Sentences with phrase «than rate reductions»

Offers are based on exclusivity and value - added amenities or services rather than rate reductions.

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While a lower unemployment rate is certainly better than a higher one, the rate doesn't capture workers who've quit looking for a job, part - time workers who wish to work full - time, or workers who've experienced a significant wage reduction in a new job after they lost their old one.

These risks and uncertainties include, among others: the unfavorable outcome of litigation, including so - called «Paragraph IV» litigation and other patent litigation, related to any of our products or products using our proprietary technologies, which may lead to competition from generic drug manufacturers; data from clinical trials may be interpreted by the FDA in different ways than we interpret it; the FDA may not agree with our regulatory approval strategies or components of our filings for our products, including our clinical trial designs, conduct and methodologies and, for ALKS 5461, evidence of efficacy and adequacy of bridging to buprenorphine; clinical development activities may not be completed on time or at all; the results of our clinical development activities may not be positive, or predictive of real - world results or of results in subsequent clinical trials; regulatory submissions may not occur or be submitted in a timely manner; the company and its licensees may not be able to continue to successfully commercialize their products; there may be a reduction in payment rate or reimbursement for the company's products or an increase in the company's financial obligations to governmental payers; the FDA or regulatory authorities outside the U.S. may make adverse decisions regarding the company's products; the company's products may prove difficult to manufacture, be precluded from commercialization by the proprietary rights of third parties, or have unintended side effects, adverse reactions or incidents of misuse; and those risks and uncertainties described under the heading «Risk Factors» in the company's most recent Annual Report on Form 10 - K and in subsequent filings made by the company with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission («SEC»), which are available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.

What's more, while 95 percent of small businesses are organized as pass - throughs (based on 2014 Treasury Dept. data) rather than traditional C - corporations, the CNBC / SurveyMonkey Small Business Survey found the most support (68 percent) for the tax plan among C - corps — which would receive the flat corporate tax - rate reduction to 20 percent.

In October, the European Central Bank announced a reduction in its asset purchases, a signal that its quantitative easing policy was coming to an end, and in November, the Bank of England made its first interest rate hike in more than a decade.

The Update incorporates the October average private sector economic forecasts and an increased «adjustment for risk» for 2011 - 12 to 2013 - 14, as well as an increase in employment insurance rates of only 5 cents (employee rate) for 2012, rather than the 10 cents set in legislation As a result, the balanced budget target is delayed from 2014 - 15 to 2016 - 17, prior to the inclusion of the Targeted Strategic and Operating Review Savings (now called «Deficit Reduction Action Plan Saving Target»).

The swift recovery in resource prices was a significant factor in explaining why Canada recovered more quickly than other G7 countries, and probably explains why Australia only saw a short - lived reduction in the rate of growth of GDP during 2008 - 09.

The supreme French administrative court, the Council of State (or Conseil d'État), has altered the classification of cryptocurrency capital gains, resulting in a tax rate reduction of more than half for trading the digital assets.

Declines in this measure have presaged recession half of the time and uniformly been followed by rate reductions rather than rate increases.

Delaying the corporate - tax - rate reduction was one of many tough choices Senate leaders made as they tried to craft a bill that would lower taxes but also add no more than $ 1.5 trillion to the debt over 10 years.

Household sector financial assets increased by 1.7 per cent in the March quarter, a somewhat slower rate than in previous quarters, as a reduction in the value of direct equity holdings partially offset strong gains in the value of funds held in superannuation.

They estimate the impact of the corporate tax rate reduction from 18 % to 15 % in 2012 at $ 6.2 billion [3], in line with Finance's first estimate but considerably higher than their latest estimate..

