Sentences with phrase «weak ratings»

Under Obama's framework, teachers with weak ratings tied to student achievement could lose their jobs, while high ratings could mean bigger paychecks.

Aging populations and historically weak rates of economic growth also act as brakes.

A few Fed policymakers worry the U.S. economy, which has delivered strong job gains but worryingly weak rates of inflation, could be stuck on a low growth path that requires low rates for years as well as new policy tools.

And because of the «sustained drop in new work,» construction companies reported that there was a «relatively weak rate of job creation.»

«Due to the dire economic and financial conditions of New York State and the very weak ratings of incumbent State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, as long as he has sufficient resources to get his message out, Harry Wilson is very likely to win this election,» pollster John McLaughlin wrote in the memo, which was forwarded by Wilson's campaign manager Chapin Fay.

They also give weak ratings to the frequency with which the district Provides opportunities to work productively with colleagues from other schools.

«We are seeing improvements in practice,» he said, noting that 400 teachers had been fired as a result of the new system, and several hundred had left voluntarily after weak ratings.

Small insurers always get weaker ratings than large insurers, unless they have a deep - pocketed parent.

The study was rated as moderate in quality, only scoring one weak rating due to the cross-sectional study design.

Aging populations and historically weak rates of economic growth also act as brakes.

Factored into King Arthur's weak rating are a long list of scathing critic reviews calling the movie «disposable,» «wearying,» and «a brutal, bleedin» mess.»

At the same time, manufacturers pointed to the weakest rate of input price inflation so far in 2016, despite rising demand for raw materials and some reports of renewed stock shortages among suppliers.

One red flag for lenders is that the volume of energy debt rated CCC or below — the weakest ratings among junk bond issuers — has more than doubled to $ 62 billion from a year ago, Fitch said in a June 12 report.

Euro - Zone Producer - Price Inflation Slows Euro - zone producer - price inflation slowed to its weakest rate in more than two years in May, pointing to a slowdown in consumer prices that would give the European Central Bank more room to cut its key interest rate.

Growth of China's real Gross Domestic Product (GDP), a measure of its economic output adjusted for changing prices, has slowed to its weakest rate in 25 years — from a high of 14.3 percent in 1992 to 6.9 percent in 2015.

Supermarket and grocery store sales rose just 2.9 per cent - the weakest rate of growth since September 2013 and well below the six month trend - as Woolworths, Coles and independents supplied by Metcash cut prices to regain market share lost to Aldi.

[7] They also criticised the council for its plans to demolish the town hall and pointed to a weak rating for the council by the Audit Commission.

When EF0 tornadoes, the weakest rating on the Enhanced Fujita scale, were removed in a preliminary analysis not published in the paper, the shift broadened to nearly 14 days.

They need some form of assistance coming up with a deposit in order to overcome a weak rating.

However, net trade was likely an even bigger drag on GDP growth in Q1, which supports the consensus for a weaker rate of expansion in Q1 2018.

Worse, the prices of non-food and non-energy commodities contracted at a faster pace -LRB--0.2 % vs. -0.1 % previous) while the cost of services increased at a weaker rate (+0.2 % vs. +0.4 % previous).

This is a weak rating implying that the company is financially inadequate to pay of the claims in time and might fail to operate in competitive environment.

To be classified as moderate there must be no more than one weak rating with less than four strong ratings.

Finally, a weak rating is given for those studies with more than two weak ratings across the components.

Buist and Janson's (2001) study is of moderate quality overall, with a weak rating for the lack of description regarding control of confounding variables.

To be classified as strong there must be four strong ratings across the six components with no weak ratings.