phone during the day you pay the peak rate for calls.
premium rate
price/rate/tax etc hikes
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Several airlines have proposed fare hikes, effective October 1.
prime rate
pulse rate (= how fast your pulse beats )
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The doctor checked my weight and pulse rate.
rate of exchange
rate of return
rates of return
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The average rates of return were 15%.
run rate
sb's popularity rating (= how popular someone is according to a poll )
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His popularity rating dropped quite dramatically after the events of last year.
sb’s credit rating (= how likely a bank etc thinks someone is to pay their debts )
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If you have a poor credit rating, you will have a hard time getting a mortgage.
sb’s heart rate (= the number of times someone’s heart beats per minute )
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Your heart rate increases as you exercise.
seasonally adjusted figures/rates/data etc (= ones that are changed according to what usually happens at a particular time of year )
tax sth at 10%/a higher rate etc
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They may be taxed at a higher rate.
the birth rate (= the number of babies born somewhere )
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The country’s birth rate has decreased dramatically.
the crime rate
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The crime rate has gone up.
the death rate (= the number of people who die each year from something )
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The death rate from heart attacks is about 50% higher for smokers.
the divorce rate (= the number of people who get a divorce )
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The country has a high divorce rate.
the exchange rate
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What's the current exchange rate between the dollar and the euro?
the growth rate
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The economic growth rate averaged only 1.4 percent.
the inflation rate/the rate of inflation
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The current inflation rate stands at 4.1%.
the inflation rate/the rate of inflation
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The current inflation rate stands at 4.1%.
the mortgage rate (= the rate of interest you will pay on a mortgage )
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You need to shop around for a good mortgage rate.
the pace/rate of change
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People sometimes feel alarmed by the pace of technological change.
the rate of erosion
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The maps show that the average rate of coastal erosion is about four metres per year.
the rate of increase
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The rate of increase in the number of violent crimes is much higher than under the previous government.
the (rate of) return on an investment (= profit from an investment )
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We expect a high return on our investment.
the success rate (= what percentage of actions are successful )
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The success rate in cloning is still extremely low.
the suicide rate (= the number of people who kill themselves )
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The suicide rate among former soldiers is very high.
the survival rate
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The survival rate of animals returned to the wild remains an unanswered question.
the tax rate/the rate of tax
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The government reduced the basic rate of tax to 25p in the pound.
the tax rate/the rate of tax
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The government reduced the basic rate of tax to 25p in the pound.
the unemployment rate
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The unemployment rate was 17 percent.
twice the size/number/rate/amount etc
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an area twice the size of Britain
wage levels/rates
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Wage levels remained low during the 1930s.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
annual
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These data were used to calculate annual referral rates using the practice populations as the denominator.
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The volatility of the underlying bond futures fell to an annual rate of 7. 95 percent.
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Since gilts pay a fixed annual rate of interest, you would be locking in a higher return before the rate cut.
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It gives an annual growth rate of 2. 3 percent, according to analysts.
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From his perspective, economic growth will continue at an annual rate of 2 percent to 2. 5 percent.
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According to the Middle East Times of Sept. 24-30, the country's annual inflation rate was running at around 700 percent.
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And to top it all, it has pledged to maintain high employment and an annual economic growth rate of 1.9 percent.
average
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Does my right hon. Friend by any chance recollect the average inflation rate under the last Labour Government?
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Between 1970 and 1976 Chicago experienced an average rate of unemployment of 6. 31 percent.
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The average inflation rate under the last Labour Government was no less than the astonishing figure of 15 percent.
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By definition, a tax whose average tax rate rises as income Increases is called progressive tax.
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He announced the results of a survey of 400 vets working in 600 slaughterhouses which found the average hourly rate was £25.70.
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But as Table 2-1 shows, the adoption of free-market develop-ment models has raised their average growth rates .
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Over this period the stock of such investments has expanded at an average annual compound rate of just under 19%.
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History shows, on average , the rate of return on stocks is much higher than that of any other investment.
base
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The buoyant housing market is probably the key factor keeping base rates up today.
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Changes in the level of interest rates charged on borrowing, therefore, depend almost wholly upon movements in the base rate.
