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	Sixth-rate
		This is one of six ratings (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th) in the rating system of the Royal Navy.
		Sixth-rate was the designation used by the Royal Navy for small warships mounting between 22 and 28 nine-pounder guns on a single deck, sometimes with guns on the upper works and sometimes without.
		Some larger ship-rigged, flush-decked vessels, were rated, which meant they were large enough to rate a Post-Captain in command, instead of a Lieutenant or Commander.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Sixth-rate (168 words)

	PaSDC Research Brief
		Pennsylvania ranked sixth for doctors with 273 per 100,000 and seventh for nurses with a rate of 1,018, according to data from the 1997 Statistical Abstract of the United States.
		Pennsylvania's rate for violent crimes was 427, a rank of 21, compared to the high of 1,071 in Florida and the low of 87 in North Dakota.
		The Commonwealth was sixth for demonstrated coal reserves in 1995 and held almost all the anthracite coal in the nation (96.6%).
	pasdc.hbg.psu.edu /PaSDC/briefs/brief569.html (2782 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Business -- Fed raises key interest rate for sixth time
		WASHINGTON – The Federal Reserve on Wednesday raised interest rates for the sixth time since last June as policy-makers continued their efforts to make sure a strengthening economy does not trigger unwanted inflation.
		The Fed announced that it was raising its target for the federal funds rate, the interest that banks charge each other, by a quarter-point to 2.5 percent.
		The Fed's goal is to move the funds rate from an accommodative stance, where it is still stimulating extra economic growth, to a neutral stance where the funds rate is neither stimulating growth nor holding the economy back.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/business/20050202-1120-fed-interestrates.html (783 words)

	HMS Phoenix - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The fifth Phoenix was a 42-gun fifth-rate launched in 1671 and burnt 1692 to prevent capture.
		The sixth Phoenix was a bomb vessel purchased in 1692 and sold 1698.
		The seventh Phoenix was an 8-gun fire ship built in 1694, rebuilt in 1709 as a 24-gun sixth-rate, hulked 1742, and sold 1744.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Phoenix (347 words)

	Fed cuts interest rates a quarter point; sixth cut in 2001 - Jun. 27, 2001
		The Fed, in a statement accompanying its decision, also indicated it may not be done cutting rates for the year, saying it still is concerned about the sluggishness of the economy.
		Since the beginning of 2001, the Fed has cut the federal funds rate six times, lowering it from 6.5 percent to 3.75 percent, its biggest series of cuts since it carved 5 percentage points from the rate between July 1990 and September 1992 at the end of the last recession.
		The rate is at its lowest since April 1994, when the Fed was just beginning to raise rates long after the recession was over, and its current cycle of cuts may be ending now.
	money.cnn.com /2001/06/27/economy/fed (1114 words)

	Commission set to cut millage rate for sixth consecutive year (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		For the sixth year in a row, the Coweta County Board of Commissioners is set to slash the millage rate for the county's property owners.
		In the unincorporated county, the residents' rate drops 2.04 percent from 5.38 mils to 5.27 mills.
		Since 1994, the county has decreased the millage rate in the incorporated area from 6.98 mils to 6.26 mils, while residents in the unincorporated area have seen their millage rate cut from 5.80 to 5.27.
	www.thecitizennews.com /main/archive-990910/news/cow-01.html (235 words)

	Fed Cuts Rate Quarter-Point (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Fed cut its target for the federal funds rate, the interest banks charge each other on overnight loans to 3.75 percent, the lowest since April 18, 1994, when the funds rate also stood at 3.75 percent.
		Its first rate cut was on Jan. 3, so that reduction wouldn't show up in economic activity until July at the earliest.
		Still, some economists believe economic growth in the current quarter may have slowed to an anemic annual rate of 0.5 percent, down from the 1.3 percent rate registered in the first three months of the year.
	www.mbaa.org /briefs/2001/0627d.html (803 words)

	Mumps Outbreak -- New Jersey
		Vaccine efficacy was estimated to be 91% for sixth graders, with a 95% confidence interval of 77%-93% (Table 3).
		The attack rate in the vaccinated children in the sixth grade was 4% and fell within the 5%-10% primary vaccine failure rate observed in clinical trials (3).
		Since the attack rate for each grade was directly proportional to the percentage of unvaccinated students, the higher attack rate for sixth graders most likely reflected the fact that sixth graders were not covered by the law.
	www.cdc.gov /mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00000379.htm (1511 words)

	Current Writing
		The sixth interest-rate cut of the year by the Federal Reserve may not be more successful in stimulating the economy than the others.
		If it reduces interest rates further in order to stimulate the economy, it is bound to exacerbate the inflation; and if it boosts the rates in order to fight inflation, it will aggravate the recession and raise unemployment.
		Moreover, the credit-card rate, which primarily consists of a debtor's risk component, is bound to rise again as unemployment increases and economic uncertainty raises all market rates.
	www.sennholz.com /ratecuts.html (1335 words)

