By contrast, Chuck wants Congress to agree on how much additional revenue to raise relative to current law.
Conceptually, one can think of the final PRVit score as a ranking based on the ratio of intrinsic value (calculated from performance and risk) relative to current market value.
But there is good reason to believe that the transmission mechanism is at least partially broken at present, and thus the pass-through benefit to the economy associated with a small decline in Treasury yields (relative to current levels) would likely be infinitesimal.
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It also can be said, however, that relative to current and recently lowered expectations of future wealth for the middle class, this is probably offering a higher percentage of redistribution than was the case a few years ago or for that matter during the pre-Thatcher British welfare state.
My understanding is that the White House's position has always been that it favours a public option, thinks a public option is a good idea, wants to see a public option in a bill, and also wants to sign a health reform bill that passes congress, covers the uninsured, and reduces long-run health cost inflation relative to current baseline projections.
It is easy now to be complacent about Europe's current relative stability, forgetting just how unlikely this seemed not so very long ago.
Debt-service coverage is defined as EBITDA, or earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, relative to the current portion of long-term debt and interest.
The answer depends on several factors: where the money came from, the amount relative to your current savings and how it was invested before you received it.
For them, even voluntarily to say, we are going to reduce carbon emissions relative to our current ways of doing business by X percent is an important step.
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And the quick ratio, which measures cash and accounts receivable relative to total current liabilities, has been trending lower over the years, dipping below 1 in the last 12 months.
Growth in its services business explains IBM's relative immunity to the current economic woes, so far.
Once you're clear on your challenge, it's important to have an accurate and balanced picture of your current reality relative to that challenge.
Mitsubishi UFJ took JPY 8.4 billion and MitsuiSumitomo JPY 7.2 billion fewer provisions than in the previous period, thus boosting current period relative performance.
Boehner has run a low-profile campaign, and as a relative newcomer to his current leadership post he is not held responsible for the GOP's congressional losses on Nov. 7.
One of the considerations was the relative safety of direct current - the first electric chair seems to have been built (and then used) to prove that alternating current was more of a killer.
The focus there is really trying to reduce exposure to this discretionary purchases from low income consumers and if you watch them today there is a lot of these people in this country that are living on paycheck-to-paycheck and without savings and any movement or economic event really has an impact on them on a current basis relative to their expenditures.
Paradoxically, the usulis' theological conservatism makes them quite liberal relative to much of the current Muslim world.
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Compared to women who never smoked, the risk of SCD was significantly elevated in current smokers (relative risk 2.44) and former smokers (RR 1.40).
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Gold is scarce relative to paper in the current environment.
By contrast, the currencies of several other Asian countries and also Nordic countries with larger current account surpluses relative to GDP than China, like Denmark, Norway and Sweden have dropped more than 10%.
The driving-force of current-account balances is relative rates of growth in demand.
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At this point I think building on the Facebook application environment on Facebook is too volatile, at least for my current uses and prefer the relative stability of tabs.
Current mortgage rates are even low relative to themselves.
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At current levels, we believe absolute and relative risk-reward to roughly balanced given these issues.
Dan Sullivan's high relative strength stock picks are designed to ride out the current bull with maximum returns.
Ironically, the current weakness of the dollar, and the corresponding relative strength of the euro might yet dampen inflationary pressures in the euro area.
Every month the BLS takes two surveys relative to employment, the Household Survey (officially titled The Current Population Survey), and the Establishment Survey (The Current Employment Statistics Survey).
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But paradoxically, should the euro have a troubled birth and prove to be a weak currency, that could also be troublesome: sterling's current strength might then persist, forcing up the relative costs of manufacturing in Britain.
These estimates are relative to what people would pay under 2012 tax rules (the current policy baseline).
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