Sentences with phrase «u.s. high jumper»

«An athletic body is a work of art,» says U.S. high jumper Amy Acuff, who appears in the 2000 track and field calendar adorned in body paint.

And so it went every night until the club's 2 a.m. closing time, after which, one imagined, U.S. high jumper Dwight Stones would have to vault the fence to get in and Russian strongman Vasily Alexeyev would be wearily deadlifting sofas for the cleaning women to vacuum underneath.

Not exact matches

NEW YORK, April 30 (Reuters)- U.S. crude oil production jumped 260,000 barrels per day (bpd) to 10.26 million bpd in February, the highest on record, the Energy Information Administration said in a monthly report on Monday.

NEW YORK, April 30 - U.S. crude oil production jumped 260,000 barrels per day to 10.26 million bpd in February, the highest on record, the Energy Information Administration said in a monthly report on Monday.

The yield on the U.S. 10 - year Treasury jumped to its highest level since 2014 on Friday morning, underlining a wider move in bond markets caused by central banks moving away from financial crisis policies.

NEW YORK, April 30 - U.S. crude production jumped 260,000 barrels per day to 10.26 million bpd in February, the highest on record, the Energy Information Administration said in a monthly report on Monday.

And while it's difficult for U.S. companies that are new to the scene to jump in on the game, international businesses have an even higher hurdle to overcome.

RBC's capital markets division saw a 13 per cent jump year - on - year in net income to $ 748 million, primarily due to a lower effective tax rate largely due to U.S. tax changes and higher results in corporate and investment banking and global markets.

Although higher costs are predicted for installers in the U.S., their shares jumped as the tariffs were lower than the 35 % floated last year.

Over the last decade, college loan balances in the U.S. have jumped to an all - time high of $ 1.4 trillion, according to a report by Experian.

Prices were pulled down by a report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) on Wednesday showing U.S. crude inventories jumped by 6.2 million barrels to 435.96 million barrels in the week to April 27, marking a 2018 high.

The recent jump in U.S. crude imports and inventories could reverse from March given the high compliance to the OPEC proposed cuts, Goldman Sachs said.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- Oil jumped as much as 3 percent on Tuesday as a weak dollar propped up commodities, but crude prices came off their highs in post-settlement trading on signs of another big U.S. supply build last week.

NEW YORK, April 11 (Reuters)- Oil prices jumped on Wednesday, hitting their highest in more than three years on Wednesday after Saudi Arabia said it intercepted missiles over Riyadh and U.S. President Donald Trump warned Russia of imminent military action in Syria.

The Dow utility average plunged another 12 points, the Transports dropped by nearly 100, the Industrials failed their recent basing pattern, the number of stocks hitting new lows jumped above new highs on both the NYSE and the Nasdaq, decliners led advancers by more than 2 - to - 1, and the U.S. dollar weakened further, among other ugliness.

Elsewhere, U.S. crude production jumped 260,000 barrels per day (bpd) to a record high of 10.26 million bpd in February, the Energy Information Administration said on Monday.

Trade surplus in August jumped 77.8 percent year - on - year and hit a record high again, after reaching an all - time high of 47.3 billion U.S. dollars in July, the data showed.

Oil prices finish higher as IMF move threatens Venezuelan output Traders also weigh jump in U.S. crude supplies, risks to Iran dealAfter trading on a mixed note for much of Wednesday's session, oil prices settled decidedly higher, as the International Monetary Fund's threat to expel Venezuela reignited market concerns over the struggling nation's crude production.

The price of U.S. crude also jumped on the report, and closed nearly 5 percent higher.

Combined profit at the six largest U.S. banks jumped last year to the highest level since 2006, even as the firms allocated more than $ 18 billion to deal with claims they broke laws or cheated investors.

At the same time, the U.S. 10 - year Treasury bond yield dipped from 2.43 % to 2.34 % week - over-week, while WTI oil prices jumped to a 2 1/2 - year high near $ 56.

Brent crude jumped to a high above US$ 72 a barrel, its strongest since early December 2014, after Trump's comments, while U.S. crude rose above US$ 67 a barrel.

