Senior managers in China and India are reaping similar gains, but from a lower base.
Cellular operators in Asia offer a better growth story as they come from a much lower base.
When business turns back up again, companies then appear to be growing quickly, although from a much lower base.
Though this is no cure, it does mean costs grow from a lower base when the disease inevitably takes hold.
Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) has a bearish-looking macro chart, but ignited out of a lower base yesterday before closing just back below the pivot.
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The report said this reflects higher prices for labor, electricity and maintenance, as well as reduced by-product credits resulting from lower base-metals prices.
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But the three-month interbank rate soared, reaching 6% by the end of March, and credit conditions have accordingly tightened despite the lower base rate.
Polish sales were also up strongly, although from a lower base.
Manufacturing may also have potential, although it would be starting from a much lower base - only 6% of GDP - and has been shrinking up until now.
Thailand's scores on the respected international PISA test have remained almost static since 2003 whereas Indonesia, for instance, has been moving up from a lower base.
Even in the renewable energy sector, which starts from a much lower base, there has been an almost eight-fold increase in installed capacity over the past decade.
The lower base price is possible in part because of a wider range of options and configurations that come with the expansion of Volt production for sale nationally.
"So next year we would be starting from a much lower base and have to make even deeper cuts or demand bigger increases in council tax, " he said.
More striking, the average fall is faster than it was in China in the early 1980s, when child mortality was declining around 3% a year, admittedly from a lower base.
Starting from a much lower base, the high school dropout rate among whites also declined during that period (from 7% in 2000 to 5% in 2011), but did not fall by as much.
The Ministry of Commerce is planning to assist manufacturers in identifying new markets beyond the U.S. and Europe, particularly India which is going through its own middle class expansion, albeit from a much lower base.
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The new foundation degrees are designed to offer credible qualifications for students starting from a lower academic base.
Using this new lower spending base for 2010-11 and applying the official Treasury deflators, spending will be back just above the 2009-10 level in 2014-15 - but by only a 0.1% real increase.
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Freeport will keep investing in brownfield copper and gold assets to lower its cost base.
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This is because Republican candidate Mitt Romney pitched a tax plan founded on the two pillars of the Bowles-Simpson proposal: lower rates and base broadening through the elimination of preferences.
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The major theme was to broaden the base and lower the rates.
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The lower part, or base, was made by assembling large mammoth bones to support the whole structure, which was 26 feet across at its widest.
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But this tax shows that you can have a broader base and lower rates and still achieve a more progressive tax system than we now have.
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The Romney plan would also broaden the tax base and lower ordinary income tax rates, but it would not change tax rates on capital gains and dividends, which the Simpson-Bowles Commission would raise.
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He added that Tesco should have an advantage over its traditional rivals with its lower fixed-cost base, benefiting from its Internet base as well as its ability to set up shop at Tesco hypermarkets.
New joints in the robot's base and lower back enable RIBA-II to crouch down and lift a patient off a futon at floor level (Figure 1), the most physically strenuous task for care-givers and one that RIBA was not able to do.
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Does that mean he also wants to lower rates and broaden the base there, too?
Unfortunately, the larger the monetary base, the lower the interest rate required for a non-inflationary outcome.
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