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The region's average deficit in 2009 was 6.5 percent of G.D.P., way above the 3 percent ceiling set for euro zone members — now the focus of far sharper attention because of the recession and the Greek debt crisis.

Of the 50,000 ceiling set for this fiscal year, only 8,800 had been admitted by the end of March, the half-year mark.Terrorism accounts for part of the slowdown.

As a result they also tend to have bigger loans, known as jumbos -- loans that exceed the dollar ceiling set for purchase and repackaging as tradable securities by Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the government-chartered enterprises that buy home loans from lenders, giving the lenders the cash to make more loans.

Mr. Papandreou has said he will start by asking the European Commission to extend the timeframe in which Greece is required to bring its deficit, estimated at 7.8percentt of gross domestic product, under the 3 percent ceiling set for the euro zone.

The debate is delicate because several nations have debt levels greater than 60 percent of G.D.P., the original ceiling set out for membership of the euro.

If the gap remains above 3percentt for the year, it will breach the ceiling set by treaty for the 12 members of the monetary union.

PANTHERS One oddity of the collective bargaining agreement, which is scheduled to expire at the end of next season, is that it mandates a salary ceiling, set at $64.3 million for each team in 2011-12, and a salary floor, set at $48.3 million.

France forecasts that it will break the 3percentt deficit ceiling set by the union for the third consecutive year in 2004.

It concludes that interest rates will be cut to 1% (from today's 2%) by early next year.Germany is certain again this year to breach the ceiling set by Europe's stability pact for its budget deficit of 3% of GDP.

Since microarray signals are not quantitative at lower and higher values, signal thresholds for floor and ceiling were set for all samples.

He pledged he would not budge from a $108 billion ceiling he had set for a bill that Democrats hoped to use as a way to provide some domestic economic relief and new benefits for members of the military.