However delinquencies remained at historically low standards, even as the percentage of subprime loans increased.
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Even in the Soviet period, such exotic-sounding drinks were a welcome exception amid dismally low standards.
Government ads are dull even by the low standards of official publicity worldwide contracts often go to the connected, not the creative.
The document said the academy's governors were "too accepting" of low standards.
The firm is well run only by the low standards of the auction business, and there is room for further efficiency improvements.
But that so many young Italians study abroad, and so few young foreigners (2% of all foreign students) do in Italy, points to equally low standards at university level.
The fund Lula wants to set up with oil revenues could, as he says, help Brazil to overcome poverty, low standards in education and limited investment in science and technology.
Once again, we find ourselves in one of those moments, which seem to come often these days, in which high technology and low standards have put our heads and our hearts at odds.
It should set benchmark standards, not lower its expectations to conform to low standards world-wide. (Some other countries permit passengers to board carrying the sort of potential weapons the TSA plans to allow.) Mr. Pistole is concerned about the amount of time spent searching for small knives when personnel would do better to focus on looking for explosives.
In June 2006, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency required 80% of highway diesel fuel sold in the U.S. to meet new ultra-low sulfur standards similar to those needed for low-polluting gasoline.
Many Bulgarians remain deeply unhappy over high energy costs, power monopolies, low living standards and corruption.
However low those standards are set, Myanmar's junta, with its refusal to help save the lives of its own people, falls short.
But reaching 6% is currently a struggle, partly because of the police's image but also because of the low educational standards of many women.
Are those who want to impose import restrictions against countries with low labor standards willing to lift those restrictions against countries that start to pay decent wages?
Optimists argue that low living standards, coupled with high education levels and proximity to rich markets, mean potential for continued rapid growth of the kind seen until the financial crisis.
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Since every high school, no matter how low its standards, has a top decile, the law gave UT a lot of poor and minority kids who never would have made it on the basis of academic ability.
Far from being a source of legitimate comparative advantage, low environmental standards are an abuse of the human rights of those people usually the poor who have to suffer their direct consequences through polluted water supplies and poisoned air.
The low emission zone - which begins in February 2008 - aims to deter the most polluting vehicles from being driven in central London by imposing charges on lorries, coaches and buses that fail to meet low emission standards.
You may have to flush your toilet twice because of the low flow standards from the Department of Energy, and when you go downstairs for breakfast, even the size of the holes in the Swiss cheese that you grate into your omelet are regulated by the Department of Agriculture.
Even with the recent rise, German yields remain almost unimaginably low by historic standards.
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While still low by Western standards, wages are creeping up in China as they fall stateside.
Even then it was low by relative standards, but by 2010 it was down to 29%.
Literacy rates are low by any standards: 57% overall, and just 33% among women in the countryside.
Too many kids are going to be ranking too low on international standards on math and science.
That's still low by international standards, but the figure will probably double again in a year's time.
That is low by international standards (though the ratio will soar when insolvent state banks are eventually recapitalised).
Under normal conditions, the price we ultimately paid for Bear Stearns would have been considered low by most standards.
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The default rate on corporate debt is still very low by historical standards.
Government revenues as a share of output are low by international standards and have fallen in recent years (see chart).
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While the five-month total is still relatively low by historical standards, it marks a dramatic increase from a year ago.
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