Prospects for future activity were dulled by a fall in building permits from an annual pace of 617, 000 to 597, 000.
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"This review is independent of the decisions taken by the health board, and will focus on future activity, " Mr Jones said.
The bright spot in the report from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia was that indicators of future activity actually improved.
The proposition that Congress may dictate the conduct of an individual today because of prophesied future activity finds no support in our precedent.
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The District Court noted that civil contempt is meant to coercive future activity, as opposed to criminal contempt which seeks to punish past bad behavior.
However, future activity may not keep up this rate of growth, since applications for building permits for the future fell 3.9%, to an annual rate of 902, 000.
Elsewhere, the housing market was buoyed in November by low mortgage rates, with housing starts rising 4.5%, but building permits, which are seen as an indicator of future activity, slipped 5.4%.
Grantees shall submit financial and activity reports every three months to the Administrator detailing costs and expenditures, fiscal summary, names of funded staff persons, requested revisions, reallocations and adjustments, clients served, services provided, and revisions, if any, of time-tables and activities to reflect the current program status and future activity.
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Economists watch surveys such as the PMI closely, particularly because they give an indication of future business activity.
But the market is not a very good predictor of future economic activity.
We lose more future economic activity by collecting taxes this way than we do by taxing consumption or immovable property.
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Applications for building permits, which are an indicator of future building activity, jumped 12% to an annual rate of 894, 000 in September.
Overall, the hearing seemed to bode well for future merger activity.
Building permits applications are a significant indicator of future construction activity.
"Lending problems in our nation's subprime marketplace are building, which could inhibit future housing activity and further dampen our forecast, " Lereah said in a recent statement.
Instead of focusing on who owns the moon, the international community needs find ways to incentivize future business activity on the moon by guaranteeing that rights to land and resources will not be preempted by competing interests, said Hertzfeld.
In the movie, high schoolers start small businesses for an extracurricular activity called Future Enterprisers.
Regulators vow to force banks to disclose such promises more openly and increase their reserves against potential future losses from this activity.
Economic activity is sustainable if future generations can expect to be at least as well off as today's.
In 2012, U.S. exports and imports with Mexico grew by 9% and 6% respectively, and the trade between the two countries is expected to keep growing in the future on account of increased manufacturing activity in Mexico and the growth in the Mexican economy.
The job of the leader here is to orchestrate the activity and providing input for future quests.
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More directly, there is a well-established valuation concept that present value of an activity is increased by anticipated future benefits.
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In addition, higher tax rates now or in the future increase the barriers to domestic economic activity, thereby further reducing economic activity and employment.
The balance between retail sales and wholesale inventories is critical because it allows us to gauge whether consumer activity is sufficient to spur future inventory orders.
The inflation that results from an expanding money supply distorts all economic activity and discourages the accumulation of future investment capital.
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Substantial hedging activity will persist in the near-future as by-product producers of silver that began to lock in higher prices continue to do so.
Fundamentally, the high volatility means investors are discounting extreme future scenarios and baking that analysis into their daily trading activity and their view of security prices.
One of the challenges is we need to get those deficits down in the future so that we don't choke off economic activity and job creation.
But it's unclear what such brain activity patterns would mean for a patient's future.
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