But since its declaration on June 29th, the truce has led to a dramatic fall in the level of violence.
The World Bank expects some 53m people to fall below the level of extreme poverty this year (see article).
What the Bank of England is and should be watching, however, is not the level of house-prices but the level of borrowing: a substantial fall in house-prices now will be far better than an escalation of debt to levels that would result in a prolonged deflationary slump such as that experienced by Japan and other Asian countries.
Some universities saw their donations fall and the average level of donations received by individual universities fell, suggesting that while some universities did very well, others did not.
Rather, the core of IP assets should fall to a C-level officer who has the buy-in of board directors.
The first wave of NUads, which launched last fall with interactive polling, saw a record level of consumer engagement with 37 percent of people responding.
As lower costs encourage firms to produce more at any given price (ie, the supply curve shifts from S1 to S2 in the chart), the long-term equilibrium level of output will rise and the price level will fall.
As the Detroit auto industry struggles to survive, Rapson was predicting that jobs in the U.S. would not fall from today's level of nearly 74, 000.
The IEA estimates that Iran's oil exports may fall to about 60% of their former level once the sanctions are fully in place.
Even if job growth continued at its March rate, it would take 4 more years to hit that number, and 8 years for the unemployment rate to fall to its pre-recession level of around 5%.
The company said "the German market cannot detach itself from this development and is expected to fall significantly short of the previous year's level".
South Tyneside College is scrapping A-Level provision because of a big fall in student numbers.
And others saying that the debt level will only fall to 120% of GDP?
This would mean that the level of visible reserves would actually fall, which might lead to yet more alarm.
Under the current system, cars fall into 13 payment bands depending on their level of carbon emissions, with more polluting vehicles taxed more heavily.
The fall in share prices has already reduced the level of household wealth in America from a peak of 4.2 times personal incomes two years ago to 3.4 times now.
Washington needs to get out of the way and let housing fall to its proper level, so individuals might redirect what is limited capital away from hard assets.
The idea was that countries whose emissions fall under the emissions cap -- the permitted level of CO2 equivalent emissions per year -- could then sell those carbon credits to countries who are not able to meet their own caps.
And it can be impossible without a state that operates at a minimum level of efficiency, which many tropical countries fall short of.
This continues a decline throughout the last century, which has seen attendance fall from 56% in 1905 down to the current level of 4%.
Experts in the pharmaceutical industry are hopeful that this sustained bolus of new medicines is evidence that drug companies are coming out of a severe innovation drought over the last decade that saw the number of new medicines fall to little more than half its current level.
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Just a few examples: Divorced and never-married women are three times more likely to be poor in old age than married women, and more than one-third of retired workers and widows get benefits that fall below the poverty level.
There was also a 1% increase in robberies, but a 2% fall in recorded sexual offences and there was no change in the level of violent crime recorded.
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The fiscal situation is just about under control (the budget deficit should fall below 3.5% of GDP in 2013 or 2014 and the level of debt is below the euro-area average) and the constitution has been amended to set strict limits on future deficits.
With the fall of the Taliban, Afghans' government and culture and way of life and level of freedom have been altered.
And, surprising as it was to me, the level of GDP is back to its former peak in the fall of 2007.
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