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Low clearing bank base rates are bringing a flood of new offers intended to appeal to the country's 19 million savers.
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Monetary policy Base interest rates reached their highest level when they were increased on Dec. 26 to 14.75 percent.
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With the base interest rate now at seven percent, most banks still charge around 19 percent for personal overdrafts.
basic
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I pay income tax at the basic 25 percent rate .
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Instead, they pay basic long-distance rates , which are the highest rates a residential customer can pay, the study says.
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Similar to covenant payments, the gift is made net of basic rate tax.
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The basic rate of tax will remain unchanged at 25 percent, as will the 40 percent rate.
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The basic bank lending rate was set at 36 percent per month.
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His party says that it will put up the basic rate of tax.
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The Liberal Democrats pledged to raise the basic rate of income tax from 25 to 26 percent specifically for investment in education.
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The tax credit which accompanies a dividend matches the basic rate liability but the trustees pay additional rate tax of 10%.
fixed
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Compare and contrast fixed rate and variable rate loans. 3.
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You borrow at a fixed rate of interest and repay the loan over a number of years.
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The fixed interest rate means you know exactly your commitment each month, which saves problems with forecasting your cashflow.
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Once the system of fixed exchange rates had been abandoned there was no alternative but for currencies to float.
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At the beginning of the first year, the fixed rate was 13.25% at a time when the variable rate was 15.25%.
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The basic form of eurobond is the straight fixed rate bond, having bullet repayment.
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The Cheltenham &038; Gloucester has produced a £50m fixed rate loan priced at 13.25 until the end of 1991.
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Under a fixed exchange rate a currency flow surplus is likely to persist for some time.
flat
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Those with earnings just above the tax threshold bore the heaviest burden of the flat rate tax as a proportion of income.
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The phone company said the flat rate is an addition to its Sprint Sense program, which it began a year ago.
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The flat rate of £75 that Miss Denny mentions will not automatically be paid to all composers.
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A flat rate plan offers reduced rates but only if you call during non-peak hours.
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The association usually paid the hospital a weekly flat rate .
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Therefore, an 11 percent flat rate theoretically would yield the same amount.
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Additionally, the new flat rate should vary by types of authority, not by population.
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Forbes, who is calling for a 17 percent flat rate , would not tax dividends, interest or capital gains.
high
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However, that is not a good reason for trying to levy high tax rates that no-one can enforce.
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Why are current city water users subsidizing this madness with higher water rates ?
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Sir Patrick Duffy Is the Minister aware that a respectable reason for high interest rates is the control of inflation?
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Bodies that are seen to move at a relatively high angular rate are nearby in space.
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Customers may be forced to borrow from inefficient banks or other financial institutions, probably charging higher interest rates .
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Aid workers say areas that were heavily bombed now have high rates of birth defects, sterility and mental retardation.
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He needs a high growth rate to pay for future debts.
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This is the highest rate for the month since 1992, when the rate was 9. 8 percent.
low
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Since then, this relationship has broken down and architects have enjoyed lower rates of unemployment relative to the national situation.
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In order to lock into today's low rates potential borrowers will have to agree to marginally higher rates than are really current.
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Most lenders offer low rates for the first couple of years only to raise them again in the future.
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The profit was the difference between the higher black market and lower official rate .
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This may be due to the lack of motivation and low rate of pay.
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That was the lowest rate of increase since March 1971, but was still faster than the growth in money supply.
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University College London Hospitals trust has the lowest death rate .
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A country renowned for its love of large, close families now has the lowest birth rate in the developed world.
metabolic
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Your metabolic rate will fall; eating just average amounts of food will tend to make you fat.
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Aerobic exercise and reduced-calorie diets produce weight loss, but reduce the resting metabolic rate because they do not maintain muscle mass.
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And you can not safely ginger up your metabolic rate with drugs because of the risk from side-effects.
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Dieting may also depress the metabolic rate , he says, making it easier to gain weight the next time around.
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Bradymetabolism A low metabolic rate of heat production.
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There is some evidence that we can further increase the metabolic rate by taking regular aerobic exercise.
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Aerobic exercise increases the metabolic rate and the benefit continues for some hours after we have finished exercising.
