Sentences with phrase «reach a benchmark on»

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Cellnex Telecom closed near the top of the European benchmark on Wednesday after news it had reached a deal with the French Bouygues Telecom for the construction of 3,000 sites in France.

The ride - hailing company is in exclusive talks to line up funding from four investors, but a deal, which could reach as much as $ 12 billion, hangs on the outcome of a courtroom brawl between Travis Kalanick and Benchmark.

Longer - term goals should be fixed on the big picture over the months and years ahead: They might include a plan for growth, developing a product or reaching another benchmark.

Brent crude, the international benchmark for oil prices, rose to $ 70.37 on Monday, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude reached $ 64.89 on Tuesday, both hitting more than three - year highs.

The benchmark 10 - year U.S. note yield rose to a four - year high last week, while the short - term two - year yield reached its highest level since 2008 on Tuesday.

Meantime, Coca - Cola Hellenic surged to the top of the European benchmark, up by over 9 percent after announcing that it remained on track to reach broad - based revenue and margin growth forecasts for the full year.

Coca - Cola Hellenic surged to the top of the European benchmark, up by over 9 percent after announcing that it remained on track to reach broad - based revenue and margin growth forecasts for the full year.

«It strengthens the hand of investors in other price - fixing cases based on benchmarks that were reached in collaborative, or outright collusive, arrangements,» said Lawrence White, a professor at New York University's Stern School of Business.

The move came after benchmark 10 - year Treasury yields last week reached 3 percent for the first time since January 2014 on concerns about rising inflation and government borrowing.

The Benchmark team reached out to other investors, and got supporters from Menlo Ventures, First Round Capital and Lowercase Capital to sign on, before calling Kalanick to give him the news.

The leading non-US benchmark for oil prices reached its highest level for more than two years, as Turkey threatened to disrupt supplies from Kurdish oilfields in northern Iraq in response to the autonomous Kurdish region's referendum on independence.

As an example, a recent benchmarking study on the software industry concluded that it took on average of five years for an emerging software company to reach $ 10 million in revenue.

There was a protocol — different steps you had to complete and benchmarks you had to reach before you could step back on the field.

I appreciate you hosting the party, and congratulations on reaching the one - year benchmark — well done!

Benefits: Greater accountability; Drawing teachers focus on what skills need to be taught; Identification of students who have not reached expected benchmarks in reading and numeracy, supported by evidence and data; Improved preservice teacher training and teacher professional learning.

It assembled panels of educators and asked them what education services, in their professional judgment, a typical school district would need to reach two benchmarks: the current level of student performance on exit exams and a higher level of student performance that represents a desired goal.

North Carolina ranks 32nd out of the 50 states and the District of Columbia on the spending index, which measures how many students are in districts spending at or above the national average, and how far the rest must travel to reach that benchmark.

The Telegraph has reported that the new GCSE's, which grade pupils on a 9 -1 system opposed to the traditional A * - G, will make it more difficult for schools to reach national benchmarks, with more than half expected to fall short.

This report shows there are record numbers of children in good or outstanding schools, with the proportion of schools reaching this benchmark rising to 82 % - the highest level on record.

Usually administered on a regular, preplanned schedule, they evaluate student progress on common content standards, or benchmarks, that students must master to be on track to reach end - of - year learning goals.

Proficiency shows the percent of students within the school who have reached the proficiency benchmark — in this case, who scored a 4 or 5 on the PARCC assessment.

The 11 cyber charter schools in Pennsylvania through 2012 have been popular among families seeking alternatives to the traditional public schools, but their quality has been called into question because most of their students have been unable to reach state benchmarks on math and reading tests.

While teachers make many decisions about their lessons, in the post NCLB — Common Core era, with the continued emphasis on high stakes assessments, teachers still tend to follow curriculum pacing guides, marching to the drumbeat established in an electronic log that continuously grabs for completion of more, for reaching more benchmarks, at a pace that barely allows anyone to catch their breath, let alone breathe.

