Sentences with phrase «gain rating points»

Players can gain rating points and secure a spot on the leaderboards.

And the evidence is plain: Millions of Americans sense that terrorism is in their midst, and CBS doesn't mind kicking up that fear a notch for the sake of gaining a rating point or two.

Becky gains rating points by scoring a personal appearance by musician 50 cents, while Mike bemoans the state of his career over drinks with renowned newsmen Bob Schieffer, Morley Safer and Chris Matthews who make cameo appearances.

Not exact matches

Fed forecasts in March pointed to two rate rises in 2016, but a sharp slowdown in U.S. job gains in May and the prospect that Britain could vote next week to leave the EU have added to doubts about the economic outlook.

The BMG Research poll shows Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party with a decisive lead on the Tories, gaining 4 points to reach a 42 % approval rating.

President Barack Obama and Speaker of the House John Boehner are unlikely to reverse several scheduled tax increases, including the 0.9 percentage point increase in the Medicare tax rate on wages and salaries of more than $ 200,000 for single filers ($ 250,000 for married filers); a 3.8 percent Medicare tax on unearned income of higher income filers; and an increase in the capital gains tax rate.

«To have the lack of more substantial wage gains at this point probably helps to alleviate some of the immediacy on the four - interest - rate - hikes - in - 2018 question,» said Hamrick, the Bankrate.com analyst.

As widely expected by the markets, the Fed raised interest rates by 25 basis points on Wednesday and upgraded its economic outlook, saying that economic activity and jobs gains had been strong in recent months.

The Dow Jones industrial average tumbled 400 points, or 1.5 percent, on Thursday before climbing back to a slight gain as traders showed their jitters over interest rates, trade wars and geopolitics.

Our starting point has always been that the imposition of the GST should not have an effect on wages because wage - earners will gain more from the accompanying fall in income tax rates than they will lose from the introduction of the GST.

Currency strategists gave weaker exchange rate forecasts for major emerging countries such as China, Brazil, South Africa and Turkey in the monthly survey, pointing to a sixth straight year of dollar gains against most high - yielding currencies.

Critics of investing in individual stocks in an IRA point to the fact that capital gains tax (currently 15 % -20 %) is likely lower than your income tax level (20 - 40 %), so you lose that long term capital gains tax advantage in an IRA since you get taxed at your income rate.

The Blockchain and Cryptocurrency industry has gained rapid exposure within the last few years, and with the crypto - community growing at a expeditious rate, the vast majority of blockchain enthusiasts have at some point questioned, if there is a way to earn cryptocurrency, without buying it.

Following an interest - rate hike by the Mexican central bank, the Mexican peso saw substantial gains as the quarter - point increase satisfied market expectations.

FHA mortgage rates tend to beat conventional mortgage rates by 15 basis points (0.15 %) or so, and this may look like a better deal, but price gains made on an FHA mortgage rate can be quickly gobbled up by the cost of FHA mortgage insurance.

Scenario: an institution plans to establish a 90,000 DV01 risk exposure in the dollar denominated 10 year interest rates sector (basically the portfolio would gain or lose $ 90,000 for every one basis point, or 0.01 %, change in the 10 year sector).

The tipping point seems to have been the release of the January jobs report, the highlight of which wasn't the change in nonfarm payrolls and the unemployment rate, which they usually are, but the 0.3 % (2.9 % annualized) growth in wages, which was the strongest year - over-year gain since June 2009.

Those in Texas raised their credit rating by 32 points, for a 5.2 percent gain.

Reis» preliminary forecast for 2014 calls for office - vacancy rates to decline by roughly half a percentage point by year's end and asking rents to increase 2.8 %, the largest gain since 2007.

Last week, China cut interest rates for the first time in three years, as economic growth in that country has fallen to the point where talks of a hard landing are gaining momentum.

According to an article in the Journal of Commerce (JOC), the U.S. economy has been expanding at a rate greater than 3.5 percent for four of the last five quarters, creating enough freight demand to significantly boost trucking revenue while tightening supply to the point where carriers can gain considerable rate increases.

One frequently cited bar graph has been used to suggest, for the decade 1965 - 75, a severe diminution of seven mainline Protestant bodies by contrast both with their gains in the preceding ten years and with the continuing growth of selected conservative churches (see Jackson W. Carroll et al., Religion in America, 1950 to the Present [Harper & Row, 19791, p. 15) The gap in growth rates for 1965 - 75, as shown on that graph, is more than 29 percentage points (an average loss in the oldline denominations of 8.9 per cent against average gains among the conservatives of 20.5 per cent) This is indeed a substantial difference, but it does not approach the difference in growth rates recorded for the same religious groups in the 1930s, when the discrepancy amounted to 62 percentage points.

The benefits of VRT are numerous, but let's name the three most important ones: it allows extra resistance at the point where you are stronger, resulting with greater strength gains, it improves the rate of power development and it can help you overcome sticking points and eliminate weaknesses.

If you are losing / gaining weight at a rate I mentioned at the point # 3 of this article, then you should be fine.

For someone who is not a beginner and not taking steroids, the rate of gain will be significantly lower to the point where adding 2 lbs to stage - weight or 20 lbs to a max deadlift over a year may be excellent progress for an elite competitor.

Researchers have linked weight gain to stress, and according to an American Psychological Association survey, about one - fourth of Americans rate their stress level as 8 or more on a 10 - point scale.

