This desire, I went on, growing voluble as my conviction was aroused, had mounted at such a rate recently that I now found its realization necessary not only to my physical but also to my spiritual wellbeing.

It was the first American war in which the death rate from disease was lower than that from battle, due to the provision of trained medical personnel ( of the 200,000 officers, 42,000 were physicians ), compulsory vaccination, rigorous camp sanitation, and adequate hospital facilities.

The result was that the rate of venereal disease in the American Army was the lowest in our military history.

In spite of the fact that our largest market, the textile industry, was affected substantially by the current decline in business activity, we have been able to produce and deliver our machines throughout the year 1960 at a rate materially higher than during 1959.

Common complaints included `` Mrs. Murphy '' leaving her windows open all the time, a fresh air fan, or the family was visiting `` Aunt Minnie '' with the house shut up but they still paid the same rate for oil.

Argon was also blown at low velocities ( mass flow rate Af ) through a tube coaxial with the cathode as an additional precaution against contamination of the arc by air.

For each mass flow rate the arc voltage was measured.

In this test a Af tape was pulled between the blocks with a motor and pulley at a rate of Af with a clearance of 0.002'' '' on each side of the tape.

Although the tape was run for over 1 hr., a steady state was not reached, and it was concluded that the reason for this was that the back pressure of the manometer was built up from the material fed from between the blocks and this was available at a very slow rate.

-- Although there was some variation in results which must be attributed either to trace impurities or to variation in wall effects, the photochemical exchange in the gas phase was sufficiently reproducible so that it seemed meaningful to compare the reaction rates in different series of reaction tubes for the purpose of obtaining information on the effect of chlorine concentration and of carbon tetrachloride concentration on the reaction rate.

Direct proportionality of the rate to the incident intensity has also been assumed in obtaining the value in the last column for the fourth sample of series 2, where the light intensity was reduced by use of a screen.

The impact rate on 1958 Alpha for 153 events was Af for particles of mass greater than Af ( Dubin, 1960 ) ; ;

Ninety per cent of the 153 recorded impacts occurred between midnight and noon, and from day to day the variation of the rate was as much as an order of magnitude.

for the next two days, the impact rate was Af ; ;

and for the next nine days, the impact rate was less than Af ( Nazarova, 1960 ).

A flow rate of 72 Af was used and 12 ml fractions were collected.

It is very unlikely that either of these anacondas was growing at a normal rate.

The rate the Fed charges banks for these loans is the discount rate ( officially the primary credit rate ).

The Yoruba also venerate their ancestral spirits through Egungun masquerades, Orò, Irumole, Gelede and Ibeji, the orisha of Twins ( which is no wonder since the Yoruba are officially known to have the world's highest rate of twin births of any group ).

Taking this into account, the poverty rate in California would be about 7 % higher than officially listed in 2010, 23. 3 % vs. 16. 3 %, while Texas ' rate would be about 2 % lower, 16. 1 % vs. 18. 4 %.

Although after 1865, the 2½d stamp was officially invalid, in 1867 some were made available at a 6¼ cent rate to express mail operators.

This has led some economists to believe that the actual unemployment rate in the United States is higher than what is officially reported while others suggest that discouraged workers voluntarily choose not to work.

Similar observations have been made about central banks in other developed economies, both in countries like Canada and New Zealand that have officially adopted inflation targeting rules, and in others like Germany where the Bundesbank's policy did not officially target the inflation rate.

As a specific example, callers in the Falls Church, Virginia, rate center ( officially named " Washington Zone 17, VA "-- example numbers beginning with 703-534, V = 5636, H = 1600 ) may make untimed local calls to 31 other nearby rate centers in Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia in area codes 703, 571, 202, 301, and 240, while calls to distant locations in 703 such as Manassas and Haymarket, VA are charged as long distance.

The employment rate in Bosnia and Herzegovina is 45. 5 % officially ; however, grey economy may reduce actual unemployment to between 25 and 30 %, while in Sarajevo the official unemployment rate is around 15 % of the labour force.

Even though the war may have officially ended years ago, people in the Congo are still dying at a rate of an estimated 45, 000 per month ; 2, 700, 000 people have died since 2004.

Announced on 6 May 1997, only five days after that year's General Election, and officially given operational responsibility for setting interest rates in the Bank of England Act 1998, the Committee was designed to be independent of political interference and thus to add credibility to interest rate decisions.

The Committee is responsible for formulating the United Kingdom's monetary policy, most commonly via the setting of the rate at it which it lends to banks ( officially the Bank of England Base Rate or BOEBR for short ).

At any rate, in 1353 the local authorities, the Signoria, officially accepted the legend that the church was built in honor of Santa Reparata.

In July 1972, Gene Parsons was fired from the group and replaced by session drummer John Guerin, although Guerin was never officially a fully fledged member of The Byrds and instead worked for a standard session musician's rate.

