It would not have mattered much if the playing had been third rate, so cool was the evening, so light the mood.
It makes me crazy once in awhile when I see us on a Google page with someone who is totally third rate.
FORBES: How U.S. News Abandoned Print And Learned To Love Its Data
Sy Harding , editor of Street Smart Report, cites that last Fed tightening cycle as an illustration of a rule of thumb he calls "Three Steps and a Stumble"--the third rate hike kills the bull.
After Tuesday's Fed rate cut - its third rate cut this year - most experts believe that another UK rate cut in on the cards - although the Bank will be careful to point out that it takes decisions on the basis of the situation of the UK economy.
The default rate is only 1.5%, a third the rate experienced by a typical U.S. credit card lender.
Of the eight sides tipped pre-tournament to reach the quarter-finals and based on figures for the 12 months prior to 1 March they have both the third worst strike rate and the third worst record for losing wickets.
The city is filled with palazzo owners renting out dreary spaces no better than third-rate hotel rooms.
FORBES: The timeless world of the Venetian aristocracy lives on.
Nearly one of three teenagers drops out of high school, the third worst rate in the country.
The third successive rate cut this year takes the total reduction in policy rates since April 2012 to 1.25 percentage points.
In it, the group says that private companies "will not be allowed to cherry-pick the most profitable contracts, or provide third-rate services".
How many more celluloid panoramas of Manhattan, for example, do third-rate filmmakers need to show us before they realize we get the message?
The RBI's third successive rate cut this year takes the total reduction in policy rates since April 2012 to one and a quarter percentage points.
If Dan Loeb was going to leak something to the press to juice the stock price, why would he leak it to a third-rate newspaper like the Telegraph?
FORBES: Dan Loeb Doesn't Snitch To Third-Rate British Newspapers
There is no question that professors today have historically light teaching loads that often allow them to write third-rate papers, of fourth-rate importance, for fifth-rate journals that almost nobody reads.
Researchers at Memorial Sloan- Kettering reported in 2002 that a mere 4% of 698 prostate cancer patients who underwent IMRT suffered significant rectal bleeding, less than one-third the rate for older technology.
The National Pensioners Convention said the proposals "simply tinker at the edges" and that a cap "will help just 10% of those needing care, whilst the majority will be left to struggle on with a third-rate service".
Franklin Roosevelt, who presided over a country with a third-rate army, ordered an industrial transformation of the American economy on a scale that seemed simply out of reach, with the focused, urgent aim of defeating the Nazis.
But what Obama is proposing would actually double the capital gains tax rate to 30%, leaving America with the third highest capital gains rate in the developed world.
FORBES: President Obama's State Of The Union Confusion And Deception
Unemployment in the state has reached 6.6 percent, the third-highest rate in the country.
Germans in work put in an average of 1, 430 hours in 2006, the third-lowest rate in the OECD.
ECONOMIST: Germany scandalously underuses immigrants and women
Now, all foreign currencies must be changed at commercial banks at the official rate, barely a third of the black-market rate.
The city with the third lowest unemployment rate: Lincoln, Neb.
FORBES: The Cities with the Best and Worst Unemployment Rates
Sam Kazman of the Competitive Enterprise Institute points out the latest research from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety shows SUVs (sport utility vehicles) over 4, 500 pounds have a one-third lower death rate than cars below 2, 500 pounds.
Rowe Price anticipates the economy will expand at a 2.8% rate in the third quarter and a 2.7% rate in the fourth quarter.
FORBES: Don't Worry About A Double-Dip, Think Long Term And Diversification
And the birth rate for third and fourth children was rising: between 1940 and 1960, the birth rate for fourth children tripled.
The Commerce Department said that economic growth accelerated at a slower than expected rate in the third quarter, growing at a 2% annual rate, down from the previously expected 2.5%.
President Bush cut the Clinton era tax rates as well, with the bottom rate slashed by a third to 10%, and the top rate cut to 35%.
FORBES: Reaganomics Vs. Obamanomics: Fallacies Offered By The Left
The U.S. National Home Price Index declined 3.9% through the quarter and was down 4.1% from December 2009, marking the second lowest annual growth rate since the third quarter of 2009, when prices were falling at an annual rate of 8.6% amidst a market in free fall.
FORBES: Home Prices Almost At 2009 Trough As Double Dip Materializes According To Case-Shiller Index
Energy-rich California, despite the nation's third-highest unemployment rate, has created a mere 20, 000 such jobs.
Macroeconomic Advisers adjusted its expected third-quarter growth rate to 2.4% from 3% after the trade data appeared.
应用推荐