Floor trading volume dropped by half in the second quarter compared with last year, when Nymex agreed to start trading its contracts on the Merc's Globex electronic system.
Although some Republicans signed on to raising taxes for the first time in two decades, the fact is that Democrats have agreed to tax rates which, compared to much of the 20th century, are extraordinarily low.
In the first three months of 2008, eight chief executives of major U.S. companies, including Bear Stearns, Morgan Stanley and First American agreed to forgo their bonuses, compared to 4 for the previous twelve months, according to Equilar's research.
About 60 percent of leaders agreed that owning IT infrastructure wasted resources, compared to just 38 percent two years earlier.
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Ofgem said that the increase in allowances compared with their July proposal was because the regulator had agreed to let gas network firms charge more for the cost of replacing gas mains.
Mr Thomson told jurors Mr Lock accepted he had caused the woman harm, but compared the situation to a football match in which all parties have agreed to take part.
Some 47% of the boys agreed that married couples made better parents than unmarried couples, compared with 32% of girls.
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But these omissions are mere details compared to the failure to implement the tariff cuts that have already been agreed.
What's more, earnings at Eastern are expected to grow at 8% a year, compared with 1% in TXU's Texas electricity unit, where the company agreed to rate caps through 2002 as part of a deregulation bill.
Parents on the lowest incomes agreed they were more likely to snap at their children (23%) because of money worries compared with better off parents (10%).
To fertilize the industry Qualcomm had agreed that Chinese manufacturers would pay only a 2.65%-per-handset royalty, compared with the roughly 5.5% that Koreans pay on their exports.
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