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Third-rate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia When the rating system was first established, in the 1670s, the third rate was defined as 70 guns, with second-rates having 90 guns, and fourth-rates 54-60 guns. Although the rating system was only used by the Royal Navy, British authors might still use "third-rate" to speak of a French 74. By the end of the 18th century, the rating system had mostly fallen out of common use, ships of the line usually being characterized directly by their number of guns, the numbers even being used as the name of the type, as in "a squadron of three 74s". en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Third-rate   (270 words)

Second Order Rate Law Second Order Reactions are characterized by the property that their rate is proportional to the product of two reactant concentrations (or the square of one concentration). Reaction rate constants are usually temperature dependent; the rate of a reaction usually increases as the temperature rises. One objective of chemical kinetics is to solve the differential rate law d[G]/dt = k f([A], [B],...), and thereby express each species concentration as a function of time: [G](t). www.sci.wsu.edu /idea/ChemKinetics/second_order.htm   (918 words)

SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Business -- Economy grows by 3.4 percent rate in second quarter despite high energy costs WASHINGTON – The economy clocked in at a chipper 3.4 percent annual growth rate in the second quarter, fresh evidence the country's business climate is healthy despite surging energy costs. Excluding food and energy, though, prices increased at a rate of 1.8 percent in the second quarter, an improvement from the 2.4 percent pace seen in the first quarter. The showing for the second quarter was close to the 3.5 percent pace that economists were forecasting before the release of the GDP report. www.signonsandiego.com /news/business/20050729-0622-economy.html   (830 words)

Second Mortgage Loan Quote:: Loan Desire Second Mortgage Rate Quote Because a second mortgage has a higher level of risk, these loans typically carry a higher interest rate than a first mortgage. When evaluating second mortgage options, you should decide if it is better to get a second mortgage or to refinance your existing mortgage with a larger loan. A Second mortgage loan is a mortgage loan that is secondary to the first mortgage. www.loandesire.com /secondmortgageloans.jsp   (249 words)

Economy grows at 3.1 percent rate in second quarter, better than first estimated Businesses increased spending in the second quarter on equipment and software at an 8.2 percent pace, up from the 7.5 percent growth rate previously reported, and a turnaround from the cut in such spending made during the first quarter of this year. The revised second quarter reading was stronger than the 2.9 percent growth rate economists were expecting and marked the economy's best performance since the third quarter of 2002. The nation's unemployment rate dipped to 6.2 percent in July, but that was mainly because a lot of people left the civilian labor force. www.freep.com /news/latestnews/pm16080_20030828.htm   (809 words)

ESPN.com - Nothing second rate about Second Mountain Second Mountain gets its name because it is actually second as you come north from the Philadelphia Plateau or the Susquehanna Valley lowlands; the first ridge you confront is Blue Mountain. SGL 229 is east of Swatara Creek on Second and Sharps mountains. One hunter-friendly aspect of Second that is different from Blue "First" Mountain is that the Appalachian Trail does not run as long over Second as it does Big Blue. sports.espn.go.com /espn/print?id=1435605&type=story   (1315 words)

Analysts expect second Fed rate cut - 01/30/01 An announcement of the policy-makers' decision on rates is expected Wednesday afternoon. Fed policy-makers could decide to push the funds rate even lower, depending on how the economy unfolds between now and then, economists said.    The big question is whether rate cuts by the Fed will be enough to avert a recession, analysts said. www.detnews.com /2001/business/0101/30/-182151.htm   (610 words)

Marylands Violent Crime Rate Now Second Highest Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, the State of Maryland has notched the second highest violent crime rate in the nation according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Uniform Crime Report for 2001. Townsend cited a "20-percent drop in the rate of violent crime," but did not mention that other states reduced their crime by even larger percentages during a period in which crime nationally was way down. Maryland also now has the nation's fifth highest murder rate, compared to the number eight ranking it had in 1995 and has taken over the top slot in the robbery category. pages.prodigy.net /vanhooser/marylands_violent_crime_rate.htm   (667 words)

Smizik: Pirates second-rate at 2B since bad Womack trade The St. Louis second baseman was Tony Womack, a former Pirate of some distinction. A thick slice of the shabby recent Pirates history was out at second base on the PNC Park grass last night, and I'm not talking about Bobby Hill. He won the second base job and was batting.305, with a.347 on-base average going into last night's game. www.post-gazette.com /pg/04182/339613.stm   (775 words)

NEWS CHANNEL 34 Binghamton - Poverty Rate up Second Straight Year But in the Midwest, the poverty rate increased to 10.3 percent, which was 0.9 percent higher than in 2001. At the same time, the bureau's Current Population Survey found the poverty rate ticked up from 11.7 percent in 2001 to 12.1 percent last year, when 34.6 million Americans were officially poor 1.7 million more than the year before. The poverty rate fell steadily during the 1990s, reaching 11.3 percent in 2000, its lowest level in more than 25 years. www.newschannel34.com /business/story.aspx?content_id=01EE824D-6F2E-4804-9308-DAFDBEDBFF28   (741 words)

