Sentences with phrase «faster than the nation»

This work is part of the DOE's Exascale Computing Project (ECP), which aims to maximize the benefits of exascale — future supercomputers that will be 50 times faster than our nation's most powerful system today — for U.S. economic competitiveness, national security and scientific discovery.

URBAN NAEP COVERAGE EdWeek: NAEP: Urban School Districts Improving Faster Than the Nation Baltimore Sun: Baltimore students score near bottom in reading, math on key national assessment Cleveland Plain Dealer: Vast poverty differences create unfair comparisons on Nation's Report Card Miami Herald: Miami and Florida students outperform peers on national test

on Low - income inner - city achievement gap starts to close, test scores of urban school districts improve faster than nation over past 10 years, Washington D.C. stands out

Even as the global Kyoto Protocol collapsed and cap and trade legislation foundered in Congress, U.S. emissions have declined faster than any nation's in the world.

North Dakota's economy is growing five times faster than the nation's economy, and transportation services are driving much of that growth.

«The Southeast has grown about 2.5 percent faster than the nation as a whole throughout the 1990s,» explains Mary Kassis, research coordinator with the Economic Forecasting Center (EFC) at Georgia State University in Atlanta.

Rents and home prices are climbing higher as a result --- by some measures at rates faster than the nation's — though they're still affordable compared with San Francisco, where the average home sells for more than $ 1 million.

Not exact matches

When that happens, the demographic pinch is likely to force China's economy to switch from low - cost exporter to advanced welfare state faster than any large nation has ever done before.

Fast - forward 15 years, and Alibaba drives 80 percent of China's online sales and accounts for more than half of the nation's parcel deliveries, yielding profits that exceed those of Amazon and eBay combined.

A survey of the 1997 Inc. 500 revealed that casual or «business casual» dress is standard at more than one - third of the nation's fastest - growing privately held companies.

Rousseff's impeachable offense was for playing fast and loose with the nation's budget; essentially fudging the numbers to make the budget deficit look smaller than it really was.

But the absence of fuel subsidies in most Asian nations is likely to mean the region feels the pain of the jump in crude prices far faster than was the case previously.

In California, wages rose faster in 2016 and 2017 than in the nation as a whole, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

blooom is one of the nation's fastest growing robo - advisors with more than $ 1 billion in assets under management.

Even health issues more commonly associated with the West, such as obesity, type - 2 diabetes and heart disease, are rising fast in developing nations — faster than their health systems can handle them.

As a result of this plan currently these second and third tier nations are growing 50 % faster than the G - 20, or more specifically Canada, the US and Europe.

Homes in these markets are selling 30 to 47 days faster than the rest of the nation.

Sales increased faster in Otay Ranch last year than almost any other master - plan community in the nation, said a recently released annual report.

Its three volumes include more than 300 articles on key individuals (from Abraham, al - Ghazali and Rumi to Malcolm X, Salman Rushdie and Osama bin Laden), empires (such as those of the Mughals and Ottomans), contemporary countries (Algeria, Indonesia, Syria and so on), important doctrines (including those related to abortion, the afterlife, fasting and suicide), and groups and movements often in the headlines (such as Hamas, al - Qaeda and the Nation of Islam).

Between 2000 and 2008, the poor population in the suburbs of the nation's 100 largest metro areas grew by 25 %, almost five times faster than in the cities they surround.

Synuma — a leading provider of advanced project management software solutions for multi-unit development — announces a strategic partnership with Captain D's, the nation's leading fast casual seafood restaurant with 533 restaurants in 21 states, and Newk's Eatery, the fast casual restaurant known for its culinary - driven menu with more than 115 locations in 15 states.

Founded in 1951, Jack in the Box is among the nation's leading fast - food hamburger chains with more than 2,200 quick - serve restaurants in 21 states and Guam.

That's more than 21 pigs per minute, making QPP one of the fastest pig - killing facilities in the nation.

One of the Nation's Fastest Growing Burger Franchise Handed Out More than 27,000 of its Famous Black and White Shakes in One Day

GENEVA (Reuters)- Unhealthy diets pose a greater risk to global health than the increasingly regulated sale of tobacco and governments should move fast to tax harmful food products, a United Nations investigator said on Monday.

Dallas - based Main Event, the nation's fastest - growing bowling - anchored restaurant and entertainment brand, features chef - inspired dining, more than 100 virtual and interactive games, laser tag, a high ropes adventure course and state - of - the - art bowling.

