In 1969, a more favorable rate table was given to single people.
On its face, it might apply to an employee who called in sick and then went to the ballgame--or even to a judge who used his office to get a first rate corner table in a restaurant for himself and his significant other.
Over the past 30 years, China's total fertility rate the number of children a woman can expect to have during her lifetime has fallen from 2.6, well above the rate needed to hold a population steady, to 1.56, well below that rate (see table).
So although a rate cut remains on the table, the Fed will continue for the moment to rely on the growing use of its balance-sheet to counter the credit crunch.
These toys include racing cars that stop if a child gets too excited and, for even younger children, a cooperative game where children try to help each other stack blocks (if heart rate goes up, the table becomes wobbly and the blocks topple).
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To this end the French have been quietly talking to the Chinese, trying to get the idea of exchange-rate co-ordination on the table.
Despite that fact, further interest-rate cuts are not off the table.
For this reason, some governments tax slots games at a higher rate than other casino activities, such as table games.
This is now off the table but a special, low rate for Tohoku could encourage firms to rebuild in, or move to, the stricken area.
Another problem, Einstein noted, is that doctors often don't know what a patient's heart rate will be until he or she is on the table being readied for the scan.
You see, even if private banks cease their money printing activities, activities that are currently running at a robust year-over-year rate of 15.2% (see the first table), there is still a near certain swath of inflation to come.
"Because of this ongoing environmental catastrophe, we need to put all of the management options on the table to try to find ways of reducing the rate at which our biodiversity succumbs to the impacts of invasive alien species, " he says.
That decision was a response to a U.S. unemployment rate stuck at 9.6 percent, a recent slowdown in already weak GDP growth, a decline in total employment in three of the past four months, a low and declining inflation rate, weak money growth, and fiscal policy off the table over deficit concerns.
Silver illustrates this disconnect with a helpful table, which shows that by keeping the maximum rate at 35% but requiring a minimum 35% tax on all income at a certain threshold, the tax burden is shifted to those earning close to the threshold and away from those earning significantly in excess of the threshold.
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Designers at Dyson put their vacuum cleaners through elaborate impact tests, including ramming them into baseboards and table legs some 21, 000 times, at a rate of 30 impacts per minute.
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In his address to Congress, Chairman Ben Bernanke told policymakers that the recovery continues at a lower than expected rate and that further monetary stimulus, or QE3, is not off the table.
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But in 1990, a year when the islands' unemployment rate hit a high of 20%, Antunes -- who has also represented his country at basketball and table tennis -- leapt at the chance to train as an air traffic controller.
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