Sentences with phrase «past year papers»

This is the test for the year 5 students, which some of it I compiled and took from past year papers.

Not exact matches

Over the past year, the Silverman brothers focused on more thoughtfully evolving their three - person, New York - based startup and better understanding what types of toilet - paper advertising catches consumers» attention, and what kinds they flush away.

And lastly, if rates start hiking significantly, they will be breaking away from the trend registered in the past few years — the 10 - year paper hasn't hit 3 percent since 2014.

In the past two years, Yardstick has branched into another vertical: selling software that allows clients to administer certification tests online rather than on paper.

Buffett's investments in newspaper companies including Graham Holdings (ghc)(former owner of the Washington Post) and Lee Enterprises (lee)(which publishes dozens of regional papers), are among his worst performers, with Graham's shares down 24 % and Lee's down 30 % over the past year.

The fact is, says Vitaliy Katsenelson, director of research at Investment Management Associates in Denver, Colo., and a prominent China skeptic, China's frantic building boom over the past five years not only boosted GDP on paper and put millions to work but also produced a property bubble where neither investors nor developers are likely to ever recover their costs.

A recent working paper from the University of Oxford reports that every Olympics in the past 50 years has gone over budget, with an average increase of 179 %.

A recent working paper from the University of Oxford says that every Olympic Games from the past 50 years has gone over budget — and not by slim margins.

Pierlot wrote a paper for the CD Howe Institute in 2011 showing that a person with a salary of $ 75,000 at the end of a 35 - year career would accumulate more than $ 1.4 million in savings through a defined - benefit plan (wherein the pensioner is paid a set income based on past earnings and years of service, mostly confined to the public sector these days) compared to $ 674,711 for someone with no pension but a maxed - out Registered Retirement Savings Plan.

Nevertheless, if past papers and reports are any indication, those who favor stricter regulation of internet providers might be in for a long four years.

Both of the other members of the Sulzberger extended family have also held positions of increasing responsibility at the paper over the past several years as a way of testing their mettle, like a drawn - out, highly - privileged NYT version of the Hunger Games.

Over the past 20 years, he has published hundreds of articles, white papers, eBooks, and blog posts and presented on dozens of webinars on a wide range of marketing topics, including B2B marketing, marketing automation, conversion optimization, and search marketing.

Private money going to startups more than four years past their first funding round «has grown by a factor of 20 since 1992,» according to an academic paper published last year by the California Institute of Technology and Cornerstone Research.

Before Shazam, Slim's only forays into Europe were to plough 4.8 billion euros ($ 6.1 billion) into stakes in Dutch operator KPN and Telekom Austria, on which he is nursing huge paper losses after their shares declined sharply in the past year.

When the 54 - year - old world leader manages to steal a few fleeting moments to unwind past dark, he reportedly reads good, old paper books, and not always about politics and domestic and foreign affairs.

It's one of several papers in the past few years looking at that question.

Over the past year, the Times had found itself at odds with Tribune's previous management, which fired a publisher, Austin Beutner, who was pursuing an aggressively local strategy designed to shore up the paper's value and influence on its home turf.

1: Widening credit spreads: An increase over the past 6 months in either the spread between commercial paper and 3 - month Treasury yields, or between the Dow Corporate Bond Index yield and 10 - year Treasury yields.

Related column: Newsonomics: There's a newspaper chain that's grown profits for the past 5 years, and it's looking to buy more papers

Related column: Newsonomics: There's a newspaper chain that's grown profits for the past 5 years, and it's looking to buy more papers It's long been a classic mismatch: Educated New Haven, Conn., home of Yale University, didn't see much sophisticated reporting in its...

In their July 2013 paper entitled «Gold, Oil, and Stocks», Jozef Baruník, Evzen Kocenda and Lukas Vacha analyze the return relationships among stocks (the S&P 500 Index), gold and oil (light crude) over the past 26 years.

You can read the article to learn about Mongolia's recent past but as part of the offering there was a ten year tranche which was priced to yield 5.125 % and there was demand for the paper.

That said, credit spreads have popped wider in the past 2 weeks as measured by the spread between Moody's BAA yields and 10 - year Treasuries, by 6 - month commercial paper yields versus 6 - month T - bills, and other spreads.

Physical gold that may be suffering from a falling domestic fiat currency price is still exponentially more valuable than devaluing paper fiat currencies, as anyone living in the Ukraine, Russia, Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela, and in any number of dozens of other emerging markets have unfortunately rapidly learned in the past few years.