The refinance must produce a net tangible benefit resulting in at least a 0.5 percentage point reduction in the combined interest rate and Mortgage Insurance Premium (MIP) or Refinancing from an Adjustable - Rate Mortgage (ARM) to a Fixed - Rate Mortgage (with no more than 2 percentage points greater than the combined interest rate and rate and Mortgage Insurance Premium (MIP) or Refinancing from an Adjustable - Rate Mortgage (ARM) to a Fixed - Rate Mortgage (with no more than 2 percentage points greater than the combined interest rate and Rate Mortgage (ARM) to a Fixed - Rate Mortgage (with no more than 2 percentage points greater than the combined interest rate and Rate Mortgage (with no more than 2 percentage points greater than the combined interest rate and rate and MIP)

Manufacturers would gain more per dollar devoted to accelerated writeoffs for manufacturing capital than to across - the - board rate reductions.

Instead, the quantity of reserves has become so much larger than would be required to maintain a Funds Rate of only 0.25 % that even a tiny increase to 0.50 % would necessitate a $ 1 trillion + reduction in reserves and money supply, which would crash the stock and bond markets.

The proposed RRO flow - through rate would more than offset the added costs of the PPAs, and consumers would even see a net reduction in their power bills.

The fall in home lending rates has been considerably larger than the reduction in cash rates, reflecting the intensified competition in the provision of housing finance (Box 5).

While banks fully passed on the easings, there was a noticeable tendency to impose significantly longer lags in implementing these reductions than was the case when interest rates were increased in 1994.

The platform planks for «32 embodied a number of Century concerns: U.S. adherence to the World Court protocol; U.S. entry into the League of Nations, provided that its covenant be amended to eliminate military sanctions; U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union (which was granted a year later); the safeguarding of the rights of conscientious objectors (including those denied citizenship, such as Canadian - born theologian D. C. Macintosh of Yale Divinity School); the abolition of compulsory military training in state - supported educational institutions other than military and naval academies; emergency measures for relief and public - works employment; the securing of constitutional rights for minorities; the reduction of gross inequality of income by steeply progressive rates of taxation on large incomes; «progressive socialization of the ownership and control of natural resources, public utilities and basic industries»; «the nationalization of our entire banking system»; and so on (June 8, 1932).

But Americans are curiously unwilling to learn from Europe, even though almost all member - states of the European Union have better policies and lower rates of addiction than the U.S.. On other points, Massing is in agreement with the harm - reduction approach: he favors free needles, methadone treatment, decriminalization of marijuana and repeal of mandatory sentencing.

Glasgow was branded the most violent city in the developed world twelve years ago in a report but, since then, the Scottish murder rate has more than halved after a Violence Reduction Unit was set up.

His 2003 book, Rethinking AIDS Prevention, showed how abstinence and faithfulness, for the most part in its religiously ordered form, had contributed more to Uganda's striking reduction of its HIV infection rate in the late 1980s and early»90s than «safe sex» could hope to.

The DIPS participation rate is greater than 85 percent of the workforce and includes improvements in the areas of safety, quality, productivity and cost reduction.

The price reductions and new private label strategies have helped Woolworths restore same - store sales growth and have turned up the heat on Coles, which has grown at a slower rate than Woolworths for two consecutive quarters.

«Despite the fact that cesarean section rates higher than 10 % are not associated with reductions in maternal and newborn mortality, many countries across the world — including the U.S., Brazil and even parts of India — are seeing rates of cesarean section rise to over 30 %,» Jerker writes.

In some countries, such as Bangladesh, the reduction in the case fatality rate can be attributed largely to improved case management, rather than changes in water supply, sanitation, or personal hygiene.

This year will be even worse with the California Department of Education projecting a rate reduction to less than $ 0.01 for June 2010.

«The data so far this year raise a concern that, rather than reducing the public debt, the deficit reduction plans could be having the opposite effect because higher tax rates and austerity measures are causing economic growth to be weaker than expected.»

The strong AA + bond rating reaffirmation follows the recently proposed 2016 County Budget, which includes a property tax levy reduction of more than $ 1 million, as well as the first property tax rate reduction in eight years, with no reduction to services or programs.

According to our figures (and I keep asking you to use the figures set out in the Liberal Democrat and Labour document not the figures given by the IFS who state they got their figures from these documents but actually give different figures) to reverse the cuts to Universal Credit cost # 3.665 billion and as I pointed out above these are the reductions in the amounts a person can keep before they start to lose their benefit, which were set much higher than the old benefits, but the withdrawal rate seemed to be higher with Universal Credit (65 % [reduced to 62 %] than with Tax Credit (41 % on gross income).

