If we compare the base-rule value just calculated with the actual base growth rates experienced recently, we see that the base rule calls for a slightly more expansionary monetary policy than that of the past few months.

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Lenders base their calcuations on your plan's performance using 1997 as the starting point, whereas my actual starting base was 1991.

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These come into force 14 days from the signing of its agreement with the US regulator and will require the people reporting the bank's cost of borrowing for the BBA to base that report on actual transactions that Barclays has been involved in - in other words, on actual loans it has obtained or made on the wholesale market.

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And scientists at the British Antarctic Survey at Rothera Research Station, on Adelaide Island resorted to banging pots and pans, after discovering their base was "decidedly lacking in anything resembling an actual bell".

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Boasting an aluminum base, the Wooden Light Bulb is totally safe (although probably not that practical for actual lighting purposes) as LEDs, unlike incandescents, produce a very small amount of heat.

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The actual Bretton Woods system failed because the Fed did not manage the size of the monetary base so as to keep the free market price of gold equal to the official price.

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