(1) Philip Shaw, chief economist at broker Investec, expects CPI to hit 5.1%, just shy of the 5.2% reached in September 2008, as the utility hikes alone add 0.4% to inflation.
(2) Obamacare price hikes show that now is the time to be bold | Celine Gounder Read more No longer able to keep patients off their plans outright, insurers have resorted to other ways to discriminate and avoid paying for necessary treatments.
(3) It starts and ends in Vidigal and includes a hike up the mountain Tavares Bastos Jazz night at Maze pousada in Tavares Bastos Vidigal is not the only favela with nightlife credentials.
(4) Wood tells clients: Carney said an interest rate hike: “could happen sooner than markets currently expect”.
(5) But it has already attracted attention for paying some deferred bonuses early in the US to avoid a hike in tax rates.
(6) Big musical acts (such as BB King, Keith Urban and Queens of the Stone Age) appear during the summer concert lineup but there are also drop-in yoga sessions, and hiking and biking trails wind through sculpted rocks and wildflowers.
(7) "The minutes of August's MPC meeting, revealing the first split interest rate vote since July 2011, indicate that a 2014 rate hike cannot be ruled out," said Samuel Tombs, senior UK economist at Capital Economics .
(8) I was encouraged by a website called Rio Hiking , which lured me in with exciting descriptions of scaling Sugar Loaf and Corcovado, of rafting rivers, rappelling waterfalls and forging paths through rainforest, but they failed to answer my emails.
(9) Many Halifax and Bank of Scotland current account customers face a huge hike in overdraft charges, which will particularly punish those who regularly go into the red by a small amount, it emerged this week .
(10) Darling's pledge to cap VAT at 17.5% and lower bingo taxes were overshadowed by a surprise national insurance hike and a squeeze on public sector workers.
(11) Some cities including Seattle and New York have moved to increase their local rates, and big corporations including McDonald’s and Walmart have announced hikes in their hourly rates.
(12) The SEC views that move as necessary in part because the bond fund managers, too, have changed the way they operate in the decade or so since the last interest rate hike.
(13) And, as a consequence of the Fed’s interest-rate hike last month, the subsidy will increase by $13bn this year.
(14) To add to their woes, the cost of their dollar-denominated debt is rising; the US Federal Reserve said December’s rate hike is just the start of a “gradual” tightening cycle .
(15) Thousands of pollution deaths worldwide linked to western consumers – study Read more Cracking down In February the Beijing government announced a year on year 23% hike to its environmental protection and energy efficiency budget, taking it to 33.8bn yuan (£4bn).
(16) It stressed outdoor life and natural history: camping, hiking, swimming..." The other defining influence on his eventual specialty was pure accident.
(17) It is suggested that spontaneously occurring cryptic lesions that are themselves unable to induce the SOS system are subject to translesion synthesis under these conditions and trigger a burst of hitch-hiking mutations that are therefore effectively umuC dependent.
(18) But it’s easy to put an end to such rumours with a single, small rate hike – and that move has some benefits, too.
(19) • +30 24240 65245 Don't miss Alonissos is great for hiking and one of the easiest trails is up the cobbled kalderimi, or old mule path, to Hora.
(20) Guardian Money is here to help: Car insurance Car insurance premiums are set to break through the £600 barrier for the first time next year, as insurers pass on big cost increases and the fresh hike in insurance premium tax announced last month.
Shotgun
Definition:
(n.) A light, smooth-bored gun, often double-barreled, especially designed for firing small shot at short range, and killing small game.
Example Sentences:
(1) A randomised double-blind trial comparing this preparation with a so-called 'shotgun' combination containing 0.05% betamethasone 17-valerate, 0.1% gentamicin, 1.0% tolnaftate and 1.0% clioquinol in 288 patients in the Philippines resulted in a better efficacy for the diflucortolone preparation in the 80 patients with bacterially or mycotically infected skin diseases.
(2) Types of weapons involved included handguns (48%), shotguns (22%), rifles (17%), unspecified weapon (12%), and air rifle (1%).
(3) The vigilantes use shotguns and cartridges and have been short in supply, so the leader left yesterday for Maiduguri to procure more in the event of any attack,” he told AFP.
(4) It’s the frontrunner, has the critics on its side and is certainly the Film to Tick Without Watching, but the academy have a track record of shotgun weddings with watchable wild cards in this category – see the wins for The Lives of Others and The Secret in Their Eyes .
(5) We sampled a sawn-off shotgun and an assault rifle, but cops do get tasers and tear gas to add some urban flavour.
(6) A method of reconstructing the chest wall following close-range shotgun injuries is described.
(7) We review five specific techniques for the production of these antibodies (Abs): (a) So-called "shotgun," non-selective approach; (b) cascade procedure; (c) lymphocyte "panning"; (d) cyclophosphamide elimination of unwanted Ab producers; and finally (e) use of polyclonal antisera to extinguish unwanted antibody production.
(8) The method consists of shotgun polymerization of three truncated monomeric gene units using a specific linker, followed by cloning of the recombinant clones and screening them for the presence of concatemeric genes of defined length.
(9) One’s got a shotgun; the other one’s got a pistol.
(10) Simultaneous discharge of both barrels from a double-barrel shotgun may simulate the wound made by discharge of a single barrel.
(11) Bacteriophage cloning vector phi 105J27, the construction of which is described in an accompanying paper, has been used for shotgun cloning of sporulation genes in Bacillus subtilis.
(12) "You could have fired a shotgun in any Odeon where it was showing and not hit a soul," he philosophically remarked.
(13) When a variety of shotguns were tested, it was found that one weapon with a very short barrel and cylinder bore did not exhibit petal spread until a range of 30 cm was reached.
(14) His wife, still recovering from the car "accident", tried to fight Seddon when he produced the sawn-off shotgun.
(15) The package contains a comprehensive suite of programs for managing large shotgun sequencing projects, a program containing 61 functions for analysing single sequences and a program for comparing pairs of sequences for similarity.
(16) Islamist extremist Man Monis , brandishing a shotgun and claiming he was an Isis operative with explosives in his backpack, took 18 people hostage inside the Lindt cafe on the morning of 15 December 2014.
(17) BglII-digested genomic DNA (4-10 kb) of S. viridosporus was shotgun-cloned into S. lividans after insertion into the melanin (mel+) gene of pIJ702.
(18) The plan also notes the staff's arsenal, which includes 9mm pistols, LM5 assault rifles and shotguns.
(19) It’s mostly handguns and a shotgun here and there,” he said.
(20) Tessa Jowell, the shadow minister for the Cabinet Office, said: "I don't believe that many of us would be comfortable with the idea of a 'big society badger cull', with volunteers licensed to roam the countryside carrying shotguns.