The U.S. corporation tax is already the highest in the world and rich Americans are subject to high marginal tax rates, though not high enough to satisfy Sachs.
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Obama himself says it will likely be "on the high end of our estimates, " though not as high as some predictions, due to the size of the deficit.
Having a good time, though not at high revs, is more the Towa style.
This pavilion has a broad glass window that provides a grand lookout at the Olympic Stadium across the street, though it's not high enough to enable visitors to see events.
But banks do have strong brands and plenty of capital: they may end up buying some of the online brokers, though not at their current high share-prices and low profitability.
In a recent debate in the House of Lords, he argued for a benchmark, though perhaps not one as high as the biblical tithe, to give the wealthy some idea of what was appropriate.
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Though Indian rates are not high by African standards, the size of the country means that the number of people infected is now roughly the same as in South Africa, so dealing with the epidemic there is regarded as a priority.
Peter Tufano of Harvard Business School and Matthew Sevick, a consultant, offer another explanation for why mutual-fund fees are high (though not for why they should be rising).
Egalitarianism has mainly been a feature of high-tech firms, though not only of start-ups: the authors compiled figures on 100 big high-tech firms and found that on average employees owned 33% of those companies' equity, of which 14% was held by the top managers and 19% by other employees.
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That's not historically high, though it's above what Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has indicated is his comfort level.
The picture is much clearer in Japan, though it does not yet have the high-resolution image that is required.
Though women may not yet rise to high positions in its clergy, Queen Elizabeth is the Supreme Governor of the Church of England.
Just think about Medicare, where only Part A is truly universal, while Part B and the Part D drug benefit are not, though participation is extremely high.
Garcia's position on the World and European points lists are not currently high enough to secure automatic qualification, though if his ranking did not improve he would be a strong candidate for a wildcard slot.
We saw that in 1987, too, even though high-frequency traders were not yet on the scene.
We want to train better, though we do not have the resources of high performance racing team.
The health board said similar figures had been reported for Dundee and Angus, though the success rate was not quite as high.
On that count, many find the opposition National Liberals and Social Democrats, though riding high in the polls, not much better than the incumbents.
The parliament holds the key to the second question: why Peter Mandelson did not become High Rep, though there is a good argument he would have been better than Lady Ashton, for all his abrasive style and weakness for intrigue.
It has an expense ratio of 0.95%, which is high for most ETFs, though not for short Treasury funds.
"You keep getting on elevators and nothing bad happens, so your emotional brain decides that even though something horrible happened, the risk is not high for you, " he says.
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The signals coincide quite closely though the RS line has not yet made a new high.
It is not my favorite rib joint, though it is high on my list, but for whatever reason, their ribs travel exquisitely.
Blogs have written of young people driven to suicide by the pressure to succeed (though suicide rates among Asian-Americans are not abnormally high).
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Unlike Morgan, Goldman is not rushing into high-street banking, though it plans to set up an internet bank to help gather deposits.
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Boehner says revenues are on the table as part of a long-term budget agreement, though higher tax rates for high-income households are not.
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Though the two personally rank high in opinion polls, they have not found a way to translate their popularity into power in a parliamentary form of government.
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