Moreover, the 1-5 scale used by the center to rate fire danger and preparedness was raised from 3 to 4.
While birth rates for almost all other age groups are at historic lows, according to a 2012 report from the National Center for Health Statistics, the rate for women in their late 30s and early 40s is on the rise.
The center is meeting its performance standards, and its 77% retention rate is more than twice as good as Sprint's call center in the Kansas City suburbs.
D'Vera Cohn, a senior writer at the Pew Research Center in Washington, said the birth rate, rather than immigration, is the primary driving factor in the Latino boom.
The city's 9.4 percent unemployment rate isn't particularly high, but there are thousands of units of deteriorating rental property near the city's center, helping to push the rental vacancy rate to 16 percent in the fourth quarter of 2010, according to the Census Department, down from 21 percent at mid-year.
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Hot fact: Global data center power use has been increasing at an alarming rate.
In fact, data center energy use is rising at such a high rate that the trend could spur consumer surcharges for data use.
Another report by the private Pew Research Center found a similar decline by looking at the rate of gun homicides, which compares the number of killings to the size of the country's growing population.
If Tax Policy Center estimates are correct and the average federal tax rate on American households increases by five percent or more, then Californians would be wise to keep some of their disposable income by betting on Vegas in 2013.
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The Tax Policy Center estimates it would result in an average federal tax rate of 33.7 percent by the time the proposal is fully effective in 2015.
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The Libor rate-rigging scandal has banks at the center of a massive investigation and left ones like Barclays, UBS and Royal Bank of Scotland subject to billions of dollars in in fines.
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University of Wisconsin Survey Center also expects a minimum of 30-40% response rate for web surveys to be valid.
It "tends to spread to many, many parts of the body at an alarming rate, " says Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center melanoma expert Jedd D.
Here, too, states have the power to set the rate providers can charge for transporting electricity from the distribution center to the business or home.
Dr. Susan Domchek, executive director of the Basser Research Center for BRCA at the University of Pennsylvania, said the escalating rate is linked to easy access of information.
According to the testing performed to date at the Ohio State University's Center for Automotive Research (CAR) and the very low observed rate of aging, cells built with A123's Nanophosphate EXT are expected to be capable of retaining more than 90 percent of initial capacity after 2, 000 full charge-discharge cycles at 45 degrees Celsius.
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Using a more reasonable rate of return of 5%, Boston College's Center for Retirement Research estimates, states will have to put 9.1% of their budgets into pensions, on average.
For example, recent college grads with a degree in architecture have a 13.9% unemployment rate, while English literature majors had a 9.2% rate, according to a study conducted by Georgetown's Center on Education and the Workplace.
In effect, the Pease limit raises a taxpayer's rate by about 1%, according to experts at the Tax Policy Center, a nonpartisan research group in Washington.
The study authors, Dr Murray Mittleman and colleagues at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, measured kidney function using a recognised test called the glomerular filtration rate (GFR).
Only 8% of the charities we rate have received at least 4 consecutive 4-star evaluations, indicating that Center for Security Policy consistently executes its mission in a fiscally responsible way, and outperforms most other charities in America.
According to Cisco, the global cloud traffic will grow at an annual rate of 45% and reach 4.3 zetabytes by 2016, while global data center traffic will grow to 6.6 zetabytes.
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"Hispanic High School Graduates Pass Whites in Rate of College Enrollment, " reads the headline of a press release from the Pew Hispanic Center.
Arctic sea ice has been declining at a rate of 13% per decade since 1979, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center.
The home improvement market, which includes maintenance and improvement spending of both rentals and owner-occupied units, promises to rise at an inflation-adjusted rate of 3.5% per year in the coming years, according to the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University.
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In the U.S., the obesity rate is 30.5% and about 65% are considered overweight, according to the National Center for Health Statistics.
But later on in the year Volcker not only faced opposition from his board members on the rate question, he also suffered what Greider viewed as subtle attacks on his authority from the money center banks effectively on his watch.
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The Center for Security Policy welcomed the Defense Acquisition Board's long-awaited decision Wednesday to approve full-rate production of the V-22 Osprey, the Marine Corps-Special Operations hybrid helicopter-airplane that will support the sorts of missions the United States military will have to undertake in the 21st Century.
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But CJW Medical Center in Richmond, part of for-profit HCA chain, had stellar numbers: Its six-month mortality rate for heart valve patients was half the expected rate (7.6% versus 13.7%).
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