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So to maximise the benefits to your metabolic rate , resolve never to crash diet again.
special
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Milton would get you theatre tickets, special hotel rates , restaurant reservations and still wonder if you needed anything more.
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Often advertising special rates on home repairs. 2.
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Those taking several trips abroad a year should consider special rates offered on annual cover.
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Adults lose special rates for specific jobs, shift pay, holiday pay and unsocial hours pay.
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The legion lost its power to recruit foreigners, and the special pay rates that rewarded tougher conditions.
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However, the restrictions imposed on these special rates tend to limit their usefulness for many advertisers.
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Weekly additional payments will no longer be available, and there will be no special householder rate .
top
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The policy review's top rate of income tax-50 percent - was too low, he said.
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That would push the top federal tax rate for these under-$ 60, 000 earners to 40 % or more.
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The top rate will be no more than 2.5 times the bottom rate.
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There are occasions when we have grudged paying a top rate , but been too cowardly to refuse.
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Instant access and top interest rates that rise as your balance grows.
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But the top rates do not benefit existing investors.
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A complicated points system could stop men in this type of role getting the top rates of pay.
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People in the south-east will be allocated to bands E, F, G and H and will pay the top rates .
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birth
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Since then the birth rate has recovered somewhat, leading to modest rates of natural increase.
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Difference in birth rates is clearly one reason.
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This fall reflects in particular the low birth rates of the 1920s and 1930s.
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However, the numbers are decreasing as the birth rate decreases generally.
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The high birth rates of the 1950s and 1960s are projected to increase the numbers of young elderly from 2011.
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Average birth rates for women in developing countries have fallen from six per woman to three in the past three decades.
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The birth rate will only be cut, however, if the health prospects of poor families are improved.
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Launch of drive to cut birth rate On June 13 the authorities ordered a nationwide drive to cut the birth rate.
crime
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Over past years, locals had experienced increasing crime rates and a growing fear of crime.
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Violent crime rates have tripled, and overall illegitimacy rates have jumped from 5. 3 percent to 30. 1 percent.
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All those factors are linked to rising crime rates .
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They have seen crime rates and their feelings of physical insecurity rise, and their overall quality of life plummet.
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He failed to make only one comparison - that on crime rates .
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And the male crime rate during any nine-day period is still higher than the female crime rate during the premenstrual period.
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Any Government who are seriously concerned about dealing with the escalating crime rate must begin to tackle crime at its roots.
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Their crime rate was far lower than that of any other community.
death
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They've found that the death rate among patients treated early with penicillin was nearly half that of those who were not.
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But no country has yet managed to achieve a low birth rate while infant deaths rates remain high.
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As in all cities, the infant death rate in Washington fluctuates from year to year.
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Surprisingly, Northern Ireland has the third highest death rate from skin cancer in the world.
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For coronary heart disease alone, the death rate in that same 10-year period declined by 26 percent.
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Plasma lipid concentrations and death rates from ischaemic heart disease vary according to the method of infant feeding.
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Pedestrians crossing the street have a death rate seven times greater.
divorce
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The divorce rate rose from almost zero to 0.9 per cent in 1985 and 1.8 per cent in 1995.
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This is our answer to the tragically high divorce rate twenty-five years ago.
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Isn't the divorce rate high enough already?
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Empowerment increases the opportunity costs of children, prompting later marriages and increasing the divorce rate , similarly lowering fertility.
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However, if current divorce rates continue this will be true of many more in future.
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In 1961, before the Divorce Law Reform Act was introduced, the divorce rate was only 2.1.
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The national divorce rate dropped, if infinitesimally, from 1992 to 1994, according to the National Center for Health Statistics.
exchange
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Many of them care less about the exchange rate than about what is shown on the chart on the right.
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They have to be persuaded, above all on the exchange rate .
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The one mechanism they have at their immediate disposal to stimulate growth is the exchange rate of their currencies.
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The second is via changes in the exchange rate .
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The change in the exchange rate would continue automatically until the price difference for cars had been eliminated.
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Fourth, the elimination of exchange rate uncertainty is likely to yield benefits in terms of higher growth rates of intra-union trade and investment.
