Sentences with phrase «with the lowest level at»

Levels of increasing reading proficiency are shown here, with the lowest level at the bottom and the highest at the top.

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The trust fund is paid for with receipts from the federal fuel tax, and with gas prices at low levels, an increase in the tax might be part of a more extended program.

And I think the subject that I would talk about mostly is a level of compassion and empathy that we need to try to recognize that the only way our society and the promise of America and the American dream can continue to exist is to ensure the fact that those people who were at the lower end have the same opportunity that people have with the right ZIP code in America.

«What we found is that those with the lowest vitamin D levels experienced the greatest benefit from supplementation,» Dr. Adrian Martineau, study author and a professor of respiratory infection and immunity at Queen Mary University of London, told NPR.

There are some toxins, such as alcohol, that your body can deal with at a low level and that will kill you only at high doses.

While top - down channels are used to communicate vision and strategy in order to get policies and processes aligned with them, bottom - up processes are necessary too, in order for leaders to be aware of the issues faced at the lower levels, as well as to measure the impact of the policies and practices implemented.

The state's snowpack reserves, which typically supply California's farmers and residents with roughly a third of their water, lingered at their lowest level in history in 2015.

With lowering levels of entrepreneurship in the country, chances are that other countries could provide greater competition, often at lower labor rates, creating increased pressure on U.S. entrepreneurs.

Commodity - linked currencies came under pressure thanks to a drop in Chinese stocks, with the Australian and New Zealand dollars hitting their lowest levels in at least two weeks.

This vacation deficit is not that surprising, «when you consider that consumer confidence still hovers at relatively low levels coupled with uncertainty about the economy and specifically consumers» own job security,» said Laura Mandala, managing director of Mandala Research, a tourism and travel company.

Still, ETF buyers are willing to take a shot at the market, believing that in addition to the Fed staying dovish with rates the default level will remain low.

When looking at the data we saw that people with a lower IQ were less likely to be happier because of higher levels of socio - economic disadvantage such as lower income.

Studies — including at least one clinical trial with 100 participants — have found that this diet can significantly alter signs of disease, reduce weight and body fat, lower blood pressure, decrease levels of biomarkers associated with cancer, and improve blood - sugar levels.

That brighter view also comes days after the firm's economists released their own buoyant projections for the year ahead, with expectations for greater growth both in the U.S. and globally and a domestic unemployment rate at its lowest level since 1969.

These incidents took place as the market continues to soften, with February MLS sales running at only two - thirds normal seasonal levels and prices about 6 % lower than a year ago.

And now the yield curve is threatening to invert again, with the spread between 10 - and two - year Treasury note yields now at its lowest level since that fateful year.

In person, McDonald is earnest and friendly — he remembers names and likes to lunch with lower - level employees at every stop he makes around the world — yet a bit uncomfortable.

«If I compare with the Anglo - Saxon countries and Germany, Swedish levels are definitely lower,» said Bo Annvik, chief executive at Haldex, a Swedish automotive supplier with production in Europe, North and South America, and Asia.

I check my streamlined and manageable inbox at regular intervals with a lowered anxiety level.

The animal - welfare standards, along with the company's sustainable - seafood policy (it sells no fish at low levels of abundance), Responsibly Grown ratings, and decision to become the first national grocery chain to label whether products contain genetically modified organisms, all show a bit of Mackey's libertarian streak.

Interviews with former employees and observers of the firm suggest a certain level of dysfunction at Vanguard — including technical glitches and low employee morale.

With the dollar now at the lowest level it's been in a decade, receipts in foreign currency are starting to translate into higher earnings, faster sales growth or both.

«The rationale behind the law is that the other employees in the company with lower titles will naturally benchmark themselves against the crappiest person at the next level.

The continuing highlighting of household imbalances, despite noting that the risks have in fact lessened somewhat in the past six months, suggests the central bank remains worried that with interest rates likely to continue at near emergency low levels, the dangers of something going off the rails intensifies.

At the higher level, though, salaries can be impressive, ranging from the low to mid six figures, with solid benefits and a generous pension.

Groups of participants with varied testosterone levels were better at the cooperative task than groups made up solely of high - testosterone or low - testosterone individuals.

With purchasing PLR content by the pack, as is available on the non-membership site PLRProducts, the upfront costs are lower, but at the individual level, you often end up paying more per article.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

«We believe the bias for stock prices in general remains to the upside, underpinned by a growing economy, low interest rates and increasingly, cheaper oil... With operating margins at elevated levels, top line growth is poised to more quickly bleed through to the bottom line, thus supporting earnings.»

Look at P / B in conjunction with other metrics, such as national current account deficits and debt levels, which should both be low.

A separate experiment involving the willingness to sign up for a flu clinic found that people with lower levels of emotional intelligence can also block unrelated emotions from influencing their decisions about risk, simply by making them aware that their anxiety was not related to the decisions at hand.

In fact, current rail activity is so low that it is at levels that are normally associated with a recession.

China may have played an early card in this week's trade summit with the United States as officials pegged the yuan at the lowest levels against the greenback in more than three months as the country's trade surplus swells to $ 58.25 billion.

