Sentences with phrase «years showed higher»

The district contracted with Sodexho Marriott to test the feasibility of hot lunch after a survey last year showed high interest among parents.

Newark's rates of chronic absenteeism for the 2015 - 16 school year show higher rates of absenteeism for high school students at 48 percent, with 38 percent of ninth graders and 59 percent of seniors chronically absent in Newark's district schools.

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It is worth noting, though, that continent - wide surveys conducted since Brexit show that support for the EU generally remains reasonably high across the 27 remaining member states despite the rise of populist movements, bar the obvious exception of Greece, which has been in an economic stand - off with the EU for a number of years.

Netflix description: «A funny and heartwarming show about two best friends eagerly anticipating the start of their freshman year of high school.»

And across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, companies had stashed 974 billion euros of cash by the end of 2016, the latest data from Moody's Investor Service showed, with the ratio of cash relative to revenue at a seven - year high.

But he points to a report from the Parliamentary Budget Officer released earlier this year showing that, since 2009, the debt service ratio — a measure of income spent to pay debt — has remained steady at around 14 per cent, not much higher than the long - term average.

«The total volume of small - business financing increased by 18 % over the same period last year, and reached the highest level since Feb. 2008, its latest data show».

Business activity in the euro area hit a fresh six - year high in April on strong demand and increasing business prospects, new data showed on Friday.

The new research shows that something different has been happening: Boards have been allowing CEO pay to climb ever higher by offering executives the same number of options year in and year out, regardless of company stock prices.

The consumer price index (CPI), released on Friday, showed the cost of living in America rising only 1.6 percent compared to the same month last year, significantly down from the most recent high of 2.8 percent in February and below the Fed's target of 2 percent.

Each year Canadian Business compiles our ranking of Canada's Best Jobs — the occupations showing the highest growth and fattest paycheques.

Gross domestic product grew 1.1 % in the third quarter from a year earlier, the latest government estimate showed, higher than the advance estimate of 0.6 % growth and a 1.0 % expansion in the Reuters survey.

After all, it's almost the one - year anniversary of the massive Target credit card breach, and high - profile database thefts show few signs of slowing down.

In a sign of just how strong demand for eggs is this year, separate data from the US Department of Agriculture showed there were 385.6 million laying hens in the US at the start of March, the highest over a comparable period in at least a decade.

Accounts show that the highest paid director, who is not named, made # 700,000 in the year.

His comments followed less - than - stellar data on U.S. consumer spending that showed that even as confidence hit its highest level in more than 16 years last month, Americans are still holding their wallets tightly.

The «60 Minutes» interview with Stormy Daniels about her alleged affair with President Donald Trump brought in the show's highest ratings in 10 years.

U.S. indexes were largely listless despite data showing consumer sentiment at a six - year high.

NEW YORK, N.Y. — Shares of Verizon Communications Inc. hit a 12 - year high Thursday after it posted another quarterly report that showed its wireless revenue rising at a rate that's the envy of the industry.

Further, while the show's creators are quick to point out that late - night talk shows take time to develop, Comedy Central has high hopes that «The Opposition» can help return the network to its glory years as a political comedy powerhouse.

The country sealed $ 17.57 billion from 408 M&A deals in 2017 — the highest in five years, a Duff & Phelps report showed.

Exxon, Royal Dutch Shell, Statoil, BP, and Chevron announced dismal earnings this week, missing expectations and showing how slashing spending and pulling back isn't yet enough in a world where oil has dropped from a high of $ 115 - per - barrel in 2014 to a low of $ 27 - per - barrel in January of this year.

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 Philadelphia - headquartered retailer is known hawking clothing to a younger audience (you usually don't have to look far from a college campus to find one), picking up more of a «hipster» reputation in recent years with plenty of rather high - priced flannel shirts, ripped jeans, and even shabby chic furniture pieces on the show floor.

The losses available from published financial data shows multibillion - dollar losses a year, an amount far beyond what you see in even the typical high - flying VC - backed Silicon Valley special.

