Berry likes the similar Eaton Vance Floating-Rate Fund, yielding 1.9% after expenses of 1.8%, for its "steady performance and proven management" and the no-load Fidelity Floating Rate High Income Fund, which is returning 2.9% after expenses of 0.9%.

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Trading Direct, for instance, lends investors who are willing to assume a heavy debt load at a variable rate of 1.25 percent.

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In a brief telephone interview in April, Mr. Daugherty blamed high poverty rates especially in Eastern Kentucky for his large case load and high approval rate.

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Axioma, a firm that provides risk models and portfolio-construction tools for stock investors, uses 10 factors for U.S. stocks, including exchange-rate sensitivity, debt load and momentum, or the tendency of a rallying stock to keep rallying.

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This would in turn help Delta in increasing its average occupancy rate, thereby improving the load factors.

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With the number of uninsured people in the U.S. continuing to grow and health care costs rapidly rising above the rate of inflation, politicians will be tempted to load health care costs directly onto the backs of businesses.

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Then the researchers look at how much debt students accumulate over their college careers, considering the four-year debt load for a typical student borrower (12.5%) and the overall student loan default rate (5%).

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Nicknamed "Night Robbery" because it has the highest crime rate on the continent, Nairobi is not a relaxed place in which to clear customs with a load of plastic suitcases filled with movie-camera equipment and reels of film.

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