Sentences with phrase «reached historical highs»

Prior to returning home to lead Tulsa Public Schools, Dr. Gist served as commissioner of education for the State of Rhode Island where student achievement reached historical highs, and graduation rates increased significantly.

The government is also aware that during the 2009 - 10 recession the deficit reached an historical high although much of that was due to the temporary stimulus spending.

Following the rising price of new housing, used home (existing home sales) prices in Colombia have continued to increase and have now reached an historical high.

Not exact matches

The Times looked at two sorts of historical data — the closing prices of the S. & P. 500 - stock index as well as the highest and lowest points the index reached during each trading day.

- In January 1973, the DJIA reached a new all - time high (higher than any previous historical level).

One can relate this directly to a 10 - year prospective return by recalling that historical tendency for market cycles to establish normal prospective returns — if even briefly as in 2009 — at their troughs (and it's typical for troughs to reach below average valuations and much higher prospective returns than the 10 % historical norm).

If we compare operating spending by municipalities to GDP, which is a broad measure of ability to pay, it remains within historical averages of close to 3 % of GDP.  In 2012, operating spending by all municipalities in Canada amounted to just 3.1 % of GDP, the same that it was twenty years ago, and down from the 3.3 % reached in 2009 during the depths of the recession.  This ratio was higher during the recession because GDP had dropped and governments sensibly embarked on stimulus spending to prevent a depression. This was before their misguided adventures in austerity (which presumably the CFIB supports, but have caused devastation to small businesses in countries elsewhere).

Jesus is an historical figure for me, and he's also a bridge between God and man, in the Christian faith, and one that I think is powerful precisely because he serves as that means of us reaching something higher.

We learn more about the highs and lows of their complicated marriage at the hand of Melanie Benjamin in this far - reaching historical fiction story spanning the late 1920s to the mid 1960s.

German novelist and film - maker Pötzsch has reached the highest echelons of the Kindle bestsellers list with the English translation of his historical novel The Hangman's Daughter.

For example, you might find it easy to reach best - seller status in the subgenre for the «historical Amish romance» market — but you might find it harder to earn a high sales ranking among generic «historical romance» books.

My first work — historical fiction — will reach the e-book market this Friday, and like all authors, I have high hopes for it in the long run.

Ever since the mid-October dip, the stock price has had especially strong growth, reaching new historical highs 2 - 3 times per week.

Interest rates rise much higher than their historical average and reach previous highs (this would be a worse case scenario for variable rate student loan borrowers)

Of all the art - historical insurgencies against the high ideals of Modernism, then, few seem so radical or so far - reaching in their ambition to turn the tables as the Centre Georges Pompidou's summer 1996 exhibition «L'Informe: mode d'emploi» (The formless: instructions for use).

Snowfall varies across the region, comprising less than 10 % of total precipitation in the south, to more than half in the north, with as much as two inches of water available in the snowpack at the beginning of spring melt in the northern reaches of the river basins.81 When this amount of snowmelt is combined with heavy rainfall, the resulting flooding can be widespread and catastrophic (see «Cedar Rapids: A Tale of Vulnerability and Response»).82 Historical observations indicate declines in the frequency of high magnitude snowfall years over much of the Midwest, 83 but an increase in lake effect snowfall.61 These divergent trends and their inverse relationships with air temperatures make overall projections of regional impacts of the associated snowmelt extremely difficult.

As the chart reveals, today's per century trends are dominated by cooling for the different time periods; today's trends are multiple times below prior period, historical highs; the 5, 8 and 10 - year trends are definitely below the average modern trend (1950 through 2013); and all the trends are significantly less than those reached 15 years ago (see black dotted lines for year - end 1998 trend levels).

Presently, Bitcoin trades lower than the half of its historical high of $ 19» 511 reached on December 18th.

CoreLogic also cited four states (Colorado, Texas, Wyoming and New York) where home prices have reached new historical record highs.