The favourable Commercial Interest Reference Rate ( CIRR is the reference rate laid down by the OECD for its member states as the minimum interest rate for officially supported financing of exports ) is helping to keep your cost of capital down.

Bevacqua is reported to have arrived at a consumer price increase figure of almost 2. 0 % for January 2007 from internal data but the rate officially reported to the public was 1. 1 %.

In telecommunication, effective data transfer rate is the average number of units of data, such as bits, characters, blocks, or frames, transferred per unit time from a source and accepted as valid by a sink.

This is usually done by calculating the acceptance rate, which is the fraction of proposed samples that is accepted in a window of the last samples.

On 14 September 2011, Liberal Premier Barry O ' Farrell announced that he had recommended to the Queen that Bashir's term be extended for another two years to 2014, which had been accepted: " Over the past 10 years the Governor's caring nature, her genuine interest in local communities and her extraordinary work rate have endeared her to people everywhere ... Because of her diverse background, career and interests, Professor Bashir has given a historic and important post a contemporary relevance and resonance.

He found that between Hipparchus ' time and his own ( about 265 years ), the stars had moved 2 ° 40 ', or 1 ° in 100 years ( 36 " per year ; the rate accepted today is about 50 " per year or 1 ° in 72 years ).

This effect may be termed usury, while the term " usury " in other contexts refers only to an excessive rate of interest, in excess of a reasonable profit for the risk accepted.

A heart rate over 100 beats per minute is generally accepted as tachycardia.

The government accepted some virtually worthless land in lieu of taxes and in 1935 capitulated completely, reducing the tax to its former rate and annulling the landowners ' arrears by making them retroactive to 1931.

1700's it became accepted that 100 guns was the standard criterion for a first rate in wartime ( while 90 guns, later 98 guns, became the standard wartime ordnance for a second rate ).

Once the notion that the universe started with a rapid inflation nicknamed the Big Bang became accepted by the majority of scientists, the ultimate fate of the universe became a valid cosmological question, one depending upon the physical properties of the mass / energy in the universe, its average density, and the rate of expansion.

The United States Navy accepted that failure rate and batteries aboard cruiser tested proximity-fuzed ammunition against drone aircraft targets over Chesapeake Bay in August 1942.

The school accepted 14, 480 high school seniors and 2, 748 transfers with an acceptance rate of 28. 7 % for the 2011 academic year.

Businesses should consider whether a temporary storage exemption applies to merchandise initially accepted in a jurisdiction with a higher tax rate.

On 1 April 2011 his appeal was upheld and the amount of repayment reduced to £ 1, 178. 43 ( which Caplin had overclaimed due to interest rate fluctuations of which he was unaware ); Caplin accepted the finding and agreed to repay the money.

Sailors who have completed the requirements to be assigned a rating and have been accepted by the Bureau of Naval Personnel as holding that rating ( a process called " striking ") are called designated strikers, and are called by their full rate and rating in formal communications ( e. g., " machinist's mate fireman recruit ", as opposed to simply " fireman recruit "), though the rating is often left off in informal communication.

More crucially, estimates of the recession rate of the Niagara Falls indicated that the last ice age ended 6, 000 to 35, 000 years ago-a large range, but enough to rule out Croll's theory, to those who accepted the measurements.

While the Bonanza met the initial certification requirements, it had a history of fatal mid-air breakups during extreme stress, at a rate exceeding the accepted norm.

As a starting point, he accepted the nullifiers ' offer of a transition period but extended it from seven and a half years to nine years with a final target of a 20 % ad valorem rate.

The test method consists of pushing an instrumented cone, with the tip facing down, into the ground at a controlled rate ( controlled between 1. 5-2. 5 cm / s accepted ).

In other cases, a high loss rate during maturation is accepted for the reduction in detailed plant maintenance costs.

The median rate of applicants accepted by APA-accredited internship sites is 5. 5 % and the median internship stipend was $ 24, 218 in 2011.

In the mid 1960s, monetary authorities accepted Coombs ' conclusions and allowed a flexible interest rate, making it easier for the Bank to rely on open market operations.

Sailors who have completed the requirements to be assigned a rating and have been accepted by the Bureau of Naval Personnel as holding that rating ( a process called " striking ") are called designated strikers, and are called by their full rate and rating in formal communications ( i. e., " machinist's mate fireman apprentice ", as opposed to simply " fireman apprentice "), though the rating is often left off in informal communication.

Sailors who have completed the requirements to be assigned a rating and have been accepted by the Bureau of Naval Personnel as holding that rating ( a process called " striking ") are called " designated strikers ", and are called by their full rate and rating in formal communications ( i. e., machinist's mate fireman, as opposed to simply fireman ), though the rating is often left off in informal communications.

Inspired by outbreaks of agalliasis ( manifestations of the Spirit ), and miraculous healing, the numbers of those who accepted the Apostles throughout the world grew at an amazing rate.