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At the step progression date next following the involuntary demotion , the employee 's salary will be increased to a step on the new salary scale consistent with the step progression policy , with the advancement on the scale occurring from the lower of the two steps . Two attempts were required before the drill string could be lowered past the ledge to the next tool joint . The four-week average of initial claims for unemployment insurance , while still elevated , has been moving lower through the first three weeks of October . Steinmann also submitted quotations prepared after bid opening from two companies proposing to do the omitted sprinkler work , requesting that the bid be increased by $ 8,625 , the amount of the lower of the two new quotations plus a markup for supervision and contingencies to reflect his intended bid price . Nonetheless , overall economic growth rebounded in the last three months of the year , with gross domestic product , the value of all goods and services produced in the country , rising at a robust 3.5 percent annual rate.Unemployment drifted lower through the year , to 4.5 percent in December from 4.9 percent a year earlier . He stopped on the lower of the two stone steps and let Adela go on alone to the porch , where Ardelve stepped forward to meet her in front of the altar . " The dollar is headed lower over the near term , " said Paul Chertkow , a London-based analyst at Citibank who is a long-term optimist on the dollar . A Title I school must have : 1 ) a percentage of low-income students that is at least as high as the district 's overall percentage ; or 2 ) have at least 35 percent low-income students ( whichever is the lower of the two figures ) . The lower of the two curves , rising from left to right , shows returns to the project innovators increasing over time as they commercialize it . When one hundred and fifty tons per day is performed , and the company receive more than 15 per cent the tonnage or rude produce should be three half pence per mile , but never lower by the act ; competition among canals will regulate the carriage of course , and competition will be a benefit to the country . They can range in size from arbitrarily large down to a fraction of a nanometer wide ; the upper limit is set by device size , the lower by the scale of atoms .