Sentences with phrase «large gains for»

High return investments are investments that return or produce large gains for investors.

This has been particularly helpful for evaluating the effectiveness of charter schools, a controversial education reform with a mixed record overall but one that shows remarkably large gains for disadvantaged students in urban areas.

The largest gains for the test — the Kentucky Instructional Results System, or KIRIS — came in reading and mathematics, with fewer students scoring at the «novice,» or lowest, level and more students scoring at the «proficient» and «distinguished» levels.

The FCAT writing exam, whose scores range from 0 to 6, also shows larger gains for schools earning an F grade in 1999.

Moreover, the reason for a school's failure to win an award was often not that African - American and Latino students were lagging behind, but that white non-Hispanic students experienced slower growth in achievement: the average school with multiple racial subgroups witnessed larger gains for African - American and Latino students than for white students.

We first subtracted from each student's test score performance the child's demonstrated knowledge the previous year.We then adjusted those one - year - gain scores to take into account a statistical property that artificially generates larger gains for initially low - performing students (and smaller gains for high performers).

For charter school students in New York City, the gains in Math are particularly notable — over nine percentage points in proficiency (the largest gain for any group or sector)-- and underscored by data showing that 15 of the 20 highest gainers among New York States» high - poverty schools were charters (most located in NYC).

The Abbott Preschool Program Longitudinal Effects Study, or APPLES, found gains in all test subjects with larger gains for children who spent two years in preschool.

Democrats also pointed out the pay scale seemed to slight newer and more experienced teachers, bundling some of its largest gains for teachers in the mid-ranges of experience.

The Abbott Preschool Program Longitudinal Effects Study, or APPLES, found gains in all test subjects with larger gains for children who spent two years in preschool.

Not exact matches

Lots of grocery stores have embraced self - checkout, where you scan your own items and place them in a bag, but I can't easily imagine a real grocery store investing in Amazon's «Just Walk Out» technology any time soon — the investment in cameras and sensors over a large space would be too huge, and the efficiency gain for a real grocery shopping trip wouldn't warrant it.

For one thing, Ukip is a right - wing protest group that has gained a surprisingly large amount of support in the past few years on an anti-EU and anti-immigration platform.

Bitcoin gained prominence in large part thanks to the Silk Road marketplace for illegal drugs and other black - market goods, a legacy that has persisted beyond Silk Road's shutdown.

This means it is more difficult for small businesses to gain backing or grants from the government to allow them to be eco-friendly in the work place, whereas large companies are able to take matters into their own hands to some extent.

New Conference Board of Canada research finds that companies that proactively innovate and adapt their EU offerings will be able to achieve much larger gains than companies that sit passively and wait for the deal to boost their sales.

An ESG may be a way for the company to tap a larger pool of candidates for leadership roles, to empower members of disadvantaged groups, to engage employees, and to gain a better understanding of customers» needs and wants while developing better relationships with stakeholders in general.

There is potential for these gains to be even larger over time as companies adjust to the new market opportunities.

Time Warner's largest shareholders stand to gain hundreds of millions from the premium Charter is paying for the deal.

«Prospects for renewed gains, other than a relief rally following the election results, would require somewhat larger wage increases and continued job growth as well as the maintenance of low inflation.»

Even after their recent gains, large defence companies are ideal for buy - and - hold investors, since they are stable and generate good dividends.

That makes the Trump Bump, for now, the largest post-election gain in percentage terms by the Dow index over that time frame — at least going as far back as the Hoover Mover, when stocks rose 3.6 % following Hubert Hoover's election.

While you'll certainly reach a larger audience online, sometimes there are huge benefits from gaining a few loyal customers in the early stages of your start - up who will act as brand ambassadors for the rest of your company's life.

So far, domestic small - to - mid-cap companies that get most of their revenues at home have weathered prospects of higher trade costs the best, with the Russell 2000 index of smaller companies up 2.8 percent for the year, nearly double the 1.5 percent gain in the larger - cap and more internationally - exposed S&P 500 index over the same time.

