Additionally, the TL34HD utilizes H.264 compression, a codec for high definition video that has become an industry standard and which yields three times the recording length than of MPEG4.

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Any bond investor will tell you that, assuming a currency of stable value such as is provided by a gold standard system, yields on high-quality debt will tend to decline in a recession.

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With monetary stability assured by the gold standard system, bond yields fell everywhere to very low levels.

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Increases in productivity yields higher real wages and a more prosperous standard of living.

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Andrew Jackson of Standard Life Investments, a British fund-management company, says office yields in China have fallen from 12-13% a couple of years ago to 8% today.

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Rolland was among the first to help popularize practices now standard in the industry, including sterilization of equipment and the pruning of vines to reduce yields (thus improving quality).

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So as Julian Jessop, an economist at Standard Chartered, wrote in a salutory letter to the Financial Times, real (inflation-adjusted) yields are higher now than they were in 1981.

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