41. Day cited good economic growth and a low inflation rate as reasons corporate bonds ought to perform well. 42. DARE gets children to parrot responses about how terrible drugs are, but they then apparently use drugs at the same rate as non-DARE students. 43. Developing countries often defend high settlement rates as necessary to help finance the construction of telecommunications networks within their borders. 44. Do the lips tan or burn at the same rate as the rest of your skin? 45. Don Hays, director of investment strategy at Wheat First Butcher Singer, also said he expects the Fed to cut rates as the economy slows. 46. Economists point to low unemployment rates as one of the culprits for the lack of good help. 47. Eleven-year-olds tried cigarettes at about the same rate as children in other countries. 48. Estradiol climbed at the same rate as blood alcohol levels, the study found. 49. Estradiol declined at the same rate as the blood alcohol, returning to base-line levels within six hours. 50. Even so, economists regard the unemployment rate as a better gauge of what is likely to happen to consumer spending. |