In 1983, federal outlays, which had been increasing for a dozen years at well over the rate of economic growth, peaked, and then crawled ahead for the next five years at half the rate of economic growth.
Then dividends are taxed again in the hands of the recipients at the rate of 15%.
At the climax of his passion, he was adding to the collection at the rate of a painting a week, ending up with 1, 500 works.
He poured me a glass of Le Baccanti, an Apulian Primitivo, which was just dry enough to complement rather than overwhelm the dishes coming at me at the rate of roughly one per every half-eaten plate.
The GDP number in the third quarter was good, but if you really dig into the details, a lot of that was at the expense of the savings rate that came down.
The rising rate of inflation comes at the same time as the Bank rate continues at a record low of 0.5%.
Politicians are not going to adopt a system that taxes the wages of the rich at a lower rate than the wages of blue-collar workers.
At first, the government wanted to introduce the new tax at the rate of 10% on everything.
It will pay only part of the interest, capitalising the rest so that the debt grows at the rate of inflation.
The percentage of emails with malicious attachments targeting U.S. email accounts went up at the same rate at which the percentage of spam originating in the U.S. increased (by 13.5 percentage points).
Over the last four years, the price of the healthiest foods has increased at around twice the rate of energy-dense junk food.
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To maintain its currency peg, the People's Bank of China has to create enough yuan to satisfy foreign demand for the currency at the going rate of 8.3 yuan to the dollar.
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Young women and moms are two of the fastest growing demographics of entrepreneurs and overall, women are starting businesses at twice the rate of men.
For instance, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists, model year 2012 plug-in hybrid sales of cars like the Chevy Volt are running at triple the rate of last year, and hybrids are up almost 50 percent compared to 2011.
So instead of seeing a movie at the traditional rate of 24 frames per second (fps), viewers see it at 48 fps.
Seventy-five thousand tons dead-weight rushing through the fog at the rate of fifty feet per second, had hurled itself at an iceberg.
Pension B, on the other hand, must be discounted at the blended rate of the stocks and Treasuries, or 7%.
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Between speeches, there are quorum calls, time killers in which a Senate clerk calls the roll at the rate of one name every few minutes.
The Institute for Supply Management's monthly report showed the manufacturing sector expanded in April for the fifth consecutive month, but at the lowest rate of the year.
Less than 100 years later, the United States was the invention capital of the world, patenting inventions at three times the rate of Britain on a per capita basis.
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Reacting to local problems related to the U.S. credit crunch, a one-day quick tender of unlimited funds was offered Thursday at the bargain rate of 4.0% to banks in the 13-nation Euro zone in which the ECB sets interest rates.
Fourth, the fantastic costs associated with the Vietnam War created huge inflationary pressures which drove down the value of USDs as compared with gold (even at the fixed rate of exchange).
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In any case, the current imbalances at the root of the exchange rate controversy may prove transient.
And students with disabilities drop out of school at twice the rate of their able-bodied peers.
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In addition to the financial analysis we just went through, the strategy looks at the rate of return an investor can expect.
It also enhances returns on the upside at twice the rate of SPY, up to a maximum return, or price cap (before management fees).
Spending on the elderly and the disabled will be growing at one rate while the rest of the health care system will be growing at twice that rate.
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Structural metal workers and what the BLS calls extractive occupations (mining and drilling) round out the list of the top five most dangerous occupations, though neither group dies on the job at even half the rate of timber cutters.
In 1992 Mr Gore asserted that 20% of the Amazon had been deforested and that deforestation continued at the rate of 80m hectares a year.
Distance markers on the guardrail flew by at the rate of more than a football field per second.
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