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Floating and flexible rates Floating, or flexible, exchange rates imply a quite different adjustment process.
growth
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Whatever the factors underlying the different growth rates , it is consistent with the uneven relationship emerging in the inter-war years.
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An even higher economic growth rate is not out of the question.
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Their growth rate or lack of it often reflects the quality of your tank care and water.
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Its sales at the turn of the decade were above $ 11 billion, continuing a healthy growth rate .
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That's some way below the industry's historical average growth rate of 17 per cent.
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Analysts said Disney should have no trouble returning to its 20 percent-plus growth rates next year.
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Friends of the Earth has had a similar growth rate in that period, so that its membership is now over 180,000.
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Past growth rates are not as good as they look, and the future will not be as good as the past.
heart
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Pulse oximetry was used to monitor oxygen saturation and heart rate .
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After a minute of this, your heart rate has slowed by 20 percent.
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Then our heart rate climbs, steadily, until our ears are gulping on the new blood.
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Sometimes my heart rate is high, although my medical checkup was fine. 2.
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Exercise promotes beneficial changes in the body. Heart rate and blood pressure are lowered at rest and at exercise.
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During stages three and four, heart rate and breathing become very regular.
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This gives your maximum heart rate in beats per minute.
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Long-term, chronic anger also means increases in blood cholesterol and heart rates , and a decrease in immunity.
inflation
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This aided the operation of the fixed exchange rate system and helped to maintain a low inflation rate in the international economy.
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Does my right hon. Friend by any chance recollect the average inflation rate under the last Labour Government?
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Rational expectations catch up with the actual inflation rate .
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The average inflation rate under the last Labour Government was no less than the astonishing figure of 15 percent.
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There will exist no inflation rate differentials which could justify exchange rate changes, if they were available.
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The inflation rate for 1996 was 2. 1 percent, down from 2. 4 percent the previous year.
interest
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Normally rising interest rates will depress the price of gilts by making their fixed interest payments less attractive to investors.
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Much of the $ 154 billion cut will come from lower interest rates .
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If banks lower the interest rates they charge to borrowers, they must also lower the rate they pay to depositors.
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Lower interest rates designed to pep up the corporate sector threaten to add more fuel to the consumer boom.
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It should be obvious without much discussion that the demand for money depends on the interest rate .
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The prospect of reduced interest rates also helped the share prices of those companies geared to easier credit.
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The center said the loan had a favorable interest rate and came two weeks after President Clinton signed a bill NationsBank supported.
market
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Indeed, newly issued bills will have to carry a larger discount to match the higher market rates .
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Renters who move into a vacated apartment face the rude awakening of the market rate an owner is permitted to charge.
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The higher the current market rate of interest, the lower will be the market price of existing bonds.
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The Bundesbank left its discount rate unchanged yesterday, after lowering a key money-\#market rate Wednesday.
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Money market rates strengthened, however.
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This is like paying interest at the rate of 17 percent per year, when market rates are only 9 percent.
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The interest rate is fixed at drawdown and related to Money Market rates so can be cheaper than an overdraft.
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Such issues have interest rates that fluctuate with market rates.
mortality
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Let us turn now to the relationship between the chronic sickness and mortality rates .
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In passing, I might draw your attention to the dreadful morbidity and mortality rates of these compulsory surgeries.
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Since 1961 there has been a 19 percent decrease in the mortality rates for males aged 65 - 74.
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The mortality rate then rises, so that few will survive to L3.
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For these categories hospital 1 had the lowest perinatal mortality rates among the consultant units after adjustment for risk factors.
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By far the greatest effect on the crude mortality rates was when mortality rates due to immaturity were adjusted for low birth rate.
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The impact of social class has, however, been the same on the mortality rates of both sexes.
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Second, mortality rates have sometimes been used as a proxy for morbidity rates.
mortgage
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But some warned that the impact of higher mortgage rates on wage negotiations risked increased pressure on prices in the months ahead.
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Lower fed rates help keep mortgage rates low.
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More societies are expected to announce mortgage rate increases during the Conservative Party conference this week.
