The Huskies earlier had been ordered to sit out the 2013 NCAA tournament, because of its past players' sub-par academic performance rate.

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His 45% ground ball rate was on par with past seasons and his 19% line drive rate was even better than 2008-2009.

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Our own experience also found that the refresh rate of the Nook (with its latest software update) is now about on par with this new Kindle refresh rate, so it's fair to say that some of the competition is catching up.

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If state and local government hiring were basically on par to what our current recovery -- on par to past recoveries, the unemployment rate would probably be about a point lower than it is right now.

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Its default rate hovers around 5%, on a par with banks, says Breslow.

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But he has also mooted a new effort to fix the exchange rate (since January, the peso has plunged from par with the dollar to around 3.20 this week).

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If you are going to use a discount rate of 6% AND assume the bonds are selling at par, then you MUST assume that the coupon on the bond is also 6%.

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If you assume that the bond is selling at par, has an average coupon of 5.5%, say, and you use a discount rate of 6%, then you are implicitly saying that the bond is actually riskier than the market perceives it to be.

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