Sentences with phrase «by attrition in»

Not exact matches

Airports across the country are seeing lines balloon in size, thanks to a «perfect storm» of conditions — the number of airline passengers has increased to 700 million; there's massive attrition of TSA security screeners each week; TSA has cut staff by 10 percent over the last three years; and not enough passengers have enrolled in TSA's PreCheck program, the Associated Press reports.

Now we know that to grow our business by $ 1 million in new revenue, we will need to plan for $ 1.5 million in total new revenue (once we account for attrition).

They believe that this could be achieved through attrition, by eliminating one in every two positions that open through retirement.

Businesses benefit by lowering recruitment costs, improving attrition rates, optimizing labor in relation to demand signals, and improving the customer experience with happier, more engaged employees.

The scenario model is pre-populated with data based on a large sample of U.S. public companies (more than 2,500 companies) over a seven - year period (2004 - 2011), as compiled by BoardEx.1 To access the pre-populated model calculations, click the Calculations / Historical data and Attrition data tabs in the Excel spreadsheet that you can download from this page.

Jesus» parable states that despite the attrition caused by a scatter method of sowing, any seed that falls in good soil will bear abundant fruit.

And since changes in church school enrollment usually precede changes in church membership by three to five years, these churches face severe attrition in both the quantity and the quality of their constituency in the years ahead, if present trends continue.

The church of 1980 seems less threatened by clergy attrition than in former days.

We see certain qualities which have been realistically preserved and recreated — this utterly noneuphemized story of the sojourning Levite and his concubine, the degenerate townsmen, the women's tragic fate and the unhappy mores which dictated the circumstances (cf. Gen. 19), the Levite's shockingly dramatic response, the attrition of Benjamin, and the episodes of that tribe's very meager reconstitution [was Benjamin in fact depleted by Philistine massacre over the years?].

Of those six teams, four lost at least 50 percent of their defensive line tackles and tackles for loss and three were crushed by attrition at linebacker (only one returned any major level of experience), and while five of the six were reasonably experienced in the secondary, none were vastly experienced.

Ok I get that 3 points is what matters and happy we took them but what a misleading title the idea that watford finally gave in to arsenals attrition is idiotic... For an hour they were the one that probably had the more chances but in all honesty 2 2 would have been a fair scoreline... They were outdone in end by the class acts we have and they lack... Sanchez and ozil... And by one of most promising young players in Europe..

Of his four wins that season, one came in a race of serious attrition, and two were gifted to him by his teammates.

So we have the problem of attrition, lets say you try to correct for this by keeping the women in the study in the water birth group.

Other difficulties when conducting or evaluating research in this area include ensuring the equivalency of the control and experimental groups in randomized controlled trials (RCTs), 10 controlling for participant attrition (which may affect the validity of findings by reducing group equivalence) and missed visits (which may affect validity by reducing program intensity), 11 documenting that the program was fully and accurately implemented, and determining whether the program's theory of change logically connects program activities with intended outcomes.

«This Executive Budget calls for funding cuts including as many as 9,800 layoffs and more than 1,600 in attrition to reduce the work force by more than 11,500 jobs.»

In Goshen, we cut over $ 250,000 from this year's budget by eliminating positions through attrition, austerity measures and competitive bidding.

Weak governance, gross insensitivity and unacceptable levels of incompetence have been compounded by battles of attrition in which northerners have sapped each other's» strength.

-- «Inside Cablevision's War With Big Labor,» by M.L. Nestel in The Daily Beast: «the bruising three - year war of attrition that Dolan and Cablevision, the multibillion - dollar cable company he runs, have fought with the Communications Workers of America (CWA) union that some employees voted to join in 2012.

«Meanwhile the Governor has not addressed the problem of top - heavy management in state operations: only about 50 management / confidential personnel were approved for the administration's buyout plan while thousands of lower paid positions held by people who actually deliver frontline services to the public every day have been eliminated by attrition and reduction.»

Mayor Michael Bloomberg on May 6 called for laying off 4,278 teachers, and reducing the size of the teaching force by another 1,500 through attrition, in his executive budget.

The attrition of women and men from academic science programs is broken down by gender in the table below.

By coupling the most attractive aspects of the target - based and phenotypic approaches, as well as ensuring that projects are focussed on the most rigorously validated targets, SDDC aims to reduce attrition in preclinical discovery significantly.

The most well - known of these are so - called «senescent» cells, originally characterized by Leonard Hayflick as mitotic cells that reached growth arrest after a limited replicative lifespan (later associated with telomere attrition) under unphysiological conditions in culture.

By week 67, only 16 patients completed PRO assessments in each arm; attrition was highest in the ipilimumab arm, he noted.

