There is no question that professors today have historically light teaching loads that often allow them to write third-rate papers, of fourth-rate importance, for fifth-rate journals that almost nobody reads.
South Africa can thus offer low-cost electrical power, at the fourth-cheapest rate in the world.
By adolescence, one-fourth of college-bound students rate themselves in the top 1% in their ability to get along with others, research shows.
The Fed has unemployment rising to a 4.75%-5% fourth-quarter average rate from the current 4.6%.
Beyond that, Thomas's 13.9% rebound rate is fourth-best on the team, behind Camby, Chandler and Wallace.
The fact is that government spending is a fourth-order issue in determining our rate of economic growth.
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Across the board, fourth-quartile funds have a much higher rate of being merged and liquidated than all other funds.
For the past couple years, Armstrong has been promising that the network will achieve run-rate profitability by the fourth quarter of 2013.
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Though the rural-to-urban trend has defined the state's politics over the last decade, some Democrats said that Obama's organization can only take him so far in a state with decidedly moderate tendencies and a 9.7% unemployment rate -- the fourth highest in the nation.
"They are so determined to keep an African-American off the court, they have allowed a 25 percent vacancy rate on the Fourth Circuit, just to keep an African-American off the court, " he said.
Fourth, the top 15% rate on long-term capital gains rises to 20%.
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Undaunted by the high failure rate, the fourth one, the London-based Inmarsat, plans to sell a substantial portion of its shares to the public next year.
Amazon's spending on employee additions, fulfillment centers and data infrastructure contributed to a sharp drop in fourth-quarter profit, as the company's normally impressive rate of quarterly revenue growth missed expectations.
This was the fourth event - the start of a renewed collapse of the birth rate, perhaps its longest and fastest ever, only a year later, quite unlike the more sustained boom of the 1960s and completing a sequence of down, up and then down again in the space of a few years by magnitudes that make you wonder how midwives, hospitals, schools and others coped on this rollercoaster.
For example, down-and-out Providian had a charge-off rate of 12.7% in the fourth quarter of 2001.
The unemployment rate stands at 11.1%, the fourth-highest in the country.
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Wal-Mart's fiscal fourth-quarter earnings rose 8.6% helped by a lower tax rate and expense controls, but it forecast flat U.S. same-store sales this quarter.
The recent spurt in productivity growth up by 3.6% in the year to the fourth quarter may have increased the economy's long-term growth rate.
The UK has previously been very successful in this - although the most recent figures show it has slipped to the fourth highest completion rate.
Fourth, uninsured Americans use hospital emergency rooms at about the same rate as privately-insured patients, and only one to two percent make regular visits (four or more per year) to hospital emergency rooms.
According to JPMorgan, the economy in Britain probably shrank at an annual rate of 5.9% in the fourth quarter, the euro-area by 5%, and Japan by a heart-stopping 9%, in a country with no housing bubble or banking crisis.
Julian Callow of Barclays Capital reckons euro-area GDP fell at an annualised rate of around 5% in the fourth quarter, as bad as in America.
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Only Slovakia has Baltic-style growth (an annual rate of 9.6% in the fourth quarter of 2006, with industrial production up by 17.4% year-on-year in January).
This represented a 5.7 percent increase compared with fourth-quarter 2011 and was the company's highest year-over-year quarterly growth rate in 2012.
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Intel this afternoon reportedslightly better-than-expected profits for the fourth quarter, thanks to gross margins above guidance and a tax rate below expectations.
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It carries a floating interest rate which is currently at about 1.75%, well below the 5.2% average rate on commercial-construction loans by U.S. banks in the fourth quarter, according to Trepp LLC.
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The fourth-wicket pair showed great heart to drag Worcestershire out of the mire, gradually cranking up the run-rate as the innings progressed.
Euro-zone exports fell sharply in the fourth quarter, adding to concerns that rises in the euro's exchange rate are hurting chances of an economic recovery.
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