After eight years of threatening punitive action to compel appreciation of the Chinese currency at a pace deemed acceptable by U.S. politicians (a period, by the way, in which the Yuan appreciated by 30% against the dollar in nominal terms and by much more in real terms), lawmakers may just pull the trigger this time.
He added that the probation budget had been "substantially" protected relative to the overall Ministry of Justice (MoJ) budget - which is being cut by 25% in real terms by 2014-15.
Deacon is arguing that scientists can accept head on, the notion that conscious thought is not material, and yet in principle can be explained in natural terms by a sort of architecture of constraints.
The fixed nature of the euro, as far as an Italy, Spain or Greece is concerned, was and is also a block on the historic way these countries ran unsustainable deficits, because in the old days deficits would be inflated away in real terms by the devaluation of their currencies.
Well, global electricity prices are expected to increase in price, in real terms, by 15% by 2035.
Imagine inflation at 5.5% for five years, approximately the rate of inflation in the U.K. This takes a debt down in real terms by a quarter over the five year period.
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The slowdown appears to have persisted in the first three months of this year, when retail sales grew in real terms by just 0.3%.
According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, the country was the world's 17th largest arms explorer in the period between 2004 and 2008, while over the decade 2000-2009 its military spending increased in real terms by 40 percent.
If no areas were safeguarded, their budgets set by Labour for this year would have to decline cumulatively by 14%, in real terms, by 2014-15.
In civil disobedience - which has a very proud tradition that includes Mahatma Gandhi, it includes Dr. King, you know, there's no shortage of examples - part of the concept is that you dramatize an important public issue by sacrificing yourself in some way, whether it - not necessarily, you know, in terms of giving up your life, but in terms of exposing yourself through adverse action by the government.
There has obviously for many, many years been a type of feelings by India that, say, 150 or so million Muslims who are in the minority are feeling sort of hard done by in terms of the Hindu majority.
"However we have been told in no uncertain terms by the government that's not to happen".
The official debt, after all, can be wiped out in real terms by printing money and raising prices.
Gordon Brown boasted of raising spending in real terms by 10% since Labour took power, in contrast with Tory cuts earlier.
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But constitutional amendments must be passed in identical terms by both houses.
Indeed, her tumor cells have been subjected to decades of rearrangements, duplications and deletions that have been known in general terms by the medical community.
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This year, education spending will rise in real terms by 9%.
More importantly, although the service's budget rose in real terms by over 7% a year from 1998 to 2003, its real output rose by only 3.7% a year.
The task facing the Scots was framed in stark terms by Robinson, who will be deprived of the talents of Chris Cusiter and Johnnie Beattie for the matches.
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IFS, social-security benefits (including the working families' tax credit) are projected to rise in real terms by only 1.5% a year, a far smaller rate of increase than occurred under the Conservatives.
On the other hand, the compound annual growth rates for patents granted, though minuscule in absolute terms by U.S. standards, from India and China stand at 25 and 22 percent respectively for the same period (Figure 2).
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That means that we have covered our excess of imports over exports in value terms by increasing our foreign debt, broadly defined to include equity ownership as well as traditional debt in the form of bonds, bank balances, and the like.
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The broader charge, which was made last weekend in graphic terms by a vengeful Clare Short (the recently departed international development secretary), was one of the most serious it is possible to make: that the prime minister had knowingly led his country to war on a false pretext.
But over the same period, data from research firm FactSet says, investors in Chinese companies have on average barely beaten inflation, in dollar terms, by one percentage point a year.
Overall, consumer spending in these countries rose by 5% in real terms in the year to the fourth quarter, whereas exports fell by 8%.
The downside scenario assumes a return to recession next year, partly as a result of weaker external and domestic demand, with real GDP declining by 0.5% in real terms, followed by a weak recovery thereafter.
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Mr Cameron has threatened to veto any EU budget deal that goes further than a real terms freeze but achieving an absolute cut in cash terms is considered implausible by ministers and officials.
Earlier this year, Citrus Valley was named one of the most improved hospital systems in the country in terms of inpatient satisfaction by Press Ganey Associates, a provider of healthcare analytics.
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Known by Hoosiers fans to this day as "The Shot, " and known in much less complimentary terms by Syracuse faithful, that 16-foot jumper from the left side with 5 seconds to play is a film clip staple throughout March.
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