But in the example of snow retention, evenly spacing both rate-of-fall and rate-of-residence-in-the-clouds values will give different distributions of result.
However, the overall rate of headline inflation continued to fall at an annual rate of 0.8%.
And if private banks continue their money printing ways, instead of a precipitous fall in the rate of monetary inflation we could be looking at a precipitous rise.
If not, and those banks decide to instead sit on those reserves, or at least the greater part of them, we will likely see a precipitous fall in the rate of growth in the money supply, maybe even an actual contraction.
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He reckons that starting from current levels of volatility, eliminating the business cycle would increase average well-being by the equivalent of a fall in the unemployment rate of only 0.2 percentage points.
And, even with these staggering sums, the cost of a transistor continues to fall at an annual rate of roughly 30%.
What about a precipitous fall in the rate of monetary inflation negating this thesis?
Vietnam's inflation target is not very exacting: the aim is only that it should fall below the rate of economic growth.
The evening commute could be especially treacherous, with snow predicted to fall at a rate of 1 to 1.5 inches an hour in some areas.
Headline inflation has fallen to 3.2%, from its high of 4.0%, and the ECB has said it should fall to its target rate of 2.0% by the end of the second half of 2009.
But figures released on Wednesday showed a surprise fall in the headline rate of unemployment.
Moreover, in a deflation, where prices fall, a low rate of interest can be very high in real terms.
Morgan expects business investment to fall at an annual rate of between 5% and 9% in the first three quarters of 1999.
Mortality from TB had already fallen by 75% in most Western countries by 1950, when streptomycin became available, and the rate of fall was little different before and after.
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While real M1 deposits are still holding up in the German bloc, the rate of fall over the last six months (annualised) has been 20.7pc in Greece, 16.3pc in Portugal, 11.8pc in Ireland, and 8.1pc in Spain, and 6.7pc in Italy.
This index fell by six points in May to 45, its lowest since 1995. (A score below 50 suggests that more builders reckon the market is poor than think it good.) Economists at Goldman Sachs estimate, from the fall in the homebuilders' index, that construction will fall at an annual rate of 10-15% in the next four quarters.
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So strong is this indirect effect, on his calculations, that the gradual fall in the relative value of America's minimum wage over the past 20 years is capable of explaining 1.5 percentage points of the fall in the country's equilibrium rate of unemployment over the same period.
On the face of it, another fall in unemployment, and a jobless rate of 6.2%, is a sign that labour markets are still tight, and hence a risk to inflation.
It is crucial to note that the unemployment rate did not fall because of the same circumstances as past months.
Commodity chip prices, particularly memory chips, will continue to fall at a modest annual rate of 30% before they stabilize in the middle of next year.
U.S. corporate profits (which are expressed in nominal terms) have tended to rise and fall at about twice the rate of world nominal dollar GDP, suggesting double-digit profit growth again in 2006.
The fall in the crime rate has coincided with a fall in the number of young men between the ages of 15 and 21, the peak age for criminal activity in any society, including America.
The resulting rate is used in basically two ways: as an expression of global credit risk (rates go up when the financial system is perceived to be in danger, like in the fall of 2008) and as a benchmark interest rate for millions of contracts around the world.
The sharp fall in the cost of fuel caused the US monthly inflation rate to fall at its sharpest pace since December 2008.
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But this rate of decline should fall to 0.1% in 2010, it added.
Stocks could rise or fall, depending on the relative growth rate of profits compared to the increase in interest rates.
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The top rate of income tax is to fall only from 51% to 48.5%.
New Yorkers are hoping that his second term will produce another miracle: a sustained fall in the city's persistently high rate of unemployment.
The fall in the underlying rate is because the timing of last month's Budget meant duty rises were too late to have an effect.
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