Now, of course growth rates were higher in the past in part because of higher inflation.
Nor was there a significant relationship between the amount of faculty participation and course completion rates.
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The authors find that learner-learner interaction was significantly, but negatively, associated with course completion rates.
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The rigor of these courses may have contributed to the lower course completion rates, not the time spent reading a gradebook.
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Of course with individual rates as high as 70%, you needed neat tricks, like tax shelters.
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This assumes of course that interest rates do not change materially.
Of course, your own rates may vary based on your personal situation.
Once satisfied, it reversed course, reducing interest rates by nearly 12 percentage points from mid-1981 to late 1982 and setting off a roaring recovery.
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For the 30 years since Paul Volcker ran the Fed, interest rates reversed course and have plummeted from over 15% to just 0.25% fooling people now into believing it will stay that way.
Such will of course be supportive of high rates of monetary inflation yet again in April.
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When trading currencies, you are dealing with countries, and countries have interest rates, of course.
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Lower interest rates would of course also benefit Europe, whose nations owed so much to the United States.
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Rising interest rates would of course raise debt service costs for all borrowers, and especially the hugely indebted government.
The problem with these very high tax rates, of course, is that the wealthy will find ways to avoid them.
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There are some positive effects from lower interest rates, of course.
Knost, who moved to number one in the world amateur rankings after his recent US Amateur triumph, rates the Newcastle course as the best he has ever played.
Higher interest rates, of course, would attract even more buyers.
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Between January and June this year, 24 attempts to traffic narcotics through the island's airports were foiled, and these figures put Cuba on course to double the interdiction rates of 2010 and 2011.
And the pain is everywhere, now that the salutary effects of zero percent interest rates have run their course.
The rolling redemptions provide some protection against rising interest rates, which of course kill the market value of bonds.
U.S. Treasuries did sell off Monday morning immediately after the announcement, but rates regained over the course of the trading day.
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Good money and lower marginal rates put America on course to drive its key stock market index from 1, 000 to 14, 000.
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There will, of course, be big dislocation when rates take off.
Those rates decline, of course, after deductions.
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Of course some will say that our tax rates are lower than in years past.
Interest rates have started to reverse course, ticking up from extremely low levels, and prices have started to soften.
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Japan cannot do this, of course: its short-term interest rates, at zero, are already as low as they can go.
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