In their December 2016 paper entitled «Cross-Asset Signals and Time Series Momentum», Aleksi Pitkajarvi, Matti Suominen and Lauri Vaittinen examine a strategy that times each of country stock and government bond (constant 5 - year maturity) indexes based on past returns for both.

From 1982 through 1988, the NCCB published 226 papers — 44 in the past year alone.

For the past ten or twelve years I've ministered as an independent interfaith minister, I have papers that protect my first amendment rights, and have a hodge podge group of friends... ministers... to whom I'm accountable.

It is 25 years since James Watson and Francis Crick published their initial paper on the structure of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), but the technology to manipulate this genetic key to all of life is very new — so new that only during this past year did it become a matter of interest and concern to the general public.

August 27, 2012 at 2:31 pm Report abuse Bill T. OK, I'll play,»... they just keep running into trouble about 2012 years ago...», cite just ONE peer reviewed paper indicating that the apparent positions of stars in the sky are not calculable past the year 0 C.E. (your discussion is garbled but this appears to be your claim).

The reconstruction of «that which was» may rationally appear to be merely a fantasy for idle minds; but in fact the meticulous work accomplished in the past hundred years by the collectors of fossils, the results which they have patiently recorded in innumerable papers and in barbarous language, perfectly incomprehensible to non-initiates, the paraphernalia of systematized knowledge and the clutter on the museum shelves, all this has made a contribution of the utmost importance to the world's thinking.

The victims families have been campaigning for the past 20 years for the papers to be released and the government finally conceded to pressure after 140,000 people signed a e-petition set up by Liverpool fans.

If you take a look at the papers, the Wenger polls, the banners, the petitions, there is a huge wave of fans who no longer believe he will take us forward and they are speaking their concern because of the past 10 years.

Even were we to win, we realists on here know all too well it will be only papering over the cracks, like for years past, until the next embarrassing capitulation.

That all sounds good on paper but past exploits in to this system have shown that it takes 2/3 years to show prosperity.

A new paper from the U.S. Institute of Peace, which builds upon fieldwork from the past three years, argues that 2014 marks an important opportunity for donors to recalibrate three central tenets of their subnational governance and development strategy.

While the County Executive's Office and the County Legislature have each year given taxpayers a wink and a nod while kicking the can down the road, the white paper claims branches of Rockland government often knowingly produced revenue estimates for taxes that were inaccurate for the past seven years.

Newsday praises retiring Sen. Owen Johnson's 40 - year career in public service and says Suffolk County Democratic Chairman Richard Shaffer's loyalty to the GOP lawmaker — something the paper has criticized in the past — «has a certain logic.»

ALBANY — Despite putting on a full - court press in the past year, state Archivist Christine Ward is no closer to getting a law passed that would legally require governors to turn over their paper, electronic and email records.

«Much of the abysmal performance of the Senate the past two years can be traced to the failed leadership of downstate Democratic Senate leaders, such as John Sampson and Malcolm Smith,» the paper opined.

Without this State Grant, approved almost 2 years ago but necessitating «tons of paper work», this past winter would have been a disaster for the Post 8 building and would have displaced many veteran and community groups who use the building for meetings and special programs.

In total, the chairman of the Defence Select Committee has claimed # 108,062 over the past five years - the maximum amount possible according to the paper.

Perlmutter adds: «There's been around one paper about dark energy every day by a theorist for the past 12 years.»

But when Cole - Dai published another paper about the Unknown in 2009 — in which he made the case that it and Tambora, like a one - two punch, caused the coldest decade for the past 500 years — curiosity about the Unknown flared anew.

«During the past few years our group,» says David Jones, an astrophysicist at the IAC and another of the authors on the paper, «has discovered that the planetary nebulae with the biggest discrepancies in their abundances are usually associated with binary central stars which have been through a phase with a common envelope, that is to say the process of expansion of the more massive of the two stars has meant that the other star is orbiting within its outer atmosphere, and the viscosity has brought the stars very close to one another.

Over the past year, she has written two papers (one published, one in press) laying down the gauntlet.

Most of the papers that have been written in the past 10 years really contradict those findings, and the original research was pretty weak.

Inside, their scientific paper suggested that, over the past 250 million years, the death dates of thousands of taxonomic families of marine animals seemed to spike every 26 million years, during one or another of a dozen distinct «extinction events.»

Although I have only been a postdoc for a little over a year, my first paper (a first - author paper), was accepted this past September and another paper was recently submitted.

For the past few years, her group has been getting some animals to share cages by providing enrichment: hay - filled paper bags they can «forage» through, plastic keys to gnaw on, and other accoutrements.

The paper focuses on treatments unapproved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and undertaken by NFL players in the past five years.