Conversely, in a decreasing interest rate environment you may also want to consider extending the duration of your portfolio.

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We must ensure, with creative and dynamic life-skills programmes that both transmit information and change behaviour, that education has an impact on the pandemic -- on decreasing the rate of the transmission of the virus.

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Stockton is the largest city in the nation to file Chapter 9, as the city was encumbered with rising retiree health-care costs, decreasing tax revenues and a high foreclosure rate.

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As it was switched between different operating modes, the leak rate appeared to react by increasing or decreasing.

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Sequencing technology is decreasing in cost and increasing in power at a rate faster than anything since the microchip.

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"I think if you look at the overall violent crime rate that the FBI rate disseminates annually, it's been decreasing steadily nationwide over the last few decades, " said spokesman Andrew Arulanandam.

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Decreasing inventories among private businesses contributed to the subtraction from the GDP rate, as did slower-than-expected consumer spending.

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