However important their similar historical legacies may have been, they cannot account for the differences in magnitude of the fluctuations in death rates that occurred in the former Soviet states during the early 1990s.

ECONOMIST: The British army

There would be no fluctuations in interest rates and it would be better for the manufacturing industry.

BBC: The Field Family

Longer-term mortgages could insulate homeowners to the fluctuations in interest rates, by fixing their repayments for up to 25 years.

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Another critically important principle when considering the ideal tax rate is something called "Hauser's Law, " named after investment economist Kurt Hauser, which shows that over the last six decades tax revenue as a percent of GDP has been about 19%, regardless of fluctuations in tax rates.

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Best Buy said the jump was driven by the addition of new stores, expanded investments, the timing of discretionary expenditures and the impact of other nonrecurring items, as well as fluctuations in foreign currency rates.

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