In March, the central bank cut its lending rate by a quarter percentage point, which was its second rate reduction in 2013.
Nevermind that white scientists revised and resubmitted rejected applications much more often, hoping for a second shot at funding for their second rate proposals.
Years ago, when I asked Norton Simon why he collected blue chip art and second rate companies he told me it was quite simple.
Not only were connotations of loneliness attributed to ready meals, their quality also started to be questioned, with frozen meals increasingly seen as second rate.
Dr John Chisholm, Chairman of BMA's GP's Committee, said: "First rate family doctors feel their patients get a second rate NHS service - or worst".
They took over the successful perfume business begun by their extraordinarily perspicacious mother Estee Lauder and built it into a global empire that made Revlon look like a scruffy second rate operation.
The second rate cut in five weeks was a modest one, but signals the intent of European policy makers to help the struggling economy in the face of a mounting debt crisis.
Mr Myant has said that the suggestion that qualifications in Welsh or in ethnic minority languages were in some way second rate would be "deeply insulting" both to the speakers of the languages and to the students.
Eager to remake a second rate legacy carrier that was always in bankruptcy, they ripped out first class seats from many planes, and then in the ones where they maintained first class, it was no longer an option for their best customers to be upgraded.
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This is on top of the 35% corporate rate that is already the second highest rate in the world after Japan.
U.N. statistics show South Africa has the second highest rate of shooting deaths in the world, second only to Colombia.
New York's vacancy rate was 11.5% in the fourth quarter of 2009, the second lowest rate in the nation, according to Reis's survey.
" By contrast the current show, says this dealer, has "a lot of second-rate work.
For years, Jake had been touring second-rate halls and clubs with his own band.
Picking stocks in emerging markets no longer means having to settle for second-rate companies.
It's so interesting that something considered dirty and second-rate is being embraced by the industry.
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Bank One covers a huge swathe of American finance, but it is second-rate in most areas.
Most locally made feature films are second-rate movies that go straight to cable television in America.
Now, as a Philadelphian, I am, like all Philadelphians, intensely aware that my native city is second-rate.
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Peter Riddell in The Times recently described the Shadow Cabinet as "among the most second-rate in a generation".
Some people think that a shake-out would be beneficial, because it would rid the business of second-rate establishments.
Gibbs sold off his second-rate oil and gas fields and renamed the company.
In other words, Apple had been stuck with a second-rate Google Maps app while Android had a far better one.
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Novelists trafficking in the present would do well to abandon their lingering prejudices against historical fiction as something ready-made and second-rate.
In 2003, the region suffered the second highest rate of new infections in the world with almost 1.37 million people becoming HIV-positive.
French isn't sure just what that attribute is, but there is something about second-rate companies and industries that makes investors shy away.
The man who spearheaded that advance was never content to be second-rate.
"Ireland are not a second-rate team, they are supposed to be a first-rate team, " insisted Trapattoni, who managed Italy from 2000 to 2004.
If a second-rate exchange is first to attract a critical mass of trading, even a better trading system may fail to wrest business away.
When there's no affordable child care, that hurts children who wind up in second-rate care, or spending afternoons alone in front of the television set.
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