Combining mathematical functions with real-life phenomena in this way is bound to stimulate interest in studying mathematics.
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This is where Tognazzini suffers a failure of imagination, and doesn't do Apple any favors in trying to stimulate interest in smartwatch usability concepts.
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And as surveys such as these do point out that it is often the little things that stimulate interest and help employees feel better about their workplace.
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Charbonneau said they looked at the model used by Mining Association of Canada, which was a partner in the event, to stimulate interest in the mining industry.
He hopes the production will be followed by other Chinese work and wants the play to stimulate an interest in the Chinese repertoire generally.
We will present a two-week immersive environment where we will teach 100 kids the fundamentals about cyber, physical, and environmental security issues in the hope that we will stimulate more interest and get them into a college curriculum of security.
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Bernanke insists that the plan will stimulate investment through lower interest rates and potentially stimulate spending through the wealth effect, notwithstanding the counter-arguments stated above.
Deflation robs a central bank of its ability to stimulate spending using negative real interest rates.
In other words, low interest rates should stimulate lending, which in turn should stimulate consumption and hiring, creating a virtuous cycle.
Rapid outflows, as much of the emerging world is now discovering, make it harder to reduce interest rates to stimulate domestic economies.
Low interest rates to stimulate spending in a recession have always had a negative side, namely, the lowering of the return to savers.
If it were true that lenders will always go with the flow, then artificially low interest rates should stimulate borrowing, increase credit and facilitate economic growth.
Persistent attempts to persuade the European Central Bank to cut European interest rates to stimulate growth have been met with fierce protestations of the bank's independence.
The Fed has given us QE, QE2 and QE3 as strategies to suppress interest rates, stimulate the economy and as a by-product, up shift the housing market recovery.
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Federal Reserve attempts to stimulate economic activity by lowering interest rates have been useless in the face of heavily indebted consumers and realistically-low expectations of sales on the part of firms.
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"Lower interest rates will stimulate property, " he predicts.
To add to that liquidity, the Federal Reserve will hold its Open Market Committee meeting on November 2 and 3, in which it is expected to discuss in more concrete details its plans to launch a round of quantitative easing to relax interest rates and stimulate lending.
The primary card the Fed has to play to stimulate the economy is to lower interest rates.
Another view promoted by the Fed is that in forcing interest rates lower we stimulate or at the very least prop up the housing market.
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Elevated inflation also affects export competitiveness and limits the extent to which the central bank can cut interest rates to help stimulate the economy, Moody's said.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, who thinks his main job is to create full employment in America, believes that a zero interest rate regime will stimulate investment.
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Monetarists and other non-Keynesians believed that further expansion of money and related credit aggregates would stimulate the economy further even if interest rates were stuck in a liquidity trap.
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The European Central Bank was set to tack in a dramatically different direction on monetary policy Thursday by slashing interest rates to help stimulate growth in the buckling euro zone economy.
The dramatic increase in money supply here, in Europe, and Asia is likely to stimulate a recurrence of inflation pushing interest rates higher despite Federal Reserve promises to keep them low.
Ben Bernanke, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, has kept interest rates artificially low, and prices unusually high, by buying bonds in an effort to keep interest rates low and stimulate the struggling US economy.
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It had been cutting interest rates to try to stimulate the struggling economy.
However, the net inflow of capital will put downward pressure on interest rates and will also stimulate job growth.
Speeding up money growth along with the accompanying downward pressure on interest rates would tend to stimulate a depressed economy.
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Each time the government has taken a bullish step to stimulate the economy like lowering interest rates officials have continued to assert that property is too expensive for too many people.
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So strike one Bernanke victory for higher stock prices, and one defeat in money markets, where the attempt to stimulate the purchases of homes through lower interest rates backfired.
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