Sentences with phrase «by most measures new»

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The Swedish company, which began trading in an unorthodox direct listing on the New York Stock Exchange in April, reported steady growth by most financial measures but failed to deliver the commanding performance that could...

Of course, beyond the major geographical changes as a result of the meteors, there's a new season of «Fortnite» — the most popular game in the world, by some measures — for millions of players to dig into.

A new generation of service companies, like Lunar Design, have figured out that it's all in the multiple By most outward measures, Lunar Design would be considered a success.

At least in the short term, the bank was expected to be the most affected by the new law, which lowered the corporate tax rate and introduced measures designed to encourage companies to bring overseas profits back to the US.

The new measures would build on a number of energy — and environment - related executive orders signed by Trump seeking to gut most of the climate change regulations put in place by predecessor President Barack Obama.

Already the most dominant Chinese leader in generations, Xi has made it all too clear that China has entered a «new era,» and that it sees itself as a top global power, in stark contrast to the past four decades of «Hide your strength, bide your time,» as put by Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, who spearheaded the market - opening measures in 1978.

Both now boast more users than Twitter by most measures, even though they are much newer, and advertisers have begun to migrate their ad dollars accordingly.

A new study released by the University of Nebraska - Lincoln show that in most measures, the more educated one is, the more likely one is to be religious, and more importantly, participant.

Furthermore, tests using a new test called liquid chromatography - mass spectrometry (LC - MS)-- scientists believe it is a more accurate way to measure gluten in fermented beers — showed that even though all the tested beers «had been rated by their makers to have gluten levels below 20 mg / kg, according to ELISA», the new test «found detectable gluten fragments in every sample using LC - MS, and most had much higher levels of gluten than ELISA detected.»

The most recent polling for Gillibrand's own race has her leading opponent Wendy Long by wide margins — 64 to 27 percent, says a September Quinnipiac poll — and so the New York senator has sufficient leeway to throw her time and resources behind other campaigns, an unusual luxury for a politician and a traditional path for New York figures to a measure of national power.

By most ways of measuring, New York City developers are the largest source of campaign funds in the state — they accounted for 10 percent of total contributions in the last election cycle.

Affordable Warmth Solutions (AWS) is a Community Interest Company (CIC) established by National Grid to help fight fuel poverty by providing new gas connections and investing in energy efficiency measures in homes that lie within the most deprived areas of its gas distribution area (Midlands, the North West, North London and East Anglia) For further information, please visit https://www.affordablewarmthsolutions.org.uk/.

A poll conducted by Global Strategy Group and commissioned by casino developers Caesar's and MGM shows most New Yorkers are open to a measure backed Sen. John Bonacic that would allow for some forms of Internet poker.

But on Tuesday evening, it was the Republican leader in a statement praising Cuomo for signing a bill that blocks the implementation of a 5 - cent fee on plastic bags in New York City — a measure that had been pushed by the GOP conference, most prominently Sen. Simcha Felder, a Democrat who aligns with the Republicans and is a key vote.

Reed was ranked as the 32nd most bipartisan member of the U.S. House of Representatives during the 114th United States Congress (and the seventh most bipartisan member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York) in the Bipartisan Index created by The Lugar Center and the McCourt School of Public Policy that ranks members of the United States Congress by their degree of bipartisanship (by measuring the frequency each member's bills attract co-sponsors from the opposite party and each member's co-sponsorship of bills by members of the opposite party).

The measure was opposed by 23 of New York's 27 House members over concerns about the bill's impact on the state and cuts to the single most popular tax deduction taken by New Yorkers, the state and local tax deduction.

The stop - and - frisk policy has been a hotly debated issue at City Hall with Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly defending the practice as a way to reduce crime and helped drive down New York's crime rate to the lowest among the country's 25 most populous cities, as measured by the FBI.

«If a gun regulation is most likely to be enacted in jurisdictions that have recently experienced a surge in gun violence and if that surge is temporary, the result will be that implementation of the new measure is followed by a drop in crime, giving the false appearance that it was effective,» the researchers wrote.

The new analysis is based on recent research showing that hot weather's most deadly effects for humans comes from a combination of high temperature and high humidity, an index which is measured by a reading known as wet - bulb temperature.

Yes, one of the primary purposes of the new bill was to reduce the long term upward spiral of health care costs, and by most accounts, the measure is projected to do that.

Koons is, by the measure of sales of new work, which is the money - mad art world's only objective measure, the most successful living American artist, but Check us out!

By that measure, its new trailer, a Game Awards 2017 - exclusive cinematic featuring Norman Reedus, a baby, some alien creatures and a bunch of other nonsensicalities, was the most fun one yet.

July 20, 2010 • A new chart will measure the most popular songs and artists on the web by collecting data from many websites that stream music, like Pandora and YouTube.

Thousands of schools for African American students across the Jim Crow South were built with the backing of the Rosenwald Fund, one of the earliest and most important foundations in education; philanthropist Grace Dodge founded Teachers College, now at Columbia University, in 1887, which led to training of teachers in pedagogy; the Ford Foundation was involved in promoting the employment of classroom aides, National Merit Scholarships, and the development of Advanced Placement curricula and tests; the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards grew out of work funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York, which also funded the Educational Testing Service to develop objective ways of measuring academic merit, which led to the SAT.

