Once beyond that amount, the maximum rate topped off at five percent.

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From the Fall 2007 high, the financial sector as a whole is off about fifty-five percent.

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Forty-five percent aren't even entitled by law to a weekly day off.

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Independent firms benefit from full expensing of their intangible drilling costs, while the integrated firms can expense only 70 percent of their IDCs and must write off the rest over a five- year period.

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The open approach that Valve decided on years ago is paying off big when it comes to the living room -- if only five percent of that installed base jump in on Steambox in 2013 (what we'd call a highly conservative guess), that's 2.5 million users.

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At the Pentagon alone that could mean 800, 000 civilian workers would be off for 22 days each, spread across more than five months and lose 20 percent of their pay over that period.

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Jed Kolko at Trulia shows that in nearly every market, potential buyers with an expected holding period of five years or more and a combined state and local marginal tax rate of 25 percent or higher are better off financially owning than renting.

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Although the heavy duty market is suffering from a cyclical downturn, with sales off 13.4 percent last year and continued weakness so far in 2012, all five companies have profited from the boom in heavy duty truck sales over the past five years and are financially strong.

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