No group among all the services had as high a casualty rate as Marine Corps second lieutenants.
Not only were connotations of loneliness attributed to ready meals, their quality also started to be questioned, with frozen meals increasingly seen as second rate.
If stepmothers weren't so unhappy, the divorce rate for second marriages, as high as 60% to 75%, might be reduced.
Consumer spending in Britain (and in America) rose at about the same rate as in thriftier Germany during the second quarter.
Peter Riddell in The Times recently described the Shadow Cabinet as "among the most second-rate in a generation".
The figure of 0.2% was also the same as the eurozone's growth rate in the second quarter of the year.
Novelists trafficking in the present would do well to abandon their lingering prejudices against historical fiction as something ready-made and second-rate.
The per-pin data rate for DDR4 is specified as 1.6 giga transfers per second to an initial maximum objective of 3.2 giga transfers per second.
In some cities, like Berlin, a second dog is taxed at a much higher rate so as to discourage taxpayers from owning too many dogs.
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In secular bull markets, on average, sell decisions are not as rewarding as hold decisions, as market valuations are expanding and even the second-rate dogs of the equity markets start looking like pedigreed cocker spaniels.
But when the more accurate median income is considered, the income of the top 10% grew at virtually the same rate from 1989 to 2004 as the bottom 20%, and as the second lowest 20%.
At 12.2% as of February, California now has the second-highest unemployment rate (after Nevada) of all American states, compared with a national figure of 8.8% in March.
But the government's restrictions on real-estate investment in Shanghai and nationally have gained more attention recently as the Chinese growth rate has slipped to 7.6% in the second quarter from rates exceeding 9% over the past decade.
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At the moment, this capacitive coupling, as it is called, is able to transmit data at a rate of 3 gigabits a second.
It boasts the industry's highest density as well as the highest performance level of 400 megabits-per-second (mbps) data transfer rate based on the toggle DDR 2.0 interface.
Jarrold and his screenwriters, Kevin Hood and Sarah Williams, have decided to treat the life of Jane Austen (Anne Hathaway) as if it were itself the plot of an undiscovered Austen novel, albeit a second-rate one.
We propose that, for MPs representing constituencies outside London, the Personal Additional Accommodation Expenditure (commonly known as the 'second home' allowance) should be abolished and be replaced by a flat-rate daily allowance, based on actual attendance at Westminster on parliamentary and government business or the business of the Opposition frontbenches.
Boston and Memphis allow the fifth- and second-fewest points per 100 possessions defensively, a stark contrast from Orlando and Toronto, which rate as the fifth- and seventh-worst defenses by the same measure.
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