The odds of recovery drop to almost zero after a year of being vegetative.
By mandating the benefits, Connecticut has driven the cost of this extra coverage down to almost zero.
With Fed Funds rates at 0.25%, or almost zero, the pendulum must swing back in the other direction.
When I travel I always use two phones, and often three separate handsets to reduce my communications costs to almost zero.
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There is almost zero potential for surprise in most of our environments.
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Total trade settled in yuan in 2010 surged to 506.3bn yuan, about 2.5% of China's total trade in 2010, from almost zero in 2009.
In June 2011, a huge instance of fraud led to a market crash, with the value of Bitcoins at one point plummeting to almost zero.
Almost all existing Unix and Linux corporate apps and services are migrating to Android with extremely low costs and superb efficiency and almost zero business interruptions.
So, essentially, you'd have a vehicle that would be almost zero emissions during normal driving, but would not have the limited range of an electric vehicle.
The same study by the Kauffman Foundation showed that in the period 1980 to 2005, firms older than five years generated almost zero net jobs to the U.S. economy.
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It means that the U.S. can continue to finance its operations by borrowing almost zero-cost money today and likely for the foreseeable future (where do you think capital will flight to if the Euro breaks up?).
Recently where I live the council completed a re-generation project similar to what is going to happen in Swilly and rebuilt and modernised roads and housing estates and you would never know these areas where once regarded as unsafe slummy areas and the crime rate has dramatically dropped to almost zero.
Only by lowering rates almost to zero have the authorities managed to stabilise matters again.
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In December the Bank of Japan was forced to cut interest rates almost to zero, ie, back to where they last were in 2006.
Yet the books that publishers choose are almost entirely of zero interest to actual book-buyers.
Compare that to the US, which has left interest rates at near-zero for almost two years.
After the failure of a German bund auction, interest rates began to climb in Germany, and so did Japanese rates that have been near zero for almost a decade!
The privately rebuilt number 7 World Trade Center, just north of ground zero, is almost complete, but it's failed to attract any tenants.
For a full debunking of this claim see Tim Worstall or Felix Salmon, but what you mostly need to know is that almost 25% of households have zero or negative wealth.
Almost 50% of black women had zero or negative wealth, according to one study.
To believe that the Ethiopian government will be able to use the nationalised assets in a more efficient way than Nestle is ludicrous: it almost certainly will drive down the business to zero by diverting its profit from reinvestment in the business to the purchase of arms.
While politicians, developers, bankers, architects, and almost everyone else quarrelled over the future of Ground Zero, the rest of lower Manhattan, as well as most of the rest of the city, quietly pulled itself together.
Whereas target interest rates of central banks are near zero in America, Japan and Europe, they average almost 6% in emerging markets.
Chile's many trade pacts give businesses based there zero- or low-tariff access to a market of almost 1.3 billion consumers, points out Karen Poniachik of the government's Foreign Investment Committee.
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For almost all of the past seven years interest rates in Japan have been set at zero.
You have to understand, after spending 12-15 hours at ground zero, the air in this area is very heavy, it's almost suffocating.
Much of this money creation is going into stock prices, since at near-zero interest rates bonds yield little and bank savings or money-market accounts almost nothing at all.
As the whole point of Quantitative Easing and the government stimulus was to raise output and employment (because, for those who have not noticed, we have almost 14 million citizens looking for work), there is no reason to maintain the assumption of zero change in the quantity of goods.
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