Sentences with phrase «point gap in»

When the National Assessment of Educational Progress began in the early 1970s, there was a 53 - point gap in reading scores between black and white 17 - year - olds.

I went through a similar process for math, where there was a 60 - point gap in 8th grade expectations between the top state — again New York — and the bottom state — this time Connecticut (which happens to be a very high - performing state, despite low math expectations).

That means the 83 - point gap in expectations was substantially larger than the 46 - point gap between what the average fourth and eighth graders can do!

In California, the 27 - point gap in average 4th - grade reading scores between whites and Hispanics in 2017 is among the biggest in the nation.

This 36 - point gap in support between teachers and the public is the largest observed for any item on our survey.

«The next largest gap was a 21 percentage point gap in responses to those with an Indian male name, followed by a 19 percentage point gap for those with an Indian female name.»

Siben predicted Lazio would soon narrow his current 40 - point gap in the polls against Cuomo and that campaign donations would quickly follow.

United haven't been this far ahead in the Premier League since 2001 and no team has overturned a twelve point gap in the Premier League.

so a potential 8 point gap turns into a 3 point gap in 4 days.

12 point gap in March is a joke.

The winger has often provided good cover for either Raheem Sterling or Leroy Sane, something that has gone a long way to helping Man City achieve a 15 - point gap in the league, reach the quarter finals of the Champions League and win the League Cup.

Not exact matches

The difference between that point and current production — the output gap — likely won't close until sometime in 2017, according to the Bank of Canada's new forecast.

The presumptive Democratic nominee enjoys the largest gender gap in recorded history, with a recent Pew Research poll showing her leading among women by 24 points.

However, someone needs to point out a few of the gaps opening in the seemingly impregnable reputation of the modern - day version of the Broken Hill Proprietary Company Ltd — now known as BHP Billiton.

The products had a high mark - up, they're non-perishable, and there was a huge gap in the aspirational price points in cosmetics.

The point is I would have never been given the opportunity to save the company if I had anything other than a narrow say - do gap in the two years leading up to that event.

The Navy is also renovating hangers and infrastructure in Iceland as part of a project to house P - 8s there for patrols over the Greenland - Iceland - UK gap, a choke point for ships moving between the Arctic and North Atlantic oceans — though those plans don't necessarily include reestablishing a permanent presence there.

Elza Seregelyi, director of L - SPARK, points out that a «fatal flaw in (a) founding team (is when) founders who are self - aware may successfully get help to overcome a gap or conflict in a certain area, but those who are blindly one - sided (e.g., too technical or lacking domain expertise) or dysfunctional as a team will be unable to execute.»

At best, your sales reps are going into their calls with gaps in the story; at worst, they're completely off point and exhausted before making a single call.

Some women shy away from jobs in fields that require long workweeks, knowing they won't have the time: a 10 percent cut in free time for women reduces their share in high - hour occupations by about 14 percent relative to men, according to the researcher's model.In total, that difference in time spent on at - home labor results in an 11 percentage point gender wage gap, their analysis estimates.

Ramos pointed out that Romney lags behind President Obama in recent polls of the Hispanic community and asked how he would close that gap.

She added that by Congressional Budget Office estimates, cited by Harvard professor and former Secretary of the Treasury Larry Summers, a 0.2 percentage point increase in GDP would eliminate any long - term budget gap.

The longevity and consistency of this gap «points to deep - rooted bias in the U.S. labor market,» the researchers write.

Pay transparency will be the focus of tonight's PBS debate show, Point Taken, featuring a panel of guests who will clash over whether it could help narrow gaps in pay between genders, racial groups, and socio - economic classes.

The report, called Tracking & Hacking: Security & Privacy Gaps Put American Drivers at Risk, found that nearly 100 percent of vehicles on the market come with wireless entry points or WEPs that could be a way in for hackers.

If you don't complete a book, you run the risk of missing key points or leaving gaps in your understanding.

You know where you are (Point A) and where you want to get (Point Z), and it's that gap in between the two that needs to be filled.

On a recorded call, the head of Gap Inc's investor relations, Jack Calandra, pointed to a «tepid macro environment» for retail and store traffic problems that worsened in April even as he incredulously claimed that Gap is making «good progress» in righting itself.

