Plenty of power as long as the Fireman was feeding coal into the Firebox at a great rate.

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We also would note in that regard that at the time of the -- when things began, the automobile supply industry, which, in fact, employs a lot more people than the Big Three themselves, was losing jobs at a great rate.

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And in the past year, rewards for bosses of FTSE 100 companies have risen at a rate more than three times as great as the increase in FTSE 100 share prices.

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Top income tax rates are 36% or so, social security taxes stop at quite a low level and great, we can just put the income tax rate up to 56%!

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And while we're at it, the labour market survey shows starting salaries of new recruits rising at their fastest rate for three years - great news if you're a new recruit, but in current circumstances, it hints at a problem of skill shortages down the road, probably at their worst in IT and computing.

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The rate at which an epidemic spreads to lower-risk groups depends a great deal on whether different groups mate mainly among themselves (assortative mating) or whether they mate a lot with other people (disassortative mating).

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"It spreads the risk" - this is the assessment of Willie Hofmeyr, the deputy director of National Prosecutions, who says though a "great deal is being done now", he is "disappointed at the slow rate of progress".

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Making matters worse, the fall in the unemployment rate (which stood at 8.3% in July), was in great part due to a further decrease in the labor participation rate, which ticked down to 63.5%, according to Nomura.

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