	Fed Increases Key Interest Rate to 2.5% (washingtonpost.com)
		It was the the sixth quarter-percentage-point increase since June, when the group started moving the rate up from 1 percent.
		At 2.5 percent, the rate is so low that it is still stimulating economic growth, the Federal Open Market Committee said after the meeting in a statement nearly identical to one issued after its previous meeting in December.
		Longer-term rates are influenced by the federal funds rate but ultimately are determined by financial markets in response to the overall demand for capital and investors' inflation expectations.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A57634-2005Feb2.html (616 words)

	Fed raises key interest rate by one-half point - 05/17/00
		WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve raised a key interest rate by one-half point today, the biggest increase in five years, in an effort to slow the supercharged economy and keep inflation from becoming a problem.
		The Fed's half-point increase in the funds rate was expected to be quickly followed by announcements from commerical banks that they were boosting their prime lending rate by a similar half-point, from the current 9 percent to 9.50 percent, the highest level in nine years.
		Today's decision marked the sixth time since last June that the central bank has boosted the funds rate in an effort to slow the speeding economy and keep inflation from escalating.
	www.detnews.com /2000/business/0005/16/-57337.htm (481 words)

	Illinois' Less Skilled Workers Fail to Reap Benefits of Economy's Upswing
		In the month the nation's unemployment rate fell to 5.9 percent, the Illinois rate held steady at 6.7 percent.
		And yet while the Illinois unemployment rate is the sixth highest in the nation, the state minimum wage is scheduled to increase to 26 percent higher than the federal standard in two steps, starting on January 1st.
		The unemployment rate in Illinois is now 14 percent higher than the national rate.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/12-19-2003/0002079133&EDATE= (326 words)

	In The News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Tell City sixth- and eighth-graders exceeded state averages for earning pass-plus scores on both the math and language-arts portions of the annual tests.
		Math-portion passing rates that hovered in the mid-50’s the last two years jumped to 76 percent this year, she explained.
		The corporation’s 70-percent success rate for sixth-grade math, 12 points higher that the state average, includes 13 students whose results were labeled “undetermined.” Stath explained some confusion existed in test instructions, allowing calculators, inappropriately, to be left in the room where those students were testing.
	www.tellcity.k12.in.us /tts_pages/tts_in_the_news.html (515 words)

	Board Hears More About Tests
		The report showed that Fairview Elementary showed a greater growth rate than the state average in reading and was right at the average state growth rate for math over the past three years.
		He said his formula for determining educational growth rates is not intended to give answers, but rather data that school boards can use to determine how they can improve the educational growth for all students.
		According to the report, Guilford County students’ growth rate in both reading and math improve in seventh and eighth grade, after students have time to adjust to their new surroundings.
	www.rhinotimes.com /greensboro/archives/120502/story04.html (964 words)

	Understanding the Basic Agreement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The calculation is based on the rate you would otherwise be receiving at that time: if you are already in overtime, then night premium adds ten or twenty percent to your overtime rate.
		(For on-call editors the scale rate used for golden time is the hourly rate under Schedule C-1.) On a sixth day, when members are already receiving one-and-a-half times their normal rate, golden time is double their sixth day rate, so that their total pay is three times their standard hourly rate.
		If the break between shifts is less than four hours, you should be paid for the time you were off the clock as if you had continued working without a break, and when you return, the new day is considered a continuation of the previous one.
	www.editorsguild.com /newsletter/NovDec02/cathy_basic_agrmt.html (814 words)

	SU Athletics - SU Student-Athlete Graduation Rate Among Best in the Nation
		The Orange football program’s graduation rate ranks sixth nationally among all Division I schools and is tied for second among Division I-A football schools.
		Vanderbilt ranks first with an 84 percent graduation rate, while SU is tied with Duke and Northwestern in second.
		During this time period, SU had a graduation rate of 75 percent or all students, including 77 percent for females and 72 percent for males.
	www.suathletics.com /News/basketball/wbasket/2004/5/6/2004graduationrates.asp?path=wbasket (306 words)

	MEA lowers rates for sixth time in three years (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Alaska Public Utilities Commission approved a request from Matanuska Electric Association to lower electric rates for the sixth time in less than three years.
		The APUC on Friday granted MEA approval to lower its monthly customer charge by $1.35, effectively lowering the rate for the average customer using 750 kilowatt hours per month by approximately 1.7 percent.
		Scott said the rate decrease is the sixth implemented by MEA since May 1996.
	www.matanuska.com /News116.html (320 words)

	CNN.com - U.S. rates headed lower - Jun. 26, 2001
		A slim majority of economists expect the central bank to cut the federal funds rate, its target for an overnight bank lending rate, a quarter percentage point, to 3.75 percent.
		It's hard to believe that only a year ago the Fed had just finished raising rates in a bid to slow the economy and avoid inflation, boosting the fed funds rate to a nine-year high of 6.5 percent.
		The higher rates convinced companies to cut corporate spending on new technology, and at the same time energy costs were soaring.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/BUSINESS/06/26/fed.walkup (1296 words)

