Quotes About Rate

When [Sylvia] Plath committed suicide, the suicide rate for women of her age in England reached a staggering 10 per 100,000. Driven by a tragically high number of deaths by gas poisoning. That is as high as the suicide rate for women in England has ever been. By 1977 when the Natural Gas changeover was complete, the suicide rate for young woman was half that.

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Hennie replies to, How are you doing? 'I'm deteriorating at a normal rate.

In the US, the more liberal a city's politics, the higher the rate of inequality.

Émile Durkheim, the father of modern sociology, said that when societies hit a civilisational break the suicide rate soars.

FWAs increase retention/reduce turnover. The telecommuters in Bloom's study quit their jobs at about half the rate of their peers in the office.

Change can be accommodated by any system depending on its rate, Crake used to say. Touch your head to a wall, nothing happens, but if the same head hits the wall at ninety miles an hour, it's red paint. We're in a speed tunnel, Jimmy. When the water's moving faster than the boat, you can't control a thing.

Tis in vain therefore to go about effectually to reduce the price of Interest by a Law; and you may as rationally hope to set a fixt Rate upon the Hire of Houses, or Ships, as of Money.

Throughput," he says, "is the rate at which the system generates money through sales.

Today, amphibians enjoy the dubious distinction of being the world's most endangered class of animals; it's been calculated that the group's extinction rate could be as much as forty-five thousand times higher than the background rate.

background extinction." In ordinary times—times here understood to mean whole geologic epochs—extinction takes place only very rarely, more rarely even than speciation, and it occurs at what's known as the background extinction rate. This rate varies from one group of organisms to another; often it's expressed in terms of extinctions per million species-years.

It has always amazed me how tax cuts don't work until they take effect. Mr. Obama's experience with deferred tax rate increases will be the reverse. The economy will collapse in 2011.

We are losing privacy at an alarming rate - we have none left.

The craving for information is so huge now, and it can be marketed at such a rapid rate.

I think it's natural for any manager to want to grow his business. The question is at what rate, and in what direction, and in what format?

We are the safest large city in America, but any crime rate is too high.

Myocardial oxygen consumption is determined by the work of the heart and is a function of arterial blood pressure and heart rate.

We don't have enough people going into those fields and there is a high burnout rate in some health care professions, so it is very important that we get more people into the pipeline right now.

The single greatest line I ever wrote as an analyst was after Lomas said they were hedged: 'The Lomas Financial Corporation is a perfectly hedged financial institution: it loses money in every conceivable interest rate environment.' I enjoyed writing that sentence more than any sentence I ever wrote.

My first contract was in 1965. There were six of us in this band - my band before Deep Purple - six in the band plus management, and the entire royalty rate was three-fourths of 1 percent.

If I had high-ticker 10 percent financing, which would probably be the market rate, I would have to dump stuff. The interest payments would be killing me.

I don't pretend that I can predict the future value of the growth rate or rate of return.

It's appropriate for the Fed to gradually and cautiously increase our overnight interest rate over time.

Ignore the annual percentage rate when shopping for a mortgage.