But it isn't just higher taxes that make these so-called progressive states less attractive to business.
More important, a broker has access to wholesale interest rates, not just higher retail ones quoted to borrowers.
"As we look beyond third-generation mobile phones, it's not just higher capacity, higher data rates we should consider, " Da Silva said.
But note: Tax increases come in many forms, not just higher rates.
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One major upgrade will be to the playback experience by offering not just higher-resolution streams, but various levels of video clarity based on device capabilities, screen size and data speeds.
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That will take a combination of better economic policies in poor countries, more open trade regimes in rich ones, and aid flows that are not just higher but also better allocated.
And the weekly poll of its members by the American Association of Individual Investors, showed sentiment had reached 57.6% bullish last week, its highest level in a number of years, higher than just before the 2007 bull market top (54.6% bullish), higher than just before the top in January of this year (49.2%) and higher than just before the April top (48.5% bullish).
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Researchers at Tilburg University in the Netherlands, led by Joris Lammers, looked at the behavior of more than 1, 500 professionals and found that women who are higher up the corporate ladder are more likely to cheat (just as higher-status men are).
The slide of 1994 was a precursor of nothing -- just momentarily higher interest rates.
The stakes just got higher in the 3-D chess game China is playing for natural resources.
The company warned that profits will likely be just slightly higher in 2012 as the consumer environment worsens.
Clearly, whatever political damage the Obama administration thought the spill might be inflicting, the stakes just became higher.
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Combined with a worry wall that just got higher, things look pretty good.
Home Depot, just reported higher-than-expected results for the first quarter of 2013, and raised its sales and profit outlook for the year.
Yet Apple was able to take advantage of lower costs on other components and kept its overall component expenses just slightly higher.
Just as higher tariffs lead to less international trade, higher marginal tax rates would reduce the level of domestic trade, or GDP.
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Chinese, through their actions, have made it very clear that they want more than just a higher standard of living and economic growth.
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The U.S. dollar index is trading just slightly higher Wednesday morning.
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Despite the gains in many health-care stocks, there are still some that are just turning higher from support and are likely to hold up better if the market does correct.
If they had to pay just through higher rates, the top bracket on ordinary income would rise to more than 67 percent and the rate on gains would approach 50 percent.
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Thinking that we can just mandate higher wages or better working conditions as if we were waving a magic wand and thereby reduce poverty is indulging a belief in magic, not science.
Near Baruch College, where the board's vote was held, a large group of protesters fueled by the Occupy Wall Street movement rallied against not just the higher prices, but tuition in general.
Delta says it, like other airlines, offers all seats on planes to frequent fliers, just at higher mileage cost than the lowest redemption level, which is 25, 000 miles for a domestic coach round-trip ticket.
Taken together with the ice melt estimate, the scientists say the overall, maximum impact on the seas by 2100 will be a rise of 69cm - just 10cm higher than the IPCC projection in 2007, termed AR4.
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MoPub published its fourth quarter 2012 marketplace report which showed strong trends with over 50% gains in just two months in eCPMs (effective cost per thousand impressions). iOS had the benefit of not just capturing higher prices but also had a larger increase at 66% vs.
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Average monthly home sales were 7% higher nationally in October and November than in the previous four months, but just 3% higher in the Northeast.
President Obama is not really against higher oil prices, he just wants them driven higher by the state, not by the markets.
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In the U.S., they were just over 5 percent, and in China a point higher at just over 6 percent.
But, just now, higher taxes would have a second plus: restoring the public finances.
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