Sentences with phrase «big standard gauges»

Not exact matches

Another way to gauge the strength of a company is to companies with similar credit ratings - which the big credit rating agencies, Moody's and Standard & Poor's (S&P)- provide for investors to look up.

To gauge public views on this subject, we asked half of our respondents to indicate which level of government should play the biggest role in three areas: 1) setting educational standards for what students should know; 2) deciding whether or not a school is failing; and 3) deciding how to fix failing schools.

For the past three decades, public school accountability had generally been heading in one direction: toward common standards, standardized tests, and a bigger role for the federal government in shaping how states gauge student performance and improve schools.

Instead, the cockpit feels welcoming, uncluttered, and appropriately businesslike — including big central gauges, an F1 - inspired leather steering wheel (with standard heating), an 8.8 - inch widescreen nav display, and spectacular leather / Alcantara sport seats with conspicuously beefy side bolsters.

To gauge the credit worthiness of a bond, there are some rating agencies (big ones are Standard and Poor's, Moody's, Fitch ratings) that classify different bonds into the following rating bands:

Another way to gauge the strength of a company is to companies with similar credit ratings - which the big credit rating agencies, Moody's and Standard & Poor's (S&P)- provide for investors to look up.

For example, a standard price comparison anywhere in the world is a Big Mac combo at McDonald's A Big Mac is a great product to use as a gauge of prices as you can almost always find a McDonald's in any country and certainly every state that you visit in the U.S..