When did you last hear of a health-insurance plan whose annual update was a benefit improvement but no rate increase?
To give ourselves a more than 50% chance of avoiding 2 degrees (Celsius) will require a six-fold improvement in our rate of decarbonisation.
The airline also improved its punctuality with 79% of flights arriving within 15 minutes of their scheduled time, an improvement on the rate of 66% in 2010.
So for example, a high rate of improvement in unemployment rates in individual states (even if the unemployment rate is high) has a bigger impact on votes than states with an actual low unemployment rate.
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Orlando experienced a similar trend with current distressed sales representing 25% of total sales, a substantial improvement over the rate of 49% at the start of the year, and below the high of over 54% seen in mid-2009.
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When performance is measured and reported back, the rate of improvement accelerates.
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The drug combo did decrease the progression of cancer by 15% to 8.9 months and had a 21% improvement in the response rate of patients.
That might explain why the rate of improvement has slowed.
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Despite a substantial improvement in the unemployment rate, which fell to 7.8%, its lowest level since Barack Obama took the presidency, and a housing market that appears to have bottomed out, the Fed remained cautious.
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"It's true that in recent years the rate of improvement has slowed - we're impatient to do even better and that's why we are taking further decisive action to help all children reach their potential, " she said.
The meeting was part of a new initiative that aims to achieve universal access to modern sources of energy, double the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix and double the rate of improvement in energy efficiency, all by 2030.
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Mr Coltart said the 82% failure rate was an improvement on previous years.
We are also concerned that the company may struggle to maintain high manufacturing utilization, which could put pressure on the rate of cost improvement.
"But Libor still remains high relative to the Bank rate and any improvement in credit market conditions will take time to feed through into the mortgage market, " he added.
"Recent research produced by the CMI (Continuous Mortality Investigation of the Institute of Actuaries) indicates that the rate of mortality improvement is not slowing down as would be expected, " it said.
Although round numbers like 8 percent become psychological barriers in finance and economics, the 0.3 percent improvement that drove the unemployment rate below 8.0 percent is probably not substantial enough to have much of a ripple effect, either on the economy or the election.
For the fourth quarter as a whole, manufacturing output rose at an annual rate of 1.9 percent, a significant improvement from the earlier estimate of a slight 0.2 percent rate.
Thirteen percent of underage teenage shoppers were able to buy M-rated video games, a statistically significant improvement from the 20 percent purchase rate in 2009.
Mrs Sahlin points out that this is a great improvement on 1998, when the rate was over 22%, and insists that migrants are moving into jobs ever more quickly.
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The company struggled to IPO but got public in late 2010 with a major valuation haircut (fraction of cash invested) as the only way to feed a very high burn rate supporting its formulation improvement for a generic migraine drug.
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Both Ben Bernanke and vice chairwoman Janet Yellen have made it clear QE will remained tied to a substantial improvement in labor conditions, which should at least include continued payroll growth and an improvement in hiring, the quit rate, and real GDP.
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True, there are signs of improvement in the capital's crime rate (murders this year so far number just over 270 compared with 397 for all of 1996), but from an appallingly low base.
The earnings growth is an improvement from the 1.9% growth rate from a week ago but below the 2.6% estimate on December 31.
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Mr Black also called on the Welsh Government to make representations to the UK government to reduce the rate of VAT on building repairs and improvement work to existing buildings from 20% to 5%.
Labor market conditions have shown some improvement in recent months, on balance, but the unemployment rate remains elevated.
First, with improvement in housing, new jobs will be provided and the unemployment rate should continue to decline.
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With no examples of added supply and continued improvement in occupancy rates, they may be able to justify the rate hikes.
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But what emerged was a clear improvement of the tax code, with a top statutory personal income rate of 28 percent and the doubling of the standard deduction.
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Since unemployment among young college graduates still shows no improvement, the class of 2011 will likely face the highest unemployment rate for young college graduates since the Great Recession began, the Economic Policy Instiute reported in April.
However, in developed markets, the company saw a significant improvement in pricing, and as Facebook matures, the overall growth rate will slow and the impact of the ad pricing change will be more visible on overall revenue growth.
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