Steve Erie, professor of political science at UC San Diego, said that because the DWP must go to the City Council to pursue rate hikes, because its employee pay and benefits have been enviable compared with those of other city workers, and because it spurs even more dissatisfaction in the San Fernando Valley where heat tends to push bills higher, it has become a ready target for public anger.
Geico is still pursuing a rate increase for the remaining 25percentt, which covers New York's riskiest drivers, but has scaled back the size of the increase, said Mr. Moriarty of the department.
When Fed officials next meet, they are widely expected to reduce the key lending rate from 5.25percentto5percentcent or perhaps even less, but analysts are divided over how aggressively the Fed might pursue further rate cuts later this year.
Some countries have adopted a flexible inflation targeting framework, while others have pursued exchange rate targeting.
We can take solace in the fact that there has been no major follow-up terrorist attack since Sept. 11 and so pursue cut-rate security at a leisurely pace -- all the while forgetting another part of pre-Sept.
Pursuing high transmutation rate of minor actinide (MA), a preliminary conceptual design of a lead-bismuth (LBE) cooled accelerator-driven system (ADS) is proposed in this study.
State regulators are widening their investigation into interest rate manipulation, pursuing wrongdoing at seven of the world's biggest banks.
The sport's practitioners — addicts might be a better word — would rather talk about how extreme skiing puts them totally in the moment and gives them an appreciation of life so acute it makes this sport, which has a high fatality rate, worth pursuing at all costs.
Besides pursuing a high participation rate, it is also important that invitees are enabled to make a well-informed decision on participation.
The Labor government has been active throughout its two terms in government to reduce smoking rates, including pursuing and winning a landmark high court case that has imposed plain packaging on the tobacco industry.
