Sentences with phrase «precipitous rates»

In the Arctic (and similarly the Antarctic), ice is melting at precipitous rates... creating a likely scenario of an iceless North Pole in the very near future.

Via EdSource By Louis Freedberg Enrollments in teacher preparation programs in California are continuing to decline at a precipitous rate, according to new figures from the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing.

EdSource Enrollments in teacher preparation programs in California are continuing to decline at a precipitous rate, according to new figures prepared for the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing.

EdSource Enrollments in teacher preparation programs in California are continuing to decline at a precipitous rate, according to new figures from the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing.

In every major city in the United States, public schools are closing in disenfranchised neighborhoods at a precipitous rate.

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The multiple birth rate's precipitous increase since 1980 looks pretty strange at first, but there's clear science behind it.

* Median monthly mortgage payments have dropped to $ 506 / month due to the precipitous decline in housing prices and mortgage rates.

King and the Regents know that raising the passing scores will result in a precipitous drop in graduation rates.

In New York, which first rolled out Common Core tests three years ago, a precipitous decline in pass rates set off protests.

None of this points to a precipitous move to boost interest rates quickly.

Is not the precipitous loss of groundwater levels, the fact that deep, rich agricultural soils that took thousands of years to be generated but are now exhausted in less than a decade, the collapse of marine fisheries, the loss of biodiversity (thousands of times higher than background rates), the number of species becoming endangered etc. etc. etc. not enough to say that we are headed in the wrong direction?

In summary, precipitous decline in the growth rate of GHG forcing about 25 years ago caused a decrease in the rate of growth of the total climate forcing and thus a flattening of the planetary energy imbalance over the past two decades.

That precipitous dip in LIBOR has made floating - rate loans, typically two to five years in length, far more attractive, says John Scheurer, managing director of commercial real estate at Allied Capital, a Washington, D.C. - based business development company.

But that's when interest rates began their precipitous climb.