Only one attorney general, Janet Reno during Bill Clinton's presidency, served close to two full terms in the modern era.
FS Miliband expressed appreciation for President Obama's Prague speech, observing that the process for getting to "a world at or close to zero in terms of nuclear arms is not a straight line" but is long and complex.
"The state of preparedness was close to zero in terms of looking forward to climate change and what it's going to bring," said Susanne Moser, a social science researcher at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University, who has surveyed coastal cities and counties about planning for rising sea levels.
Short-term interest rates are close to zero; long-term interest rates are higher, but only because investors expect the zero-rate policy to end some day.
However, we notice that, in Eq. (4), when the transmission t(x) is close to zero, the term (frac {I x -A}{t(x)}) would be a very large value, and the dI x -A}{tecovered scene radiance J would be noised.
Trump was criticized for removing Vivek H. Murthy, Obama's last appointed surgeon general, in April even though he had close to two years remaining in his term.
PIMCO, a fund-management group, suggests the level of neutral rates is likely to be close to zero in real terms (so perhaps 2-3% inominalal terms if inflation targets of 2% are met).Before homeowners and small business breathe too big a sigh of relief, remember that this discussion has concerned the neutral level of rates.
But with short-term rates already close to zero and long-term rates also very low, the room for further reductions in nominal rates is tight.There may in any case be another way to achieve the same stimulus.
Relative to consumer-price inflation, the overnight lending rate of 7.75% is close to zero in real terms.
Because of Spain's higher inflation, interest rates there were close to zero in real terms.Second, policy and culture interacted to make a housing bubble more likely.
Rivals noted that even at that rate he would be far behind Mr. Romney, given that he starts from close to zero in campaign terms.
