Meanwhile, the rest of the transportation sector clocked in a rate of 5.0 safety incidents per 100 full-time employees.
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Those who locked in a rate of 6 percent expecting it to be low received the benefit of a predictable loan.
Paul Cavey at Macquarie has pencilled in a rate of 5.8 yuan to the dollar for 2013, for example, when he expects the current-account surplus to be 3.6% of GDP.
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"The premise that high vacancy rates tend to perpetuate low footfall appears to hold true with a decline in footfall of -10.1% in Wales alongside an increase in a vacancy rate of 1.9% from October, " she said.
The videos started pouring in at a rate of about a hundred a week, hitting 2, 500 by the time Unigo launched in early September.
Staying relevant in the startup world is a unique challenge that can result in a high rate of turnover as companies struggle to innovate in ever-changing industries.
The economic slowdown in the UK as well as a reduction in the rate of corporation tax have led to a 17% drop in corporation tax payments since 2005.
If an investor is looking to own the actual properties, some stats show a redemption rate in Texas of only 80% instead of a 99% redemption rate for tax liens in other states.
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Much like profits, revenue growth was superb coming in at a rate of 27% and easily topping expectations.
This so-called formula effect automatically builds in a slower rate of growth for CPI and contributes 0.9 percentage points to the current gap between CPI and RPI.
Martin Fridson of FridsonVision, a research firm, has calculated that a severe recession (which, he stresses, he is not predicting) could result in a peak rate of between 16% and 20% of annual defaults on corporate bonds, far higher than in 1991.
In more recent years, however, a new set of ocean monitors has documented a decrease in the rate of oceanic heating for the same time period that satellite-based monitoring systems have shown an expanding imbalance between incoming and outgoing energy flows.
Fueling that belief were comments from ECB president Mario Draghi, who said that "a few" members of the ECB's rate-setting committee were in favor of a rate cut.
Until earlier this month the Bank of England had been engaged in a cycle of interest rate tightening, which saw the cost of borrowing hit a high of 4.75%, in turn leading to higher repayments for mortgage holders.
The main conclusion from this demographic work is that, barring a new increase in female labor force participation or a significant increase in the growth rate of the population, these demographic factors point towards a further decline in trend growth of employment and hours in the coming decades.
The move toward full convertibility would almost certainly mean that Beijing would allow the renminbi to float, as it would be unlikely for it to maintain a fixed rate in a world of fluctuating currencies.
The call follows a report earlier in the month which showed business start ups in the region were running at a quarter of the rate for those in the South West and a tenth of the London level.
Half the top 10 scorers in the tournament have a strike rate of better than the run-a-ball rate of 100 and considerably so in some cases - but Trott and Bell sit in the mid-90s.
When domestic gas was detoxified in England and Wales in the 1960s and early 1970s, there was a drop in the suicide rate of about a third, researchers have argued.
The bank has a return on equity rate of 10.4% in fiscal 2011, and a return on assets rate of 0.60% in 2011.
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The researchers from McGill University in Montreal noted a convergence in the rate of deaths from HIV and heart disease as contributing to the narrowing of the life expectancy gap.
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.
"Following a combination of an underlying increase in network traffic as well as a high rate of new customer additions, we are aware of capacity issues in a small number of exchanges, " she said.
But Apollo has two other strikes against it: It relies heavily on stock options to compensate employees, and it enjoyed a reduction in its tax rate in 2001, a source of earnings growth that is unlikely to last forever.
Therefore, subtracting rising rates of inflation from falling nominal interest rates results in a falling real rate of interest.
Though the better-than-expected durable goods figures gave Wall Street a boost, Wednesday's economic data ultimately became mixed after the Commerce Department reported that new home sales fell short of expectations, dropping 0.6% in May to a rate of 342, 000.
However, he pointed out that "a lot of the drop in the unemployment rate comes down to a decline in the size of the labour force, which is quite large".
The PGM uses a semiconductor chip to sequencing DNA, a technology that Ion Torrent founder Jonathan Rothberg says will allow his machine to increase in speed at a rate of 10-fold every six months.
He has effectively adopted Paul Ryan's agenda as his own: big immediate cuts in spending, a dramatic cut in the top rate of income tax to 28% and a bold reform of Medicare for those 55 and under.
Wyoming, where the cost of doing business is low and state-level income taxes are nonexistant, came in 4th with a rate of 1.6%.
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