Article: Burglary rate halved.(News)

Article: Crime rate halved in Kenya: minister
Xinhua News Agency;  April 7, 2003 ;     300 words ...Crime rate halved in Kenya: minister NAIROBI, April 7 (Xinhua) -- The crime rate in Kenya has gone down by 50 percent over the last three months ...

Article: Pakistan population growth rate halved since 1990
Xinhua News Agency;  February 1, 2007 ;     464 words ...Pakistan population growth rate halved since 1990 ISLAMABAD, Feb. 1 (Xinhua) -- Concerted multi-pronged government efforts have helped reduce the population growth ...

Article: INTEREST RATE HALVED ON HOUSING IMPROVEMENT ...
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  April 7, 1990 ;     551 words ...Byline: Ray Rinaldi Staff writer Hoping to lure more borrowers, the city this week cut in half the rate of interest it charges on loans made to property owners to upgrade housing. The loans, provided through the Residential Rehabilitation Program, will now be made at 4 percent interest, down from

Article: Family Plunge rate halved.
Columbus Telegram (Columbus, NE);  February 21, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Adrian Sanchez Feb. 21--COLUMBUS -- A lower family pass rate for admission to Pawnee Plunge Water Park during the 2007 season was unanimously approved by the City Council Monday, cutting the previously approved rate of $400 in half. Council President Jim Bulkley was absent from the meeting.

Article: Dividend tax rate halved.
Australasian Business Intelligence;  July 4, 2005 ;     368 words ...Jul 04, 2005 (Tax Notes International - ABIX via COMTEX) The Chinese Government has cut the tax on shareholder dividends by 50 per cent. The measure is of temporary nature but the Ministry of Finance did not specify how long it would be in effect. Experts believe the aim of the Government is to

Article: Prostate cancer death rate halved by new treatment
The Independent - London;  December 16, 2008 ;     700+ words ...* Patients should be given combination of radiotherapy and drugs, scientists say Giving men with high-risk prostate cancer two treatments instead of one halves the death rate, scientists have found. The effects are so striking that radiotherapy combined with hormonal (drug) treatment should be the

Article: Report: China's Divorce Rate Halved
AP Online;  January 26, 2007 ;     330 words ...BEIJING - It turns out Chinese couples are a lot happier than they seem. China is switching to a more common international standard of counting divorces that will cut the divorce rate in half, state media said Friday. From this year, China will count the number of divorces per 1,000 people instead