The objective was to gain a better understanding of click through rates (CTR) and both conversions rates and costs (CPA or cost per acquisition), based on the first touch point for the visitor.

The objective was to gain a better understanding of click through rates (CTR), conversions rates and costs (CPA or cost per acquisition), based on the first touch point for the visitor.

Scoring: Points are rated above average (7) If the game improved on the average, it'll gain points, if it falls behind the average, it loses pPoints are rated above average (7) If the game improved on the average, it'll gain points, if it falls behind the average, it loses ppoints, if it falls behind the average, it loses pointspoints.

Unlike the Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm series which is more and more a mess of technical, balance and gameplay issues these days, Brave Soldiers delivers what is a nice, franchise - based fighting game, at first, i was expecting a simple fighting game with some button mashing, however, the game proved me wrong and i fell in love, the combo system, while easy, is a lot more deep than the one in the Naruto games, with all of the characters having two special attacks, two «burst attacks», a knock - away and a launcher respectively, a throw and an ultimate attack (called a «Big Bang Attack»), every character also has an universal dodge - action that sends them behind their enemies while spending one cosmo bar, making bar management that much precious and shielding you from a half - a-hour combo, unlike in the NUNS series, the fighting and the characters are nicely balanced, with every character being fun to play and viable at the same time, the game runs smoothly without frame - rate issues and the cell - shaded graphics, character models, arenas and effects alike are nice to the eye, battles are divided into rounds, with all the tiny nice stuff like character introductions and outros being intact (fun fact: the characters will even comment on their score after the battle), the game also features an awakening system, called the «Seventh Sense» awakening, unlike the NUNS awakening system which became severely unbalanced in the later game, every character simply gains a damage / defense boost, with the conditions being the same for all characters, eliminating situations when one character can use awakening at almost any point in the battle, or one awakening being drastically stronger than the other, the game has a story mode with three story arcs used to unlock characters, a collection mode, tournament modes, a survival mode, a series of special versus modes and online battle modes.

Not that its rating would gain me many points!

After controlling for average class size, per - pupil spending in 1998 - 99, the percentage of students with disabilities, the percentage of students receiving a free or reduced - price school lunch, the percentage of students with limited English proficiency, and student mobility rates, high - scoring F schools achieved gains that were 2.5 points greater than their below - average D counterparts in reading (see Figure 2).

These performance gains imply increases of approximately 5 percentile points in the distribution of teacher performance among lower - rated teachers, and 7 percentile points among highly rated teachers.

Annual average improvement target of 2.5 percentage point gains in achievement on state reading and math tests between 2018 and 2025 for all students and student subgroups; plan includes goal of reaching a graduation rate of 90 percent by 2025 for all students and student subgroups

The national gain, at 7 points (or about 0.19 standard deviations), was only slightly larger than half Florida's rate.

For instance, a 2015 study of a privately funded voucher program in New York City found that being offered a voucher to attend a private school increased college enrollment rates among black and Hispanic students by 4.4 percentage points, a 10 percent gain relative to the control group, and also increased bachelor's degree completion rates among black and Hispanic students by 2.4 percentage points, a 27 percent gain.

These activities will allow students to gain a better understanding of domain, range, limits, points of discontinuity, extended functions, removable discontinuities, differentiability, maximums, minimums, shelfs, increasing and decreasing intervals, concavity, sign charts, optimization, related rates, linearization, differentials, chain rule, composite functions, net area, total area, integrals, and separable differential equations.

In Washington, DC, improvement among regular public school students matched the national rate of improvement with an eight - point gain.

Their students posted a 16 - point increase over last year to reach a 43 percent pass rate on the English exam; and a 13 - point gain on the math test, with 45 percent of students passing.

Third - gradestudents had a pass rate on the state's standardized math test of 95 percent, a gain of 47 percentage points from two years ago.

• NPS's four year graduation rate is now 70 %, an eye - popping 10 point gain since the start of the reforms.

However, the 4 - point gain from 2004 to 2008 averages only 1 point per year, showing that improvement rates have declined in age 9 math since NCLB took hold.

The graduation rate in District schools has risen steadily — hitting 73 percent in spring 2017 — a 20 - point gain since 2011.

In the four years under NCLB, from 2004 to 2008, NAEP gains were only 2 points, or half the rate of improvement in the previous period.

That is, what does an increased proficiency rate of roughly 20 points actually mean, and do the sacrifices that we make to achieve those gains outweigh the benefits?

Although one can't consider the results gains because the tests and testing rules changed, the figures have encouraged many: In the English exams for grades 3 - 8, the traditional public schools passage rate «rose» by 7.6 percentage points, and for charter schools, the figure was up 13.7 percentage points.

While working in dual roles as an Associate Principal and Curriculum Director, two schools showed an increase 6 to 10 SPS point gain as well as another rated the second highest improvement rate for grades 3 - 8 in 2009 and 2010 within Louisiana Recovery District.

DeVos supporters point to a 2013 Stanford study that found that Michigan charter - school students are learning at a faster rate in reading and math than their public - school peers — seeing an additional two months of gains in each subject.

In 2011, the school's Academic Performance Index (API) score shot up 82 points — a mammoth gain on the state's rating scale for schools, which goes from a low of 200 to a high of 1,000.

Schools with four years of expanded time are demonstrating impressive increases in their proficiency rates across all grades and all tested subjects, including over 8 point gains in ELA and nearly 20 points gains in Math.