Sentence examples for rate flat from inspiring English sources

And the mathematics of compounding requires a company to post ever-larger dollar increases in sales just to keep its growth rate flat.

However, analysts are forecasting a tame C.P.I., with the core rate up 0.2percentt and the overall rate flat or up just 0.1percentt.

Jobless Rate Flat in Japan TOKYO (Reuters) — Japan's jobless rate was flat in December, the government said Tuesday, while overall household spending and retail sales rose modestly in December from a year earlier.

"This odd contraction of the labor force has kept the unemployment rate flat at around 4.5percentt for the last three months," said James W. Paulsen, the chief investment officer at Wells Capital Management in Minneapolis.

A few years ago, the rule of thumb was that the economy needed to generate a hundred and fifty thousand jobs every month to keep the unemployment rate flat.

"We're looking for companies to get more confident in the pace of recovery and start to hire around 150,000 jobs a month, which is what we need just to keep the unemployment rate flat," said John Ryding, chief economist at RDQ Economics.

Sherford will provide affordable and market rate flats and houses, along with social housing.

Since the mid-1980's, the closest thing to a national discussion of a new tax system came in 1996, when Steve Forbes made a single-rate flat tax the centerpiece of his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination.

Mr. Bush said he supported keeping the mortgage interest deduction, which would be eliminated under some proposals for a single-rate flat tax or a shift to a consumption tax.

Its report is formally released on November 1st, but the broad ideas are already clear.The panel has eschewed the most controversial conservative ideas, such as replacing the income tax with a national sales tax or a single-rate flat tax.

At this point, they said, the administration is just beginning to weigh the pros and cons of the three main options, which are simplifying the existing progressive income tax system, adopting a single-rate flat tax on income or moving to an entirely new system that would tax consumption through some sort of sales or value-added tax.