In fact, the declining rate in added apps may be an indication of the success (or lack thereof) developers are seeing with Windows 8, which could contribute to an even slower growth of the Windows Store as developers lose interest in contributing to the Windows 8 ecosystem.
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One such norm was the relationship between the unemployment rate, currently at 8.3% and the employment rate, currently declining to a rate of 67%.
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Yet Mr. Obama did none of this, despite a subsequent economic upswing and a declining jobless rate.
One of the big problems concerning ILFC is its aging fleet, declining fleet size and declining lease rate.
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The reason for this is improving health care, allowing people to live longer, coupled with a declining birth rate.
Like mayors up for re-election all over the country this year, Mayor Bosley could point to a declining crime rate.
So, IPO companies need to carefully budget their equity usage and manage to a declining burn rate and overhang over time.
Airlines and regulators make adjustments, and the FAA's Nick Sabatini says you can graph the results in the declining crash rate.
And so, given the declining participation rate, the 20% underemployment figures may actually understate the true level of unemployment in the economy.
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Countering this view has been left to Yuko Obuchi, 34-year-old daughter of another prime minister, who is in charge of reversing Japan's declining birth rate.
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However, the main demographic problem facing Europe is a declining birth rate, which is threatening to make it difficult to pay for pensions for future generations.
Two factors boosting earnings growth that are not sustainable indefinitely are a declining tax rate (over the past two years) and a lower provision for doubtful accounts despite higher writeoffs.
That decision was a response to a U.S. unemployment rate stuck at 9.6 percent, a recent slowdown in already weak GDP growth, a decline in total employment in three of the past four months, a low and declining inflation rate, weak money growth, and fiscal policy off the table over deficit concerns.
Arctic sea ice has been declining at a rate of 13% per decade since 1979, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center.
Chan, Chase Private Client chief economist, was worried about the declining labor participation rate, which helped push down the unemployment rate, yet is an indication the economy still faces substantial obstacles.
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It doesn't break out profits by product segment, but its gross margin rate is declining.
Indeed in the second quarter they were declining at the fastest rate since the start of the crisis.
"The growth rate is declining, and that means fewer opportunities for Andersen and others, " says Dean Davison of the Meta Group research firm.
The current situation is far different, with unemployment falling because of a declining labor force participation rate and a decline in the size of that labor force.
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However, biodiversity and ecosystem services are declining at an unprecedented rate and the world failed to reach the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target of a significant reduction in the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010.
So, the rapid absorption rate and hence declining inventory of existing homes is telling us that there are relatively few vacancies, inspite of a potentially large shadow inventory.
The estate tax rate has been declining since 1977.
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After declining from an annualized growth rate of 5.0% in the fourth quarter of last year, GDP growth declined to 3.7% in the first quarter of this year, and to just 1.7% in the second quarter.
It is our expectation that as the economy strengthens later this year the (labor) participation rate will stop declining, as there is already a large pool of potential workers on the sidelines who are likely to re-enter the labor force if conditions improve.
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After that, inventory keeps declining, but at a slower rate: 16-18 months after prices bottom, inventory typically falls by 1.6% per month.
As a result of U.S. housing starts declining from a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.1 million units in February 2008 to just 505, 000 units in March 2009, as well as the large decline in remodeling activity over the same period, MLWF industry prices, shipments, revenues, and profits declined substantially, as did imports from China and other countries.
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The rate had until now been declining, from 10.7% at its recent peak in 2002.
Canada now has a radically lower national debt, and an unemployment rate that has been steadily declining, now down to 7.4 percent.
Although the mortality rate is predicted to continue declining, due to a growing and ageing population the number of deaths is expected to rise to about 182, 000 deaths by 2025.
Margins are declining, as banks absorb some of the rate rises rather than passing them on to precarious borrowers.
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