Sentences with phrase «slowed improvement of»

While the slow improvement of all groups is «still a success story,» Mr. Petrilli said, the achievement gap, which shows how different groups perform relative to one another, still means that most black and Hispanic students will be at a sharp disadvantage when they have to compete against white and Asian peers as they move through schools and into the workplace.

Not exact matches

Blankfein said the economy was slowly emerging from a period of slow growth and there were signals of improvement.

In a separate report focusing on larger integrated oil companies, Moody's came to a similar conclusion — that the substantial improvement in the financial position of the oil industry over the past year is poised to slow down.

It said improvement in earnings will remain a challenge over the next two to three years and deleveraging, the process of reducing a company's debt, will be slow.

«The computer vision started faster but the pace of improvement was slower, whereas the neural networks started dumb but got smarter faster,» he said.

In its statement, the Fed said the rise in mortgage and some other loan rates in recent months «could slow the pace of improvement in the economy and labour market» if they're sustained.

Even with the surprisingly large addition of 287,000 payroll jobs in June, the pace of improvement in the U.S. labor market appears to have slowed somewhat.

Knowing this made it possible to anticipate when we would have extra cash that could be devoted to capital improvements, additional inventory, or a nest egg to help us bridge the first two - three months of every year when business was very slow.

It is difficult to model the many ways credit intensivity of growth can change, but if we simply assume that there is no improvement except as growth slows, so that the ratio between credit growth and GDP growth stays constant, the table below shows debt levels at the end of ten years at different GDP growth rates:

2015.08.04 Manufacturing sector recovery slows in July: RBC PMI The latest RBC PMI survey highlighted sustained expansion of production and new business volumes in July, which underpinned an improvement in operating conditions for the second month running...

So will 2013 be another year of painfully slow and steady improvement in the employment situation, or will we finally start seeing life in the labor market that will put a serious dent in our unemployment crisis?

Miller also expects Discovery to initiate a dividend of $ 0.30 a share, given the slowing growth rate, an improvement in 2016 free cash flow (FCF) of 9.5 percent and $ 1.36 billion plus in FCF expected in 2017.

Eventually, home prices will rise again but probably at a pace too slow to cover the huge expenses of owning, including closing costs, insurance, repairs, improvements, net interest costs, real estate taxes, and sales commissions when you move.

There is no question that the recovery from the Great Recession has been frustratingly slow, but the overall trend has been one of improvement.

Despite the troubled macroeconomic picture, there are pockets of opportunity and several metals seem to be holding their own or showing slow and steady price improvement.

You are able to see a slow but marked improvement with health when even a bit of a amount of losing weight is attained.

His hypothesis is that slow development and often even cultural decay are the fruits of this bifurcation, whereas the inadvertent wedding of these two disparate functions of reason during the last century and a half have produced an unprecedented cultural advance: imagination now focused on the improvement of technique; technique guided, illuminated, and immeasurably enhanced through experiment with imaginative alternatives to the given and the known (FR 42).

The trick is for brands to make improvements in those areas while working within the parameters of maintaining a clean ingredient profile and non-GMO requirements, which can be a painstakingly slow process.

General Mills has been working to turn around its yogurt business and is starting to see slow signs of improvement but «there is more work to do,» CEO Jeff Harmening said during the CAGNY (Consumer Analyst Group) conference in New York City.

Pitifully slow out of the gates, but plenty of room for improvement if the boys want it..

Telling true fans to stop living in the past, all the while bringing the past to slate Wenger, bunch of hypocrites, very slow and with some caution people are seeing improvement and potential, we are getting better whether you like it or not.

1) GK — better 2) LB — same, possibly better if Gibbs improves, Monreal has plateaued 3) RB — better as Bellerin will only improve 4) CB first pairing — same, as the BFG is getting older but he can't get shorter or slower, 5) CB second pairing — better since we didn't have a pair last year 6) DM — better as Arteta is now back up and Coquelin should get even better 7) Box to box — better if you think Ramsey and Wilshire still have room to improve and are still being kept out by Carloza 8) LW — better, Sanchez might not get too much better but Welbeck is an improvement on Podolski 9) RW — same if Theo moves up front but Ox and Gnabry have lots of room to improve 10) CAM — same 11) Striker — better as Giroud / Theo is stronger than Giroud / Sanogo

Also guilty of slowing the game down with his kicking long towards ALF and Ameobi in the first half, slight improvement in releasing the ball earlier to the wings in the second half.