With a 3.77 % yield, it's perfect for income - seeking retirees who want to own stable, divided - paying large - cap companies that have the potential of generating modest capital gains.

Zenios: This process for gaining deep customer understanding helps large companies as well, because they thrive on processes.

Like its larger mobile rival, AT&T (t), Verizon lately seems to be at least partially following the successful playbook for gaining customers crafted by T - Mobile CEO John Legere and his team.

But with the majority of millennials skewing further left, while Republicans gained control of Congress and the White House, Smith — labeled «a de facto ambassador for the technology industry at large» by The New York Times — needed a new way to walk the tightrope.

The month prior, I had started a full - time job working for «the man» to gain some large corporate experience and save up cash.

Although traditional large importers like the U.S. and Europe continue to imbibe consistently, emerging nations like China and Vietnam are also gaining a taste for coffee as their people gain more disposable income.

Second, there may be co-ordination gains for Canada to have a tax system that is compatible with that of our largest trading partner.

«Prices for foods, feeds, and beverages rose 3.7 percent in March, the largest monthly gain for the index since a 4.3 - percent increase in March 2011,» said the BLS in a press release.

New orders for manufactured goods increased 2.1 percent, the largest gain since July last year, after dipping 0.1 percent in February.

If I had to turn anywhere where... the opportunity for large capital gains exists, and the downside is, in my opinion, limited, it would be the mining sectors, specifically precious metals and mining companies... like Freeport, Newmont, Barrick.

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It gained currency in large part as a result of an unusual decision Mr. Bollea's legal team made: It purposely excluded a claim that would have allowed Gawker's insurance company to help pay for its defense as well as damages.

Further, the trade size for stocks with large capital losses tends to decrease before year - end and for capital gains after the start of the year.

While we almost certainly do not fully understand the precise implications of this process for long - run global growth and welfare, we know that the gains to global growth and welfare have the potential to be large and pervasive.

Main goals: gaining a moderate amount of earnings in exchange for a moderate amount of risk; offsetting the larger risk of stocks.

Employee compensation often accounts for the largest chunk of corporate expenses, so rising wages can dent earnings, without commensurate gains on the revenue side.

If politicians want to take credit for market gains, investors and the public should take the politicians» crowing with a (large) grain of salt.

Wells Fargo's stock, which has gained 5.4 percent for the year, is still the worst performer among the 10 largest U.S. banks and trails the 27 percent rise of the KBW Bank Index.

The requisite characteristic for such price gains is indeed scarcity, but not so much that there is not enough for large numbers of buyers to make a market.

However, after last month's low becomes established as a pivotal support level, we will finally raise the stop to protect our large gain, while still allowing enough «wiggle room» for the gains to accumulate even more substantially from here.

The increase in corporate income tax revenues largely reflecting strong gains in the tax settlement period for those large corporations with a taxation year ending December 31st.

After all, this would be an example of the federal government stepping into the private market, mandating that certain companies can not gain too large a market share — in other words, not exactly an easy thing for limited - government types to support.

The metro areas seeing the largest increase in construction jobs between Jan. 2017 and Jan. 2018 included the San Bernardino, Calif. area, which added 10,600 jobs for a rise of 12 percent; the Phoenix area, which gained 9,900 construction jobs in the past year for a 9 percent increase; the Houston area, which added 9,200 jobs for a 4 percent increase; and the Los Angeles area, which gained 9,000 jobs for a 7 percent rise.

Baidu Inc., owner of China's largest search engine, agreed to buy app store 91 Wireless for $ 1.9 billion in its biggest announced acquisition to gain a greater share of the mobile user market.

Some of Canada's highest - earning professionals have been reaping large tax gains for decades by splitting income with their spouses using private corporations, but the practice has fallen into a «dark corner» of tax rules and has received little government scrutiny, according to a new academic study.

There is a large body of established tax principles and law for property that apply to cryptocurrency and how the gains, losses, income and transactions are treated for federal tax purposes.

As the use of computers for business gained widespread adoption, small businesses were attempting to adopt a range of applications once available only to large companies.