Meanwhile, the unemployment rate, which was 10.2% in October, and 9.4% in December, has continued to decline, down another tick at 8.8% in March.
They forecast average weekly hours to tick down to 34.3 (from 34.4 in October).
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Unemployment rate is still expected to tick down to 8.9% from 9% currently.
Analysts surveyed by MarketWatch call for August payrolls to have risen by 120, 000 and the unemployment rate to tick down to 8.2%.
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Craft tried not to think about his previous misses as he watched the white numbers on the clock tick down and squared up to decide the game.
Maybe there's nothing so terrifying in the world as the long, few seconds that tick down when a character hears a strange sound behind a door and approaches it.
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For retailers, it adds up to a Christmas season that will be better the one they went through in 2009, the depths of the recession, but a tick down from 2010.
His likely Republican opponent this November, Mitt Romney, has criticized his handling of the economy, and on Friday Republicans emphasized that the tick down in the unemployment rate was largely due to people dropping out of the work force.
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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Corporate earnings may fluctuate quarter-to-quarter and employment rates may tick up or down each month, but the national discussion needs to be more far-sighted.
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That is a box he had to tick, but it will be down to a question of rhetoric and reality.
As the story goes, Political Gamer was able to sit down with Valve's own Gabe Newell for a tick, and while the topics of conversation were obviously varied, one point in particular piqued our interest.
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Wriston, who died in 2005, knew what made the global economy tick, and happily for us, wrote it all down in a book called The Twilight of Sovereignty.
With the target down to 36 off 13 overs, West Indian Shivnarine Chanderpaul helped di Venuto to tick off the remaining runs with an assured 16 not out.
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At the last minute the government backed down to an extent and decided not to carry the A to E categories, but merely to assign a tick to schools which had scored A or B.
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