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Analysts said lower mortgage rates have helped to spur demand for housing even as other parts of the economy have slowed.
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In May 1988, when the mortgage rate stood at 9.8 percent the same borrower was paying only £221.40.
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Fifteen-year mortgage rates inched up to 7. 15 percent from 7. 13 percent.
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But lower mortgage rates for everyone else just push up the price of homes.
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Helped along by the lowest mortgage rates in 20 years, those numbers grew during the fourth quarter of last year.
pulse
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SaO 2 and pulse rate data were analysed by two methods.
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In most patients, it is desirable to use dosages that maintain a pulse rate greater than 60.
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During the procedure pulse rate , blood pressure, and oxygen saturation were recorded every minute by the research nurse.
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I check out her pulse rate with my lips.
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The next question is, what type of training routine do you use to increase pulse rate ?
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Oxford began the night teetering on the brink of the relegation zone and pulse rates soared as early as the second minute.
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But she wasn't looking up high enough to see something that shifted my pulse rate along a notch or two.
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Different conductors have different pulse rates and their tempi are often mathematical proportions of this.
success
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Of the 26,000 carats of diamonds dispatched, over 23,000 carats were recovered, a success rate of over 90%.
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Besides, the message will seem like criticism, and therefore your success rate will probably be low.
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The procedure can be done under local anaesthetic and has a success rate of over 90 percent.
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A 30-percent or 40-percent success rate in growing crystals is considered good.
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The success rates for each type of task are given in Table 4.10.
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There is a significant variation in success rates depending on representation.
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In the summary table the success rates are given to the nearest five percent.
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This well established course has a high success rate .
tax
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And it could encourage harder work by reducing marginal tax rates .
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What marginal tax rate applies to taxable income which falls between $ 16, 000 and $ 20, 000?
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If tax rates are too high, firms' overall activity may fall.
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Some Democrats say it would require a relatively high tax rate near 20 percent to produce sufficient revenue.
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Table 16-2 shows that the first Thatcher government was able to reduce marginal tax rates substantially, especially for the very rich.
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To get a better picture of the tax burden one must consider average tax rates .
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For these commodities tax rates range from 50 to 90 percent.
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A balanced budget meant increasing tax rates and reducing public expenditure.
unemployment
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Small firms provide a useful channel for re-allocating labour from large firms without increasing official unemployment rates .
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To understand the unemployment rate , we also need to know how long the jobless have been without jobs.
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Mining proposals continue to have the prospect of minimal impact on unemployment rates .
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The unemployment rate jumped to 9. 9 percent in December from 9. 3 percent in November.
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The real unemployment rate has topped 17 %.
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The unemployment rate , not seasonally adjusted, dropped from 3.9 to 3.6 percent.
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For the new classicals, high unemployment rates should not be the object of discretionary government intervention since they are mere epiphenomena.
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Despite a decade of government efforts to get the economy going again, the unemployment rate was still 17 percent in 1939.
wage
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It is for these reasons that wage rates differ from one job to the next.
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If unemployment is classical, steps must be taken to reduce the real wage rate .
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In Fig. 11-7 the wage rates for labour in the two localities are shown on the vertical axis.
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But in what way do variations in effective demand alter the real wage rate ?
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The evidence for the feelings of persecution came from the discussions of the fixing of wage rates by personnel managers.
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Thirdly, estimate the elasticity of the constrained labour demand function with respect to the real wage rate .
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Thus workers and managers will want to agree the wage rate for the coming year.
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grow
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The simplest models assume that earnings grow at a constant rate of g percent per year.
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By contrast, both imports and exports are expected to grow at a similar rate .
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And it is a problem that is growing at a rate of several thousand tonnes of waste a day.
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M3 grew at an annualized rate of just 1. 9 percent in the first 11 months of 1995.
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But businessmen are scared of missing out on an economy that is now growing at tigerish rates .
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There was also an admission that the demand for water is not growing at the rate Thames Water had earlier predicted.
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Throughout the nineteenth century output per person grew at a rate of 1.5 percent perannum.
increase
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Excitement usually increases the rate of speech, raises the voice pitch and there may be more than usual gesticulation.
