Sentences with phrase «of biggest gaps»

The journal Nature has published a helpful update on scientists» efforts to narrow one of the biggest gaps in climate science — the inability to reliably gauge the role of greenhouse - driven warming in determining the intensity of the kinds of extreme climate events that matter most to societies — from hurricanes to heat waves.

fills one of the biggest gaps on the PlayStation Network: The Party Game genre.

One of the biggest gaps I had on my application was my age.

And, in fact, some places where overall student achievement is relatively higher, such as in Massachusetts and Connecticut, exhibit some of the biggest gaps based on race and ethnicity.

The state had some of the biggest gaps that Achieve found on last year's tests: 60 percent more scoring proficient in fourth - grade reading on the state test than on national assessment; a 43 percent gap on fourth - grade math; a 65 percent gap on eighth - grade reading; and a 53 percent gap on eighth - grade math.

«At the moment we've got one of the biggest gaps between the performance of low - income and high - income students.

The Gonski Review found that Australia has one of the biggest gaps amongst developed nations between high and low performing students, a gap that is growing.

Four - in - ten children not «school ready» by time they start primary in some areas Some of biggest gaps between poorer and wealthier pupils in affluent areas School readiness gap explains 40 % of

Hint: Remember, so many myths make bowl time one of the biggest gaps between the sharps and squares.

Cons of big gap: hard to find age appropriate things that suit all of them.

Julie Biteen: One of the big gaps is that we tend to study bacteria that we know how to handle in the lab.

AUCOTTEspecially when you get to — so one of the big gaps here is when you treat somebody with Lyme disease, you don't have a follow up test of cure.

One of the big gaps in my wardrobe is definitely jeans.

Sure, the RT bit means you can't put just any old program on it, and the Windows Store needs to fill some of its bigger gaps, but this is a highly capable, versatile device.

For eaters in North America living outside of the grain growing regions of the U.S. mid-west and the Canadian prairie provinces one of the big gaps in eating a wholly local diet is the absence of wheat.

One practical consequence of the big gap between attorneys» excellent formal schooling and the skills they need to do excellent work for clients:

The high street store argued that, since the original shape had changed in recent years with the introduction of bigger gaps between the nine chunks, its 1997 trademark was no longer relevant.

Or maybe you have a couple of big gaps in your work history.

Not exact matches

That is the biggest strength of the iPad Pro, and a very notable gap Microsoft is likely not going to close anytime soon, as most of the (still very few) apps in the Microsoft Store are designed to work on the primarily desktop - based Windows 10.

There is a big gap between «True Romance» and «Inglourious Basterds,» the latter of which came out in 2009.

One of the things big brands do as part of their annual planning process is a gap analysis.

Consequently, big U.S. companies that had already invested in China infrastructure — Nike NKE, P&G, Gap GPS, and, yes, Amazon are prominent examples — have taken advantage of Tmall.

Cornell professor and economist Robert Frank, who wrote a book in the 1990s titled The Winner - Take - All Society: Why the Few at the Top Get So Much More Than the Rest of Us, made popular the belief that a big portion of the increase in the income gap has to do with the way a global market values its best performers, be they CEOs or athletes or actual performers.

«There is still a big gap between world - leading companies and Canadian businesses with respect to the role of creative people, or... representing creativity within an organization.

Even so, the company believes Athleta's online following is strong, and is sure to grow — Gap estimates that Athleta will be a big part of doubling e-commerce sales to $ 2 billion by 2014.

Gap's Athleta isn't the only U.S. company that's expressed interest in carving out a piece of the fitness fashion pie, and other big brands like Nike and Adidas have launched yoga lines with a similar focus on style.

BRUSSELS — The European Union on Wednesday launched the long and politically fraught process of drawing up its new long - term spending plans, seeking a bigger budget to finance new priorities like defense and border control and plug the gap left by Britain's departure.

While sales of the company's Banana Republic and Gap brands have been falling for some time now, recent declines at Old Navy — the sole bright spot in the past few quarters — pose a bigger headache for the 46 - year old retailer.

