Sentences with phrase «rates against a state»

«The problem specifically with Chapter Nine for states is the municipal market does not extract a penalty rate or an insurance rate against states going into bankruptcy because it is not allowed,» said Mier, a Managing Director at Chicago's Loop Capital.

Not exact matches

Well the first thing is if the United States raises interest rates that's going to push the dollar way up against the Euro, and most of all against third world and Asian countries.

SYDNEY (Reuters)- The dollar rose to its highest in over four years against a basket of currencies on Thursday after the Federal Reserve's guidance on interest rates highlighted the diverging pathways between the United States and other rich nations.

To find the best - rated car insurers in Louisiana, we compared the amount of complaints the top 20 biggest insurers in the state received against each other.

The rise in interest rates to 20 percent by 1980 forced most states to revoke their usury laws, and credit card companies played states against each other in a race to the bottom when it came to protecting consumer rights.

Amid an emerging markets debt crisis in 1998, the Fed cut interest rates to try to guard the United States against economic fallout, which helped the stock market gain a whopping 29 percent that year despite the global troubles.

Concerns that a possible rise in inflation in the United States could lead the Fed to increase the pace of interest rate hikes has caused nerves on Wall Street, and American investment products that bet against volatility seem to have contributed to Monday's stock rout.

page 285 ^ Robert M. Price (an atheist who denies existence) agrees that this perspective runs against the views of the majority of scholars: Robert M. Price «Jesus at the Vanishing Point» in The Historical Jesus: Five Views edited by James K. Beilby & Paul Rhodes Eddy, 2009 InterVarsity, ISBN 028106329X page 61 [10] Michael Grant (a cla ssicist) states that «In recent years, «no serious scholar has ventured to postulate the non historicity of Jesus» or at any rate very few, and they have not succeeded in disposing of the much stronger, indeed very abundant, evidence to the contrary.»

Here in the United States, the speculative dangers of climate change need to be weighed against the real and present dangers of stagnant wages and depressed rates of labor participation.

The Illinois secondary allowed just a 112.2 passer rating for the season — 163.9 against UNC, MTSU, and Penn State (an odd sample) and 101.0 against everybody else.

He went 14 - for - 18 in the season opener against Kansas State, and five games into the season his passer rating was a respectable 138.5, his completion rate 66 percent.

And after his completion rate fell below 60 percent against both Arizona State and Nevada, he completed 46 of 69 passes (67 percent) against Arkansas and MSU.

The national average success rate is around 41 percent, but A&M was at 48 percent in its win over Mississippi State two weeks ago and 48 percent against Arkansas the week before that.

After the Michigan debacle, he was held below a 150 passer rating just twice: against a top - 10 Ohio State pass defense and in cold, wet conditions at Rutgers.

They had a ghastly 5 percent success rate on PDs against Florida State, 22 percent against LSU, and 25 percent against MSU.

Joe Adams (12.9 yards per catch, 70 percent catch rate) caught four passes for 124 yards against Ole Miss, Chris Gragg (12.0 yards per catch, 69 percent catch rate) exploded for 119 yards on eight receptions against Mississippi State last weekend and while Cobi Hamilton (15.2 yards per catch, 59 percent catch rate) and Greg Childs (11.7 yards per catch, 57 percent catch rate) haven't done much in 2011, they averaged 11.7 and 10.8 yards per target, respectively, as Top Four targets a year ago.

The interception rate ticked up a bit, and his bowl game was miserable (19 - for - 46 for 158 yards and three picks against an awesome NC State defense), but he showed the kind of trend you want in a sophomore.

As far as I am concerned I just wish Tottenham well, I believe they will have to sort out issues and have strong winds against them (yet as it was stated, their borrowing rate is almost 10 times cheaper that what AFC had to pay, which makes the success AW and AFC managed the more impressive — yet they get not credit for it).

The approval rating of Russian President Mr. Vladimir Putin is higher among his citizen due to the successful anti-terrorist operation in Syria where the Russian Air Force is conducting a successful campaign against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) and the accession of the Crimean Republic into the Russian Federation.

But Republicans featured Obama in their attacks against Democrats in both election cycles, and exit polling found no Democratic Senate candidate was able to outperform Obama's approval rating in their state by more than nine percentage points.

The state has lost another round in its legal fight against the Indian Point nuclear facility, with a federal regulator rejecting its effort to force the plant to undergo leak rate tests more often.

«There is a strong correlation between sensible gun laws and low gun - death rates and that continues to be the case here in New York state,» countered Rebecca Fischer, executive director of New Yorkers Against Gun Violence.