Since the days of John Hunter it has been known that when the enamel and dentine are injured by attrition or caries, teeth do not remain passive but respond to the injury by producing a reaction of the odontoblasts in the dental pulp in an area generally corresponding to the damaged tissue and resulting in a laying down of what is known as secondary dentine.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening January 4, 2008 BIG BUDGET FILMS One Missed Call (PG - 13 for mature themes, frightening images, terror, intense violence and some sexual material) Shannyn Sossamon stars in this remake of Chakushin Ari, a high attrition - rate horror flick from Japan about a traumatized young woman who's afraid to answer her cell phone after several of her ill - fated friends receive messages accurately predicting exactly when and how they are about to die.

Night of the Demons (R for sexuality, nudity, drug use, profanity and graphic violence) Grisly remake of the 1998, high attrition - rate horror flick about a decadent Halloween party at a haunted house in New Orleans where teenaged revelers suddenly find themselves stalked by bloodthirsty demons.

However, Adolf Hitler has responded to the attrition in the ranks of his army by exhorting women and children to take up -LSB-...]

This gruesome splatter flick directed by Antoine Fuqua trades in profanity, ethnic slurs and gratuitous violence in service of a high attrition - rate crime whodunit designed for the blood sport demo.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening October 19, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS 30 Days of Night (R for profanity and graphic horror violence) Josh Hartnett and Melissa George head an ensemble cast in this high attrition - rate horror flick about a sheriff who, with the help of his estranged wife, confronts a horde of bloodthirsty vampires that descend on a tiny Alaskan town during the pitch black month when the sun slips beneath the horizon.

Since implementing the program in 1996, the attrition rate of new teachers has decreased by more than 80 percent.

Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon recently appeared to acknowledge the consequences of Israeli strategic and tactical mistakes by effectively conceding that Hamas had succeeded in imposing a war of attrition on Israel.

Large numbers of beginning teachers never make it to their second year in the classroom, but a solid mentoring program — a well - planned and well - supported program staffed by quality mentors — can help stem the tide of teacher attrition.

Research conducted by the University of Pennsylvania's Richard Ingersoll, among others, shows that general working conditions, the degree to which teachers have classroom autonomy, and other non-monetary factors are at least as important a consideration as salaries in explaining teacher attrition.

Critics often suggest that superior performance in the charter sector is a result of high levels of attrition, caused by implicit or explicit efforts on the part of school staff to «counsel out» the students who are hardest to educate.

The red line shows the actual attrition rates as calculated by theNew York City Independent Budget Office for the 9,437 teachers who began teaching in New York City in the 2001 - 2 school year, the most recent time period for which we have 10 years of data.

• When schools lack expert teachers because of shortages stemming from geographic limitations or attrition, for example; • When expert teachers must serve a wide range of student needs in a single classroom by personalizing learning for each student; • And when expert teachers much teach more than academic content.

In a small school like Met Academy (student body: 88), such numbers can be seriously influenced by attrition and other factors.

In fact, as the authors show in the report, reducing attrition by half could virtually eliminate shortageIn fact, as the authors show in the report, reducing attrition by half could virtually eliminate shortagein the report, reducing attrition by half could virtually eliminate shortages.

Shortages in many fields and locations across the state have been provoked by a steep decline in candidates preparing to teach, coupled with an increase in demand fueled largely by teacher attrition and schools» reinstatement of previously cut staff positions.

In other words, we worry about differential and selective attrition by win / loss status.

In a school - by - school attrition analysis using the ever - offer instrument, two schools have marginally significant follow - up differentials of 5 — 7 %, though only one is significant at the 0.05 level.

For example, Clotfelter et al. (2008) found that a targeted bonus to certified math, science and special education teachers working in disadvantaged North Carolina schools reduced the attrition of targeted teachers by 17 percent, while Feng and Sass (2015) found that loan forgiveness programs for teachers with high - needs endorsements reduced the attrition of teachers in shortage areas in Florida.

«Does Student Attrition Explain KIPP's Success: Evidence on which students leave KIPP middle schools and who replaces them,» by Ira Nichols - Barrer, Brian P. Gill, Philip Gleason, and Christina Clark Tuttle, is available on http://educationnext.org and will appear in the Fall 2014 issue of Education Next.

Guidance from the Get - Go: Mentoring New Teachers Large numbers of beginning teachers never make it to their second year in the classroom, but a solid mentoring program — a well - planned and well - supported program staffed by quality mentors — can help stem the tide of teacher attrition.

Citing a 2015 report by the Albert Shanker Institute on the state of diversity in teacher education, Mitchell calls attention to disturbing statistics about the attrition of teachers of color, and, in particular, black men.

Focusing on the causes and consequences of a less - experienced teaching force, a report released this month by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching at Stanford, examines escalating levels of teacher attrition in public schools and also offers promising solutions aimed at keeping new educators in the profession and helping them to become better faster.

Springfield Public Schools in Missouri, the author notes, had a serious teacher attrition problem: 70 percent of new teachers who started teaching there had left by the end of their third year.

States are also seeking to stem attrition by investing in high - quality preparation programs and improved support for new teachers — two strategies that research has shown to be effective in improving teacher retention.

Key Takeaway # 3: Huge variation in attrition rates by region.