And an inflexible exchange rate makes economic adjustment difficult.
His strike rate makes you wish Richie Benaud was commentating: it's 22.22.
It doesn't sound as if sterling's current trade-weighted exchange rate makes him too unhappy.
In a classic Catch-22, a low failure rate makes failures more likely.
Although a single interest rate makes national output more volatile, increased trade could dampen the impact.
A declining birth rate makes the system ever less sustainable.It is also crippled by fraud.
A lower discount rate makes projects with big initial costs but long-term benefits, like environmental cleanups, more desirable.
On a £100,000 mortgage arranged over 25 years, the rate makes for initial monthly repayments of just £380.
His 86 percent field-goal success rate makes him the third-most accurate kicker in N.F.L. history.
Buying down your rate makes more sense, Ms. Ghent said, when you plan to own the house for many years.
Also, the valley's chronic high-unemployment rate makes recruiting workers, ignorant of the deadly risks of producing the drug, as easy as selling lemonade on a hot day.
