• Even turning my head at the rate of the hour hand.

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  • Using a variety of tests, they found virtually no correlation between an individual country's GDP growth rate per head and the returns to investors.

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  • If traders think Britain will go in, then sterling should head gradually towards the rate at which markets expect it to be tied to the euro, and vary more against the dollar.

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  • "This is now going to prompt talk again of an ECB rate cut, given that Bundesbank head, Jens Weidmann, conceded recently that a rate cut would be considered if we see further worsening in the economic data, " said Craig Erlam, market analyst at Alpari.

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  • As US unemployment continues to head south towards its natural rate, and the prospect of an interest rate spike is a possibility, there is one factor that may avert, or at least moderate, an interest rate spike: The yen tsunami, i.e.

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  • The three-month Libor is at 3.77%, according to UBS, and the difference between that and the overnight rate suggests "interbank lending is broken, " said William O'Donnell, the head of U.S. interest rate strategy at UBS. Rather than extend credit for longer than overnight, banks appear to be hoarding cash.

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  • You can see how content marketing and conversion rate optimization are at the head of the class.

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  • When asked, neither the central bank's governor nor his head of research knew what the inflation rate was.

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  • "People are getting used to yields below 2%, " says Brett Rose, head U.S. interest-rate strategy at Citigroup in New York.

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  • Ask anyone who played for Carm Cozza , head coach, and his first-rate coaching staff, and they will tell you that having that experience was the highlight of their time at Yale.

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  • In June Severson asked his head assembly guy to prove that the failure rate was slowing.

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  • Under the new law this group is to make recommendations to Congress on how to reduce the rate of growth in spending per head in Medicare if that expenditure exceeds a target figure.

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  • Chris Ahrens, head of U.S. interest-rate strategy at UBS Securities LLC. in Stamford, Connecticut, said the 10-year yield could trade in a range between 1.5% and 1.75% over the next three to six weeks.

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  • Lately, his Lean LaunchPad course at Stanford has been the model for an intriguing pilot programme called Innovation Corps (or I-Corps for short) which seeks to turn the traditional Silicon Valley start-up model on its head, and thereby reduce the woeful failure rate of new ventures.

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  • Tackling the problem head on, Thailand has managed to keep the rate at roughly the same level.

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  • "Ian's work rate is phenomenal, " said Launceston head coach Chris Brown.

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  • By 2001, however, South Africa had pulled its head from the sand to find that its own rate had sky-rocketed to nearly 25% of adults, according to figures from the United Nations.

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  • The baby, who weighed 2.8 kilograms (6 pounds, 2.8 ounces), had a low heart rate and some minor abrasions on his head and limbs, but was mostly unhurt, according to Zhejiang Online, the province's official news site.

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  • Its income per-head is comparatively low, but so is its unemployment rate, and from 2007 to 2010 income levels even rose slightly.

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  • What should matter, in the view of most economists, is what all this means for our rate of growth and our national income per head - in other words, what should matter is how our relationship with the EU is likely to affect our national prosperity.

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  • The idea was a cold-turkey cure for endemic balance-of-payments problems, turning economic management on its head by floating sterling and letting the market dictate the exchange rate.

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  • In Buffalo, for example, where the unemployment rate of more than 7 percent is sure to head even higher, one of the big business stories is about a rubber-recycling company that wants to expand.

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  • Those with a head of household aged 65-74 had the lowest burglary victimisation rate (0.9%).

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  • If the reform passes, it could head off next year's planned 5.4% postal rate increase the one that will push the cost of mailing a single letter to 39 cents from 37 cents.

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  • It's been a 30-year transformation for Pittsburgh since the failing steel industry left the area with a 18.3 percent jobless rate in the early 1980s, said Dennis Yablonsky, head of the Allegheny Conference on Community Development.

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  • "The deteriorating economy and expectations of a drawn-out recession has led to a downward revision in the UK outlook and has severely impacted the survival rate of UK businesses, " said Shay Bannon, head of business restructuring at BDO Stoy Hayward.

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  • But Phillip Watts, head of exploration and production, boldly reported a three-year average replacement rate of 102%.

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  • It surveyed 10, 000 teachers, head teachers and deputies and 4, 370 questionnaires were returned, a response rate of 44%.

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  • Critics of this theory (including Christina Romer, head of Mr Obama's Council of Economic Advisers) point out that the rate at which unemployed workers get new jobs has fallen across all industries.

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  • The Human Resources and Social Security Department of Guangdong estimated that 10 million workers, or 61% of the province's migrant-labor pool, would head home to see their families for the New Year Holiday, with a return rate of around 90%, leaving a labor shortfall of up to 1.2 million workers after the holiday.

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