The further education staff say they are striking because of the government's support for the principles laid out in the Hutton report on public sector pensions - raising contributions, moving to a career average scheme, and linking pension rises to the lower measure of inflation, CPI.
Separate reforms to force millions of public sector workers to pay an additional 3.2% of salaries towards their pensions and to switch the uprating of pensions from RPI inflation to the normally lower CPI measure of inflation are expected to significantly reduce the long-term cost of public-sector pensions.
Ministers plan to link public sector pension rises to an alternative, and historically lower, inflation measure.
So the DMV Test is an inverse measure: the lower the minutes count, the worst the economy in the short to medium term.
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The justices stepped into the dispute after lower federal courts ruled against the measure.
The Senate may well lack the courage to overturn the populist measure passed by the lower house.
"Our goal is to lower the barriers for companies to measure and report their environmental footprint, " says Sun's vice president of eco-responsibility, Dave Douglas.
Some restaurants are wasting no time in bringing themselves into compliance with the measure, intended to lower obesity and its impact on public health.
The real money-savers come from lowering the annual increases in benefits - the switch from the RPI measure of inflation to the lower CPI.
Marketers are mislead to think that they promotionally come out ahead with incremental sales and profits in spite of lower margins because mix models do not measure the longer-term negative consequences of cannibalized, future full-margin sales.
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Yes, the cookie is lower in calories, but it doesn't measure up on the nutrient side.
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As for Baker's lower profits per partner, this is a misleading measure.
In Russia, where the lower house of parliament gave final approval to a measure to extend the presidential term to six years, from four, Moscow's RTS index was up 2.8%, led by Gazprom, up 5.6%.
According to this measure, social mobility in America now is lower than in most of Europe.
Democrats will try to attach an amendment that was stripped from their original measure, to allow bankruptcy court judges to lower mortgage payments for homeowners facing foreclosure.
Headline PPI slid 0.1% last month on lower food and energy costs, while the less volatile core measure surprised analysts jumping 0.3%.
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Greenfield, though, thinks consumers are increasingly rejecting 3D, and choosing to see 2D versions of mainstreams films, due in no small measure to the fact that the 2D versions have lower ticket prices.
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He made no mention of Mitt Romney, his all-but-certain opponent in November, but took aim at House Republicans who passed a measure last week that would pay for extending the lower student loan rate by cutting from a health care fund that promotes preventive care.
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While they will point out that many lower-paid workers will be taken out of tax - a measure which would have been unlikely unless they had gone into coalition - Lib Dem activists will currently be calculating if their party has got enough in return for agreeing to much steeper spending cuts overall than they were suggesting before election day.
On this measure, then, American shares in the aggregate are paying a lower rate of return than a perfectly safe alternative investment.
As a result, advertisers got used to paying lower costs for electronic media and seeing higher value as they could more easily measure the impact of that advertising.
When combined with Zocor in Vytorin, Zetia does lower C-reactive protein (CRP), which doctors use to try and measure artery inflammation.
By that measure, if a stock trades at a PEG of 1.0 or lower, it is reasonably priced.
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U.S. gross domestic product, a measure of all goods and services produced in the economy, rose at a lower-than-expected 2.5% annual rate between January and March, the Commerce Department reported.
Teachers who fail to measure up to the new demands may find themselves in a different job, or on lower pay.
Community banks and credit unions have been particularly opposed to the measure even though they would technically be exempt, contending that it would force them to lower fees in order to compete with larger banks.
The same sample reported that Indonesia's destitution measure was barely 8%, Sri Lanka's was below that and Thailand's lower still.
Proponents said capping the rates at 36% a year, as the measure called for, will help needy borrowers to get the cash they need at a much lower price.
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While the fires still threatened some 25, 000 homes, the burn rate in the region -- a measure made up of factors like wind speed, humidity and available fuel -- was significantly lower Thursday, a spokeswoman at the California Department of Forestry and Protection said.
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Activist organizations, including a group called the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality by Any Means Necessary, sued to invalidate Proposal 2, dividing lower federal courts and resulting in an 8-7 vote by the full Sixth Circuit striking down the measure.
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