The average value this year is now 98 cents -- below the psychologically important level of $1, or parity.
To eliminate on-board service or to contract it out would remove an important level of security on America's passenger trains.
[C4.] Euro Rises Above a Dollar The euro climbed sharply, closing above the psychologically important level of parity to the dollar for the first time in a month.
Rose emphasised the danger of a graver loss on the "more important level" of the wider Middle East, and the Muslim world in general.
But it is another factor that is inhibiting hiring and keeping unemployment above the politically important level of 8 percent, executives and economists say.
But, as the Nasa research shows, economics is failing lamentably at the level of planetary housekeeping, just as it is in the UK at the more prosaic but also important level of the housing market.
While some bright lights have made it to the bench through this flawed system, each year there seem to be fewer stars moving into this important level of New York's judiciary.
And then, the warning delivered, it regrouped and gave Europe one more chance, demonstrating an important level of maturity for a little country that not so long ago was a ward of the Soviet Union.
Meanwhile, the yen crept higher from its recent declines against the dollar, crossing over the psychologically important level of ¥100 to the dollar last week for the first time since early May.
Jeffrey Nichols, the senior economic adviser to Rosland Capital, said rising expectations of more creation of money by the Fed helped gold prices shatter the psychologically important level of $1,300 an ounce.
The market flirted in recent days near the psychologically important level of 12,000 on the Dow Jones industrial average and 1,300 for the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index.
