Sentences with phrase «acceptable levels as»

It opens with the observation that New York's low success percentages for proficiency on the Big Test are simply «unacceptable» and therefore Cuomo will make sure that the cut scores are set at more acceptable levels as determined by educators and not politicians.

A test for airborne asbestos in a Connecticut Middle School art room in 2003 revealed triple the acceptable level as stated in the Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act.

Not exact matches

Actual results, including with respect to our targets and prospects, could differ materially due to a number of factors, including the risk that we may not obtain sufficient orders to achieve our targeted revenues; price competition in key markets; the risk that we or our channel partners are not able to develop and expand customer bases and accurately anticipate demand from end customers, which can result in increased inventory and reduced orders as we experience wide fluctuations in supply and demand; the risk that our commercial Lighting Products results will continue to suffer if new issues arise regarding issues related to product quality for this business; the risk that we may experience production difficulties that preclude us from shipping sufficient quantities to meet customer orders or that result in higher production costs and lower margins; our ability to lower costs; the risk that our results will suffer if we are unable to balance fluctuations in customer demand and capacity, including bringing on additional capacity on a timely basis to meet customer demand; the risk that longer manufacturing lead times may cause customers to fulfill their orders with a competitor's products instead; the risk that the economic and political uncertainty caused by the proposed tariffs by the United States on Chinese goods, and any corresponding Chinese tariffs in response, may negatively impact demand for our products; product mix; risks associated with the ramp - up of production of our new products, and our entry into new business channels different from those in which we have historically operated; the risk that customers do not maintain their favorable perception of our brand and products, resulting in lower demand for our products; the risk that our products fail to perform or fail to meet customer requirements or expectations, resulting in significant additional costs, including costs associated with warranty returns or the potential recall of our products; ongoing uncertainty in global economic conditions, infrastructure development or customer demand that could negatively affect product demand, collectability of receivables and other related matters as consumers and businesses may defer purchases or payments, or default on payments; risks resulting from the concentration of our business among few customers, including the risk that customers may reduce or cancel orders or fail to honor purchase commitments; the risk that we are not able to enter into acceptable contractual arrangements with the significant customers of the acquired Infineon RF Power business or otherwise not fully realize anticipated benefits of the transaction; the risk that retail customers may alter promotional pricing, increase promotion of a competitor's products over our products or reduce their inventory levels, all of which could negatively affect product demand; the risk that our investments may experience periods of significant stock price volatility causing us to recognize fair value losses on our investment; the risk posed by managing an increasingly complex supply chain that has the ability to supply a sufficient quantity of raw materials, subsystems and finished products with the required specifications and quality; the risk we may be required to record a significant charge to earnings if our goodwill or amortizable assets become impaired; risks relating to confidential information theft or misuse, including through cyber-attacks or cyber intrusion; our ability to complete development and commercialization of products under development, such as our pipeline of Wolfspeed products, improved LED chips, LED components, and LED lighting products risks related to our multi-year warranty periods for LED lighting products; risks associated with acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures or investments generally; the rapid development of new technology and competing products that may impair demand or render our products obsolete; the potential lack of customer acceptance for our products; risks associated with ongoing litigation; and other factors discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including our report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended June 25, 2017, and subsequent reports filed with the SEC.

Thus, the path dependency that political scientist Paul Pierson, 1997 has observed in pension reforms is not just an observed fact, but a desired characteristic.21 Threats to sustainability are typically identified as expenditures rising above an acceptable level, and especially in prefunded DB plans, volatility of pension contributions or accounting expenses for pensions.

The environmental challenges are undeniable, but can they be managed in such a way as to mitigate the risk to an acceptable and predictable level?

But as soon as you've made the first move, you've locked in an acceptable level of regret, and shielded yourself from unacceptable regret.

Beijing can keep growth high enough that unemployment is held to acceptable levels only as long as debt can grow fast enough both to

For the world's largest oil companies, referred to as big Big Oil, this calls for a 30 % cut to capital expenditures, just to get the free cash - flow generation back to an acceptable level.

Required yield is the minimum acceptable return that investors demand as compensation for accepting a given level of risk.

