Tellingly, the shut-down rate of companies in Japan is around half that in America and Britain.
And once that comes down, the interest rate on all sorts of other things comes down, like the interest rate on car loans or credit cards.
Moreover, a rising pound has fed directly into lower import prices and hence kept the inflation rate down cutting the rate by perhaps a percentage point, thinks David Mackie of J.
If you slow down the rate of consumption you will take in fewer calories.
The company recently began marketing a new underwear line and is planning to slow down its rate of expansion.
Competitive cultures slow down the rate of evolution by locking their ideas away.
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That in turn would hamper public access to the inventions, and so slow down the rate of innovation in the economy.
The problem with raising taxes is that it slows down the rate of growth, and you can never quite get the job done.
On the other hand employers have driven down the rate of unemployment faster than was thought possible and confidence measures validate the recovery in output.
Mosley believes this will slow down the rate of engine development.
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Any reduction would probably occur in two quarter-point steps, as happened late last year when the ECB brought down the rate from 1.5% to 1%.
They are employed in furniture, carpeting, bedding, textiles, electronics and plastics to reduce the risk of ignition and slow down the rate at which things burn.
Cavity wall insulation slows down the rate at which warm air escapes your property, keeping each room of your house warm even when it is bitterly cold outside.
These are truly defensive actions that will bring down the rate of cybercrime, deter criminals, and make it easier for law enforcement to find them and bring them to justice.
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Only when every one of these objections had been overcome and the prospect had clearly stated that the only thing standing between us was price would I come down off rate card.
Heavy rain in the UK and Spain reduced sugarbeet yields - which helped to raise sugar prices in the short-term, but is expected slow down the rate of sugar production in factories this year.
Mr. MICHAEL ROBINET (Analyst, IHS Automotive): There's no doubt that in hindsight, the government would certainly look to slow down the rate of dealer reductions, as well as the criteria they used to implement them.
An eight-year trial carried out in the 1990s showed that a sustained and coordinated culling of badgers can slightly slow down the rate of increase in cattle becoming infected with TB in the immediate area.
"We have to get to the bottom of what motivates teens if we really are going to bring down the rate of teenage pregnancy, and that means more than just having a fight about sex education, " says Mr Albert.
For those whose weight gain may be due in part to the activity of M. smithii, controlling the organisms with antibiotics or other medications could slow down the rate at which they pack on the pounds, and these individuals could easily be identified with a relatively simple breath test.
Although he offers some points of light -- putting an aerosol layer of fine particles into the stratosphere to reflect back sunlight may, he says, could buy us some time by slowing down the rate of decline for a decade -- his projections are on the whole brutally pessimistic.
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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Now, I know -- and we all know -- that that rate of job growth is too slow to bring down the unemployment rate, and the continued weakness in the job creation remains a major challenge, one the President and the whole administration is committed to meeting, and a very difficult challenge.
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But as the general crime rate went down, so did the crime rate of released offenders.
He also expressed disappointment at higher-than-expected inflation, which stands at 2.7%, but reiterated the Bank's belief that the rate would come back down to its target rate of 2% over the next two years.
He already plans to reduce the rate to 21p by June 2014, down from a 28p rate when he took office.
The latest QE-program announced by the Bernanke Fed will be tied to the progress of the labor market, which has seen the unemployment rate tick down as a consequence of a falling labor participation rate, rather than truly improved economic conditions.
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The marginal rate went down, then partially up, and the capital-gains rate did the reverse.
Now imagine we eliminate all of your deductions but reduce your top rate down to 28%.
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The shares of financial services giant Washington Mutual have been dragged down by interest rate worries.
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