Similarly, with leadership from both parties, we could reach consensus on the top rate and scale other rates down from there.
As constitutional law professor and blogger Eugene Volokh writes, caving in to bullies only accelerates the rate and scale of their ambitions.
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Then, before they left, they were asked to rate on a scale of zero (no hurt) to five (hurts worst) how much pain they experienced in the warm water and the ice.
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So it should be no surprise that the UK is struggling to grow at more than a desperately anaemic rate: the scale of the required re-engineering for the British economy will be the work of many years.
But the sheer scale of rate cuts over the past three months is helping many indebted households.
Among other questions, the survey asked respondents to rate, on a scale of one to five, who would be most difficult to place.
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The agencies assess their the ability to pay off loans or investments and then rate them on a sliding scale, ranging from AAA to D.
Once the service is delivered and paid for, users rate the sellers on a scale from one (lowest) to five (highest) and post comments about them.
At the moment, for example, a straightforward colonoscopy, requiring a couple of hours in a clinic, is priced at two-thirds the rate of a full-scale splenectomy requiring 20 days of post-operative care.
For instance, it asks you to slide a button along the bottom of a birthday cake to determine your age, or to rate your pain on a scale of happy green to angry red.
The Office for National Statistics asked people to rate their life satisfaction on a scale of zero to 10.
The scales, known as the Smart Body Analyzer, are the first-ever smart scale to feature heart rate measurement and air quality monitoring.
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And what sort of scale are you using to rate Google Maps 2005?
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As a benchmark, the doctors asked Guyton to rate her feelings of dread on a scale of 1 to 10.
It would require principals to rate teachers on a four-tiered scale, with up to 40% of the total based on whether students improve on state tests.
According to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005), in which UNESCO was involved, ecosystems in the last 50 years were destroyed on an unprecedented scale and at an unprecedented rate.
His margins are consistently high (14.7% OpInc in 3FQ11), since HP has few rivals in printing and none on its scale, but his growth rate is in the low single digits at best.
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The researchers told the students to rate, on a seven-point scale, how much faster than normal they would run in each notional race, with a one being slightly faster than normal and a seven being the fastest of their lives.
We use our scale to give a guaranteed lowest rate for merchants, he says.
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The resulting sum is assessed on a graduated scale that tops out at a rate near 50%.
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Since the 19th century the technology for doing so on an increasing scale has developed at a frightening rate.
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Moreover, the 1-5 scale used by the center to rate fire danger and preparedness was raised from 3 to 4.
The volunteers were then asked to describe how they would rate a series of acts on an ethical scale ranging from zero (perfectly okay) to nine (very wrong).
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Asked to rate their personal position on a ten-point scale of satisfaction, middle-class respondents are far more likely to put themselves near the top than are poor ones.
For the Science study, participants were asked to rate their happiness on a commonly used three-point scale.
Inspectors rate sections of the bridge on a 1 to 9 scale, with 9 being in excellent condition, he said.
Nearly five decades later, people in a separate survey were asked to look at the yearbook photos of around 3, 250 of the Wisconsin participants and rate them as attractive or extremely attractive, on a scale of 1 to 11.
Salter and co-authors Franklin Mixon of Columbus State University and Ernest King of the University of Southern Mississippi asked 402 people to rate agents, both male and female, on a scale of 1 to 10, from very unattractive to very attractive, based on online head shots.
That is because it is growing productivity and scale, and now globalization, at a far faster rate than the rest of the economy.
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