In 2010-11, the take-up rate for this age group was 64% in Nottingham, compared to a national target of 80%.

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She thinks the company could boost its dividend rate by 13%-25% a quarter, which would take the rate up to 18-20 cents a quarter from the current 16 cents.

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The Association of School and College Leaders has warned that confusion over its complex structure and a low take-up rate could doom the qualification to second-class status.

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The take-up rate on the Pell Grant program has skyrocketed.

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The audience take-up rate was slow for the first seven years, because of the expense of the decoders needed to broadcast Ceefax onto TV sets, but soon the service expanded year by year.

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But the market did make a few accurate predictions about technology trends: it concluded that products based on ultrawideband technology would not be commercially available by July 2004, and correctly forecast the take-up rate for internet telephony.

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Right to Buy first started under Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government, but take-up dwindled as the discounts offered failed to keep pace with the rate of property price inflation.

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The new set-up, says Mr Tolmasquim, would allow the government to take things such as the exchange rate into account when it takes decisions on exploration.

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But Twitter will probably follow the example of other technology companies, basing its corporate headquarters in Dublin to take advantage of the tax rate (then hiring back-office staff) and setting up another branch in London where it can tap into a wider pool of folks who are highly skilled in software development.

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