Both Fiorina and GOP gubernatorial nominee Meg Whitman emphasized they were the outsiders running against Democratic veterans and said their business experience as former CEOs best equipped them to fix the state's massive economic problems: a $ 19 billion budget shortfall and a 12.6 percent unemployment rate.

Regent Roger Tilles, seen in Albany on March 12, said Monday that voting against legislation to repeal the state's requirement basing teacher job ratings largely on student testing would be «suicide» on Long Island.

Cuomo has spent several months rallying against the federal tax plan, which he said would effectively raise the tax rate for homeowners and put the state at a competitive disadvantage.

He also contested the idea that there is a stigma against fingerprinting, noting that the city has a higher food stamp participation rate than anywhere else in the state.

Another section of the resolution links New York's strict gun laws to the state's low rates of gun crime, while criticizing some state senators who have voted against «common sense» gun laws like a ban on bump stocks, improved background checks and state funding for research on gun violence.

On a conference call this afternoon, after touting the state's improved credit rating, Governor Andrew Cuomo was asked if he was bothered by a New York Times report over the weekend that the Assembly had used public money to settle a sexual harassment complaint against Vito Lopez earlier this year.

The United States on Wednesday sued JPMorgan Chase, accusing the bank of discriminating against minority borrowers by charging them higher rates and fees on home mortgage loans between 2006 and...

Consumer advocates and Connecticut officials are lining up against a request by the state's largest utility to raise $ 232 million from a rate increase.

As of the end of 2009, Ward has rebelled against the Government's stated or majority position 19 times out of 2,629 votes she has attended, a rebelling rate of 0.72 %.

In February, Public Advocate Letitia James announced plans to file a complaint with the New York State Human Rights Divison against Stonehenge Village's management company, which permits only its market - rate tenants to use the building's gym, as previously reported.

For years, Cuomo has been hitting his head against the wall on getting a real state teacher - rating system.

Senator Klein meets with leaders across Westchester County to combat United Water New Rochelle rate increases NEW YORK, NY - State Senator Jeff Klein (D - Bronx / Westchester) has joined in the fight against proposed United Water New Rochelle (UWNR) rate hikes.

Religious participation is linked to lower suicide rates in many parts of the world, including the United States and Russia, but does not protect against the risk of suicide in sections of Europe and Asia, finds new research by a Michigan State University scholar.

More than three years after the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommended against routine mammogram screening for women between the ages of 40 and 49, a study from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) finds that mammogram rates in the United States have not declined in that age group, or any other.

Five items targeted emotional state, asking patients to rate, on a scale of 0 to 4, the extent to which statements like «I feel sad» and «I am losing hope in my fight against my illness» had been true for them over the past seven days.

Language: English Genre: Action / Adventure MPAA rating: PG - 13 Director: Bryan Singer Actors: Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stuart, Ian McKellen Plot: Dissent against mutants is on the rise after an assissination attempt on the President of the United States.

December 9, 2015 • Since the Sept. 11 attacks, FBI hate crime data and census trends show that states with the strongest backlash against Muslims saw decreased rates of assimilation among Muslim immigrants in America.

To guard against illusory achievement gains, states should rate elementary and middle schools based on the on - time promotion rate of students in the next two grades after they leave a school (as Morgan Polikoff recommends).

In contrast, Polikoff's public comment on draft ESSA accountability rules drew heavily on a large empirical literature as it argued against a federal mandate for states to use proficiency rates as measures of school performance.

The statistic not only showed the growing strength of the «opt out» movement against standardized testing, but also put immediate pressure on state and federal officials, who must now decide whether to penalize schools and districts with low participation rates.

«Sadly, for many students, rather than providing additional supports,» noted legal advocates» claim against the state's alternative network, «these programs have become a revolving door which spirals students away from being able to successfully complete high school, ultimately fueling Pennsylvania's dropout rate.»

The U.S. Department of Education has never withheld money from states failing to meet that requirement because states have issued sanctions against schools and districts with low participation rates.

The company urged state officials, for instance, not to count last school year's performance against alternative schools, because the state made the rating more rigorous.

A House bill says that the students who opt out will not be counted against their state's participation rate.

In several states, local superintendents are pushing back against plans to rate schools with letter grades

Below, I have provided a table which compares Utah and its current elected State School Board model against the states which utilize Model IV in the following areas: ACT / SAT scores, graduation rates, graduation requirements, AP passage rates, charter schools, public education climate for growing businesses, and closing the achievement gap.

This means: students who do not participate in required state testing, for any reason, including required opt - outs in response to a request by a parent or guardian, count «against» proficiency rates for federal accountability purposes.

The basic skills tests required for entry into teacher preparation in the state — only a small part of the selectivity measures described above — have recently come under fire for being biased against African American and Latino test takers, as their passage rates are significantly lower than those of white test takers.