To ease credit, the Bank of England last week reduced its main interest rate to 1.5% - its lowest ever.

VOA: special.2009.01.16

Some people have a fifteen- or twenty-year loan, often with an adjustable interest rate instead of a rate that never changes.

VOA: special.2011.01.24

One of the U.N.Millennium Development Goals is to reduce the under-five death rate by two-thirds by two thousand fifteen.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

New York had the lowest rate, at seventy-nine percent of the adults observed at Grand Central Station and Penn Station.

VOA: special.2010.09.29

Still, he points to some hopeful signs -- including a large reduction in the child death rate in Malawi.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

UNICEF says the death rate for children under the age of five has fallen twenty-eight percent since nineteen ninety.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

"At the rate we're going,we are expected to spend one-fifth of our economy on health care within a decade.

VOA: special.2009.05.15

The group says the cremation rate is expected to increase to almost fifty-nine percent by two thousand twenty-five.

VOA: special.2009.12.11

The researchers said tPA improved the chances of a successful result by thirty-one percent and produced no change in the death rate.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

The studies found that the mistake rate in two intensive-care areas decreased when interns worked fewer hours.

VOA: special.2010.07.13

Richard Fry says their job-holding rate is almost at the lowest point in nearly fifty years.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

In America,the traditional way to finance a home purchase is with a thirty-year, fixed-rate mortgage loan.

VOA: special.2011.01.24

Last month,the jobless rate increased by two-tenths of a percent to nine point eight percent.

VOA: special.2010.12.10

He expects the exchange rate against the dollar to reach one-to-one within a year.

VOA: special.2010.05.07