The nonprofit, which helps build first-rate facilities in impoverished nations and sends surgeons to train local health providers, consisted of only one paid employee.
The obvious policy response is intervention to cap the sterling rate, build up foreign-exchange reserves, and offset the monetary effects by issuing sterling debt.
The weaker the reputation of the central bank, the stronger the case for pegging the exchange rate to build confidence that inflation will be controlled.
In years to come, warns veteran oil analyst Matthew Simmons, to keep up supply the world will need to build new rigs at a rate not seen since the "Liberty Ship" drive of World War II.
The New York State constitution bars public employers from slowing the rate at which workers build up their pensions over the course of their careers.
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That degree of protection contrasts sharply with the private sector, where companies can generally change the rate at which workers build their benefits at any time.
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And it puts Exelon at risk of remaining viable should the regulators require extensive re-investment to keep the plants open, or build replacements, likely without a rate increase.
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And with financing rates at near record lows, automakers should continue to build showroom traffic with cut-rate loans and affordable lease deals throughout 2012 on all but the most in-demand models.
Because of the high prices paid to build their portfolios and the slow rate of realizations to date, these partners have not yet made much money and may not earn a carry.
It would also result in disruption and layoffs at the contractor and subcontractor facilities around the country and necessitate a time-consuming and expensive effort to reestablish the line involving requalification of myriad vendors and the painful resumption of the build-up to full-rate production.
While it would help the smaller nonprofit organizations that make up ANHD's membership, it also would aid the city's largest real-estate firms that prefer to build housing that is only partially affordable and mostly market rate, some housing advocates said.
Removing the inventory build-up from the reported numbers, the real growth rate was an even more anemic 1.5%.
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England will need to build 2m new homes a decade to meet demand, a rate it has managed every decade since the 1930s (except for the war years).
If you are willing to buy individual bonds, you can also build a ladder with bonds of differing maturities to offset future interest rate risk.
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And yet fixed-rate mortgages are still rather common, and two attempts to build a market in CPI futures have fizzled.
That's why Labour is proposing to build 25, 000 new affordable homes and a temporary cut to the rate of VAT.
Sany officials said the plant can build 20, 000 excavators annually but recently has been working at half that rate.
Kurzweil's big idea is simple: Each new technology unlocks the ability to build and distribute advanced technologies more quickly than before, resulting in an accelerating rate of change.
The good news is that big banks probably now have enough capital to absorb the aggregate loss rate suffered by the system from 2007 to 2009 (although their build-up of liquidity reserves has been patchier).
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The rate of innovation, for Kurzweil, paints a picture of innovation that is build upon both simplicity and complexity.
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The revamp uses a simple web interface to let us build free sports apps based on criteria as simple as distance and speed through to more specific measurements like heart rate and pressure.
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