From 1981 to 1989, the American gross domestic product, in constant dollars, expanded by a third.
From 1981 to 1989 the U.S. GDP, in constant dollars, expanded by nearly a third.
By 2000, total federal discretionary spending was still about the same as it was in 1995 in constant dollars.
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The actual cost, in real terms, of many commodities has declined over the past four decades when measured in constant dollars.
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Wouldn't you like to know how big it is, in constant dollars, compared with the savings-and-loan crisis of the late 1980s?
Her research revealed that items ranging from food to clothes were cheaper when calculated in constant dollars than they had been in the past.
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To make these numbers more concrete, we translate them into the effects on the income of a typical family of four (in constant dollars).
The way to do this is to measure not the change in price in constant dollars but the change in price compared to average earnings.
Unfortunately, the price of oil in constant dollars is close to what it was in the car-happy 1950s, and prices are likely to keep falling.
Just as measured in constant dollars the economy is bigger today than it was in 1996 (when I wrote most of the book) or 1999.
In constant dollars, adjusted for inflation, the decline was 5.4%.
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Our EMEA region experienced a fifth consecutive quarter of year-over-year revenue decline as pro forma revenues in constant dollars were down 6% and 8%, respectively, on a sequential and year-over-year basis.
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Take Apple 's iPod, which lets today's teenagers download any song for 99 cents--one-quarter of the price (in constant dollars) that kids in 1975 paid for a 45 rpm vinyl record.
Between 2003 and 2010 the amount of money per award went up on average only about 1 percent in constant dollars, forcing some investigators to use inferior equipment and employ fewer research assistants.
But during that time, the cost of computation has dropped so much that if you strip out those costs, NASA's budget today is probably equivalent to what it was in 1969, in constant dollars.
Take Apple 's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) iPod, which lets today's teenagers download any song for 99 cents--one-quarter of the price (in constant dollars) that kids in 1975 paid for a 45 rpm vinyl record.
Even as NASA's budget has decreased by approximately 15 percent in constant dollars since 1993, we have made provision for several important new initiatives to maintain the delicate balance between human space flight, earth and space science, and advanced aeronautics and space transportation technology.
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U.S. real gross domestic product (real GDP shown in constant 2005 dollars) grew every year except for a small decline in 2009.
What would the Indian GDP have been in 2011, in 2000 constant US dollars, if it had grown one less percentage point each year?
After all there is much anxiety in financial capitols about the future of the Euro as well as the feeling that the almost constant printing of new dollars to keep America running portends a terrible crisis down the road.
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