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Niall O'Brien and Andrew White were in danger of letting the required rate slip beyond their reach and, although the introduction of Kulasekara allowed them to take 13 runs off the 14th over, Ireland would not have been overly displeased when White succumbed.
BBC: Sri Lanka see off valiant Ireland
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Jay Nixon, the Democratic nominee and Missouri's well-known attorney-general, has hammered Republicans for cutting Medicaid enrolment and letting the state's unemployment rate rise to a 17-year high.
ECONOMIST: Gubernatorial candidates are waging their own battles
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The idea was a cold-turkey cure for endemic balance-of-payments problems, turning economic management on its head by floating sterling and letting the market dictate the exchange rate.
ECONOMIST: Post-war Britain
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The low tax rate would set off an economic boom by letting people keep more of what they earn and by lowering barriers to risk taking.
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He reminded listeners that their pressure last year persuaded legislators to extend the current 3.4% rate on subsidized loans through June instead of letting it double in 2012.
CNN: Obama repeats strategy in student loan fight
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Overall, the decline in the unemployment rate is positive news, but it only underscores the importance of us not letting up on our efforts.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama on December Jobs Numbers
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This is what he found: The Revenue Act of 1941 raised taxes by an average annual rate of 2.2 percent of GDP, more than the impact of letting all the Bush tax cuts expire.
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New construction has produced a glut of homes, and net rental yields (after maintenance and letting costs) have been driven down to 2%, far below the 7% mortgage rate.
ECONOMIST: Are Australia's economic batteries running low?
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We could cut the corporate rate below even 25 percent but also require multinationals to pay tax immediately rather than letting them defer their liability for years as they do today.
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The human race has not devised any way of dissolving barriers, getting to know the other chap fast, breaking the ice, that is one-tenth as handy and efficient as letting you and the other chap, or chaps, cease to be totally sober at about the same rate in agreeable surroundings.
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