DFS cut the rate hikes requested for 2015 individual coverage by more than half, on average, and cut them by a third the next year — without publicly stating the rationale for the reductions.

Since such appointments are made at a far greater rate than the reduction in size of the Lords (due to death or retirement), the Lords will grow and grow.

It is rated at 23 dB in noise reduction, and combined with the amplifier shutting down when sound higher than 85 dB is detected, it will help to protect your ears.

That study found that a 1.5 degrees Celsius world would reach a peak rate of sea - level rise about 0.7 inches per decade less than in a 2 degrees Celsius world — a potentially life - saving reduction for some vulnerable coastal ecosystems.

The average heart rate reduction attributable to being in view of the greened lots was over 5 beats per minute (bpm) lower than when near non-greened lots.

Those who ate nuts less than once a week had a seven percent reduction in mortality; once a week, 11 percent reduction; two to four times per week, 13 percent reduction; five to six times per week, 15 percent reduction, and seven or more times a week, a 20 percent reduction in death rate.

Following the reduction of moose using sport hunting, wolf number numbers declined, with wolf dispersal rates 2.5 × greater than the reference area, meaning that dispersal was the process leading to fewer wolves.

The group that took the daily omega fatty acid supplement exhibited a greater reduction in ASD symptoms than those who took the placebo, according to ratings provided by the children's parents.

Oestrogen levels are higher in women than in men, so if alcohol interacts with these molecules and stops them from damaging DNA, the reduction in kidney - cancer rates would be larger for women than for men.

Progress since 2000 has largely been due to reductions in the rates of deaths from pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria, measles and deaths during birth - each reduced by more than 30 % worldwide between 2000 and 2015.

Taking each factor independently, the team found that CCS only achieves the necessary deployment under one of the following conditions: the price of oil is greater than $ 85 / barrel; the carbon tax incentives increase dramatically to above $ 75 per tonne of carbon dioxide by 2050; or learning rates for technology deployment are sustained at a high rate, with 14 % cost reduction for every doubling of deployment.

«Our study achieved an absolute difference of 9.1 percent in the incidence rate of myopia, representing a 23 percent relative reduction in incident myopia after 3 years, which was less than the anticipated reduction.

In addition, there has been an improvement in quality control, with our Libraries now meeting a 99 — 100 per cent pass rate and a reduction in sequencing lane failure rates to less than 5 per cent.

The reduction in pain ratings was substantially greater than those seen in similar studies involving placebo pills, hypnosis, and even morphine and other painkilling drugs, he adds.

Meditation even provided greater pain reduction than morphine or other drugs for pain relief, which normally reduce ratings of pain by approximately 25 %.

The study found that those taking curcumin alongside their medication had a significant reduction in reported depression (using the 17 - item Hamilton depression rating scale and Montgomery - Asberg depression rating scale) than those taking a placebo with their medication.

Meditation produced a greater reduction in pain than even morphine or other pain - relieving drugs, which typically reduce pain ratings by about 25 %.»

Since increases in neural drive at short muscle lengths are likely driven by reductions in motor unit recruitment threshold (Pasquet et al. 2005), while increases in neural drive at faster velocities and during concentric contractions are primarily caused by increased rate coding (Pasquet et al. 2006; Harwood et al. 2011; Enoka & Duchateau, 2017), the transfer of neural drive from partial exercises using short muscle lengths could be lower than we might expect, although this would probably depend on whether the strength training exercise was performed with a lighter load, and explosively.

Overall, evaluation results were mixed; CSP classrooms increased teacher qualifications compared to non-CSP classrooms, which saw a reduction in teacher qualifications over the same period.43 CSP classrooms reported higher ratings across some measures of child development, but lower scores on environment rating than non-CSP classrooms.

As a result, Pearl - Cohn has seen a 68 % reduction in discipline infractions, has fewer than 1 % student expulsions, a 5 % decrease in chronic absences, and a 41 % reduction in mobility rate.