Ironically, Nicolas Sarkozy, finance minister of the other big pact-breaker, France, this week promised to do more to cut spending to get back below the ceiling.
But even people earning below the ceiling are likely to benefit, especially if their current earnings are relatively high and grow relatively rapidly in the future.
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And then, neutralizing gravity with love and pure will, they remained suspended in air inches below the ceiling, and they kissed each other for a long, long time.
Because asset sales are one-off, that will make it harder for Germany to get below the ceiling on borrowing in 2005 set by the euro area's stability pact.
The two countries announced on Wednesday that they had slashed their stockpile to levels set by the START-1 treaty, signed by Washington and Moscow in 1991, to 5, 518, well below the ceiling of 6, 000 established by the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty.
The lower thirds of the paintings, below the false ceiling, are covered by two layers of emulsion.
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America's trade-distorting support was already well below its permitted ceiling and had seemed likely to fall further.
On the upper level of the foundry, below the glass ceiling, stand row upon row of rolls of brightly-coloured fabric.
From 2008 to 2010, for instance, these two alternated their lending (of several billion dollars in all) so as to provide unbroken funding while keeping each loan below the 60-day ceiling allowed under the exception.
Speaking after the European Central Bank's (ECB) half-point cut in interest rates on November 6th, Jean-Claude Trichet, the bank's chief, allowed that inflation could fall well below the ECB's target ceiling of 2% next year.
Mr Papandreou insisted that Greece would cut its deficit below the euro area's approved ceiling of 3% of GDP (a target that, even by its own dodgy numbers, the country has met just once since joining the euro in 2001) by 2013.
In the video, officials were shown removing the pipe from a ceiling that apparently was just below the restroom and then, at the hospital, using pliers and saws to gently pull apart the pipe, which was about 10 centimeters (about 3 inches) in diameter.
"There's an old social welfare quip: Beware the floor you set below which no one can fall lest it become the ceiling above which no one can rise, " Mr. Culhane said.
The resident mage is a student of astronomy and planetary science, so I decided the tower should have its own Foucault pendulum, attached to the 7th floor ceiling and swinging freely through open spaces in each floor below.
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They are taught to look above and below seats and in lavatories and galleys, all the while watching the ceiling of the cabin to see if gasses are building that would create a flashover fire.
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With rumors over the future of Ben Bernanke at the Federal Reserve dissipating, and investors preparing for another all-out political battle on the fiscal cliff and the debt ceiling, yields could drop even further, to 1.5% or below, according to Barclays.
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It sets the ceiling for planned EU spending - the equivalent of Europe's credit limit - just below what it is now - at 940 billion euros.
In June, the PBOC announced that banks will be allowed to offer loans at interest rates up to 20 percent below the benchmark rate and be free to pay savers a rate up to 10 percent above the ceiling rate.
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