Bloomberg.com: Top Worldwide The second-quarter rate is the slowest since 1 percent in the second quarter of 2001, when the U.S. was in a recession. The final estimate for the second quarter showed that the trade deficit deteriorated to $580.3 billion, measured at an annual rate, from $550.1 billion in the first quarter. The second- quarter deflator is the highest since 3.3 percent in the first quarter of 2001. quote.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=10000006&sid=a7q.NRg8ciBA&refer=home   (1200 words)

Chemical Sciences: Second-Order Rate Law and Pseudo-First-Order Conditions The general second-order rate law for one-to-one stoichiometry is the overall rate equation for a reaction that is first-order in M and first-order also in N, -d[M]/dt = k[M] k[M]([N]), as derived in the Reactants are used up during the reaction, so [M] will always be less than [M], and the first term on the right-hand side of the general second-order rate law can be neglected. The reaction is initiated by light and then proceeds at a rate which is pseudo-first-order in chlorine atoms because the concentration of chlorine atoms, Cl., is very small relative to that of NOCl molecules. www.psigate.ac.uk /newsite/reference/plambeck/chem2/p02146.htm   (495 words)

Batten down for second rate rise - National - smh.com.au Home borrowers may be grappling with a second interest rate increase within weeks, experts warned yesterday after the Reserve Bank's unexpected decision to lift rates for the first time in nearly 18 months. The need for "mildly expansionary" rate levels had passed and there would be danger in delaying a rise further given the unsustainable debt splurge, which shows no sign of abating. Some analysts believe rates could rise another 0.75 of a percentage point by the end of next year, pushing total household debt repayments as a proportion of income to record levels. www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/11/05/1068013263375.html   (678 words)

ESPN.com - PRORODEO - Hardly Second-Rate Second was Cody Buller (Glendive, Mont.) with 500. Lewis was 87.8 seconds on 10 head and was only in the 10-second range twice. Both won by the slimmest of margins — Fields by one-tenth of a second and Crimber by a scant half-point. sports.espn.go.com /prorodeo/news/story?page=g_feature_Kusek_NFRAgg2004   (1636 words)

SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Business -- Productivity grows at 1.1 percent rate in second quarter, slowest pace in a year The economy grew at a rate of just 1.1 percent in the second quarter, down from a brisk 5 percent pace posted in the first quarter. They rose at a rate of 2.4 percent, slightly faster than the 2 percent pace analysts were forecasting. The 2.4 percent growth rate in unit labor costs marked the fastest increase since the first quarter of 2001. www.signonsandiego.com /news/business/20020809-0627-economy.html   (574 words)

Chapter Second-class <i>to</i> Sectionalize of S by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition) Of the second size, rank, quality, or value; as, a second-rate ship; second- rate cloth; a second-rate champion. One who seconds or supports what another attempts, affirms, moves, or proposes; as, the seconder of an enterprise or of a motion. The power of discerning what is not visible to the physical eye, or of foreseeing future events, esp. such as are of a disastrous kind; the capacity of a seer; prophetic vision. www.bibliomania.com /2/3/257/1210/24018/1.html   (212 words)

Chemical Sciences: Second-Order Rate Law for Identical Reactant Molecules A second-order rate law must involve two reactants since two concentrations are involved, but the two reactants need not be different. Because there are several slightly different possible forms of the second-order rate law, it is most convenient to treat them separately. For this reaction the differential rate law is -d[M]/dt = k(app)[M] and the integrated rate law is 1/[M] = 0.667t + (1/8.000). www.psigate.ac.uk /newsite/reference/plambeck/chem2/p02144.htm   (458 words)

USATODAY.com - Second serves are hardly second-rate in importance A better predictor of success than first-serve prowess is its underrated cousin, the second serve. Several leaders in those categories — 39th-ranked Jarkko Nieminen of Finland (second in first-serve percentage) and 43rd Ivan Ljubicic of Croatia (fourth in first serve points won), to name two — are ranked well outside the top 20. Also important are placement, spin, direction and disguise — elements that often play a bigger role on second serves when players are trying to gain an advantage in the point without double-faulting. www.usatoday.com /sports/tennis/open/2003-09-03-second-serves_x.htm   (862 words)

Observer Preaching for the second-rate Perhaps his original BBC broadcasts of what were lectures on Christianity, during the Second World War, achieved this but Geoffrey Howard, as the reader, portrays Lewis as formal and remote. This is reassuring and Lewis tries hard to explain Christianity to those who are intellectually less than first rate with his sometimes brilliant and other times dated, sexist and biggoted analogies. Intemperance he describes as: 'A woman who devotes all her thoughts to clothes or bridge or her dog.' Whereas Pride, the 'complete anti-God state of mind', is fine in a man for 'his son, his father, his regiment'. observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4407342-102280,00.html   (243 words)

