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Banerjee, Abhijit Vanayak
(Encyclopedia) Banerjee, Abhijit Vanayak, 1961–, Indian-American economist, b. Mumbai, Ph.D. Harvard, 1988. He taught economics at Princeton (1988–92) and Harvard (1992–93) before moving to the…Write Rates as Fractions to Find Unit Rate Through Dividing
Help students find a unit rate by dividing the fraction, which is the same as multiplying by its reciprocal.Money Market Interest Rates and Mortgage Rates, 2003–2006
Type 2003 2004 2005 2006 Federal funds, effective rate 1.13% 1.35% 3.22% 4.97…Money Market Interest Rates and Mortgage Rates, 1980–2002
Below find money market interest and mortgage rates for 1980 through 2002. Type 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000…interest
(Encyclopedia) interest, charge for the use of credit or money, usually figured as a percentage of the principal and computed annually. Simple interest is computed annually on the principal. Compound…baud
(Encyclopedia) baudbaudbôd, bōd [key], measure of the rate at which signals are transmitted over a telecommunications link. It is equivalent to the number of elements or pulses transmitted in one…Great Depression
(Encyclopedia) Great Depression, in U.S. history, the severe economic crisis generally considered to have been precipitated by the U.S. stock-market crash of 1929. Although it shared the basic…thyroxine
(Encyclopedia) thyroxinethyroxinethīrŏkˈsēn [key], substance secreted by the thyroid gland. The hormone thyroxine forms by combining the amino acid tyrosine with iodine. Complexed to a protein, it is…Lewis, Oscar
(Encyclopedia) Lewis, Oscar, 1914–70, American anthropologist, b. New York City, grad. City College of New York (B.S.S., 1936) and Columbia (Ph.D., 1940). He was a professor of anthropology at…population
(Encyclopedia) population, the inhabitants of a given area, but perhaps most importantly, the human inhabitants of the earth (numbering about 7.5 billion in 2017), who by their increasing numbers and…Trending
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