Sentences with phrase «dramatic decline»

Other states that have enacted the common core have seen dramatic declines in test scores.

Companies who have taken these steps have seen dramatic declines in the frequency and severity of accidents.

Both lost 75 percent of their species between 1950 and 2000, and sites across the board showed dramatic declines.

They have however suffered dramatic declines over the last 60 years, due to development and agricultural changes.

The high - suspension - rate schools are where the most dramatic decline in the number of suspensions has occurred, but they are also where most suspensions of black students continue to occur.

However, the industry is projected to further embrace technology to prevent more dramatic declines, recover readership and reclaim lost advertising revenue.

Early adopters of the practice report dramatic declines in school discipline problems, as well as improved climates on campuses and even gains in student achievement.

First, it prevents dramatic declines in employment levels at times of economic crisis.

However, the most dramatic decline occurs after the age of 37 and continues until the age of 45, when the likelihood of pregnancy is exceedingly rare.

Three major pay - TV providers last week reported dramatic declines in subscribers to traditional cable and satellite television packages.

In fact, these gains would increase the total account value and produce a more dramatic decline.

Cheryl B. Schultz, Leone M. Brown, Emma Pelton, and Elizabeth E. Crone; Citizen science monitoring demonstrates dramatic declines of monarch butterflies in western North America

Every once in a while there is a noteworthy wiggle on the religious survey charts, hut, to the consternation of those who look for dramatic declines or revivals, the story continues to be one of continuity.

Sales data for Madden 10 Wii has been released and it has shown to be dramatic decline from last year's Wii iteration.

While Bitcoin's value has generally increased in the last few years, it has also experienced dramatic declines in value.

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However, it is absurd to speculate that a reported teacher shortage is truly tied to these issues when we have had a similar career structure for teachers for decades without seeing such dramatic declines in number of college students willing to become teachers.

Bitcoin's dramatic decline since the start of the year may have a silver lining: it means speculators, who are largely responsible for price swings, have abandoned the market.

We will therefore next look at another scam created by the legislature called Ghost Money before reviewing how two poison pills inserted into the Levy Swipe Scam will cause dramatic declines in school funding in the coming years.

One typical pattern exhibits low accrual in early years, accelerating in mid-late years, followed by dramatic decline, or even negative returns in years that are relatively young for retirement.

There is some value in eliminating the negative fat tails in equity returns but it is unclear whether the advantage of outperformance in severe bear markets will be worth the cost of insuring the portfolio against dramatic declines at all other times.

Giraffes are in dramatic decline across their range in Africa.

The short story is that Mayor Bloomberg and Chancellor Klein crowed for years about dramatic declines in the gap among white and black students reaching the «proficient» mark — declines that mostly disappeared when New York State recently recalibrated its definition of «proficiency.»

Marine ecologist Boris Worm of the Institute for Marine Science in Kiel, Germany, tackled the problem with Ransom Myers at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, and others as part of a long - term project that has documented dramatic declines in fish and shark species worldwide (ScienceNOW, 14 May).

The 2011 pilot projects found dramatic declines in distracted driving in the two communities tested — with texting dropping 72 percent in Hartford and 32 percent in Syracuse.

It is then critical to consider whether the observed and expected dramatic declines in Arctic sea ice are causing fundamental changes in sensible heat and evaporation fluxes and influencing the magnitude and form of Arctic amplification.

Jim Cramer explains why the market is looking past dramatic declines in the auto and retail sectors.

All large mammal species were found to have experienced dramatic declines compared to the populations levels observed in 2005 and 2010, with the exception of roan antelope and bushbuck which were observed to have remained stable since the last aerial survey.

In northeastern New South Wales, at the southern front of the toad invasion, Chris Jolly has found similar dramatic declines in lizard numbers when toads arrive in an area.

Over the last 50 years, orangutan populations have been in dramatic decline due to external factors like habitat fragmentation and poaching — but a new study reveals the startling pervasiveness of their threat from humans.

The similarly dramatic decline in African rhinoceros in the 1980s provides useful lessons on how best to respond to a decline in a species of high commercial value.

Offshore wind generation may experience the most dramatic declines of all — reports from Europe indicate that prices may fall by as much as 50 percent in the next five years.

«Snowpack levels show dramatic decline in western states, U.S..»

«We don't really see dramatic declines over, say, the next five years or so,» Iger said about its cable business.

The resulting change in availability of prey has in turn caused dramatic declines in the numbers of predatory seabirds in west coast colonies and corresponding increases in the size of those colonies on the south and east coast over the same period [58].

Researchers see dramatic decline in genetic diversity, sparking concern about the fish's future

Commissioner of Health Dr. Howard Zucker said, «Under Governor Cuomo's leadership, New York is experiencing dramatic declines in HIV, which once destroyed so many lives.

Over the last three decades, giraffes are in dramatic decline across their range in Africa with their numbers dropping from more than 150,000 to fewer than 100,000.

But the popularity of loans and derivatives to bet on stocks makes Seoul susceptible to even more dramatic declines.

During the past decade, however, scientists have reported dramatic declines in populations of some bee species, sparking research into the potential impact of such declines.

As global ocean temperature continue to rise, coral reef managers hope that protecting coral reefs from local pressures like overfishing and water pollution will enhance their resilience to climate change and prevent dramatic declines in valuable coral reef resources.