But once we acquire them, we quickly return to our previous level of happiness.
Congress will be afraid to restore the payroll tax back to its previous level.
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Once you've reached your goal, boost your contribution to the retirement account back to your previous level.
Lately the stock has dropped back almost to its previous level on signs of slowing chip sales growth.
Yankees general manager Brian Cashman has repeatedly maintained the 13-time All-Star should be able to return to his previous level of play.
After breaking through support yesterday, the Yen is still making a run toward 88.00 which acted as a previous level of support.
Perhaps someday his royalty check would rise to reach the previous level, but that assumes five-fold growth in listener hours at Pandora or similar services.
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Indeed the jobs report was good news, even though it was also reported that the unemployment rate rose to 9.0% from its previous level of 8.8%.
It is as if a force outside ourselves, say an angel, pulled us away from our previous level to a higher level in an indescribable, incomprehensible manner.
"Historically, depressions have been recognised as lengthy periods in which the economy did not get back to its previous level of activity before a recession set in, " he said.
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Once workers try to catch up, the old relationship will re-emerge and the unemployment rate consistent with stable inflation will rise back to its previous level of above 5%, from a low of 3.9% last year.
"Given the continuing high levels of unemployment, we can expect little to no impact on small business wages and employment levels from the return of the employee payroll tax to its previous level, " said Susan Woodward, the economist who worked with Intuit to create the indexes.
The previous highest level had been 20%, typically used for hospital isotopes and research reactors.
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Each pupil's performance in a set of tests is compared with the middle performance of all pupils nationally who had a similar performance at the previous test level.
According to Incomes Data Services, the typical increase was 4%, sharply up on the previous 3% level.
The paper was made up of parts of previous O-level and GCSE exam papers from the 1960s to the 2000s.
If the yen can regain control and make a clean break below the previous support, the low of May 6 near 88.00 is the next major level of previous price support.
In 2010 GDP grew 10.9%, as exports returned to the level of previous years, and in 2011, grew 5.2%.
The company said "the German market cannot detach itself from this development and is expected to fall significantly short of the previous year's level".
Each attempt at a rally has petered out at a level below previous peaks, and with Thursday's nearly six-point decline in the index, it has now added a pattern of lower lows to its bearish repertoire.
The experience of the only previous grand coalition at federal level, in 1966-69, bears out such fears, though some similar coalitions have worked at state level.
On Tuesday, it agreed on an aid program for 2014 to 2020 that will keep aid at the same level as the previous seven-year program, despite the recession.
They show for all the banks a combined net profit of JPY 1.76 trillion, a 2.2 fold increase over the previous year, the highest level in four years.
The EU sovereign debt crisis is slowly creeping back into the front row of the market place, but it not at the severity level seen in previous months.
And, although Germany is a consensus-loving country, it does not warm to left-right coalitions at the federal level: the previous one, between 1966 and 1969, was not a particularly happy affair.
The decision to lend more money for mortgages comes after UK mortgage lending as a whole fell 13% in January from the previous month to the lowest level for a year.
The Fed cut its target on federal funds, the overnight interbank loans that form the floor rate for U.S. lending, to just 0.25%, down 75 basis points from the previous 1.0% level.
On average, emerging-market central banks hold less than 4% of their foreign-exchange reserves in gold, which is slightly under the 4.6% to 7% mid-range optimal level suggested by previous research done by academics, institutions and the World Gold Council for diversification of reserves.
Then again, there may not be as many investors looking to hedge this time around as compared to previous trips down to this level, given there is a lot of sideline cash and more shorts in the market relative to the recent past.
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