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Based on this, I think a 2.2% response rate would be rejected out of hand.
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Provident Financial Chief Executive Robin Ashton told Money Box that he was not in favour of a rate cap and rejected the claim that the 177 per cent APR his company charges is excessive or extortionate.
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Boston, for instance, has seen similar falls in its murder rate, yet it rejected zero-tolerance policing in favour of close co-ordination between the police, probation officers and black leaders, and an effort to get guns off the streets.
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Which brings us back to the ECB, which rejected interest-rate cuts despite a sharp, counter-inflationary rise in the value of the euro against the dollar and the pound.
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Maine rejected a proposed 18 percent rate hike there.
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Meanwhile, voters in the second-largest US city rejected a measure to raise the sales tax rate, by a wide margin.
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Nevermind that white scientists revised and resubmitted rejected applications much more often, hoping for a second shot at funding for their second rate proposals.
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There was a strong relationship between social context and the relative level of rejected ballots - the greater the degree of social deprivation in a constituency, the higher the rate of ballot rejections.
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However, it rejected a proposal to keep the rates at that level until its target of achieving a 2% rate of inflation is met.
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In the late 1990s, when the unemployment rate tumbled to the lowest levels since the mid-1960s, employers became interested in categories of workers they usually rejected: former welfare recipients, the disabled, and so on.
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And the Senate rejected a proposed amendment that would have prohibited lenders (credit card lenders included) from charging an interest rate on any credit transaction (except real estate) that exceeds the maximum interest rate allowed by state law.
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