If 25, 000 workers accept, that would pull Ford s attrition rate ahead by about six to eight years.

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As investors have run to safety, Treasury yields have plunged and could pull 30-year fixed-rate mortgages below 5%.

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If BHP can pull it off, that production rate would surpass that of the biggest U.S. independents Apache, Anadarko and Occidental.

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Brazil equity funds have managed to outperform the MSCI Emerging Markets index so far this year, but data like this and possible rate hikes promise to pull the rug out from under them.

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Even at a 90% reinvestment rate, they can still probably pull a couple hundred million dollars a year out of the company.

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That might be difficult to pull off: Japan has had an inflation rate of 1% or more during only eight months since the beginning of 2002.

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For large companies the Sarkozy government has set a long-term goal of reducing the corporate tax rate by 5%, which would pull France closer to the rest of Europe.

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While DKS was early to pull the promotional trigger on cold weather product as sales most likely were not coming in at the expected rate, we believe much of the discounting was either vendor funded or on carry over product from last year.

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