In the last five years, she's won 10 ultramarathons (any footrace longer than 26.2 miles) and set six course records, and she holds the second - fastest women's 100 - mile road race time in the nation.

Her time of 40.57 was more than one second better than her previous PR (personal record) and was the fastest high school girls time in the nation this season.

All six Kenyan athletes racing in London boast personal bests faster than 2:05:15, while a further four athletes from other nations also possess sub - 2:05:30 PBs.

A new sense of urgency seems to have sent in over the last several years as the state is set to lose two more House seats after it failed to grow at a faster rate than the rest of the nation.

This means that the cocoa roads which are deteriorating faster than anticipated due to the neglect of the NPP government, is going to get worse, making users (mostly farmers) wretchedly despondent and low - spirited to continue to labour for our dear nation,» said the Minority Spokesperson on Agric, Eric Opoku.

This means that the cocoa roads which are deteriorating faster than anticipated due to the neglect of the NPP government, is going to get worse, making users (mostly farmers) wretchedly despondent and low - spirited to continue to labour for our dear nation,» Mr. Opoku said.

With rates of sea - level rise along parts of the nation's Eastern seaboard increasing three to four times faster than the global average, experts are working to mitigate the effects by identifying threats, organizing collaboration among governments and organizations, as well as examining better...

With rates of sea - level rise along parts of the nation's Eastern seaboard increasing three to four times faster than the global average, experts are working to mitigate the effects by identifying threats, organizing collaboration among governments and organizations, as well as examining better communication techniques.

The world's car fleet is set to triple by 2050 to two billion autos with 80 percent of that growth coming from rapidly industrializing nations like India that currently do not have fuel economy rules (although the fastest growing car market — China — has tougher regulations than the U.S.).

Shortly after gaining its independence from Britain in 1966, large diamond reserves were discovered, and the economy has since grown faster — and for longer — than that of virtually any other nation in the world.

Any pledges to lower emissions by a uniform percentage among industrial countries will be much harder for the U.S. to achieve, simply because it is gaining people so fast through immigration and a birthrate that is higher than average for a developed nation.

Analysts at the RAND National Defense Research Institute, a Washington, D.C., think tank say the U.S. not only spends more than any other nation on research and development, but this spending is growing faster than that of the European Union and Japan.

But a pair of ailments is rising faster in rich nations than in poor ones: asthma and allergies.

The United Nations Environment Program estimates that cutting back on methane and soot emissions alone could prevent 0.7 degree Celsius of additional warming by 2040 — and those cooling benefits could come faster than comparable cuts in CO2.

«We really don't detect any change with the Americans,» said one of the officials, Aleksi Härkönen of Finland, who chairs the eight - nation Arctic Council's key group of senior officials, who are charged with protecting a region warming faster than any other on Earth.

The movement for gay identity and gay rights has come further and faster, in terms of change, than any other that has gone before it in this nation.

For Fast Food Nation, the team brought director Richard Linklater to a butcher, only to discover that the dedicated vegetarian was less than pleased with the choice of venue.

Anyway, mark this all down as yet another case of a self - righteous guardian of American standards being faster to bemoan our nation's moral deterioration than to, you know, abide by those self - professed morals themselves.

January 29, 2013 • In nearly all major cities across the nation, prices rose at a faster pace in November than they had in October, the latest S&P / Case - Shiller Home Price Indices report shows.

In addition to the Buffett interview, other summit sessions that NBC recently confirmed include: The Changing Face of Education — More than one in five students in the nation's public schools are Latino — constituting the largest, and fastest growing, minority group in our education system.

The plan sets a target of 66 % of working - age New Mexicans earning a college degree or post-secondary credential by the year 2030 — a rigorous goal given the current attainment rate of 45 %.1 The plan also sets a vision for New Mexico to be the fastest growing state in the nation when it comes to student outcomes, with a goal to increase the percentage of students who demonstrate readiness to more than 60 % on the state English language arts (ELA) and math assessments.2 These efforts are significant considering New Mexico's historically lower student academic proficiency rates compared to other states and to national averages3, and demonstrate how leaders are driving a sense of urgency to improve.

An analysis of the eight states with multiple years of implementation of the A F grading system found they were making faster improvements on NAEP 4th - and 8th - grade reading and math tests than the nation as a whole.

Read CCSA's response to the article, «LAUSD charter school growth faster pace than in state, nation.»

Texas spending on prisons and jails is the highest in the nation, a new federal study concludes, and has grown about five times faster than the state's rate of spending growth on elementary and secondary education over the past three decades.