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The total cost curve increases at a decreasing rate over some range and then begins to increase at an increasing rate.
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Placing such tasks in context does not increase success rates but does alter the pattern of incorrect responses.
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Empowerment increases the opportunity costs of children, prompting later marriages and increasing the divorce rate , similarly lowering fertility.
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Population is increasing at the rate of 91 million people each year.
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Moreover, with the loanable funds theory it is hard to explain why a rise in income increases interest rates .
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Then plan to increase this rate to make sure of reaching the final approach point at the desired height.
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The average cost then increases at a slower rate and eventually approaches the marginal cost.
lower
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If this were to inhibit credit expansion it could lead to lower interest rates .
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Less government borrowing reduces the demand for funds, which in turn leads to lower rates .
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Thus an increase in money supply will lower interest rates .
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For its part, the government concluded that lowering the population growth rate would enhance the prosperity of the nation.
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Some have taken advantage of the Tessa trap to lower savings rates .
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Some economists forecast the Bundesbank will take until April to lower the rate to 3. 40 percent by April.
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The initial effect of a higher money growth rate is to lower the interest rate.
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The Fed recently lowered the funds rate to 5. 50 % from 5. 75 %.
raise
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Studies suggest that for improvements in aerobic capacity, you must raise your heart rate for at least 20 minutes per session.
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Blinder argued for lowering rates , and never officially dissented when the board was raising rates in 1994.
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But the industry fears Labour might have to raise interest rates to defend the pound.
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The Federal Reserve has raised interest rates many times to head off inflation and quality portfolios have not been damaged.
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Back in 1988 he had the nerve to raise interest rates on the eve of the Republican convention.
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Greenspan and the Open Market Committee decided to raise interest rates .
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Remember, one objective of Compacts is to raise the participation rate in education post-16. 15.
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Or you can raise the overall tax rate .
reduce
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It's better to reduce your cereal seed rate than to spend extra money on seed and then a growth regulator programme.
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It could start by reducing the property tax rate , charging everyone less, including Tucson residents.
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Clothiers in Gloucestershire did not reduce piece rates , and so weavers were able to profit from their enhanced productivity.
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A flat rate plan offers reduced rates but only if you call during non-peak hours.
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Any other task related to information in the table usually reduces success rate considerably.
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Defense officials had no immediate figures on the proposed reduced production rate .
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His ambition was to reduce the standard rate of tax to 25p in the pound by the next election.
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Thus Burton concludes from his discussion of employment subsidies in general that they are likely to increase rather than reduce the rate of inflation.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
at a spanking pace/rate
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In the distance, ponies in long-shafted light chariots trotted at a spanking pace, the wheels spinning around.
nominal value/rate/income etc
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Additional effects are found from the growth in nominal income which is associated with an increase in own-country relative returns.
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Also barred would have been gifts, except for items of nominal value, such as shirts or mugs.
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However low nominal rates of interest go, they still remain positive in real terms.
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The nominal rate of interest has two components.
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The nominal value is meaningless and may be misleading, except in so far as it determines the minimum liability.
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The accumulated fund represents the nominal value of the net assets of the Law Society valued at historic cost.
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The box, with a nominal value of £5, was for the Anthony Nolan Bone Marrow trust.
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The mean underwriting fee was 1.4 percent of the issue's nominal value.
premium price/rate
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Despite the premium rate, Mr Lowman claims that mortgage demand is still high at the moment.
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In return for premium service, such retailers charge premium prices.
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Insurance companies may collaborate in working out loss probabilities and this leads to uniformity in premium rates.
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Is he further aware that many industrialists believe that those high premium rates will cost us business and jobs?
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It operates via the regional electricity companies, which must pay a premium price for renewable energy.
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Most societies offer the cover with differing benefits, premium rates and periods allowed to make claims.
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Naturally, it is always our aim to keep our premium rates as competitive as possible.
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Worse, these disasters coincided with falling premium rates in almost every one of the market's businesses.
premium rate number/line/service
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Because of the high cost of providing and gathering this information, Climbline would not exist were it not a premium rate service.
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Choice has not been considered in premium rate services.
