A half rate of 2 cm/a is typical of slow-spreading ridges such as the mid-Atlantic ridge.
Our results indicate that the Palau Basin was formed by E-W seafloor spreading, between approximately 35 to 39 Ma with a half rate of approximately 4.3 cm/year, which is slightly slower than that of the WPB.
On another day, "news of support for tax cuts and at least no discouragement of the notion of a" half-point cut in interest rates might have led to a sharp market rally, said Peter Hooper, chief domestic economist for Deutsche Bank North America.
The direction of the seismic lines is roughly east-west, parallel to the direction of the backarc basin spreading, with a half-rate of 2.3 4.7 cm/year in 27 20 Ma except for the last NE-SW spreading stage, which occurred at a slower rate of 2 3 cm/year in 20 15 Ma (Okino et al., 1999).
There's mention of a "half day" rate as opposed to the "full night rate" when we're having a chat about how things differed in his experience of national service and the stuff that happens in Leslie Thomas's saucy classic, Virgin Soldiers.
From (13), we know that the equivalent transmission code S is a new kind of half rate O-STBC, it can achieve full diversity four.
Would the price of a $375,000 house fall because of a half-point rate hike?
As for fed futures, the contract for August, when Fed policy makers meet next, now shows that investors are betting there is a 12percentt chance of a half-point rate increase then, compared with a 50percentt chance last Monday.
At the same time however, fears of a half-point rate increase are rising to the surface, especially as the investors brace themselves for Greenspan's comments this morning".
In the logic of Wall Street, that report, suggesting unexpected strength in the economy, may have reduced the chances of a half- percentage-point rate cut by the Fed.