The dynamism and speed of them though certainly rivals City in some respects, with Liverpool's slower build - up play the only aspect that lets them down — but as we saw against Bournemouth, with Coutinho's goal, there are clear signs of improvement across the board for the variety and strength in Liverpool's attacks.

His third season saw moderate improvement, which surely was a consequence of us dropping to the Championship and a slightly slower pace.

KM: I was a slow, middle aged runner who saw the benefit of keeping a running log and visually seeing my improvement and seeing my endurance progress.

But let's just say I'm fully invested in the question of why improvement on them has been so slow.

Reasons for this slow improvement among mothers in the United States include: (a) breastfeeding has not received sufficient national attention as a public health issue [5]; (b) inadequate attention to the importance of the duration of exclusive breastfeeding [3, 6]; and (c) inadequate research addressing exclusive breastfeeding in the United States [3, 7].

Many worlds might have been botched and bungled throughout an eternity, ere this system was struck out: much labour lost: many fruitless trials made: and a slow, but continued improvement carried on during infinite ages in the art of world - making.

The second, a report from the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) outlines that overall in the UK the «absence of a clear strategy has meant that investments and improvement to our transport system have been slower to develop, are more expensive and deliver less».

Caroline Samponaro of Transportation Alternatives told NY1 the bill is simply «a way to just slow down safety improvements.»

There has been a glacially slow improvement in this over the past 35 years or so, since the creation of the modern Departmental Select Committee system.

In addition to strong support from LGBT groups and individual donors, Menchaca also drew endorsements from other progressive quarters, including StreetsPAC, a group working to improve the safety and calm of the city's thoroughfares through improvements like slow zones, pedestrian plazas, and bike lanes.

Calorie restriction slowed the glycolytic rate in the muscles and increased the cells» dependency for OXPHOS versus glycolysis in older rats, which was linked to improvement of normalized muscle mass.

The slow rate of improvement in postdocs» attitudes toward their professional and career development point toward the need for a culture change more profound than what has so far occurred, Mellors - Bourne says.

With a new talk therapy that they called psychoeducation, Anderson and her colleagues urged family members to temper their expectations of improvement, which had been found to stress patients and slow their progress.

Although the number of newborn deaths was reduced from 3.9 million in 2000 to 2.7 million in 2015 (see appendix 6), progress has been slower than the improvements in survival for one month to five year olds.

The slower rate of contemporary improvement in speed over middle and long distances could indicate that horses are reaching a performance limit at these distances or could suggest that breeders favour speed over endurance.

They found that although life expectancy is increasing overall and the life expectancies of men and women are converging, any improvements are slower paced in more deprived areas, with the net gap between rich and poor slowly worsening over time.

Chinese emissions grew at 4.2 %, due to slower economic growth and faster improvements in carbon intensity of the economy compared to the previous decade

The authors conclude that more collaborative studies that follow women through to pregnancy outcome are required to accelerate the slow pace of improvement in the understanding of rickettsial illness in tropical pregnancies.

These improvements helped to protect the occupants, sped up evacuation, and slowed the spread of fire.

«As a community, we can all take pride in these improvements while continuing to learn as much as we can to slow down the progression of this disease and improve the quality of life for all those living with it.»

Even now, «required improvements to the Criticality Safety program are moving at an unacceptably slow pace,» the most recent NNSA performance evaluation of Los Alamos, released in Nov. 2016, said.

«These findings provide hope that long - term improvements in glucose control may alter the course of kidney disease in people with type 1 diabetes,» said JDRF program director Helen Nickerson, Ph.D. «This reinforces the importance of improved glycemic control as we pursue novel therapies to slow or reverse loss of kidney function.»

While the specific mechanisms of how that improvement happens have been slow to come into focus, they are now becoming somewhat clearer.

This is because in traditional workouts, the body quickly adapts to the stresses and strains of that training session and while initial fitness improvements are rapid, they soon slow down and stop once your body has become accustomed to the workout.

Be aware that improvements in bone mass or bone mineral density will be lost if you stop exercising properly — you have to keep working to slow the loss of bone mass.

Follow up tests showed a very slow improvement, but once she became aware of how leaky gut syndrome could well have contributed to this disorder she began taking specific herbal remedies and colostrum formulated with the correct live bacteria for this disorder, which assisted in restoring integrity to the gut lining.

Or maybe instead of deciding a weight loss target when it comes to pounds, you may opt to monitor your improvement from the successful execution of healthful habits that may bring about weight loss — such as getting into a regular exercise routine, making slow dietary changes, learning to relax and meditate every day, and so on.