By contrast, the recent
modest decrease in the rate of warming has elicited numerous articles and special issues of leading journals and it has been (mis --RRB- labeled as a «pause» or «hiatus».
Not exact matches
The 2012 Annual Update of Building a Grad Nation: Progress and Challenge
in Ending the Dropout Epidemic report found that 24 states increased their high school graduation
rates by
modest to large gains, while the number of high schools graduating 60 percent or fewer students on time — often referred to as «dropout factories» —
decreased by 457 between 2002 and 2010, with the
rate of decline accelerating since 2008.
When the district calculated that
rate, it showed a much more
modest decrease of 2.3 percentage points — from 12.8 percent
in 2014 - 15 to 10.5 percent
in the 2016 - 17 school year.
One may, however, question the studies that indicate very rapidly increasing and
decreasing N2O emissions, given the main sources of N2O (these are mostly agricultural and will grow at a
modest rate,
in the future, but to some degree are also difficult to abate).
The basic physics of greenhouse gases are simply not one of those things that are not well - enough understood and if you don't understand how greenhouse gases work you can't possibly move on to any reasonable debate about other phenomena which can and do (IMO) largely negate the effects of increasing greenhouse gases and leave us
in a situation where the
modest increase
in carbon dioxide has vast beneficial effect by warming the planet at high latitudes where warming is welcome, not warming it at low latitudes where it is already warm enough, increasing the growth
rate of green plants, and
decreasing the water needs of green plants at the same time.
Although one program
in Oklahoma City slightly increased relationship stability, the most rigorous evaluation of the programs
in eight cities found that, overall, they created no long - term improvements
in new unwed parents» relationship quality, marriage
rates, or children's economic wellbeing, and they actually resulted
in modest decreases in fathers» financial support and parental involvement.
The 2012 Annual Update of Building a Grad Nation: Progress and Challenge
in Ending the Dropout Epidemic report found that 24 states increased their high school graduation
rates by
modest to large gains, while the number of high schools graduating 60 percent or fewer students on time — often referred to as «dropout factories» —
decreased by 457 between 2002 and 2010, with the
rate of decline accelerating since 2008.
The retail sector has experienced a
modest increase
in rents, as well as a slight
decrease in vacancy
rates.