Last year's "USA vs. the World" special in mid-September delivered a potent 1.9 rating in adults 18-49 despite facing tough reality show competition, including the season premiere of ABC's "Dancing With the Stars".
The most obvious and politically most potent is the rate of immigration, which has recently been very high even by the standards of a nation built on migrants.
Mr. Hall mainly faced the second game, whose numbers were a bit less formidable but still potent: a 7.7 rating.
For the past few years, short-term interest rates in Britain, as in the U.S., have been close to zero, and it's long been known that fiscal policy is more potent when interest rates are very low.
The IMF wants countries to reduce their debt levels but believes spending cuts and tax rises cuts in spending and increases in taxes are more than usually potent when interest rates are low, banks weak and many countries are seeking to push through austerity programmes at the same time.
Wine appears to be more potent, reducing the infection rate by up to 42%, compared to 25% for beer.
AC163794 (ED50 = 12 pmol/kg/min) was more potent per unit infusion rate than GIP (ED50 = 28 pmol/kg/min, figure 3E).
When PII was present in excess (40 μM) over NRII (4 μM), α-ketoglutarate was a potent regulator of the rate of NRII autophosphorylation.
For the least potent spiroindolone, NITD138, the rate of increase of [Na+]i did not reach the maximum value at the highest concentration tested, precluding an estimate of a maximum rate of increase of [Na+]i.
A parsimonious empirical polyexponential model ("classical compartmental modeling") similar to that used to describe the course of the concentration over time of intravenous agents may be better suited to analyze the partial pressure (or infusion rate) of potent inhaled anesthetics over time [ 3- 5].
Mr Bernanke points to structural models which show that only a modest part of the house-price boom can be pinned on monetary policy.Both are equally sceptical that the increase in adjustable-rate mortgages made short-term rates a more potent driver of house prices.
