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It's now been 10 years since humans deciphered the digital code that defines us as a species, says a review of genomic medicine titled Deflating the Genomic Bubble, led by James Evans of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, in the current Science.
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Deflating the $5 a day wage by the CPI-U (which is not really appropriate, but this is a blog post, not a dissertation) Ford's $5 a day is a wage of 5* (184/9.9) = $93 per day in 2003 dollars, or $10.35 per hour.
Block that Free Lunch, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Deflating real estate values is only the current example.
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Deflating prices keep people from buying, since they recognize they can get everything cheaper later, and the postponed sales only make businesses more desperate to sell, so they lower prices again.
Eric Schurenberg: Is Deflation now "The Peril?" And What Do You Do if it is? 2010
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Deflating deflationary expectations is the best explanation, but a bond bubble may be an unintended consequence.
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Deflating deflationary expectations is the best explanation, but a bond bubble may be an unintended consequence.
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Deflating the hype and going back to humble beginnings and simple questions is, in my not-so-humble opinion, the appropriate and most effective way forward.
After Social Graph FOO Camp — and a challenge for the Data Portability Group | FactoryCity 2008
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Deflating is more like it, just like a spent whoopie cushion, so goes McCain's campaign.
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Deflating standards deflates student achievement because school districts align their instructional programs with their respective state standards.
Zach Marks: No Child Left Behind: Hands-On Where It Should Be Hands-Off and Vice Versa 2008
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Deflating nominal GDP with a 4% inflation rate, calculated by including the 28% jump in import prices, would push Q2 real GDP into negative territory.
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