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The word "rates" is correct and usable in written English
You can use the word "rates" when you are referring to a rate or speed of something, i.e. the rate of a currency or the speed of a race. For example, "The exchange rate of the Euro is 1.10 to the US dollar."
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Outstanding issues include pensions, labour market reform, VAT rates and Greece's budget targets.
Data protection authorities seem content to rely on search engines' application of the ruling's balancing test, citing low appeal rates as evidence that the balance is being appropriately struck.
Offering Scotland more power over tax rates, spending and welfare, the proposals would be ready for implementation in the first Westminster parliamentary session after the 2015 general election, the chancellor added.
On the contrary, in the credit-card market they've slashed credit lines and jacked up interest rates.
Instead, they typically pay lower interest rates on deposits than smaller banks do, and charge higher interest rates on loans.
Of course, this is exactly the way the tax code works now: tax rates rise at certain income thresholds, meaning that when you get to a certain income level, the government takes more of every dollar you earn.
Youth unemployment rates in Europe are especially rising fast and are over 30% in Italy, Portugal and Spain – approximately double US rates.
Related: The Guardian view on care workers: undervalued, underpaid | Editorial Yet care providers have a point when they ask how they are supposed to make ends meet on the rates they are paid by council commissioners.
Our referral rates are scrutinised at CCG levels to identify outliers, especially in overstretched hospital specialties.
This stability is vital in attracting the business and international investment that delivers growth and jobs, and which keeps long-term interest rates low.
Problem: In 2003, Zane Wilson, the founder of the South African Depression & Anxiety Group (Sadag), the country's largest mental health initiative, was horrified at how suicide rates among young South Africans were spiking.
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