In Asia, the rate of urbanization had been less rapid because of agricultural sector development.

Now, what Stephen Hawking mentioned, as well, is that after the Big Bang, space expanded at a very rapid rate.

In terms of service export, the service export continued its rapid growth momentum since this year, and the export growth rate was 5.7 percentage points higher than the import growth rate from January to August.

While the majority of the sales of tourism products and services still happen off line, travel related Internet usage continues to grow at a rapid rate.

However, other data from the IDS97 suggest that the rate of current fertility has practically remained unchanged or it has seen a rapid reduction in relation to 1980.

The widening knowledge and technology gap between nations and peoples as a result of the rapid rate of technological development, the knowledge revolution, and scientific progress and its applications

Despite their declining incomes, households raised their spending in early 2012 at a rapid pace by cutting their saving rate to just 3.7 . Without further declines in the saving rate from this very low level, consumer spending will not continue to grow as robustly.

The yen s weakening will mean higher import costs, and therefore a higher rate of inflation. An aggressive BOJ policy of money creation could cause further weakening of the yen s exchange rate and a rise in domestic prices that is more rapid than what Abe wants.

It used to be called rapid prototyping, rapid modeling.

The Assura Group had to get permission from the New York State Department of Insurance to have a dynamic rate filing, meaning that they will set prices by a formula, rather than using a fixed rate, so that their prices vary in rapid response to changing economic conditions.

We do have the technology that's scaleable, and our network of global partners has been expanding and can be expanded at a rapid rate, so we're comfortable that this task can be accomplished.

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But the prospects for continued rapid growth are strong. In its November 2011 Global Islamic Banking Report, Deutsche Bank projects a 24 compounded annual growth rate in Islamic assets over the coming three years.

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Rapid movement, contrast.

Poor s Case Shiller US National Home Price Index, home prices were already rising at almost 10 a year in 2000 a time when the Fed was raising the federal funds rate, which peaked at 6.5 . The rapid increase thus appears to be mostly the result of speculative momentum that occurred before the interest rate cuts.

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This time, the unemployment rate and household and government debt are much higher. Rapid normalization like that undertaken in the space of a year in 1994 would crash asset markets and risk leading to a hard economic landing.

COLD SPRING HARBOR Since the human genome was first sequenced in 2000, genome science has accelerated at a remarkable rate. Rapid advances in DNA sequencing technology mean that affordable decoding of the human genome is not far away.

Will a sharp dollar depreciation cause exports to rise and imports to fall? Will a rapid rise in the inflation rate reduce the real value of government, household, and commercial debt, leading to lower saving and more spending?

According to the Standard Poor s Case Shiller US National Home Price Index, home prices were already rising at almost 10 a year in 2000 a time when the Fed was raising the federal funds rate, which peaked at 6.5 . The rapid increase thus appears to be mostly the result of speculative momentum that occurred before the interest rate cuts.

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And apparently, evolution had occurred at a pretty rapid rate on One Tree, between the time they named it and the time I arrived, because I'm sure there were at least three trees on that island when we were there.

The main challenge for Brazil is to increase its investment rate from 18 of GDP currently to closer to 25 , thereby sustaining rapid growth and economic diversification. Commodity dependence, even with the creation of considerable domestic value added, remains high.

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To ease the constraints on household income, China needs more rapid exchange rate appreciation, liberalization of interest rates, and a much sharper increase in wage growth. More importantly, China needs either to privatize its SOEs, so that their profits become income for households, or to tax their profits at a far higher rate and transfer the fiscal gains to households.

The success of the East Asian model was predicated on a sharp increase in the investment rate. Beginning with Japan, every rapidly growing East Asian economy sustained investment rates in the range of 38 40 of GDP over its rapid growth phase.

Develop more flexible disbursement processes in order to accelerate the rate of disbursement and to enable the Haitian Government to make more rapid progress in the quality of life for Haitians and use a mix of aid instruments, including support for recurrent financing.

According to World Bank estimates, nearly 80 per cent of the world's population is now able to access mobile telephony networks and the number of subscribers keeps increasing at a very rapid rate, with the most significant growth taking place in developing countries.

One P 4 to develop options for a rapid response to given situations by OHCHR and to participate in rapid response missions

And this change is getting more rapid.

My wishes for your father's rapid recovery.

The rapid growth in imports amazes us.

I'm amazed at his rapid progress in English.

In cases where imported goods, to which contractual tariff rate or preferential tariff rate is applicable are subject to temporary rate, the lower tariff rate shall apply.

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I'm going to present three projects in rapid fire.

The doctor thought the patient's pulse was rather rapid.

We're amazed by the rapid growth in import quantities.

Rapid deployment required well trained and well equipped troops.

The malnutrition rate and the child mortality rate have been reduced.

Table 1.6 Total birth rate and population growth rate in Viet Nam ( )

The engineers amongst you will recognize rapid prototyping and CAD.

But things are also changing at a very rapid pace.

The development of the computer industry has been very rapid.