Sentences with phrase «dramatic economic results»

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The study projects dramatic economic transformations that could result from quantum gains in the cost and efficiency of batteries for electric vehicles.

The results provide the most comprehensive and up to date picture of the effect of the economic downturn on Greece, which received its first bailout of $ 110 billion in 2010 with strict conditions including tough austerity measures; privatisation of government assets; and dramatic changes to the country's industries and government.

Analysts have cited a legion of reasons for the state's slide in achievement: the steady leaching of resources from the schools that was the inevitable result of the infamous 1970s property - tax revolt led by Howard Jarvis; a long period of economic woes caused by layoffs in the defense industry; curriculum experiments with «whole language» reading instruction and «new math» that were at best a distraction and at worst quite damaging; a school finance lawsuit that led to a dramatic increase in the state's authority over school budgets and operations; and a massive influx of new students and non-English-speaking immigrants that almost surely depressed test scores.

According to analysis from the Wisconsin Budget Project, the top 1 percent of state residents receive a larger share of the cuts than the bottom 60 percent of households combined.19 These tax cuts certainly helped the rich — the wealthiest 1 percent of Wisconsinites received an average tax cut of $ 10,015.20 Gov. Walker has boasted that the state's tax cuts will soon total more than $ 8 billion and that as a result, Wisconsin «continue [s] to see dramatic economic growth.»

The KIPP program for middle schools (KIPP + Knowledge IS Power Program) is also heavily targeted at a culturally diverse and economic hard - hit student population, and it has showed dramatic results, with its methodologies.

Once a flourishing industrial center for textile manufacturing (dubbed «Cottonopolis» at the turn of the 19th century), Manchester suffered under the economic policies of Margaret Thatcher in the late 1970s and throughout the»80s, resulting in a significant reduction of its labor force and dramatic shift in the social landscape and identity of the city.

Although our economic recession has had a dramatic impact over the past 2 years resulting in unprecedented job losses, it is a temporary influence as many of the hardest hit occupations, architecture and engineering are expected not only to recover but forecasts show continued growth through 2018.

The result is a dramatic decline of the possibility of economic improvement for the poor.18 Poor children tend to remain poor and live in neighborhoods of low opportunity.