The implication of my view of the way monetary policy works for the assets of the Fed is that the current level of total assets is a result of past policy and that continued slow growth is needed to support the real economy going forward.
The rate of distressed sales (of foreclosed properties or short-sales) is declining, which in turn means the number of cheaper homes being sold off, as a proportion of the total number of sales, is falling, giving a boost to average prices.
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Gaming revenue as a percentage of total revenue is much higher in Macau than it is in Las Vegas and its no secret that profit margins on gambling are much better than they are for food service and other tourist-related businesses like entertainment and hotel rooms.
Scoring in polo isn't entirely based on actual goals on the turf, but also involves a team's handicap, which is a total of each player's handicap, or ranking.
The effect is quite large too, that 0.72 of a degree is not far off the 0.8 of a degree which is said to be the total amount of anthropogenic global warming so far.
In any ordinary market, you are selling a piece of equipment to a construction company that is concerned about things like the total cost of ownership of a road grader over a 10-20 year life.
It is interesting to note, however, that Neiman Marcus has leveraged its brand into an e-commerce business that is now a significant portion of total sales, and is growing nearly four times as fast as the store-based business.
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Now that is a total breach of the conventions by which our democracy works, which is that we can put faith in what ministers say to us, we do believe they tell the truth.
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Wales' front row is expected to have a combined total of 162 internationals caps as Jones is set to return for his first international since last summer's Lions tour to world champions South Africa after shoulder surgery.
She said there are different ways to determine prevalence and that the CDC is considering a total population study of autism, but that it is not yet under way.
The idea that Bush "came into office with a predisposition to invade Iraq, I think, is a total misunderstanding of the situation, " Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told reporters at the Pentagon.
Similarly, author Siddhartha Mukherjee details how hundreds of thousands of women had radical mastectomies despite a total lack of evidence that this surgery is the best treatment for most patients.
By no means all of the transcriptional units that Dr Yuan has identified have yet been matched to the genome, so there is still some wiggle-room for those who think a total of more than 60, 000 is too high.
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But since some variation is permitted at most positions within a binding site, it means that the total number of different possible versions of a site is often large.
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All Farrell did was twist and distort any discussion whatsoever from a scientific context and perverted it to be about religion, which is a total misrepresentation of ID Theory and its scientific predictions.
The authors find that when subsidies are given to competitive sectors and distributed in a way that maintains or increases the level of competition within the industry, then the net impact of these subsidies on productivity, productivity growth over time and also the share of new products in total sales (which is a measure of how innovative a firm is being) is positive.
Measuring at two-thirds the size of our sun, this cosmic lantern is orbited by a total of five planets, three of which are too close to be habitable for life.
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The second, and more important one, is that the largest benefit by far that American workers receive as a part of their total compensation from employment is health care insurance.
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This system amounts to what is essentially the energy system commonly found in free-to-play titles and has no place in a paid title, especially one in which the player is forking up a total of around 50 dollars to unlock everything (including initial app price).
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With a target of 8% organic production growth, this is a stock where the bulk of the total return may in fact come from stock gains rather than dividend yield.
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The proportion of exam entries given a new grade as a result of a re-mark is less than 0.5% of the total entries, it says.
We have low population density, clean air, fresh water, fertile land, an ocean on either side and a grand total of two nations on our borders. (One of which is a also a huge, stable and peaceful nation with clean air, fresh water, and fertile land and even lower population density).
There is a total of 15 different categories, which contain a total of 83 subcategories.
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That is a total of less than 4GB, versus 16GB for the base iPad.
That is a total of 7 of the Top 10 issues related to leads.
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Based on the figures extracted from the estimator, there is a total of 943 million Facebook users across 211 nations , as of September 30, 2012.
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And, of course I like to use a bar chart with the growth rates centered roughly around trend, to get a sense of how much total growth is sloshing about the trend.
What might be a failing in terms of our comprehensive knowledge of the world, is a total win for marketers and app makers.
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As a part of the restructuring, NSN is aiming to cut around 17000 jobs and achieve a total of 1 billion Euros in savings by the end of 2013.
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His rationale was to give his team a better chance of scoring more, since total run differential is a factor in determining which teams advance in the tournament.
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