Dictionary definition: rate of interest

Britain Earns
AP Images;  November 10, 2009 ;     257 words ... ... reported a 15 percent increase in first-half net profit, boosted by favorable currency movements, acquisitions and a lower tax rate. For the six months ending Sept. 30, Vodafone made a net profit of 4.58 billion pounds ($7.6 billion), up from 3 ...

South Korea Interest Rate
AP Images;  November 11, 2009 ;     235 words ... ... his laptop during a meeting to decide a benchmark call rate at its headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday ... 2009. South Korea's central bank has left its key interest rate at a record low for a ninth straight month. (AP Photo ...

Indians Arise Identity
AP Images;  November 7, 2009 ;     267 words ... ... speak Spanish. At the same time, Indians have little access to post-secondary education. They are ill-prepared by substandard schools, afflicted by high dropout rates and usually short on financial help. (AP Photo/Karel Navarro)

Article: Rational actors: secular fallacies.(Essay)
World Affairs;  March 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... been the centre around which all other interests revolved, receded and disappeared ... religion as a mere epiphenomenon of material interests. Weber preached the "disenchantment ... bonds. Those statesmen who preserved an interest in religion regarded it as a purely private ...

Article: OECD survey reinforces national stereotypes.(first in ...
Financial Management (UK);  June 1, 2009 ;     665 words ... ... includes other social indicators such as income inequality; job satisfaction; spending on education; and obesity and fertility rates. The study is based on nationally representative surveys of between 4,000 and 200,000 people. Other notable findings include ...

Article: Motor city overhaul.(About This Issue)(Detroit City)
Black Enterprise;  November 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... Motors' case, bankruptcy. The city, which was struggling prior to the events in the auto industry, had to contend with high rates of unemployment and poverty as well as real estate values that had plummeted to the point where a significant portion of the ...

Article: Changing the mix: America's freight railroads could handle more ...
Railway Age;  October 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... with the industry" questioned whether freight and passenger interests could accommodate the vision. Macdonald reiterates AAR ... s part, it behooves the passenger railroad to advance the interests of its freight brethren, since the vast majority of the company ...