At the present rate of hearings it would take ten years to clear the backlog, the government admits.
If cash continues to evaporate at its present rate, even the strongest airlines will need to raise money.
Some experts predict that if it continues to melt at the present rate, it may be entirely gone in little more than a decade.
It all puts our present rate of consumption into frightening perspective.
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At the present rate of destruction, by the year 2050, a breathtaking 70 percent of the world's reefs will have disappeared, according to the Nature Conservancy.
According to the Nature Conservancy, if the present rate of destruction continues, 70 percent of the world's coral reefs will be destroyed by the year 2050.
Obama then asserted that Romney thinks economic growth can only occur if capital gains taxes on the rich are maintained at their present rate of 15%.
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That will not last for ever: if government debt continues to grow at its present rate, they may start to realise that Japanese government bonds are not the risk-free investments that they still consider them.
So the new energy minister, Marit Arnstad, a fierce young woman from the Centre Party, says that oil and gas production will have to be curbed or at least kept down to its present rate.
The programme is produced by local school teachers of the four ICT centres and focussed on areas that will help increase the pass percentage from the present dismal rate of 26.43% in Palpa District.
Unfortunately, in our present low interest rate environment the demand for income producing products is high.
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If you consider the present Federal Funds rate to be a quarter of a percentage point, the preferred discount rate will be one and a quarter percentage points.
Also, under present law that blended rate on futures is popping up to 32.8% in 2013.
Lengthy power cuts are hollowing out Pakistan's already weak economy, which, at its present 3% growth rate, cannot possibly sustain Pakistan's youth bulge.
An electrical field removes any ions present, so the rate of seed growth should be equivalent to that in nature with no cosmic rays around.
Each year's number is discounted back to the present at a discount rate that accounts for the growth of the ten-year Treasury, inflation and equity risk, which stands right now at 8.4%.
At a 3.0% GDP growth rate, the present value of future federal revenues equals infinity.
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That means they will want equipment delivered at a faster rate than their present suppliers can deliver it.
This is more important at present than a competitive exchange rate, and puts China's exporters at an advantage over their cash-strapped regional rivals.
The more the economy weakens, the swifter the Bank of England is likely to be in lowering the base rate from its present level of 5.0%.
At present, the benchmark lending rate stands at 6%, which is still very high compared to the rates in the U.S. and other developed countries.
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As there is almost no evidence of consumer-price inflation, either actual or potential, Mr Greenspan can present this week's rate rise as an act of great prudence.
It calculates an intrinsic value by discounting a stream of future earnings back to the present, using a discount rate that is a function of both Aaa bond yields and the creditworthiness of the target company.
You can calculate a stream of earnings off the asset, apply an assumed discount rate and determine a present value for the assets.
The lower the interest rate, the higher the present value of those future payments.
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The Woodhill Curve shows the combinations of tax take and real GDP growth rate that produce the same present value of future Federal revenues.
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At rates of economic growth above the interest rate on federal debt, the present value of both GDP and federal revenues is infinity.
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The rate is negative even in the present low inflation setting.
The Federal Reserve gave Wall Street an early Christmas present this afternoon, cutting the Fed Funds rate by 50 basis points to 4.75%, and indicating further cuts could come.
If invested in conservative, interest rate bearing instruments, those low present and projected interest rates dictate that a much larger amount needs to be invested in order to achieve your desired future retirement income.
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