Sentences with phrase «year improvement in»

Year over year improvement in office market metrics continues, with a second consecutive quarter of overall market vacancy hovering at a seven - year low.

This includes the year - to - year improvement in private sector wages and salaries, as measured by the Employment Cost Index (ECI), which grew to 2.6 % as of the first quarter.

Year over year improvement in start results, applications per ADA, start rate, conversion rate, etc..

The second component is the free style event that will be the 3 - year improvement in performance on the State Math Test.

The first year results for University Prep Steele Street show the largest single - year improvement in any school in Colorado.

A consistent finding is that schools show least year - on - year improvement in those domains that relate to the quality of day - to - day classroom teaching.

MFL staff at Wildern School have seen year - on - year improvement in their GCSE results since 2002.

Overall they showed a 10 - year improvement in memory, so that 75 - year - olds displayed the auditory recall of a typical 65 - year - old.

He produced one of the most impressive first - year improvements in Big Ten history when he guided the Hoosiers to a perfect 14 - 0 dual meet record in 1989 - 90, the program's first undefeated season since 1946.

The idea arrived at a key time — nearly a decade into the No Child Left Behind era, when schools nationwide focused obsessively on year - to - year improvements in students» basic math and reading skills.

Earlier versions of the legislation rated schools according to their year - to - year improvements in the share of their students who achieve a certain proficiency level.

This last year, Denver made a dramatic jump in achievement with a 4.7 percentage point improvement in elementary literacy as measured by CMAS from 2016 to 2017 (and up 7.7 points since 2015), one of largest one - year improvements in the last decade.

In particular, the estimates indicate that less than 10 percent of the year - to - year improvements in test scores can be attributed to the changing student composition in the District over this time frame.

I enjoy leading cross-functional teams to drive strategic activities and achieve year - on - year improvements in cost, quality and service.

Not exact matches

It's a paltry number, but a noticeable improvement from 10 years ago, when female founders were involved in just 2.95 % of deals.

Sales in China saw modest improvement on the previous year, while all categories reported positive growth, led by coffee, petcare and Nestle Health Science.

Grantham also believes that within the next five to 10 years there will be «dramatic technological improvements in non-oil based transportation» that will send the oil industry into a sharp — and permanent — decline.

All these tweaks and improvements are great, but they'll only be of minimal value to you and your business in the coming year if you don't also actually get in the habit of putting out compelling content.

So, if your router is more than a couple years old or you are using the router provided by your internet service provider, you will experience an improvement in your quality of life when you buy a new model.

Activist investment fund Jana Partners acquired a 5 % stake in Time Inc. earlier this year, and the fund is said to be interested in pushing for either an improvement in the company's financial picture or a sale.

A Wi - Fi router is one of those tech gadgets that exhibits vast improvements in features and speeds every few years.

The bet is paying off financially: Centene reported $ 12 billion in total revenues in the second quarter (a 10 % year - over-year improvement).

That's because at the end of the five - year lifespan of the funding, the borrower usually buys back the warrants at a valuation adjusted to reflect any improvement in fundamentals.

«True, there are encouraging signs of economic recovery in those advanced economies most affected by the global financial crisis which erupted in 2008... [but] the report finds that those economic improvements will not be sufficient to absorb the major labor market imbalances that built up in recent years.»

That ranks it as the single greatest area of safety improvement in the last 70 years, he said.

Comcast (CMCSA) said it shed just 36,000 subscribers in 2015, an 80 % improvement over the previous year.

According to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, 2011 saw «an across - the - board increase in the rate of entrepreneurial activity has not been seen in the U.S. in the last ten years,» and «the majority of entrepreneurs were motivated by improvement - driven opportunities to start new ventures.»

Mid-tier nickel miner has posted a strong half - year with a 782 per cent surge in profit to $ 23.6 million thanks to lower costs, along with productivity and efficiency improvements.

The study found only marginal improvements toward parity in senior and executive leadership positions since 2012; at the current pace of change, it will take 100 years to reach gender equality in the C - suite.

And despite the increasing number of companies choosing to reveal their diversity numbers via annual reports, there hasn't been much — if any — improvement in recent years.

Mr Dawson said the fund was relying on bank balance improvements in the 2012 - 13 financial year to enable it to continue funding subsidies at the current level.

But it's easy to see why investors in Lowe's (low) sent shares up 7 % on Monday when the home improvement chain announced that long time CEO Robert Niblock was stepping down after 13 years at the helm.

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 dowIn 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 dowin the financial position of the oil industry over the past year is poised to slow down.

According to the Seaside Heights Business Improvement District, the «gym, tan, laundry» lifestyle has boosted local revenues 38 percent in just one year.

The New York - based company in February announced its best user growth in eight years, adding 2.2 million net new U.S. subscribers for 2015 — a 30 % improvement over 2014 — for a total of 29.5 million.

The improvement from March's spike of 64,141 was not enough to erase an increase in job - cut announcements this year, Challenger says.»

Deloitte's interest in 3D printing has grown along with improvements in the technology over the past few years that increasingly let companies quickly print custom designed products with materials like plastics, nylon, and other resins.

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.

Because a legacy is created day by day, year by year, leaders should be constantly engaged in a process of self - improvement.

While there have been improvements in some labour market indicators, the number of people who have been unemployed for over a year has remained frustratingly high since the end of the recession, as shown in the graph below.

«The (Fed policy - setting) committee needs to make policy choices that will lead to more great years like 2014,» Minneapolis Fed President Narayana Kocherlakota said in remarks prepared for delivery in Helena, Montana, citing the dramatic improvement in the U.S. labor market last year.

Beyond saving lives, consider the money saved (traffic accidents cause $ 500 billion in economic damage worldwide each year), the benefits to cities (parking lots become green spaces), the increases in productivity (commuters can work in transit; truckers can sleep without pulling over), and improvements in accessibility (the elderly, blind, and disabled get affordable robot chauffeurs!).

Since the JOBS Act — or Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act — was passed in April of last year, the pace of IPOs has shown marked improvement.

«We are already seeing steady improvements in the existing housing market where unsold inventory is drying up,» says Plunkett, noting that new building permits were up 34.3 % in February 2012 over a year ago.

Home Hardware jumped 10 spots this year, perhaps reflecting the shuffling of the deck in the home improvement category as competitor Rona was bought by U.S. giant Lowe's.

With the company riding out iterative improvements in iPhones, iPads and Macs over the past few years, it's overdue for something new.

U.S. budget: The group expects continued improvement in the federal deficit, which it sees shrinking to $ 460 billion next year from $ 483 billion in fiscal year 2014

«If you see a few more months of improvement of this magnitude, it is a clear sign that the labor market is tightening and is poised to break out next year,» said Ryan Sweet, senior economist at Moody's Analytics in West Chester, Pennsylvania.

The BlackBerry 10 operating system (and the Z10 and Q10 smartphones) are indeed huge improvements over the clunky handsets the company was shilling in recent years.

With Google's all - important search algorithm in a state of permanent improvement — Quipp says it is updated 550 times a year — the SEP team needs to stay on top of all the technical developments and rapidly adjust the company's advice to clients to reflect those changes in the search world.