Meantime, corporations like Prudential Financial and General Electric issue preferreds with yields hardly more than 5 percent.
The alternative case is hardly more than descriptions of the failures of the Canadian and British systems.
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Even the storied Rio Grande, which she and Brian had seen on a disagreeable weekend trip several years ago to Matamoros, was hardly more than a drainage ditch.
Unfortunately, hardly more than a week after the Fed halted the program, giant mortgage provider Freddie Mac reports that 30-year home mortgage rates have jumped to 5.21%, up from 5.08% the previous week, and 4.71% in December.
If her technique is hardly more than that of a home movie, her strategy is complex: the myth of the unimpeachable innocence of wild children against an uncaring world converges with the public image that Le Besco, the actress, projects.
Hardly more than a handful of individuals, really, despite the mountains of evidence collected by the feds, have got into any kind of serious trouble and, as far as I know, none have had to pay much of their bonuses back.
Young men swept up in the raid are sprung from jail by a councilman seeking their votes, crowds form in the street to pocket cash payments from competing candidates, and campaign rallies, which are joined with religious celebrations, are hardly more than stomping grounds for pickpockets.
And, by the way, we are several trillion dollars closer to insolvency than we were in 2010 and the economic recovery seems hardly more secure than it was then.
But selling decorative lithographs printed in large editions is hardly more noteworthy than vending posters.
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By contrast in transportation, for instance, we are hardly more advanced today than we were 40 years ago.
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The Russians and Chinese and French will balk, but they can hardly be more royalist than the king.
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You could hardly get more creative than being a Nobel Prize winner.
The UK would suddenly be free to set its own agenda again and would hardly be more isolated than it was in the 1950s and 1960s, which happened to be years that older Britons remember with particular fondness.
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The imediate impact of the Francis papacy on the region could hardly be felt more than in Villa 21-24, a slum of cramped dwellings and narrow alleys that clings to railroad tracks in the Agentine priest's home town of Buenos Aires.
She could hardly be any more scandalous than the princes of the political dynasty she aims to replace.
If I held political office now, I can hardly imagine a more chilling term than unexpected new phase of the war.
And that's hardly surprising, as Vivian has more than a little in common with opera's tragic, main character not least, her occupation.
But once one gets behind the relatively small urban core, the overall density is barely 2, 200 per square mile, less than half San Jose or Los Angeles, hardly a fifth that of Tokyo and not much more than Atlanta, the least dense major city in the world with more than 2.5 million residents.
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Given these views, it is hardly surprising that many Europeans more than 70% of French respondents and almost 60% of German want looser ties with America.
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There was hardly a more exciting player in the NFL last season than Robert Griffin III, otherwise known as RGIII.
He missed more than a month but the Penguins hardly missed a beat, going 9-4 in his absence, including a 5-0 romp in the series-opener Wednesday.
It is also over one day in the air and 20 time zones crossed - hardly conducive to peak athletic performance and very possibly more than any athlete's body can handle.
There were graves but hardly what could be called a churchyard: no more than a narrow strip of land beside a path close to the church itself, running all the way around it.
Even if the Iranian puppet, Muqtada al-Sadr, were not threatening if Americans are invited to stay to relaunch his Madi army's sectarian warfare and bring down the coalition government (in which his party is a prominent part), the Iraqis can hardly be more in favor of maintaining an American presence than we are.
The recipients are hardly the most deserving: farm households make a third more than others, and the richest of them, which get most of the subsidies, bring in three times what the average non-farm household does.
It's hardly a surprise: the arm's blueprints were downloaded more than 100, 000 times since going live on DefCAD this week.
France, and other European farm protectionists, may prove more flexible than they currently imply: this is hardly the first time they have promised to man the barricades shortly before striking a deal.
Fin loves trains and not much else hardly surprising, given that the world has shown him little more than a laugh and a sneer and he is none too thrilled when his quiet space is invaded.
That would slow, but hardly fell, an economy that is widely expected to grow by more than 2% this year.
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