The electricity tariff cut lowered the index by 0.45%, so if one takes away the one-off effect of this cut, and maintaining all other items the same, the price index would have reached 1.13% higher month over month, or a whopping 14.44% annualized.
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Many of the most promising areas for exploration, including Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Iran, are in effect off-limits to Western oil firms.
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Viewing angles were actually pretty impressive -- at least in comparison to the other glasses-free 3D displays we've seen -- and tilting our head slightly didn't throw off the 3D effect too much.
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The retired rower then passed it to the young athletes, who lit part of the outer rim of the torch, setting off a domino effect as fire spread to 205 small metal "petals, " symbolizing the nations taking part.
Hardware acceleration of both 2D and 3D UI elements -- shown off to great effect by Google's Hugo Barra, who managed to scroll through three lists simultaneously without inducing any lag on the Motorola Xoom -- should make Honeycomb as delicious to look at as it sounds, while our personal favorite, the new tablet-specific email interface, should be part of Gmail yesterday.
Equally important, it is not clear how much of an effect a one-off rebate will have on consumption, or how quickly that effect will come through.
RFF's books, in effect writing off the infrastructure investment of building the high-speed network.
The reason for the latter could be the novelty effect wearing off for the casino resorts.
For instance, pills give an initial burst of medication, then the effect falls off.
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"Iraqi oil has in effect been off the market for more than a decade, " says Janjigian.
Those same stocks beat their benchmarks by nearly 7 points in November, as the effect wore off, Prof.
Unlike the opaque Lehman, MF Global fully disclosed the trades and their accounting treatment including the off-balance sheet effect.
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Every time a franchise moves it sets off a destructive ripple effect.
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However, just three months later, shares in JJB tumbled after Dick's Sporting Goods said it had in effect written off its entire investment.
Unfortunately, unless the Obama effect wears off soon, by the time the American people become aware of this fact it may be too late to make a difference.
Mr Paisley, and the half of Mr Trimble's party that opposed the peace agreement, hoped that the marching stand-off would, in effect, force Tony Blair to renegotiate the peace deal.
But, in effect, off-shore, outside of Iran, so that this would satisfy the concerns of others like the United States and the Europeans that Iran couldn't secretly use this process to create a stash of what's called fissile material for a nuclear weapon.
Liquidators Blair Nimmo and Tony Friar of KPMG have paid off 148 employees with immediate effect.
So companies are, in effect, paying off the cops rather than the mob.
Leadership can be used to great effect on and off the field.
It said people were abandoning them because they could not afford to keep them, their status effect had worn off and over-breeding had lessened their financial value.
Nonetheless, existing employment contracts between professional corporations and their shareholders should be dusted off and reviewed for the effect they would have in a sale situation in light of this case.
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Meanwhile, Banco Delta Asia has hired a law firm to persuade the Americans to remove it from their money-laundering blacklist, which in effect cuts it off from the international banking system.
Since some of this debt is due for repayment next year, the Bank of England has a deadline for deciding whether to roll it over into a perpetual zero-interest debt - which would be seen as, in effect, writing off the debt.
Tighter lending standards may, in effect, be cutting off their noses to spite their faces.
Sourcing funds from abroad to pay off the ELA would have the effect of reducing this liability.
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The new Mass Effect Trilogy trailer shows off each of the three games coming to PC and consoles as a package deal.
Taking money off the table has a different effect on different people.
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