Sentences with phrase «most startling finding»

Perhaps the most startling finding was that handhelds / PDAs, promoted as a perfect productivity solution for anyone who spends time away from the office, are only carried by 10.4 percent of respondents.

Perhaps the most startling finding is that a significant chunk — about 3,000 — are high school dropouts applying for alternative schools.

The most startling finding is that parents are drawing false comfort in comparing themselves to neighboring districts.

As he noted in a 1967 essay for The Public Interest, his report's most startling finding — that students» achievement appeared to be more strongly related to their family background than their schools» resources — posed a challenge for policymakers seeking to narrow racial gaps in achievement.

The most startling finding of the report, released by the nonpartisan think - tank, MassINC (The Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth), is that 667,000 of the 1.1 million at - risk workers have earned a high school credential but still lack basic math, reading, writing, language, and analytic skills at the level considered acceptable for the typical 21st century workplace.

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The most startling finding in recent work on animal intelligence is how smart some birds are, especially parrots and crows.

But what may be the most startling finding is that the city's Law Department hindered the investigation and blocked access to City Hall computers.

One of the most startling findings is that for traditional publishers, 48 % of their sales are online in the form of either audiobooks or ebooks.

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That's the startling finding from our annual survey of the world's most reputable companies, conducted by international research and consulting firm Reputation Institute.

As my baby's movements become more energetic, what I find most startling is that he is beginning to react to certain stimuli.

Most scholars will be startled to learn that the «scrolls contain definite references to the New Testament and, more importantly, to Jesus of Nazareth»; that fragments of New Testament books were found in the Dead Sea caves; that one scroll mentions the crucifixion of Jesus; and that some Jews at Qumran accepted Jesus as the Messiah.

Her most startling — and controversial — finding: Enduring memories may leave lasting marks on DNA.

Perhaps their most startling and controversial finding is that individuals show distinct personality traits, the first ever measured in an invertebrate.

Now, researchers studying mice have found one of the most powerful tumor suppressor genes yet — animals lacking it have a startling 50 % chance of developing cancer.

By looking at the responses of closely related crickets, the scientists found the most likely origin for the female vibrational signal was a startle reflex seen in other crickets in response to loud high frequency sounds.

I find Peter Dobromylskyj's posts on Denise Minger's startling findings the most cogent.

As the resolute Steve Rogers, the American soldier out of time, Chris Evans gives his most nuanced performance yet — and so does, surprisingly, Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark, who finds himself on the other side of a growing ideological divide from Captain America, and whose past failures and guilt push him to startling, but understandable, extremes.

It's not like it is difficult to find startling hypocrisy in what passes for public policy debates these days, but the battle over public education seems especially rife with maddening examples, most of them around the notion of accountability, that teachers and schools should be held to high standards and measurable results for the public dollars they use.

I think that the most startling thing about all of this, however, is how difficult it is to find this information.

The most clear and startling finding came from Terry Odean, an economist at Berkeley.

I was startled to find the other day that on 30th Street, which in the 1930's and later was the home to many of the city's furriers, over 800 at one time, and now there are only ghosts and gargoyles of furriers (two stand watch on a building on 29th Street; one strokes a mink and a mink nibbles the other's finger)-- startled to find that there is a high - end, high - concept fashion store which is far above my head and price point, and over the heads and price points of most of the citizens of Murray Hill.

The last piece of evidence I found, Castelli's previously restricted 1973 interview, was the most startling.

On the GISTEMP anomaly graph including seasonal cycles, I find the 2015 - 2016 jump in the winter lows to be the most startling detail.

For Australia, the most startling claim of the Pentagon Report is that we, along with the United States, may find ourselves building «defensive fortresses» around our country to protect our resources from desperate outsiders and aggressive states created by rapid and unpredictable climate change.

Arlington, Virginia — In a startling result, a new study published by the scientific journal Conservation Biology found that more than 80 percent of the world's major armed conflicts from 1950 - 2000 occurred in regions identified as the most biologically diverse and threatened places on Earth.