However, the line for complex text remained fairly flat until it reached the most accomplished readers, those with scores of 34 - 36 (on a 36 point scale) where the benchmark score was 21, the score point above which becomes a predictor of college success.

Jennifer Bell - Ellwanger, a senior New York City education official, defended the use of that benchmark, saying students who reached Level 2 had a better chance of academic success than those who scored worse on the test.

It will rip to 100km / h in 6.2 seconds on its way to a 250km / h top speed, though the 184kW version takes another 0.2 seconds to reach the benchmark acceleration figure.

Linpack Benchmark: Just like most modern Android devices, the Samsung Epic 4G reaches 8 Mflops in raw CPU performance on the Linpack bBenchmark: Just like most modern Android devices, the Samsung Epic 4G reaches 8 Mflops in raw CPU performance on the Linpack benchmarkbenchmark.

U.S. Treasury MarketsThe yield on the benchmark 10 - year Treasury note hit its highest level since 2011 and the two - year yield hit its highest market since 2008 after strong retail sales and manufacturing data.The 10 - year Treasury note, rose 9 basis points to 3.091 percent Tuesday, above the 3.03 level reached in

According to the Home Price Index (HPI), the benchmark price for a detached home in Metro Vancouver rose 20 % compared to October 2014, to reach almost $ 1.2 million for detached houses sold on the Multiple Listing Service.

Just before Christmas, John Authers of the Financial Times, in a piece entitled «Investment: Loser's Game» argued that this year, with more than 90 % of active managers on track to underperform their benchmarks, a tipping point may have finally been reached.

By working with more than 110 NKLA Coalition partners, including Los Angeles Animal Services, as well as passionate individuals all over the city, NKLA is well on track to reach the 90 percent no - kill benchmark by the end of 2017.

On a benchmark DX11 single threaded and multithreaded hits 900K draw calls, DX12 it reachs 13.5 million on the same hardwarOn a benchmark DX11 single threaded and multithreaded hits 900K draw calls, DX12 it reachs 13.5 million on the same hardwaron the same hardware.

A MONUMENTAL PAINTING by Mark Bradford reached a historic benchmark at Phillips London on March 8.

After performing in - house testing on their battery, it underwent additional testing and demonstration at a Naval Surface Warfare facility in Crane, Indiana, which confirmed it's reached potentially breakthrough benchmarks set by ARPA - E.

7 7 Energy Efficiency in the Tourism Industry (EETI) EXPECTED RESULTS Energy benchmark tool, handbook on energy investments, best practices guides At least 800 hotels use EETI materials and invest in energy efficiency measures Campaign in 25 + destinations and involving 25 + hotel associations 8,000 + hotels and organisations reached Hotels consume too much energy — and Europe has half of the worlds hotel rooms TARGET GROUPS SME hotel managers & associations national tourism bodies tour operators

When properly developed and implemented, the strategic planning process will enable lawyer management and the partners to reach consensus on shared goals, identify qualitative and quantitative benchmarks and develop an action plan that includes timetables and lawyer accountability for performance.

As noted above, since generating new business takes a long time and is difficult to see or predict, rewarding the development of skills and the reaching of certain goals and benchmarks will help keep lawyers on track and motivated to continue their business development efforts.

Update: We've just added our own hands - on pictures from our recent trip to Seoul, and as you can see, our Quadrant benchmark scores (we ran it four times) only reached just above 4,000 — a bit less than what we've see previously.

The ride - hailing company is in exclusive talks to line up funding from four investors, but a deal, which could reach as much as $ 12 billion, hangs on the outcome of a courtroom brawl between Travis Kalanick and Benchmark.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS * Led successful turnaround of employee retention representing 20 % of revenue established benchmarks for all employees to reach annual appraisal goals providing excellent customer service while teaching and holding training on customer service skills.