2 District. District Rate .......................... 13 11 Special Rate ........................... 10 2 ________ ? 4 1
The second communication was dated from the office of the Assistant Overseer of the Poor. It was also a Final Notice and was worded in almost exactly the same way as the other, the principal difference being that it was `By order of the Overseers' instead of `the Council'. It demanded the sum of ? 1 5 1/2 for Poor Rate within fourteen days, and threatened legal proceedings in default.英文原著 · 《The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists》
But, in the case of borrowing money, it is the borrower always, who, according to the indefinite, or short term for which money is lent, is on the safe side: any imprudence he may have committed with regard to the rate of interest, may be corrected at any time: if I find I have given too high an interest to one man. I have no more to do than to borrow of another at a lower rate, and pay off the first: if I CannOt find any body to lend me at a lower, there cannot be a more certain proof that the first was not in reality too high. But of this hereafter.英文原著 · 《Defence of Usury》
Before witnesses, he receives his thousand roubles: and, without witnesses, he immediately pays back his 30 roubles, or his 40 roubles, or whatever the sum may be, that is necessary to bring the real rate of interest to the rate verbally agreed on. This contrivance, I take it, would not do in England: but why it would not, is a question which it would be in vain for me to pretend, at this distance from all authorities, to discuss.英文原著 · 《Defence of Usury》
de Lafayette says somewhere in his "Memoirs" that the exaggerated system of general causes affords surprising consolations to second-rate statesmen. I will add, that its effects are not less consolatory to second-rate historians; it can always furnish a few mighty reasons to extricate them from the most difficult part of their work, and it indulges the indolence or incapacity of their minds, whilst it confers upon them the honors of deep thinking.英文原著 · 《Democracy In America-2》
But as a married man, without means, the situation was hopeless. Once married you must live up to the standard of the society you frequent; you can't be entertained without entertaining in return. Now if his wife had brought him only a couple of thousand pounds all might have been well. I should have advised him, in sober seriousness, to live for two years at the rate of a thousand a year. At the end of that time he would have been earning enough to continue at pretty much the same rate of expenditure.'英文原著 · 《New Grub Street》
Up over 2014 in occupancy rates and average daily rates on rooms.美剧 · 《The Good Wife》
Don't most large cities measure tourism or growth of tourism based on hotel occupancy rates and rates per day?美剧 · 《The Good Wife》
So you can double efficiency with a 60 percent internal rate of return. So you can double efficiency with a 60 percent internal rate of return.演讲 · 《Winning the oil endgame ~ Amory Lovins》