rates
/ (reɪts) /
(in some countries) a tax levied on property by a local authority
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rates are thought to be similar in developed countries around the world.
How Skinny Is Too Skinny? Israel Bans ‘Underweight’ Models | Carrie Arnold | January 8, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTDisordered eating is also linked to higher rates of depression and anxiety, both in the present and in the future.
How Skinny Is Too Skinny? Israel Bans ‘Underweight’ Models | Carrie Arnold | January 8, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTGirls raised in households with more equitable fathers show lower rates of unwanted sex.
How Good Dads Can Change the World | Gary Barker, PhD, Michael Kaufman | January 6, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTHis claim that taxpayers are spending millions of dollars for each detainee rates True.
Not surprisingly, rates for recovery vary enormously, from as low as three percent to upwards of 75 percent.
The lack of bill buyers in foreign countries who will quote as low rates on dollar as on sterling bills.
Readings in Money and Banking | Chester Arthur PhillipsIn future years the poor-rate (so-called) will include, in addition to these, all other rates levyable by the Corporation.
Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham | Thomas T. Harman and Walter ShowellI am in favour of no one paying rates unless he has children actually at a Board School.
To unduly increase rates would diminish traffic and induce competition by road and sea.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph TatlowWhenever they did, reductions in the rates, or the provision of p. 209greater facilities, were to restore the balance.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph Tatlow
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