The cost of benefits, like health insurance and vacations, also moderated in the fourth quarter, rising 0.8percentt, compared with a 1percentt increase in the third quarter.
But downward revisions to sales estimates for April and May left in place a picture of a weak housing market and perceptions that economic growth moderated somewhat in the second quarter.
In the first group, 12 patients had haemophilia A (six severe and six moderate) and 2 type B (one severe and one moderate); in the second group, 13 patients had haemophilia A (five severe and eight moderate) and 4 type B (one severe and three moderate).
The reason why there is not a chance that Romney will ever reinvent himself once again as a "moderate" is that he wasn't really a "moderate" in the first place.
For all individuals in the relevant group (e.g. mild and moderate in the first instance); their value was calculated on the appropriate Discriminant Function (DF) to determine whether they occupy the bottom, middle or upper third of the DF.
On average, children progress to moderate symptoms in the second year of life and then remain moderately symptomatic for more than half of their expected lives, underscoring their need for clinical care before the onset of AIDS.
Leaving aside China and India, the two countries with populations of over a billion people, the economists said year-on-year food inflation had moderated in Asia to 1.3 percent in the fourth quarter of 2009 from 4.8 percent in the second quarter.
But economists cautioned that the results overstated strength in some of the survey's other components and that the data reflected only moderate growth in the second quarter.
Several recent national opinion polls suggest that this is precisely the dilemma which could confront voters for the "traditional" or moderate right in the second round of the presidential elections in 14 months' time.
Reviewing the outlook for Germany, France and Italy, Pier Carlo Padoan, chief economist of the 34-nation grouping, reported: "The situation for the three largest euro area countries in aggregate is expected to remain fragile, with negative growth projected for the first quarter of 2012 and a moderate rebound in the second quarter.