As a general rule, countries attempt to keep inflation fixed at a rate of 2 percent as moderate levels of inflation are acceptable, with high levels of deflation leading to economic stagnatioAs a general rule, countries attempt to keep inflation fixed at a rate of 2 percent as moderate levels of inflation are acceptable, with high levels of deflation leading to economic stagnatioas moderate levels of inflation are acceptable, with high levels of deflation leading to economic stagnation.

In the latest agreement, implemented in 2006, the U.S. agreed to drop anti-dumping tariffs as long as lumber prices remained at an acceptable level.

If cosmology and evolution are too full of holes to be acceptable, then surely the superior explanation of «divine orchestration» should be understood in at least same the level of detail as natural processes.

Under the philosophy of development built on the illusion that change and growth are the same as progress and that any move, especially if it goes in the direction of control and exploitation of nature is to be desired, we have set up the Euro - American culture as the mark of development, and the acceptable level of human consumption.

It sounded catchy but before long Mark Zuckerberg changed it to «Move fast with stable infrastructure», leaving behind the entrepreneurial approach of his youth for something more acceptable because as he said «You have to be stable in order to get to the next level».

While such simplifying assumptions were deemed acceptable in the past, they can no longer be regarded as a correct reflection of the underlying dynamics of any realistic natural system.12 Above all, we have shown the contingent (or probabilistic) nature of all dynamically evolving systems at both the microscopic (atomic and sub-atomic) and macroscopic (terrestrial) levels.

But if we decide that it is acceptable to treat humans worse than we treat animals, it should not surprise us if many people at the grassroots level decide that as along as they have to die like a dog, they would rather not suffer the fate of an abandoned stray.

It's no longer acceptable for fine Australian wines to be perceived as an entry - level product.

For the average child (keeping in mind individual kids may be exceptions to these guidelines), an acceptable amount of homework per night is as follows: — Elementary school: approximately 10 minutes or so per grade level — Middle school: an hour or so — High School: 2 to 2-1/2 hours Any homework beyond these limits is no longer providing any advantage, and is probably cutting into those things that do provide advantages like adequate sleep and what we at Challenge Success call «PDF» — that is, play time, down time and family time.

It's interesting that they focus on the technicalities of whether sodium qualifies as a preservative in this particular product, whether the level of sodium in a serving falls within the maximum acceptable range for a toddler, etc., while glossing over the elephant in the freezer - products like this just have way too much sodium to ever reasonably be considered «healthy» or «eating well», and rather than taking real steps to improve their products, Nestle has chosen to hide behind soundbites like «no preservatives!

The discovery of the tainted chicken, which Illinois health officials say showed ammonia contamination levels as high as 133 times the acceptable level, sent state education officials scurrying to gather up 360 cases of chicken tenders sent to 49 public schools, including 11 in the Chicago area.

The chicken tenders, which showed ammonia contamination levels as high as 133 times the acceptable level, had been stored in a warehouse in St. Louis before being moved to Illinois.

The poultry later showed ammonia contamination levels as high as 133 times the acceptable amount, according to state health officials.

Some large retailers lowered the acceptable level of lead in toys well before the federal government set new standards this summer as part of a CPSC overhaul.

Blum says if the EPA lowers its limits of acceptable levels of PFOA and related chemicals, as many scientists have urged, then as many as 16.5 million people could be drinking potentially contaminated water.

The EPA is now considering designating Hoosick Falls as a federal Superfund site and has lowered the acceptable level of PFOA for residents to consume.

Blum said if the EPA lowers its limits of acceptable levels of PFOA and related chemicals, as many scientists have urged, then as many as 16.5 million people could be drinking potentially contaminated water.

That should guide decisions as to the levels of acceptable risk, he says, so that the research can proceed «safely, and in a way that does not put the world at potential risk».

«To the extent that consumption of foreign petroleum has not been reduced to acceptable levels, this could be viewed as the principal motivation.»

But a 2007 study by Ohio State and Johns Hopkins University researchers found that levels of chemicals in breast milk were far below U.S. Environmental Protection Agency maximum acceptable levels for even drinking water, and that indoor air in typical American homes contains as much as 135 times as many contaminants as mother's milk.

This is a prime example of the «precautionary principle» that has guided U.S. health agencies in setting acceptable levels of exposure to other potentially hazardous substances, such as lead.

