Sentences with phrase «rates after a concerted»
Some grades at Carlin Springs Elementary had double - digit increases in their state test passage rates after a concerted effort to prepare disadvantaged students for the exams and closely track student performance on practice tests.
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The Great Depression happened because after the 1929 stock market crash, which was brought about by a combination of radical margin requirement tightening in the days preceding it, an increase in interest rates that further dried up the cash that was being used to buy stocks, reaction to the floor vote reporting on the Smoot - Hawley tariff bill (which made it clear it would pass), and a concerted selling / manipulation effort by Wall Street's biggest players, the economy was in shock.