Sentences with phrase «by high attrition rates»

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Zombeavers (R for gory violence, crude humor, graphic sexuality, gratuitous nudity and pervasive profanity) High attrition - rate, horror comedy about a group of college kids whose plans for a wild weekend of debauchery at a riverside cabin is ruined by the arrival of a horde of bloodthirsty zombie beavers.

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.

The Last Days on Mars (PG - 13 for brief profanity) High attrition - rate horror flick about a crew of astronauts who mysteriously perish one - by - one while collecting specimens on the surface of Mars.

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.

Friend Request (R for profanity, violence and disturbing images) High attrition - rate horror flick about a popular college coed (Alycia Debnam - Carey) who comes to regret unfriending a stalker (Liesl Ahlers) when her closest classmates start disappearing one - by - one.

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.

My Bloody Valentine 3 - D (R for profanity, gruesome violence, grisly images, explicit sexuality and graphic nudity) High attrition - rate slasher flick about a coal miner (Jensen Ackles) who returns to his hometown of Harmony exactly 10 years after the slaughter of 22 locals by a deranged murderer on Valentine's Day only to discover another madman embarking on a similar killing spree.

Charter schools are often marked by very high attrition — including the schools that are hailed for supposedly high graduation and college matriculation rates.

Although the recent recession slowed the teacher exodus somewhat, teacher turnover rates are exceptionally high, according to the report, which found that from 1988 to 2008, teacher attrition rose by 41 percent.

If attrition were reduced by half to rates comparable to those in high - achieving nations, shortages would largely disappear.

Even those schools that get high test scores often achieve this by cherry - picking new students and culling existing ones through high attrition rates.

But policy makers are often frustrated by the seemingly high rates of attrition among teachers earlier on in their careers.

IDRA research shows that 42 percent of the state's 1995 - 96 freshman class were lost from public school enrollment by 1998 - 99, the same percentage of students lost between 1994 - 95 and 1997 - 98 (see Longitudinal Attrition Rates in Texas Public High Schools, 1985 - 86 to 1998 - 99).

While Gleason focuses on the struggles of black teachers, some of the problems they face are relevant to Asian American teachers — particularly that their high attrition rates result from feeling isolated and furthermore, stereotyped by white teachers and their students.

[18] While academic gains achieved by students in KIPP schools were mostly positive, the study found that these KIPP schools had unusually high attrition rates.

Now, 15 years later, the Law Society of Upper Canada has released its report on retaining women in the profession and many of the same issues raised by Wilson are still present: a high proportion of women enter the legal profession at the initial entry level (more than 50 per cent of lawyers called to the bar are female), and that there is a higher attrition rate for women than men from private practice.

«The past few years have witnessed the highest levels of associate attrition ever documented, with an average annual attrition rate for both sexes of 19 percent, as recently reported by the NALP Foundation for Law Career Research and Education.

According to a 2014 survey by the National Association of Women Lawyers, lack of business development and high attrition rates are the two main reasons the number of female equity partners has not significantly increased.

Global Lateral Hiring by The Numbers: A Look Behind the High 5 - Year Attrition Rate in American Lawyer International in February found that «Half of lateral partner hires are failures.

Delivered the highest combined percentage of newly sold and invoiced jobs for 2006; honored for dropping attrition rate to 4 % from average of 9 % by setting competitive and achievable expectations.

Mothers who were younger, unmarried, African American, and visited by nurses who ceased employment had higher rates of attrition and fewer home visits.