Growth in U.S. real imports slowed to about 3 percent in 2006, in part reflecting a drop in real terms in imports of crude oil and petroleum products.
With stealth taxes rising on pensions, ISAs, Peps where you can no longer reclaim with-holding tax, on top of insurance premium tax, rises in National Insurance and the reduction (in real terms) of allowances, the fact that many people are incapable of understanding tax credits and do not claim them.
The effect of low-skilled immigration on wages, along with the declining value, in real terms, of the minimum wage, have made the decision of young people not to enter the workforce a no-brainer.
The actual cost, in real terms, of many commodities has declined over the past four decades when measured in constant dollars.
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In 2010, the coalition said it would "guarantee that health spending increases in real terms in each year of the Parliament".
In so doing, they conveniently ignore the critical assessment by the National League of Families that 1993 was actually the worst year in recent memory in terms of real progress on this front.
Almost half of hospitals which responded said their cleaning budgets had gone down in real terms this year, and two thirds of their building maintenance budgets had also gone down in real terms.
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Through all of the panics and wars and industrialization and social changes, the economy grew in real terms an average of 3.9% a year.
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In reality, this path simply represents just another form of default, as creditors will ultimately be paid back in currencies that are worth less in terms of real purchasing power.
In the third quarter GDP grew at a quarterly rate of 1.2% in real terms, the fastest growth in the G7, but in nominal terms, as a result of the pernicious effects of deflation, it fell by 0.1%.
"To date, the meetings have been presentations of positions without any real engagement in terms of counteroffers, so in a sense they have been talking past one another, " he said.
This has been confirmed to us from conversations that we've had with people in Benghazi, including former representatives from the Libya National Council who have been in touch with our representatives and our liaison with them, indicating that in fact the efforts here have made a real difference in terms of the threat that was looming over Benghazi.
Total corporate capital spending on equipment has risen by around 11% in real terms in each of the past five years.
The pre-budget report said that in real terms 95% of the NHS budget would be shielded from cuts in 2011-12 and 2012-13, and everyday spending on schools would rise by 0.7% a year.
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By contrast, inventory liquidation actually pulled down the headline estimate in the third quarter, making it a stronger quarter in terms of real final sales than the fourth.
And yeah, the millions of photos shared on Facebook do indeed comprise real value in terms of what might keep consumers from leaving.
Mr. England has the unenviable task of playing such a role at a time when defense funding is substantially larger in real terms than over much of the last few decades yet thanks to extensive, and expensive, worldwide combat and combat-support operations around the world woefully inadequate to meet the military's recapitalization requirements.
Growth was just fine in this era 3.3% per year in real terms, exactly the rate of growth that prevailed in the long post-World War II run that is so famous, 1945-73.
We think the U.S. and ultimately Europe will be headed in the same direction in terms of sustainably low real rates, at first through low nominal rates and later through inflation.
Another IFS observation that some ministers may be surprised by: the social security budget is rising, not falling over the course of the government's austerity programme, both in real terms and as a share of government spending.
Then we dig around and look for companies that can exhibit some of the characteristics that give them a real competitive edge in terms of maintaining margins, etc.
The Scottish Government's draft budget, published in September, saw a real terms increase of 2.1% in university resource budgets.
"We'll be listening for any change in guidance, and on the underlying health of their borrowers, particularly in terms of commercial real estate, " says Oppenheimer bnak analyst Terry McEvoy.
It's been a year of to-ing and fro-ing with no real discernable results in terms of the kind of large scale, fundamental restructuring of the sector that the Minister is demanding.
The challenge is to get the amount of money growth that results roughly in line with the capacity of the economy to grow in real terms around 3-4 percent per year at full employment, somewhat faster at 9.6 percent unemployment.
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In terms of real, private sector growth, the US has been flat for a decade.
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What exactly does that mean in terms of real, available kWh generating output?
Once they do find jobs, they are being paid significantly less than their 1967 counterparts in terms of real dollars.
In terms of real innovation -transformation, are there plans down the road?
With a fiat dollar, it is impossible for A and B to know exactly what, in terms of real value, will be repaid.
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