Sentences with phrase «increased acceptance rates»

They found that whilst the teaching of evolution increased acceptance rates to over 80 per cent in the cohort examined, the order of teaching had no effect.

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Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

The number of employees at Goldman increased 11 % since 2012, when the bank's acceptance rate was also 3 % with 267,000 applicants, CEO Lloyd Blankfein said at the Credit Suisse Group conference.

These risks include, in no particular order, the following: the trends toward more high - definition, on - demand and anytime, anywhere video will not continue to develop at its current pace or will expire; the possibility that our products will not generate sales that are commensurate with our expectations or that our cost of revenue or operating expenses may exceed our expectations; the mix of products and services sold in various geographies and the effect it has on gross margins; delays or decreases in capital spending in the cable, satellite, telco, broadcast and media industries; customer concentration and consolidation; the impact of general economic conditions on our sales and operations; our ability to develop new and enhanced products in a timely manner and market acceptance of our new or existing products; losses of one or more key customers; risks associated with our international operations; exchange rate fluctuations of the currencies in which we conduct business; risks associated with our CableOS ™ and VOS ™ product solutions; dependence on market acceptance of various types of broadband services, on the adoption of new broadband technologies and on broadband industry trends; inventory management; the lack of timely availability of parts or raw materials necessary to produce our products; the impact of increases in the prices of raw materials and oil; the effect of competition, on both revenue and gross margins; difficulties associated with rapid technological changes in our markets; risks associated with unpredictable sales cycles; our dependence on contract manufacturers and sole or limited source suppliers; and the effect on our business of natural disasters.

Federico partly attributes this to the increased amount of public and private investments for projects in the serviced office market that have had a high acceptance rate.

The cultural changes that Fuchs and Reklis have in mind are increasing individualism, growing preoccupation with individual fulfillment, wider tolerance for divorce as a solution to marital problems, and more general acceptance at all social levels of the high rates of out - of - wedlock births and single parenthood.

Cuomo touted both of those measures in his 28 - minute acceptance speech, as well as a phased - in minimum wage increase that some of his party - mates are trying to accelerate, and his decision to renew most of a suite of higher income tax rates first enacted in 2009 by David Paterson.

Even in the unlikely scenario that ending racial preferences forced all these students to surrender their seats to white and Asian - American students, acceptance rates for the remaining students would only increase from 10 to 12 %.

Presumably acceptance rates would rise if the monetary value of the vouchers were increased.

In this role, he leverages strategic community, district, and cross-network charter partnerships to increase proficiency, graduation, and college acceptance rates for students of color, while focusing on reversing the under - representation of minorities in STEM - related fields.

Charter schools are raising the bar on student achievement for schools across Illinois by improving test scores, graduating more students from high school, and increasing college acceptance and persistence rates for all Illinois students.

Our educational design was developed to address the most critical needs of schools challenged by socioeconomic conditions: closing the achievement gap, improving the quality of teaching, increasing graduation and college acceptance rates, creating inclusive and vibrant learning environments, and developing outstanding urban school leaders.

Charter schools are raising the bar on student academic growth and achievement by improving a number of student performance measures, including increasing graduation rates and college acceptance rates.

«Our tests have shown that many homeowners who are severely underwater on their mortgages will respond positively to a modification offer that includes reduction of their principal balance, increasing the rates of acceptance of HAMP trial modification offers, conversion to permanent modifications and long - term success of the homeowner,» said Jack Schakett, credit loss mitigation executive for Bank of America Home Loans.

The decision stemmed at least in part from concerns about increased PLUS loan borrowing, very high PLUS loan acceptance rates and increased default rates.

The dog's non-judgmental, silent acceptance reduces blood pressure, lowers heart rate, decreases depression, improves feelings of self - worth, increases speech and memory functions, and heightens mental clarity.

It gives you a chance to connect with more people, and increase your invite's acceptance rate (see group - mate invite above)

It feared that an increase in price for legal aid work would lead to cuts elsewhere in the system, which did not instill much confidence in the government's prospective acceptance of higher case rates where the market would demand them.

If your policy is discontinued any time during the first five policy years, discontinuance values displayed will only be payable after completion of five policy years.The past performance of any of the unit linked funds is not necessarily an indicative of the future performance of any of these funds.The mortality charges and rider premium rates are subject to underwriting of the proposal, and may increase before the acceptance of the risk.

On the one hand, parallel to increasing divorce and separation rates, the acceptance towards divorce and divorcees has increased (Halman et al. 2008: Table F121 [data for 85 countries, including Sweden]; Thornton and Young - DeMarco 2001 [the U.S.]-RRB- and the social stigma has decreased (Sigle - Rushton et al. 2005).