Sentences with phrase «third of the nation»

A survey of the 1997 Inc. 500 revealed that casual or «business casual» dress is standard at more than one - third of the nation's fastest - growing privately held companies.

In California, oil companies are pressing for further exploration of the massive Monterey Shale, a 1,750 - square - mile area extending from the agricultural Central Valley to the Pacific Ocean that federal energy officials say could ultimately comprise two - thirds of the nation's shale oil reserves.

GREG WARREN: With coal fired and natural gas plants continuing to generate around two thirds of the nation's electricity and renewables accounting to less than 10 percent, there remains plenty of room for growth.

The storm is barreling toward the Gulf Coast and in its path sits nearly a third of the nation's gasoline refinery...

It is estimated that by 2030, women will control as much as two - thirds of the nation's wealth.

It is the only phone company in 1,800 Brazilian towns, or about one - third of the nation's 5,500 municipalities.

In Bangladesh people spent three months of 1998 living in the thigh - deep water that covered two - thirds of the nation.

'' Here in the United States, converts to Islam represent a variety of ethnic and religious backgrounds, and account for close to one third of this nation's 3 million Muslims.

Murray Goulburn, which processes one third of the nation's 9 billion litre annual milk production, is also looking at potential acquisitions.

One third of our nation's children are on track to get type II diabetes, primarily because of poor diets.

They make up a third of the nation's cash crop receipts — 50 percent of receipts if floriculture and greenhouse plant sales are counted — and, until now, they haven't drawn much federal money or attention.

Yet more than one third of the nation's children and adolescents are overweight or obese.

More than one - third of the nation's statehouses do not have the metal detector security systems that can be found in a range of public places, from middle schools to museums.

Both local and European elections generally result in around a third of the nation voting but there are concerns the number might slip below 25 per cent this time around.

Brazil is the world's leading producer of sugarcane, and São Paulo state accounts for more than two - thirds of the nation's production.

During the last two decades, about a third of the nation's 1,125 trauma centers have shut down.

Currently, the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) estimates that at least a third of the nation's 275 commercial fish stocks are overharvested.

Last month, the Dutch government announced that a third of the nation's forests were in immediate danger of dying as a result of two factors — drought and soil acidification.

The concept is considered pivotal for coal's survival in a carbon - constrained world, since the fossil fuel releases about a third of the nation's greenhouse gas emissions.

Today, about one - third of the nation lives in a medically underserved area, places where doctors or clinics are in short supply and patients often have to travel for miles or hours in order to find a primary care provider.

At one point rising waters threatened about 70 percent of New South Wales, home to Sydney and about a third of the nation's 22 million residents.

EPA's defenders argue the plan is sound, and a full - court press is simply to be expected against rules that would curb the source of one - third of the nation's greenhouse gas emissions.

It's the largest pollination event in the U.S. — and beekeepers truck in two thirds of the nation's captive honeybees to do the job.

Care for patients with MCC accounts for an estimated two - thirds of the nation's nearly $ 3 trillion in total health care spending.

The western two - thirds of the nation was warmer than average with 14 states being much warmer than average, including Washington which was record warm.

This predicament persists even though the season finale is so popular that over a third of the nation's population tunes in.

FDR struggles with how best to deal with Hitler, while a quarter to one - third of the nation is unemployed.

A 2009 New York Times article, for instance, noted that «Over the next four years, more than a third of the nation's 3.2 million teachers could retire, depriving classrooms of experienced instructors and straining taxpayer - financed retirement systems.»

In early 1963, he produced a report, titled «One - Third of a Nation,» that documented very high percentages of young black men in single - parent families who failed mental and physical tests for the military draft.

Mike Antonucci, whose Education Intelligence Agency bird - dogs union doings, wrote in June that almost a third of the nation's largest school districts, the 82 with enrollment of 50,000 or more, had fewer students in 2006 than in 2001.

With nearly half of all new teachers leaving their classrooms within five years and as many as a third of the nation's teaching force readying for retirement, some education and political leaders seem to believe that education can solve its human - resource challenge by becoming more like the military: sign individuals up for short - term enlistments, prepare them in intensive boot - camp experiences, and then send them to the front lines.

It is true that nearly a third of the nation's 9th graders — and about half those attending dangerous big city schools — have voted with their feet against the disastrous state of the modern public high school.

It accredits colleges of education that produce more than two - thirds of the nation's new teacher graduates annually.

And, for a half century, nearly one - third of the nation's high - school students have failed to graduate with their class each year, while graduation rates for black and Hispanic students are even lower.

And in two - thirds of the nation, «testing systems often impede,...

The following models, described in more detail in One - Third of a Nation: Rising Dropout Rates and Declining Opportunities (Barton, 2005b), merit a close look by any state, district, or school wishing to embark on efforts to retain students in school.

One - third of a nation: Rising dropout rates and declining opportunities.

NEA, for example, only reported revenue of $ 385 million to the U.S. Department of Labor; since the NEA represents two thirds of the nation's teachers, looking only at national IRS filings would imply a revenue total of less than $ 600 million.

More than two thirds of the nation's teachers will be replaced by new teachers over the next decade.

Less than one - third of our nation's 8th graders can identify the historical purpose of the Declaration of Independence.

This week's report by the privately organized State Budget Crisis Task Force focused on fiscal conditions and indicators for a half - dozen states — California, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, Texas and Virginia — that account for more than one - third of the nation's population and 40 cents of every dollars spent by states and local governments.

This kind of reset is made doubly important by the «evergreen» clauses found in one - third of the nation's big - district teacher contracts.

Nearly two - thirds of the nation's secondary public schools have sworn officers on site, but most are not present all day, according to a report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the National Center for Education Statistics.

Meanwhile, pedagogical change in teacher training remains on hold, while the latest National Assessment of Educational Progress report shows that two - thirds of the nation's fourth graders lack proficiency in reading.

And when at least 1.2 million fourth - grade students, or one - third of the nation's students in that grade are likely to drop out — and nearly 1 million more of their classmates who are barely reading at Basic proficiency unlikely to succeed in college and career — we have a moral, intellectual, and systems - change obligation to focus on stemming achievement gaps.

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We in transportation have special obligations and opportunities to take action — given that the transportation sector accounts for two - thirds of the United States» oil use and contributes one - third of the nation's greenhouse gas emissions.»

Yet, nearly one third of the nation's 11,000 pet stores continue to sell puppies.

Days 1 — 3 Nearly a third of the nation's 4.5 million live in Auckland, a stylish city on the North Island.

Guatemala's Petén province occupies around a third of the nation.