	Small rate cut spooks Wall St. - Jun. 27, 2001
		In the Fed's sixth rate cut of the year, the central bank lowered the rate that banks charge each other for overnight loans to 3.75 percent from 4 percent, surprising some economists who expected a larger cut.
		The more symbolic discount rate was cut to 3.25 percent from 3.5 percent.
		Wednesday's decision drew conflicting forecasts from analysts, who were uncertain about just how much lower interest rates needed to go to keep the economy from recession.
	money.cnn.com /2001/06/27/markets/stock_breaker (189 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. John the Baptist
		Now during the sixth month, the Annunciation had taken place, and, as Mary had heard from the angel the fact of her cousin's conceiving, she went "with haste" to congratulate her.
		The second place, Ennon, "near Salim" (John, iii, 23), the extreme northern point marked in the Madaba mosaic map, is described in Eusebius's "Onomasticon" as being eight miles south of Seythopolis (Beisan), and should be sought probably at Ed-Deir or El-Ftur, a short distance from the Jordan (Lagrange, in "Revue Biblique", IV, 1895, pp.
		At any rate, about the middle of the fourth century, his tomb was there honoured, as we are informed on the testimony of Rufinus and Theodoretus.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/08486b.htm (5352 words)

	Bloomberg.com: Australia & New Zealand
		Bollard raised the official cash rate, the overnight lending target rate for banks, by a quarter point to 6.5 percent, to combat inflation which he forecasts will accelerate next year to its fastest pace since June 2001.
		New Zealand's benchmark rate is the highest among nations whose bonds have an AAA rating, helping the New Zealand dollar gain 13 percent the past year.
		Bollard is raising rates to slow an economy that expanded 5.7 percent in the second quarter from a year earlier, the fastest pace in four years.
	quote.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=10000081&sid=asq1nlfkkIPo&refer=australia (891 words)

	Kids show big gains on state math tests
		The scores, though preliminary, showed that 66 percent of fourth-graders statewide are proficient in math - up from 58 percent in 2003 - while the pass rate for sixth-graders jumped an impressive 13 percentage points to 65 percent.
		Wayne Schools in Warren County showed one of the most dramatic increases, with its sixth-graders jumping from a 53 percent passing rate last year to 82 percent in 2004.
		In sixth grade, 37 percent of fls passed, up from 23 percent the year before.
	www.enquirer.com /editions/2004/06/17/loc_testscores.html (1101 words)

	Digital Chosunilbo (English Edition) : Daily News in English About Korea
		The fertility rate of Korean women is the sixth lowest in the world.
		According to a 2005 population report issued by the UN Population Fund and the Planned Parenthood Federation of Korea, this year¡¯s fertility rate stood at 1.22 children per woman of childbearing age (15 to 49), considerably lower than the world average of 2.6 children and less than the average in developed countries of 1.57.
		North Korea's fertility rate was 1.97, suggesting that both Koreas have a problem.
	english.chosun.com /w21data/html/news/200510/200510120021.html (296 words)

	BC Student-Athlete Graduation Rate Ranked Sixth In Nation :: Eagles honored for overall graduation rate among all ...
		Boston College's graduation rate for all student-athletes (male and female) is the sixth-best in the nation among Division I-A athletics programs, according to data just released by the NCAA and featured in the USA Today/NCAA Academic Achievement Awards.
		The rankings are determined by federal graduation-rate forms (all schools offering athletic scholarships are required to complete the forms annually) and are for freshmen who entered in fall 1996 and had six years to graduate.
		In June, BC was honored by the American Football Coaches Association as one of seven institutions nationally to record a football graduation rate of 90 percent or better.
	bceagles.collegesports.com /genrel/090203aaa.html (313 words)

	Third-rate - Art History Online Reference and Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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".
	www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/3rd_rate (274 words)

	The Seattle Times: Business & Technology: Oregon unemployment rate falls for sixth straight month (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Unemployment fell a tenth of a point in Oregon for December, to 7.2 percent, the sixth straight month of improvement after the jobless rate hit a peak of 8.5 percent in June.
		Nationally, the jobless rate fell two-tenths of a percentage point in December to 5.7 percent.
		In Washington state, the unemployment rate fell to 6.8 percent in November from 7.0 percent in October; December jobs data will be released Tuesday.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/businesstechnology/2001837780_bizbriefs16.html (834 words)

	Capital News 9 \| 24 Hour Local News \| HEADLINES \| Central bank hikes for the sixth time since June
		It is the sixth rate hike since June for the central bank headed by Chairman Alan Greenspan.
		That takes the target for the federal funds rate, the rate banks charge each other, to 2.5 percent.
		For consumers, the decision means that variable rates set by banks and triggered by the Fed, will be headed higher as well.
	www.capitalnews9.com /content/headlines?ArID=115950&SecID=33 (233 words)

	Bambooweb: Frigate
		Sailing frigates were 4th, 5th, or 6th-rated ships in the rating system of the Royal Navy.
		British sailing frigates were rated fourth-rate, fifth-rate and sixth-rate according to the rating system of the Royal Navy.
		Common armament was 32-44 long guns, from 8- to 24-pounders, plus a few carronades, which weren't counted in the rating of the ship.
	www.bambooweb.com /articles/f/r/Frigate.html (914 words)

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