By analyzing current building codes and the like, the New York City Panel on Climate Change determined the acceptable level of risk for its residents and is now prioritizing projects that hold to those same levels the perils from climate change impacts directly on the city, such as sea - level rise or more frequent heat waves.

The research doesn't change the national guidelines for women considering hormone replacement therapy, says Ravdin, adding, «[HRT] confers a small amount of additional risk, which, as long as you're going to be taking it for a short period, for most people, is an acceptable level.»

As human safety levels are extrapolated from rodent data, the study could lead to a re-evaluation of the acceptable daily intake for many endocrine disruptors.

Air pollution levels in some Chinese cities, such as Beijing, are often more than 100 times higher than acceptable limits set by the World Health Organization standards, Zhang says.

«(A) the technical capacity to monitor, measure, report, and verify forest carbon fluxes for all significant sources of greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation with an acceptable level of uncertainty, as determined taking into account relevant internationally accepted methodologies, such as those established by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change;

does fit the temperature trend to an acceptable level, if one should reduce the sensitivity for CO2 / aerosols far enough... Current models also can reproduce other transitions (LGM - Holocene) with a reasonable accuracy, but this is mainly in periods where there is a huge overlap between temperature (as initiator) and CO2 / CH4 levels (as feedback).

Yeah, «the cancer risk posed by hijiki consumption exceeds... acceptable» cancer risk levels by an order of magnitude, but the Japanese Ministry of Health stresses the potential «health benefits,» lots of «fiber and minerals,» as if hijiki was the only weed in the sea.

If you don't lower your omega - 6 fats to acceptable levels, your omega 6:3 ratio will not be low enough, and you will not be likely receive the full benefits of omega - 3 fats such as reduced risk of heart disease, cancer, stroke, Alzheimer's, arthritis and many other degenerative illnesses.

As you can see from the data graph below, THC metabolite levels go down much more slowly using the expensive detox kit (priced at $ 125) and failed to reach acceptable levels (below 10g / ml) even after the end of the experiment 65 hrs after detox began,

In the rule, the FDA mentions that the agency is open to alternate approaches to addressing partially hydrogenated oils in food, such as the setting of acceptable trans fat threshold levels.

The FDA has assigned the Acceptable Daily Intake level for gum acacia as «not specific» — a designation given to ingredients with little to no toxic possibility.

Other good foods to eat are green leafy fresh vegetables, containing high levels of Vitamin K as well as non-acidic fresh fruits (apart from pineapple which is acceptable), whole grains, oatmeal, brown rice, quinoa, and fish.

It may be just fine for a video game to culminate in a secret level where down is up and mysterious and previously unhinted - at creatures appear and must be battled, but in movies this is cheating, which is nowhere near as acceptable and encouraged as it is when a joystick is involved.

As for the Blu - ray, picture quality nearly reaches the «excellent» level, while audio is acceptable in its 5.1 remix and very nice in its monaural version.

Researchers studying spending differences between districts have established 0.1 as an acceptable level of equity, and we follow this convention in our analysis of between - school spending differences.

The ETS is very upfront about the issues surrounding the use of teacher - licensure tests and entry tests as a measure of teacher quality, but it also points out that doing so does make sense, because using this kind of test can show that, as it says, «an individual has acquired a level of knowledge that is acceptable for licensing a beginning teacher, and that teachers without this knowledge are unlikely to become effective teachers.»

While it is a worthwhile goal to train preservice teachers as «savvy consumers of technology,» teachers are rarely in positions of authority to make purchasing decisions and are often limited by acceptable use policies set at the district level, including filters and insufficient technology support and maintenance or access to computer labs.

In fulfillment of its duty to the citizens of this state, the Legislature has established certification requirements to assure that educational personnel in public schools possess appropriate skills in reading, writing, and mathematics, and adequate pedagogical knowledge, including the use of technology to enhance student learning, and relevant subject matter competence so as to demonstrate an acceptable level of professional performance.

(3) If one views middle level education as anti-tracking and anti-ability grouping, then how is grouping at the middle of the pyramid ever acceptable?

Monitor for Sustainability of Academic Success: Academic progress of former ELL students must be monitored for two years after exiting and appropriate measures taken, such as re-enrolling or re-adjusting curriculum for students who do not maintain acceptable academic performance levels.