Sentence examples for a spending rate from inspiring English sources

"You wouldn't want to mandate a spending rate," he said.

But a spending rate of 68.9percentt is the lowest since the government began to compile statistics in the current format in 1975.

Under the deal, lawmakers have agreed to a spending rate slightly higher than the current one, despite a call by some conservative Republicans for a lower one.

Most universities have a target spending rate of 4 to 5 percent of their endowments — a level that would be difficult to maintain, the sponsors of the survey point out, if their endowments' long-term returns were less than 4 percent.

Because the poor have a higher spending rate than the affluent, the hit to demand from removing the SchoolKids Bonus and cutting income support will be significant.

The goal is a sustainable spending rate of five per cent of the endowment, which would generate an additional fifteen million annually; this would put the opera on better financial footing and silence many of Gelb's critics.

Those representing wealthy universities spoke of worries that a required spending rate would interfere with their ability to manage economic downturns, and described the complications of dealing with restricted gifts that could not be used for financial aid.

In fiscal 2013, the Met drew twenty-one million dollars from the endowment, an alarming spending rate of 8.3percentnt.

To address charges of "hoarding" by colleges that spend too frugally from their endowments, Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa proposed a minimum endowment spending rate of 5% a year, the same rate as for foundations.

"We have been operating at a deficit, and our endowment spending rate is much too high," Mr. Klein said.

Members exceeded the spending rate with a 6% increase from their investments in 2013.