Chemical Sciences: Second-Order Rate Law For Different Reactant Molecules The second-order rate law with two different reactants appears to be in the same form as that with two identical reactants when the difference between the two initial concentrations remains small relative to the concentration of one of them. The second-order rate law with two different reactants can also appear to be in the same form as a first-order rate law. The rate constant has the same units and is used in the same way. www.ualberta.ca /~jplambec/che/p102/p02145.htm   (551 words)

Second Mortgage Brokers Second Mortgage Brokers: "5/1 ARM rates remain unchanged in the United States Tuesday Adjustable rate mortgages can provide attractive interest rates, but your payment is not fixed. Mortgage Rates USA has mortgage rates from low mortgage rate lenders nationwide! second-mortgage-brokers.blogspot.com   (684 words)

sm187508489 Second rate cook of a hash hotel / by Ned Straight. hdl.loc.gov /loc.music/sm1875.08489   (28 words)

real_fixed_second.html A Fixed Rate Second Mortgage is a straight forward borrowing option that offers the predictability of stable monthly payments over the life of your loan. With a Fixed Rate Second Mortgage, you borrow the money upfront and pay it back depending on the length of the term you choose. Borrow up to 100 percent of the equity in your home. www.gfafcu.com /site/real_fixed_second.html   (80 words)

Is Canada a second rate country? No, when Stephen Harper was describing Canada as a second rate country he was referring to the fact that Canada’s Liberal government is second rate. Are our highways and buildings really second class to those that are found in the United States? During the television interview where Harper made those remarks he was contrasting Canada with the province of Alberta which he described as having a combination of American enterprise and individualism with the British tradition of order and co-operation. www.canadafreepress.com /2004/weinreb053104.htm   (701 words)

CBS News Low-Cost Airlines Not Second-Rate April 6, 2004 09:12:05 Southwest, with 0.14 complaints per 100,000 customers, consistently generates the lowest complaint rate in the industry, was rated as the No. 3 carrier in the report. Alaska Airlines came in second, America West fourth and US Airways, ranked No. 1 last year when it was still in bankruptcy, was fifth. The report rated the 14 U.S. airlines that carried at least 1 percent of the 587 million passengers who flew last year. www.cbsnews.com /stories/2004/04/05/national/main610207.shtml   (607 words)

Second-Order Rate-Based Flow Control with Decoupled Error Control for High-Throughput Transport Protocols (ResearchIndex) Abstract: We propose an efficient flow and error control scheme for high-throughput transport protocols, which (i) decouples flow control from error control, and (ii) uses a second-order rate control, called ff-control, for flow control and a new sliding-window scheme for error control. The ff- control minimizes the need for packet retransmissions by adjusting the rate-gain parameter in response to the variations of cross-traffic flows and their round-trip delays (RTDs). Integrated Rate and Credit Feedback Control for ABR Service.. citeseer.ist.psu.edu /250177.html   (359 words)

Surface Forces  Relegating Royal Navy to second rate status StrategyPage.com This month's issue of "Warship" (a UK-based publication) describes what it terms the “relegation of the RN to second rate status” and its fall from the third most powerful Navy to being behind US and Russia and soon to be overtaken by Japan, China and India. Aircraftfan  3/4/2005 11:16:56 PM RE:Relegating Royal Navy to second rate status   Surface Forces Relegating Royal Navy to second rate status StrategyPage.com www.strategypage.com /messageboards/messages/8-5606.asp   (605 words)

Economy Grew at 3.3% Rate in Second Quarter, Gov't Says The Commerce Department revised its report on U.S. economic growth to reflect a 3.3% rate of growth during the second quarter. In a report released Friday, the department said its previous estimate that the gross domestic product grew at a 3.1% rate was too low and revised it upward because of a burst of consumer corporate and government spending. Commerce said that consumer spending in the second quarter rose 3.8%, helping to drive the increase in the GDP figure. www.ttnews.com /members/topnews/0010663.html   (231 words)

Mo Morgan: When first-class is second-rate For those further afield, our glorious mail service used to offer a first-class next-day delivery that arrived in the morning, and a second-class no-guarantee-when-but-it’ll-get-there service that was usually delivered separately later in the day and costed less. In their ongoing cost-cutting programme, they have now phased out the second delivery, as it was not cost-effective to send the postman out twice. From this experience, the Royal Mail delivery rate is less than six percent. momorgan.com /archives/2004/07/13/7eea696a72e64cb69dcf6376dc9f64d0   (1041 words)

Roxas: Probe rise in second rate schools Roxas, who is the guest speaker of the University of Cebu’s commencement exercises yesterday said that second rate schools shortchange parents when their children flunk licensure exams and thus fail to qualify for good paying jobs. In the last five years, the average passing rate across 33 professional fields requiring licensure or eligibility exams was only 45 percent, according to the professional Regulation Commission. In senate resolution 198, Roxas said that poor rating of top Philippine Schools relative to other institutions of higher learning in Asia betray the rapid decline in the quality of tertiary education in the country. www.thefreeman.com /local?fullstory=1&issue=articles_20050318&id=28439   (354 words)

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