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That is certainly true in the context of telecommunications and, more specifically, in premium rate services.
the going rate/price/salary etc
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A million pounds is the going rate for an ordinary player in today's inflationary market.
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At the going rate of half a million dollars per minute, there is no time for truth.
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It typically is charged twice the going rate as the criminal inmates housed in the same facility.
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One can of C rations was the going rate.
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Or holiday-depending if he's got the brains to get the going rate on betrayal.
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State law now prohibits insurers from denying coverage to small businesses or charging them more than 20 percent above the going rate.
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What is the going rate for bodies in Cairo, Mr el Zaki?
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Who is it that sets the going rate for our work?
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£150 is the going rate for tickets for the concert.
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equipment that can load ships at a rate of 5000 tonnes a day
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Hotel rates advertised are per person, not per room.
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Individual children develop physically and emotionally at different rates.
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Nassau now has the third highest crime rate in the world.
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Our money was running out at an alarming rate .
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Our shop assistants are paid an hourly rate of £5.50
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Penicillin has a high success rate in treating bacterial infections.
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Prisoners escaped from the center at the rate of one every five days.
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Refugees were crossing the border at the rate of 1000 a day.
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The amount of light available will determine the plant's rate of growth.
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The State Bank charges lower rates on personal loans.
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There is a 40% unemployment rate in the region.
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There is a fixed rate for the job, regardless of how long it takes.
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We are able to offer a whole range of services at very reasonable rates.
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At any rate , the boat was scuttled, and there were stains on it that they thought were bloodstains.
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Class 1 contributions are paid by workers in employment and are deducted from their pay at the statutory rates.
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Now more companies issue cards and many are willing to cut rates or waive annual fees to snare each others' customers.
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Pay determination is also hampered by such factors as inflation rates and currency fluctuations against the pound.
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Sir Robin said foreign-exchange gains were helped by sterling's departure from the exchange rate mechanism.
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The water was thick and brown and went down through the top end of Spaladale at a fearful rate .
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While rates on Treasury securities plunged last year, the Federal Reserve resisted calls for large cuts in the rates it controls.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
highly
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Questions on health, self-care and education were all highly rated by over 70 percent of respondents.
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Of the 11 most highly rated wines, six were from California.
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He impressed last year on his rare appearances in the first team and is highly rated .
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Independence does not rate highly with them, whereas their health does.
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Commercialism was not a quality she rated highly , but protection of one's children from outsiders was.
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And all four burners are highly rated .
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Only words rated highly or this latter dimension were included in our lists.
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chance
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I didn't really rate his chances of living that long.
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How high do you rate my chances ?
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But few analysts rate the chances of Washington's prefered successors very highly.
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But officials will not rate the survival chances above 50 percent until a month after birth.
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I didn't rate any chance of a retreat back down and could have so easily become trapped in between the pitches.
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The doctors rated his chances as virtually nil.
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He rates his chance of capturing the job as better than 30%.
performance
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The supplementary method of assessing a Grand Prix star's chances is to rate his amatory performance .
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The poll found 29 percent rated his performance as good, 42 percent as fair and 19 percent as poor.
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Then add the following checklist and go through it to see how you rate your performance .
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Thirty-one percent of the 700 residents surveyed rated his performance as excellent / good and 34 percent called it fair.
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A different search might locate investments in your current portfolio, and another plug-in could rate their performance .
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They rate their performance as a lot better than average and are particularly interested in giving as well as receiving pleasure.
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In one newspaper poll last week, 69 percent of respondents rated his performance good to excellent.
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raise
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NatWest Securities raised its rating on the computer maker to accumulate from hold.
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Co. raised their rating on the stock today.
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In a 6-3 vote, the council raised rates 6 percent a year for the next three years.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Our restaurant didn't even rate a mention in Beck's guide.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But the experts rated Reno seventh for implementing the Clinton agenda.
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Internet Explorer and Netscape, for example, can restrict access according to a rating system.
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It is also rated the most competitive newly-industrialised economy by the World Competitiveness Report.
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Not all the celebrities rated badly however.
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Obviously, we can not rate course we do not play, but that does not mean that they are bad courses.
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Production becomes more important to the leader as his or her rating advances on the horizontal scale.