So you can't help but wonder just how much does the average big tech employee make and how much of a gap is it versus the top bananas?

«If you look at the numbers and see big disparities, that's a red flag,» Chaudhry said of the salary gaps between male and female coaches.

David Nierengarten, head of health - care equity research at Wedbush, told CNBC, «Celgene has a big revenue hole to fill over the next few years» and Juno's treatment could potentially «fill that gap.»

If there's a big gap between devices driving you a lot of traffic and the bounce rates on those devices, consider it priority one to optimize your career portal for those devices.

Today, Vibes works with some of the biggest brands in the industry — like The Gap, Verizon, and Home Depot — to help them better engage with customers and influence purchasing behavior using mobile marketing.

There are myriad factors that are likely feeding into this public health gap, including big geographic and socioeconomic disparities in access to medical care and the sky - high cost of American medicine.

A recent summer job at a marketing firm identified a big gap in Smith's education: he had to use computer coding as part of his job of updating the company's blog entries and he had no idea how.

He has lots of hard evidence to back it up, too: if you measure prosperity in terms of gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, not only has Canada been lagging the States for years, but lately that «prosperity gap» has grown bigger — reaching about $ 8,900 as of 2010.

Examples of such supposed brushes with oblivion are almost too numerous, from little goof - ups like Tropicana's package redesign, Gap's short - lived new logo and Lululemon's transparent stretchy pants to big stuff like BP's oil spill, Chipotle's food poisoning and Samsung's self - immolating phones.

To explain why this big gap in valuations isn't a sign of over-valuation, the CAPE's critics cite lots of individual issues in these nations that make them riskier bets than the U.S., such as looming Brexit in the U.K. and Germany's uncertainty regarding future leadership.

It's not just about having one issue fixed, like establishing better parental leave policies or solving for the wage gap, it's addressing all of these small things that add up to a bigger problem.

The Hotels Network Founder and CEO Juanjo Rodríguez commented: «The company started as we identified a big gap between the quality of technology used by the large online players and that of hotels themselves, so we wanted to create a product to bridge that gap.

The confirmation we are looking for is either a big, ugly reversal bar or a substantial opening gap in the direction of the dominant trend.

To determine which communities are a good fit for the initiative, Starbucks looks at all the available data on the socio - economic health of America's cities to understand which communities have the biggest opportunity gaps, which have the biggest need for business investment and leadership, and where there is local movement underway to build a better future for its residents.

An analysis found that even a big increase to a full retirement age of 70 would only take care of 25 % of the Social Security funding gap, while a 1 % tax increase would make up for 52 % of the problem and eliminating the taxable wage cap would pay for 74 %.

So, even if $ GLD bounces into resistance of the $ 158 to $ 160 level, our trading rules are such that we must subsequently wait for the first big gap down or significant down day that follows.

Yesterday's price and volume action in the broad market produced the first true distribution day (higher volume decline) in the Nasdaq since the big gap up of January 2.

The right panel shows that the gap between the American and Canadian unemployment rates is much bigger when a comparable Canadian statistic is used in place of the headline measure regularly reported by Statistics Canada.

As an aside, it seems generally to be the case that the longer an adjustment is constrained, the more likely that the adjustment takes place in the form of what traders call «gapping» — which is a big, discontinuous change instead of a smooth adjustment — so when the change finally took place, the fall in demand (and iron ore prices) would almost certainly occur very quickly, in a matter of two or three years, perhaps.

And while 54 % of low - income people and 49 % of middle - income people called the rich - poor gap a «very big» problem, only 36 % of high - income people did so.

And 61 % of Democrats and 50 % of independents said the gap was a very big problem, versus only 28 % of Republicans.

A similar share (66 %) of Americans said the gap between rich and poor had increased in the past five years; nearly three - quarters of respondents said the rich - poor gap was either a «very big» (47 %) or «moderately big» (27 %) problem.