Now new research from Education Next concludes that in order to send the most useful information to educators and local decision makers, growth measures should level the playing field by comparing the performance of schools and teachers that are in similar circumstances.

These new tests are funded by $ 330 million in stimulus money through the federal Race to the Top competition and are intended to measure critical thinking, particularly the critical skills emphasized by the Common Core State Standards, the set of educational standards most states have agreed to adopt.

Now students» progress will be measured by how well they learn the new Common Core standards in reading and math, which Washington and most states have agreed to use.

The Every Student Succeeds Act, signed by President Barack Obama last week, does away with the most onerous accountability mandate on schools — adequate yearly progress — while giving states new flexibility to design and implement their own systems for measuring student performance.

With a mix of human capital reforms, such as rounding out the teaching force with UCLA graduate students who have expertise in key subjects, added student learning and enrichment programs in and out of classroom, and a new focus on developing a college - going culture of high expectations, UCLA is setting out to take what is, by most measures, a struggling school and drastically improve academic outcomes for all students.

We find that there was the most movement of district scores from the old to the new test among schools that were in the middle of the distribution for the share of high - need students, with a 70 % lower share meeting the standards as measured by the SBAC in comparison to the CST.

Actually, by most measures, it nestles in between the Rolls Phantom and the new Rolls - Royce Ghost.

Making the most of the extra tallness is a new wheel and tire package, which is composed of knobby Pro Comp MT2 extreme off - roading tires measured at 35 inches in height, plus 20 - inch by 9 - inch Cognito Series 61 rollers.

«Wilshire's calculation and analytical expertise combined with Track One's innovative rules - based approach to measuring performance of companies most supportive of military veterans demonstrates the value of a Powered by Wilshire approach, which can help clients bring new investment index strategy ideas to market quickly.»

New Hartford Animal Hospital's voluntary commitment to the AAHA Standards and the Accreditation Program demonstrates that our practice has chosen to be measured by an outside organization against the most rigorous published standards in the industry.

Measuring 23 feet by 80 feet, «Mural» maps the whirl of global trade and communications and was deemed «the most ambitious painting I've seen in a dozen years» by Calvin Tomkins of The New Yorker.

The most recent new acquisition to be included in the show is 20 Pieces of Road Measuring 100 x 100 cm Pulled up from the Ground (1992), a key work by the Latin American concept and action artist Santiago Sierra.

Measured by auction sales prices, the world's most valuable contemporary work of art is: Three Studies of Lucian Freud (1969) by Francis Bacon, which sold at auction at Christie's New York in 2013, for $ 142.4 million.

Still, human - caused growth in greenhouse gases is expected to become a new driver of things that have been seen in the distant past as century - long megadroughts, an alarming future by most any measure.

Despite perceptions to the contrary, New York City is by some measures the most environmentally friendly city in America:

Antarctic ice extent setting new records last year, and close to breaking them this year again Extreme weather as measured by ACE on a decline for decades Drought as measured by Palmer Drought Index flat for decades Sea level increases not accelerating and possibly starting to decelerate Signature tropospheric hot spot completely missing Scientists by the bushel coming up with some of the most absurd excuses as to why....

New Jersey lawmakers launched one of nation's most aggressive attacks on global warming yesterday by approving a measure to cut the state's heat - trapping emissions to 15 to 25 percent below current levels by 2020 and 80

He cites the example of Wal - Mart, whose employees on the ground in New Orleans in the aftermath of Katrina were able to carry out effective measures to help the residents because they had been authorized by their head office to do whatever made the most sense to help.

They include: (1) regulatory law and enforcement work, because industries from banking to private equity funds to large oil companies will likely be targets of the new administration, while health insurance companies will be subject to heightened regulation; (2) litigation, because a Democratic administration will probably push back tort reform measures, giving rise to more lawsuits; (3) «green» law, i.e., representing companies that deal in green technology, whose growth will be stimulated by likely tax incentives as well as a cap and trade system; and (4) real estate, because the bailout legislation will most likely require banks availing themselves of the benefits to begin issuing mortgages again.

Membership is extended to the select few of the most qualified top divorce lawyers in New York who demonstrate superior qualifications of leadership, reputation and stature measured by objective and uniformly applied standards.

Most important, measure your job search by the number of new contacts made and results... and not by number of resumes sent.

Outplacement firms are hired by some companies doing lay - offs; they ostensibly help laid - off workers find new work, by helping with resumes and cover letters, coaching, etc.) In other words, they don't measure whether or not they're actually meeting their most basic goal.

This measure captures the issues raised by new parents who reported that the most common high is just before or just after the child arrives and that the most common low is during the first year after birth (Newman 2008).

When rates as measured by Freddie Mac started rising in May and averaged 3.54 % for the month, the seasonally adjusted annual rate of new home sales dropped by 4 % from the prior month, according to the most recent housing data from the Commerce Department.