Most Britons, for instance, still have variable-rate mortgages, although the proportion with fixed-rate home loans is rising (thanks, in part, to lower inflation).
Alltel also reported a record gain of 230, 000 new subscribers in the last quarter, and a record low churn rate, which measures the proportion of customers leaving the company each month, of 1.8%.
Such populist fears have found an audience in the Polish countryside, where incomes have fallen sharply in recent years, and which accounts for a large proportion of Poland's record unemployment rate of almost 20%.
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On the other hand, the mortality rate for children is falling, and the proportion of poor children who receive the proper series of vaccines has grown.
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Moreover, in addition to the 25% of homeowners with negative equity, a similar proportion have insufficient positive equity to refinance their high fixed-rate mortgages.
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Leeds Building Society credited some of its success on the savings front to the popularity of its fixed rate bonds, which allowed customers unlimited access to a proportion of their money without penalty during the product's term.
Ministers have also proposed that only the proportion of the price above the threshold would be liable to the higher rate of tax.
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Because of these problems, a significant proportion of children and youths are not attending school and there is a high rate of school dropouts.
Fresh data Thursday showed Greece's jobless rate rising to a new record in March, and with the proportion of young people without jobs now topping 50%.
That rate has declined more slowly than the firearms homicide rate, with 6 in 10 gun deaths now suicides, the highest proportion since at least 1981.
Between 1990 and 1997, the proportion of whites completing high school rose from 90 to 93 percent, while the corresponding rate among African Americans went from 82 to 87 percent.
But a growing proportion, many of them of dubious credit quality, have been lured by the seeming attractions of adjustable-rate mortgages, which now account for 40% of approvals.
In another survey, which asked Japanese firms to rate which countries they regarded as the best places to invest in the next three years, the proportion opting for China dropped from 91% in 2004 to 77% last year, while the appeal of Vietnam and India rose substantially (see chart).
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