Unemployment and poverty rates are very high.

The dangers of both action and inaction are very high.

But households still control too little income and save at very high rates.

And yet that could very well happen.

Their cash balances are extremely high, interest payments on debt are low, and principal obligations have been termed out.

The cost of the course was too high and was halted after the completion of only one course.

In developed countries, a very high proportion of enterprises are connected to the Internet.

And the meta risk of policy mistakes and accidents remains very high.

In some cases, the fee was as high as twenty times an annual salary.

Maternal mortality rates remain dismal in several countries.

The US economy is still limping along with very slow growth and a high rate of unemployment.

The burden of existing debts is high, and investors key goal is loss avoidance, not profit seeking.

At nearly 70 of GDP, consumption in the US is too high.

Unemployment remains far too high, with alarming levels of long term and youth joblessness.

A lot is at stake all the more so because French intervention is likely to be extensive.

Economists who insist that China s financial leverage is not too high are a dwindling minority.

One is that they are very costly or, more accurately, the price charged for them is very high, though the cost of producing them is but a fraction of that amount.

Turnover among senior and not so senior people in these agencies is very high.

The incidence of bribery was high, with a staggering 42 of reported bribes paid to the judiciary.

Against this background, the stakes in Kenya s fight against terrorism in and emanating from Somalia are high.

Compared to countries with very slow growth rates, countries with reasonably high growth rates should borrow.

Facing worrisomely high and debilitating inflation, Volcker declared war against it and won.

Unemployment on the continent is extremely high and underemployment is rampant, affecting 40 per cent of the labour force.

However as the severity of the disease or injury increases the ordinary citizen does incur costs which at times are very high.

The sixteenth century Habsburgs borrowed at very high interest rates from Florentine, Genovese, and Augsburg merchants.

Few Americans thought Harry Truman had been a good president immediately after he left office, but now he is rated very high.

Since 1955, Singapore has taken a direct approach a compulsory national saving plan, which generates very high saving rates.

The potential for loss of life, for Iranian retaliation, and for global economic disruption is high.

The market economy and the profit motive have led to extremely high living standards in many places.

The result is promotion for such officials, because they have delivered quick GDP growth. But the economic and social costs are very high.

There are plenty of profits to be made actual taxes on capital are not too high, and cheap finance is available to the corporate sector.

Health costs can be very high, so health insurance schemes are a popular way reducing risk in the event of shock.

But what is clear is that the Obama strategy s current and future costs are very high and so far, it has not achieved its limited objective of restarting lending.

Second, fertility rates and population growth in the Horn of Africa continue to be extremely high, even as children perish in the famine.

In any case, all of the Nordic countries have very high incomes, and Norway s per capita income actually exceeds the US.

Everywhere in the leading countries the US, the United Kingdom, China, India, and elsewhere the rich have enjoyed soaring incomes and growing political power.

Despite unprecedented fiscal and monetary stimulus, economic growth remains sluggish, and unemployment is stuck at a worrisomely high level.

Even though subscriber growth rates in Africa and Latin America are very high, it will take years before they reach the levels of Asia, Europe or North America.

Lending rates are still too high for small and medium size enterprises and too dependent on where in the EU a company is located.

Against this background, the stakes in Kenya s fight against terrorism in and emanating from Somalia are high.

Hedge funds have borrowed hundreds of billions of dollars at ultra low interest rate in Japan, and invested the proceeds in countries like Brazil and Turkey, where interest rates are high.

He knows that in one of the world s richest nations, 37 million people live in poverty, a far higher proportion than in Europe s wealthy nations.

Prices are high.

But it will do virtually no good, at high cost, and as with many other lofty promises from the EU it will carry a high probability of failure.

Still, one of the problems with many of the current medications is that, even with treatment, the recurrence of major depression is very high around 70 80 .