«Employers who are serious about their future and about addressing the skills gap need to put more money in the game,» he said, pointing to an OECD report that found Canadian companies have an abysmal record on skills training.

That is almost a 40 point gap when compared to what respondent thought about their mayor in the rest of the GTA.

The share of part - time work among university - educated Canadians also rose from 10 per cent in the 1990s to 13.5 per cent today, with the gap relative to high - school graduates narrowing to only one percentage point.

The faster - than - anticipated closing of Canada's output gap in 2017 drove the BoC to raise rates twice this summer, fully reversing the 50 basis points of emergency cuts introduced in 2015.

The yield gap between U.S. 5 - year notes and 30 - year bonds narrowed to 27.20 basis points, the tightest spread in more than six years.

Announcing the report findings, commissioner for census and statistics Leslie Tang Wai - kong pointed out that the Gini coefficient - an index from 0 to 1 that measures the wealth gap - for households rose by 0.002 from 0.537 in 2011 to a record high of 0.539 last year.

Smartphone Market Penetration While the incidence of smartphone use in 2013 has increased by 9 percentage points year over year and by 24 percentage points since 2011, the gap in customer satisfaction scores among smartphone manufacturers is narrowing.

These estimates point to a gap in the valuation of privately funded sports tech companies and publicly owned ones such as Catapult, which is the global leader in wearable sports tech.

Economists, who had expected a $ 40.00 billion trade gap in September, said the wider deficit could cut as much as a half a percentage point off that growth estimate.

The start and end points are already in place for you, enemy A.I. is taken care of, and a single button press ensures your jump gaps are acceptable lengths.

Whether protecting systems and customer information from data breaches, thwarting point of sale attacks or malware, or remediating gaps in a company's cyber strategy, we seek truth so clients can find resilience.

(While Donovan has deployed this advice in helping women to narrow the gender pay gap, she points out that her advice applies to job candidates of both genders; women just tend to be less aware of these issues going into a negotiation.)

In the last two years as the bull argument has been pummeled into reality by the surge in debt, the persistent failure of consumption growth to close the gap with GDP growth, and the sharp slowdown in overall growth, the mood abroad has turned increasingly bearish, to the point that many people are speaking about a China collapse and the horrible implications this will have for the rest of the worlIn the last two years as the bull argument has been pummeled into reality by the surge in debt, the persistent failure of consumption growth to close the gap with GDP growth, and the sharp slowdown in overall growth, the mood abroad has turned increasingly bearish, to the point that many people are speaking about a China collapse and the horrible implications this will have for the rest of the worlin debt, the persistent failure of consumption growth to close the gap with GDP growth, and the sharp slowdown in overall growth, the mood abroad has turned increasingly bearish, to the point that many people are speaking about a China collapse and the horrible implications this will have for the rest of the worlin overall growth, the mood abroad has turned increasingly bearish, to the point that many people are speaking about a China collapse and the horrible implications this will have for the rest of the world.

He pointed to the president's recent decision to impose tariffs on imports of solar panels and washing machines, as well as ongoing renegotiations of trade deals with Canada, Mexico and South Korea, as ways in which the United States would narrow the trade gap.

Nevertheless, I find it untenable that a quarter point cut in January was enough to close the output gap one year earlier than the Bank of Canada's models were otherwise telling them would occur in the absence of a small cut especially since only 15bps of that cut was passed through.

And over the last three years, Total has slowly but surely closed the gap on rival oil major Esso (from 10 points behind in March 2009 to effectively level now).

If the Bank doesn't see the output gap closing in eight quarters (by mid-2017), at which point it would assume that inflation is neatly around 2 %, then that's tantamount to admitting that the current degree of monetary stimulus is not sufficient to accomplish its mandate.

But the performance gap significantly outweighs the 1 basis point savings investors in VB receive.

The gap widened in the fall of 2007 and throughout 2008 to reach nearly 800 points in November 2008.

Building a position in the stock before its obvious breakout point is tricky because there is no guarantee the stock will gap higher after earnings.

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The Parkland shooting points to continued gaps in crisis planning and management.