The U.K. had been expected to follow close behind the Federal Reserve in raising interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade, but with lower commodity prices and weak wage growth still keeping a lid on inflation, economists now think that the U.K. may not raise rates till 2017 — even though new data out Wednesday showed the employment rate hit a 45 - year high of 74 % in the three months to November.

Our proprietary installed base analysis shows that the installed base grew by over 35 % last year to 600mn and we believe that, with growth in the installed base headed towards 715mn by the end 2017, an average replacement rate of around 30 months, and high retention rates, units could grow 9 % to 232.7 mn in 2017.

But it's the mobile and social gaming industry that is projected to show the highest growth over the next five years.

A separate report from the Mortgage Bankers Association showed mortgage applications last week rose to their highest level in nine weeks as interest rates on 30 - year fixed - rate mortgages hovered at their lowest level in more than a year.

It's a feature Samsung also included in its high - end connected fridge, named Family Hub, that it unveiled at this year's show.

While the index jumped to the highest level in almost two years, it also showed that the mood of the country is extremely bifurcated.

These concerns are supported by new research showing a talent shortage that has risen over the past five years, to its highest level since 2007.

In terms of data, the latest Halifax house price index showed U.K. house prices falling 1 percent month - on - month in June, but still 2.6 percent higher year - on - year in the three months to June.

The top two winners at this year's Global Student Entrepreneur Awards show what it takes to balance higher education with entrepreneurial passion.

Indeed, the 10 - year Treasury yield hit a four - year high on Friday after the latest monthly U.S. jobs report showed solid wage gains, effectively confirming an expected rate increase at the Federal Reserves next meeting, in March.

But because it was a smaller loss than a year earlier, showing the shrinking retailer is at least cutting costs efficiently as its core business dwindles, shares went up 5 % though they remain down 70 % from their 52 - week highs.

World stock markets hovered close to all - time highs on Monday as the best start to a year in eight years showed little sign of running out of steam.

Here are the companies that have shown the highest total cumulative return over the last five years:

Recent studies have shown that if Canadian oil were able to reach the U.S. Gulf Coast and Asia, the impact of higher revenues to Canadian producers over a 15 year period would amount to an additional $ 132 billion in Canadian GDP.

Some green groups say the 20 - year old research shows that California's heavy crude, which is in many ways similar to dilbit, is likely to cause pipeline ruptures when flowing at higher temperatures.

For the second year running Western Australia has been the nation's highest taxing state, data released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has shown.

A conservative commentator who sent a tweet saying he would use «a hot poker» to sexually assault an outspoken 17 - year - old survivor of the Florida high school shooting has resigned from a St. Louis TV station and been taken off the radio after several advertisers withdrew from his shows.

Thomson Reuters figures earlier in the month showed investment banking fees rocketed to a 10 - year high in the first quarter, thanks to big mergers and acquisitions and the so - called «Trump bump».

While earlier in 2016 the time - based Wi - Fi share across the four carriers showed a decline over time, this trend did not continue and, in particular, the Wi - Fi share for T - Mobile users increased to an all - year high, though still showing the lowest share among all carriers.

Another concern is the results of last weekend's regional elections, the worst showing in thirty years for Spain's ruling party, and the risk that this will lead to the discovery of higher debts accumulating on the part of Spain's municipalities.

Developers talk freely about supporting Oculus Rift and when they do, the queues are long and the intrigue high; at the Rezzed UK game show this year the question everyone asked was if you'd tried Rift.

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By the time that decade ended, price - to - earnings ratios were in the single digits — but you had little or nothing to show for buying cheap equities during the prior 15 years; and that's before accounting for very high inflation.

An average of the results from the major surveys shows conditions were moderating in the second half of last year, after a strong first half, but they were still at a high level at the end of the year (Graph 12).

The latest national accounts are now a bit dated, but they show a high rate of growth, over the year to the September quarter, of just over 4 per cent (Graph 10).