Crude oil was little changed near a five - month high as pending sales of U.S. existing homes jumped along with spending on construction projects.

As a sophomore at Seabreeze High, he won the high jump at the U.S. Junior Olympics with a leap of seven fHigh, he won the high jump at the U.S. Junior Olympics with a leap of seven fhigh jump at the U.S. Junior Olympics with a leap of seven feet.

Princetonians Albert Tyler (2nd, pole vault), Francis Lane, (5th, 100 - meter), Herbert Jamison (2nd, 400 - meter), Robert Garrett (1st, shotput, discus; 2nd, broad jump; 3rd, high jump) further helped small U.S. band dominate Games.

Last year, the Associated Press reported that U.S. women are dying from childbirth at the highest rate in decades, with the jump in C - sections partly to blame.

With such concerns in mind, Coleman jumped at the opportunity when the U.S. Department of Education in 1979 asked him to lead another national survey of American students, known as «High School and Beyond,» that would follow young people as they progressed from 10th to 12th grade and on into college.

But last week the benchmark 10 - year U.S. Treasury bond yield jumped to a six month high around 3.75 pct, while the spread between 2 - year and 10 - year bond yields widened to a record 2.75 percentage points.

That is 19 bps — a spike the S&P / ISDA CDS U.S. High - Yield Index has not seen since Janet Yellen's stimulus program comments in March caused a 31 bps jump.

Credit card interest rates jump, approach record highs — Credit card interest rates reached their second - highest level on record after U.S. Bank raised rates on several of its cards.

Once the official training levels are completed, the game jumps forward to 2019, taking players around the world to France, Japan, Morocco, the U.S. and more to kill extremely high - profile targets ranging from supermodel spies, bio-engineers, banking CEOs, indie rock singers and many more colourful characters in the main story mode, which spans six main episodes.

Wholesale food prices jumped 3.9 % in February (compared to January) in the U.S., the highest month - to - month increase in 37 years.

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And last winter, when it was bitterly cold in much of the U.S., prices in some regions jumped 10 - to 12 - times higher than recent lows.

Third, fixed fees once again were ranked highest for effectiveness among U.S. counsel, with a significant jump over the last year (46 % from 29 %).

The firm also pushed profitability to record levels, with U.S. profits per partner (PPP) jumping more than 12 percent to $ 1.38 million — its highest returns since the three - way merger between U.K. firm DLA, Chicago's Piper Rudnick, and San Diego - based Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich in 2005.

U.S. Treasury prices tumbled, pushing yields higher across the curve; the yield on the benchmark 10 - year note jumped 5 bps to 2.78 %, bouncing off an eight - week low, while the two - year yield also added 5 bps to 2.29 %.

The proportion of U.S. contraceptive users relying on LARCs jumped from 2.4 % in 2002 to 14.3 % in 2014, the highest level ever recorded in the United States.9 There is also some evidence that LARCs are highly desired by many abortion patients and that patient interest increases when LARCs are available for immediate postabortion initiation.1, 11,12 Notably, all contraceptive methods, including LARCs, are appropriate for immediate uptake following a surgical abortion.13 In addition, recently updated medical guidelines support providing implants and injectable contraception at the time of a medication abortion, along with previously available methods like the pill, patch and ring; the IUD is now the only method that providers can not offer on the day medication abortion is started.14 This broader array of options is particularly significant given that medication abortion represents an increasing proportion of all abortions nationally.

On Tuesday, the Conference Board announced that the U.S. consumer confidence index jumped to 90.9 in July, up from a revised 86.4 in June, landing at the highest level in seven years.

Columbus rents jumped a whopping 9.90 percent, the tenth - highest rent variance in the U.S. and an increase almost twice as large as the national average.

In August, U.S. home prices jumped to their highest level in more than five years, underscoring a broadening recovery in the housing market.

In fact, the U.S. is experiencing the highest number of renters in decades, so many amateur investors want to jump in and turn a profit with their property.

After a decade of steady decline, the number of Americans killed on U.S. highways jumped by about 8 percent in 2015, and the toll is getting higher this year.