Every clock, everywhere in the universe, ticks at a different rate relative to every other clock.
Signatures are distinctive because each of us holds the pen at a different angle, moves it at a different rate, and varies the pressure on the page.
The companies would run as two entities with different rate schedules but would be one legal entity, which would at least partially obviate the anti-trust concerns.
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He would then be able to maximise the benefit when his local power company started charging him a different rate for different times of the day.
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If time truly has an arrow, though, some of these shifts will occur at a different rate when going in one direction rather than the other.
Each has slightly different rate plans but it is still cheaper to buy a local SIM card, carry a second (and possibly a third) GSM phone, and have inexpensive communications.
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So sales in her campground store will be at one tax rate on one report while campsite rentals in the same park will pay a different tax rate on a different report.
By contrast, re-mortgaging a home simply means to take out a new loan equal to what is currently owed, but usually at a different interest rate and a different period of repayment.
' This might involving switching between both interest rates and currencies, trading a 10 year German bond for a 5 year Japanese one at a different interest rate, for example.
For instance, Siemens, a German industrial giant, last year started assigning a different hurdle rate to each of its 16 businesses, ranging from household appliances to medical equipment and semiconductors.
The interest rate environment of 2011 when these trades occurred is not significantly different than the rate landscape of today.
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In the case of Barclays, two very different sorts of rate fiddling have emerged.
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"What's different is the rate of change, " said Shaun Marcott, a paleoclimatologist at Oregon State and lead author of the paper.
"What's different is the rate of change, " said Shaun Marcott, a paleoclimatologist at Oregon State University and lead author of the paper.
Yet there were few voices advising Argentina to move to a different exchange-rate regime when a switch might have been less painful.
There are lots of different ways to rate cities, but this matrix is designed to capture the cities with the best combination of low unemployment, high wages, and high expected job growth.
Using the maturity structure of the existing U.S. Treasury marketable debt, the table below shows estimates of what would happen to the cost of the debt in five years under different rising interest rate scenarios.
So the tax rate in the current year is always going to be wildly different from the statutory rate.
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The success rate of cloning different species varies -- cows have a 50 percent rate, while for mice it is only 1 to 3 percent.
Alliant will let rival vendors pitch wares on its site and allow users to rate the different suppliers, just as bidders do on Ebay.
The case was a challenge to a firefighter test that had a wide range of difference between the pass and failure rate of different groups.
The main difference is caused by the fact that, although they use much of the same data, they calculate the inflation rate using different formulae.
The phasing in of MSY depends on collecting more scientific data about the rate at which different marine species reproduce.
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Other foods have different ways of increasing the rate at which we burn calories (otherwise known as the metabolic rate).
It is therefore worth reviewing the mortgage as a whole to see if switching to a better rate with a different lender could tackle the shortfall issue and reduce the amount you pay each month.
Investors should keep their eyes peeled for the different projections for the Federal Funds rate.
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But the real roots of the crisis lay in such different economies sharing the same interest rate.
Two researchers, each fitted with GPS navigation devices and heart-rate monitors, followed different gatherers on different days.
And because the rate is consistent in different populations, environmental variations, which differ, cannot account for the incidence.
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