Sentences with phrase «make smaller gains»

Teachers whose students agreed with the statement, «We spend a lot of time in this class practicing for the state test,» tended to make smaller gains on those exams than other teachers.

The results of our analysis of these «switchers,» which continues to take into account the difficulties associated with moving between schools, again indicate that students make smaller gains while enrolled in charter schools, by nearly 0.10 standard deviations in reading and 0.16 standard deviations in math.

Second, students who choose to remain in charter schools do not continue to make smaller gains than students in traditional public schools after their initial year in a charter school.

In just one month since the Parkland shooting, the gun control movement has made some small gains: The Florida state legislature passed new firearm regulations, and the federal spending bill signed by President Trump on Friday contains modest steps toward tightening the nation's gun laws, including the Fix NICS Act, which strengthens the background - check system for gun purchases.

The bottom line, after summing across all sectors, is that Ontario makes a small gain, although one that is disproportionately smaller than its share of Canadian economic activity.

Even if the Democrats make small gains relative to the Republicans, they could still end up losing overall.

The ruling New Democracy party made strong gains, while the opposition Panhellenic Socialist Movement made smaller gains, both at the expense of minor parties.

However, we choose unduly risky options when there is the chance of making a small gain or a large loss.

I'm wondering how much menopause affects this whole regime - seems I would make a small gain then lose it.

With a diverse line - up from Love & Friendship and Cafe Society to Hillary's America and Swiss Army Man, Specialty films made small gains overall this summer compared to last year's hot - weather season, grossing more at the box office fewer titles.

Although our data do not allow us to address this issue directly while still accounting for the self - selection of students into charter schools, simple comparisons indicate that students who entered charter schools in the later grades made smaller gains in math (but not reading) than students who entered earlier.

States like Florida and Indiana, which have robust school choice programs in place, are making small gains.

Students just learning to speak English made smaller gains at scoring «proficient» and at or above «goal» than their native English - speaking counterparts in all grade levels and content.»

In 23 trends measured, Edison students were making smaller gains on criterion - referenced tests than comparison groups.

Bitcoin is still lulling around the $ 10 - 11k area and most other altcoins have made some small gains on yesterday's losses.

It's good to point out that third - party retailers may not participate in this extended deal, though in any case, they may make a small gain from a 99 - cent surcharge on even - dollar pricing.

Not exact matches

The main reason high prices foretell paltry gains is that rich valuations make dividend yields smaller.

«The idea of making stores smaller and more efficient is gaining traction and we are further down that road than our competitors,» says Mansell.

Dialling back the ability for small bars to open will undermine the gains made by this very sensible law.

Republican Representative Kevin Brady, chairman of the House tax - writing panel, offered to make smaller portions of Wall Street financiers» income eligible for a lower capital gains tax rate.

Intuit has integrated the online marketing software gained through its US$ 423.5 million acquisition of Demandforce with its QuickBooks accounting software, giving small businesses a way to make closer connections with customers, the company announced Thursday.

And small gains from online ads and other business - side experiments are still nowhere near to making up the revenues lost from print ads and classifieds.

This mammoth company — its $ 571 billion market cap makes its stock the fourth largest on the S&P 500 index — continues to grow and churn out stock gains like a smaller growth stock.

But when it does payoff it will make the gains seen in the markets since 2009 look small in comparison.

Alone, it doesn't make a lot of sense, but combine it with these: (1) sales in the craft segment are slowing, and distinctive winners and losers are emerging; (2) large, independent brands not committed to deep cost - cutting are suffering, while corporate - owned craft brands are selling briskly; (3) small craft beer producers are still posting big growth gains; but (4) legacy mass market brands are collapsing; finally (5) mass market Mexican imports are killing it, especially (yay!)

For starters, Arts & Crafts merchants saw a 23 % gain from January to June of 2014, which makes sense as we see a larger trend of online shoppers looking to smaller businesses for these types of products, like with Etsy.

«One thing that might make some investors feel better about themselves,» Ms. Loftus says, «is remembering that their losses were smaller or their gains were bigger than they actually were.»

Introducing accounting software to your small business can make managing your accounts easier and more efficient, while also saving you time, money and helping you gain a better insight into your business finances.

S. 1212, introduced by Senators Cardin and Roberts, contains several provisions to further encourage employee - ownership in S corporations, including extending the gain - deferral provisions of Code section 1042 to sales of employer stock to S - ESOPs, providing resources to small businesses contemplating making the transition to an ESOP, and ensuring that SBA - certified small businesses do not lose their status by becoming employee owned.

There are strings and conditions, of course, but essentially it gives angels the benefit of a zero capital gains rate for investments made in «qualified small business stock» that is purchased within a set time frame and held for a minimum number of years.

For the typical entrepreneur and angel investor, these smaller transactions are an excellent way to make several million dollar capital gains.

But when these gains are the only difference between making or losing money, even small price swings hurt.

We advise having a few smaller industry conference «dry runs» to gain feedback and refine your offering before making a planned and timely token sale announcement.

Instead, what we usually do, is invent other «sins» that we «struggle» so that we can make ourselves feel better about the small victories we gain over these fake sins while completely ignoring the bigger sins we harbor in our lives every day.

The small gains the Republican Party previously made within the Latino community have been washed away with strict platforms on immigration and amnesty.

The report says that, «No other major country's military forces face the challenges of weight gain confronting America's armed forces,» One issue that has never been brought up is the possibility that maybe they're just making military uniforms too small...

By making a Faustian compact with commercial television, these Christians attempting to «reach out» through the media have merely gained a small, highly motivated group of followers who will pay the bills, while they have lost the gospel that they originally set out to proclaim.

Before 1914 Protestantism made its chief numerical gains through immigration, chiefly of Germans in Brazil and of Waldenses in Uruguay and Argentina, but these were small minorities.

The biggest and most significant change the company is undertaking overhauls its processes and prepares it to gain national presence, but there have been some smaller but no less important adjustments made by Pellerito Foods in the last few years, and all of them are adding up to one growing and thriving company.

I am trying to figure out a way to make a small version of this, and not share (and not gain 20 pounds in the process)

Whether it is getting your house in order of prepping food for the week, it is all about the small gains that make your life that much easier.

The biggest and most significant change the company is undertaking overhauls its processes and prepares it to gain national presence, but there have been some smaller but no less important adjustments made by Pellerito Foods in the last few years, and all of them are adding up to one growing and thriving company.

Last year market research company Mintel predicted that savoury flavours - from olive oil to cheese and bread - would gain mainstream popularity as they made their way from upmarket foodservice outlets to small - batch artisan producer and then to larger retail outlets.

It has made it increasingly difficult for small and medium distributors and importers to gain the traction in the market as larger distributors either buy out smaller ones or figure out ways to create mini-divisions to compete with and win over retail shelves.

Supermarket giants Coles and Woolworths — and smaller rival Metcash — were always considered reliable, defensive stocks, from which investors could make healthy dividends and good capital gains with little worry about the retailers» growth prospects.

Wineworks makes sense given the market today and the need that smaller high end wineries have to find creative solutions to gain distribution and visibility.

That particular linebacker, the Bucs» Lavonte David, ended up making a helluva play by falling back inside and making the tackle for a small gain.

The accumulated head damage and Rose gaining a small second win made rose land the bigger punches, more to the head, while keeping total strikes close enough to give her the edge.

The message seems to be that smaller detail changes are numerous, and it is the net gain of these details, rather than any one drastic change, that will make the Mercedes W09 a strong contender for the title.

But maybe the gains further up you get the smaller they get, so the smaller teams can make bigger gains because they are further behind and we see what the other people are doing.»