This is why the history of tax rate changes and subsequent stock market returns is mixed.
If they held over a full season, the Braves' strikeout rate would be the second highest in major-league history and their contact rate would be the lowest by any team since 2003.
More than half of people over 21 aren't married, the highest rate in history.
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They adopted the largest capital gains tax cut in history, reducing the rate by nearly 30%, from 28% to 20%.
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Three years ago, Singapore experienced its lowest birth rate in history, a fact that distresses its leaders, but apparently not the couples who pack the nightclubs and party all night.
The book romps through history at a terrific rate: from ancient Greece through the Islamic empire of the 13th century, 15th-century China and Renaissance Europe to 20th-century America.
The company averaged 694, 000 oil-equivalent barrels (Boe) per day, the highest daily production rate in history in its North American onshore properties, and a 10% increase from the prior year.
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That's the theory, at any rate, and history suggests that it is well founded.
Private industry's technological advances, operating under state regulation, increased U.S. production last year at the fastest rate in the history of the domestic industry, which drilled its first commercial well in 1859.
Inflation surged to double digits and for the first time in recent history, India's inflation rate climbed above the emerging-market average.
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Instead, his legacy will linger in the shape of the biggest economic imbalances in American history: a negative household saving rate and a record current-account deficit (see chart 1).
It is folly for Obama to think he has done enough to repair the strained relationship with disillusioned Latinos who've lived through the highest deportation rates in history and an 11% unemployment rate.
Moreover, looking back, the 20 years to 1938 were by far the most volatile in economic history, yet the average growth rate in developed economies was 3.8%, well above the average growth of 2.7% during the past two decades of relative stability.
The problem is that the economic model that achieved the strongest and most consistent growth rate in reliably recorded history - a spending spree by consumers financed by borrowing from the great producing countries like China, Japan and Germany - is kaput.
Well, let me remind you, we have 16 million new jobs, the lowest unemployment rate nearly in 30 years, the lowest percentage of people on welfare in 29 years, and the first balanced budget in 29 years, and the highest home ownership in history, and the lowest inflation rate in 32 years because we didn't squander money.
From 2006 to 2012, social media enjoyed the fastest rate of adoption in the history of technology.
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Founded by Stanford University engineers David Packard and William Hewlett in a Palo Alto, Calif. garage in 1938, for most of its history HP grew at a near exponential rate.
We connect hundreds of millions of people ultimately around the world by connecting talent with opportunity -- today, 120 million members on a global basis, and that's growing north of two members per second, the fastest rate of growth in our history.
They called it the Industrial Revolution because for the first time in all of human history, economic growth started at a rate where you could see the difference in living standards at the end of a human lifespan relative to the beginning of a human lifespan.
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The result was that the 2000s saw the slowest real GDP growth rate for any decade in American history.
As governments subsequently slashed tariffs, a middle class emerged and poverty plummeted at the fastest rate in the country's history.
Throughout history the ability to communicate has supercharged our rate of innovation, has boosted our collective intelligence, and has worked to expand our individual freedoms and capabilities.
Remember also, the population of the time was growing at a rate never before seen in human history so fast that early economists like Malthus wrung their hands over whether such growth could be sustainable.
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The credit union even offers a card targeted at young adults with no credit history, with the same 7.45% rate, called the First Visa.
After the immediate post-war disarmament, Britain began to rearm at a faster rate than at any time in its peacetime history.
To better understand the potential success rate for a couple entering retirement, stock market history can be dissected into five ranked sets called quintiles.
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The review should determine if changes in key factors (such as cardholder credit risk, payment history, and market conditions) give reasons to reduce the rate.
According to the Confederation of British Industry, which lobbied for a rate cut this week, retail sales fell in the year to June at the steepest rate in its survey's 22-year history.
Christoulas's death can be added to an increasing number of suicides in Greece, as more people feel hopeless amid the worst economic crisis in the country's recent history: according to the health ministry data, the suicide rate jumped about 40% in the first five months of 2011 compared with a year earlier.
They had a good payment history for the first two years or three years under the teaser rate.
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