I watched her heart rate drop from 170 beats per minute down to 80.
Did the inflation rate drop?
We have seen the region's poverty rate drop from 44% in 2002 to 35.1% in 2007.
But even Mississippi saw its rate drop by 15 percent from 2005 to 2010.
Even Chile, the region's most open and vibrant economy, had its growth rate drop by more than half this year.
A rate drop of even a quarter of a percentage point, he said, could have a substantial effect.
But, Fang added: "In China, we cannot afford to let the growth rate drop too sharply, because that will ignite a lot of financial problems".
People with the bottom fifth of income, for example, averaging earnings of only $16,620, saw their effective tax rate drop to 5.2percentt from 6.7.
Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve announced an emergency rate drop of three-quarters of a point, in a move that smelled an awful lot like panic.
"This means the savers who originally were in the [previous account] will see their rate drop from 1% to 0.05% in less than 2 months," said Hannums.
Baltimore is on pace to have its murder rate drop 9.7percentthis yearand and Washington by 12.7percentt, according to a study by the Brennan Center.
