If a heart beats too slowly, the pacemaker will use electrical signals to help set a normal rate.

VOA: special.2010.06.02

The discount rate was a policy variable set by the Fed and it was typically fifty basis points below the Federal Funds Rate.

贴现率是一个联邦可改变的政策,并且它比联邦资金利率通常,低五十个基本点。

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This translates into an 87 percent cure rate, which,for the first time, exceeds the 85 percent global target set in 1991.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09