Note that the real return since 1926 is almost 1% per year higher, a fairly material difference in terms of returns, and yet the nominal return was almost identical (9.9% annually since 1926 versus only a slightly lower 9.7% since 1957).
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And for companies that operate a whole fleet of trucks, the higher costs can make a big difference in terms of the profitability of the company.
Higher energy prices have also made a difference as fertiliser and other input costs have risen.
But it's not clear how much of this difference can be attributed to higher education, since smarter people are more likely to finish college and have an employment advantage regardless of what they learn there.
But according to the people familiar with the matter, at issue is a kind of over-the-counter deal that allows banks or brokerages to sell bonds to investors at prices higher than they paid, pocketing the difference.
Perhaps it is because the liberal view of religion and Republicans is so reflexively negative that they see no practical difference between those who oppose higher taxes and those who would chop off a woman's fingertips for wearing nail polish.
Many thanks to the authors for advancing the idea of higher ambition leaders and helping to clarify the difference between CSR and corporate social purpose.
He said the preceding manoeuvre was probably the highest and most sustained of the day in terms of G-force but said flying at a higher altitude "may not have made a difference".
Banks have been riding a steep yield curve, meaning they borrow money at virtually no cost from the government and lend it out or invest it in higher-earning assets, profiting from the difference.
"Higher prices at peak times might make a difference to demand at the margin but would for the most part be a tax on commuters who have no effective choice over how or when they travel, " the MPs said.
Core i3-5xx and Core i5-6xx machines are also slated for the early part of 2010, based on that energy-conscious Clarkdale core we've already seen, with the difference being that Turbo Boost and higher L3 cache (4MB versus 3MB) will be available on the higher numbered chips.
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In the past five decades, for example, the difference between winter and summer returns is higher than the historical one.
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Every year the winter maximum gets higher, as does the summer minimum but the difference between annual maximum and minimum increases.
In the last quarter short term rates stabilized at a slightly higher level and the net interest margin (the difference between the interest they pay to depositors and that which they are paid for them) widened.
The larger the difference between the bulls and bears, the higher the amount of optimism from investors.
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The difference now is that the stakes are much higher.
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While U.S. companies get a credit for the taxes they pay overseas, they are still liable for the difference between what they pay abroad and the higher U.S. marginal tax rate.
Simply the difference between its low overseas tax rate and its higher U.S. tax rate 10 percentage points on average.
The majority of these Grade 3 or higher adverse events were chemotherapy-related and accounted for the difference between the 2 arms of the study.
The rest of the price difference is accounted for by the psychological impact of a higher price on a typical British buyer who would mistake nought-grade sandpaper for luxury as long as it were priced high enough or offered in a variety of colours.
The numbers say that if the French labour market had been as flexible as America's during those years, its rate of employment would have been between 1.6 and 4.4 percentage points higher equivalent to between 14% and 38% of the difference between their actual rates.
The new Kinect -- which we've heard of in the past -- is said to capture up to six people at once, and an alleged image demonstrating the difference between new and old versions of the camera puts much higher specs on said device (1920x1080 color resolution, more trackable joints, improved depth resolution, etc.).
And such a difference from the normal stories about how executive pay just climbs ever higher.
On economic issues, the only real difference is that Bush cut taxes and Obama is in favor of higher taxes.
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The difference is partly thanks to lower inflation on the Continent and a higher number of hard discounters like Germany's Aldi and Lidl.
Lichtblau notes that the key is the magnitude of the difference and whether the SmartEstimate indicates that earnings are likely to be higher or lower than the consensus number.
Under this proposal, if payroll taxes were higher for such companies this year over last year, they would be refunded the difference through the corporate income tax.
At one stretch of shoreline in Essex, it is now 10cm higher than it was in 1953 - the kind of rise that could make the difference between a flood defence holding or being overwhelmed.
The difference between China and other countries may lie not so much in a higher rate of attempted suicide, but in a lower rate of attempted suicides that fail because of remedial action.
For starters, consider the fact that the degree of market failure varies from region to region: the difference between the price of water and its true marginal cost must be higher in dry places than wet ones.
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