Coupled with ongoing declines in the North American rig count — U.S. crude production is now at a two - year low — this helped nudge prices up to levels not seen since July 2015.

Today's economy might be far weaker than it is — with real GDP in the second quarter of 2015 about $ 800 billion lower than its actual level, 3.6 million fewer jobs, and unemployment at a still - dizzying 7.6 %.

Economic growth has been falling since 2010 and the economy has been operating below its potential since then; employment growth, particularly full time employment growth has struggled; in 2014 only 121,000 jobs were created; employment growth has not kept up with population growth; labor force participation has declined to its lowest level since 2000; long - term unemployment has increased; the unemployment rate remains stuck at just under 7 per cent, and youth unemployment is at 14 per cent; business investment has stagnated; and Canadians are losing confidence in their economic future.

At the current level of 5.5 per cent, the cash rate is in line with its average over the low inflation period since 1993.

These reductions for the lowest - income groups were so large because President Reagan doubled the personal exemption, increased the standard deduction, and tripled the earned income tax credit (EITC), which provides net cash for single - parent families with children at the lowest income levels.

Commodity currencies were hit hard overnight with the Australian dollar breaking below a key support level at $ 0.8983 to reach a six - month low of $ 0.8951.

Its kiwi counterpart slumped to seven - month lows of $ 0.8078 and steadied just off that level even after data showed the New Zealand economy grew at an enviable annual pace of 3.9 percent in the second quarter, roughly in line with expectations.

With market volatility hitting multi-decade lows, junk bond yields also at record lows, the median price / revenue ratio of S&P 500 constituents at a record high well - beyond 2000 levels, and the most strenuously overvalued, overbought, overbullish syndromes we define, I'm increasingly concerned about the potential for an abrupt «air pocket» in the prices of risky assets that could attend even a modest upward shift in risk premiums.

In states with multiple tax brackets, the top tax bracket often begins at a very low level of taxable income.

With Group of Seven (G7) sovereign bond yields at historically low levels, some income - seeking investors have turned to higher - volatility securities like dividend - paying stocks in an attempt to capture additional income.

With copper prices at their lowest level in seven years, Freeport - McMoRan reported a $ 3.8 billion loss for the third quarter.

With unemployment at such low levels, the real chances of recession are becoming less likely, which also means that rate hikes are becoming more likely.

Shareholders want Levy, more than seven years at the helm, to come up with a strategy to revive a stock that is trading near its lowest level in nine years.

At low levels of income that definitely makes the Sole 401K (with the $ 18K employee contribution) a better way to shield from taxes, but if someone were to work for a regular company with a 401K in addition to his / her own business, you only get a total of $ 18K as an employee across all plans.

During his speech Friday, Powell said with unemployment at 4.1 percent — the lowest level in nearly two decades — the labor market was «in the neighborhood of maximum employment.»

The fact that in western Europe between a tenth and a fifth of each generation never married, combined with a relatively late average age at marriage for women, implied that fertility levels were normally lower than in other societies.

With the S&P 500 within about 8 % of its highest level in history, with historically reliable valuation measures at obscene levels, implying near - zero 10 - 12 year S&P 500 nominal total returns; with an extended period of extreme overvalued, overbought, overbullish conditions replaced by deterioration in market internals that signal a clear shift toward risk - aversion among investors; with credit spreads on low - grade debt blowing out to multi-year highs; and with leading economic measures deteriorating rapidly, we continue to classify market conditions within the most hostile return / risk profile we identify — a classification that has been observed in only about 9 % of histWith the S&P 500 within about 8 % of its highest level in history, with historically reliable valuation measures at obscene levels, implying near - zero 10 - 12 year S&P 500 nominal total returns; with an extended period of extreme overvalued, overbought, overbullish conditions replaced by deterioration in market internals that signal a clear shift toward risk - aversion among investors; with credit spreads on low - grade debt blowing out to multi-year highs; and with leading economic measures deteriorating rapidly, we continue to classify market conditions within the most hostile return / risk profile we identify — a classification that has been observed in only about 9 % of histwith historically reliable valuation measures at obscene levels, implying near - zero 10 - 12 year S&P 500 nominal total returns; with an extended period of extreme overvalued, overbought, overbullish conditions replaced by deterioration in market internals that signal a clear shift toward risk - aversion among investors; with credit spreads on low - grade debt blowing out to multi-year highs; and with leading economic measures deteriorating rapidly, we continue to classify market conditions within the most hostile return / risk profile we identify — a classification that has been observed in only about 9 % of histwith an extended period of extreme overvalued, overbought, overbullish conditions replaced by deterioration in market internals that signal a clear shift toward risk - aversion among investors; with credit spreads on low - grade debt blowing out to multi-year highs; and with leading economic measures deteriorating rapidly, we continue to classify market conditions within the most hostile return / risk profile we identify — a classification that has been observed in only about 9 % of histwith credit spreads on low - grade debt blowing out to multi-year highs; and with leading economic measures deteriorating rapidly, we continue to classify market conditions within the most hostile return / risk profile we identify — a classification that has been observed in only about 9 % of histwith leading economic measures deteriorating rapidly, we continue to classify market conditions within the most hostile return / risk profile we identify — a classification that has been observed in only about 9 % of history.