Although demand-side figures (measuring consumption) show flat spending, supply-side statistics (measuring production) point to healthy growth.
It seems to show a flat-to-rising trend since 1971, with black and Hispanic children registering the most improvement.
Mr Osborne told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show that the "generous" flat-tier pension would be "a huge boost for people who want to save for their retirement".
We changed into scrubs and Alleyn took me through the sixteen operating rooms to show me the laparoscopy suite, with its flat-screen video monitors, the hybrid operating room with built-in imaging equipment, the surgical robot for minimally invasive robotic surgery.
Results of the 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress show that scores in urban districts rose slightly or remained flat since the exams were last given in 2009 similar to the national performance.
The good news: Occupancy rates are no longer falling sharply and as just-released quarterly results show, leases that are up for renewal are now flat with prior contracts, much better than the nearly 10% drops seen in the past few years.
However, LG tacked on an altimeter for more accurate location data (the world ain't flat, you know) and the display can show call info during a run while also offering media controls for navigating through those playlists.
An iWatch will fall flat the minute Tim Cook holds up his wrist to show it to the collected tech-scribes in San Francisco.
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Anecdotal evidence suggests that even the German market is starting to wake up after more than a decade of flat or falling prices, but this has yet to show up the index that we use, which is published with a long lag (there are no figures for 2006).
In the TV show, Sheen plays a bachelor whose brother and nephew move into his flat after a divorce.
Although Lilly had promised that it would show some earnings growth in 2003, the company now says earnings could be flat and might even drop.
The World Cup will be about flat pitches, attacking starts and big totals, and Strauss has to show that he is the right man to open the batting in those circumstances, otherwise the selectors must do the right thing and replace him with Collingwood.
When producing a show for a cable or network channel, Hurwitz confessed that you have to make "flat" programming -- stuff that'll satisfy a huge, huge demographic.
The Public Theater's LuEsther Hall venue, where the show opened Tuesday, has been transformed into a beaming night club with strobe lights, flat-screen displays, wall-to-wall digital projections, artificial smoke and a DJ perched high above the dance floor.
But the court heard there was ample evidence to show she hit Kristy and "stoked the fire of violence" Bikubi had embarked on in the flat.
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First quarter passenger car sales in China may have been flat, but that does not seem to have dampened the enthusiasm for the Beijing Auto Show, which opened earlier this week.
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