Then, with the unstoppable momentum of a train going down a grade, the service picked up speed.
In the year to date, likewise, returns are higher down the grade.
Looking at my statistics though it looks like people only want to read about the S and P down- grade of Treasury securities, so I thought I would share my personal experience with the fall-out.
For other types of funds, the ratings system uses a blend of all up months since June 1999 to get a bull market rating, and a blend of all down months for the down market grade.
While China is in a category separate from the Warsaw Pact, we believe it appropriate for the United States, together with its COCOM partners to freeze (if not down-grade), the level of Western dual-use technology currently available to the Chinese government.
From my rocking chair, the back lawn extended far down a steep grade ending at a trout pond and smelled new-mown.
It has assigned 270 points to an A-level at grade A, ranging down to 150 points for a grade E (the pass grade).
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Under Dodd, the AAU has added national championships down to the second grade level.
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Her instructor, Amanda Eckhardt, testified this week that she stood by the grade, saying Thode failed to behave professionally and thus earned zero out of 25 points in class participation, bumping her down a full letter grade.
But if fewer - your grade could go down.
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Funds have to earn a B grade or higher during down markets--and at least a C in up markets.
In a statement to the House of Commons, Mr Gove said the changes to GCSEs in England were meant to address "grade inflation, dumbing down and loss of rigour".
The slopes are craggy, storm-blasted and steep, and food is pretty much limited to potatoes and whatever animals you can chase up a 50-grade incline without falling down the adjacent precipice.
Overall English GCSE results at grade C and above were down by 1.5 percentage points this year.
Exam boards panicked, and shunted grade boundaries to drag them back down.
Mr. BETTS: In the fifth grade, my mother sent me down to the corner to the store to get a loaf of bread and a bottle of milk.
This is expected to be driven mainly by cost savings in Indonesia where higher grade ore and economies of scale will bring down costs by nearly 50%.
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While Glasgow was hunkered down in the closet, Waynel Mayes, a first-grade teacher, distracted her students with songs and games.
And in practice, the insertion of a new grade will mean that it will devalue grades lower down the scale.
Harman upped its dividend from 5 cents to 30 cents to 60 cents and paid down enough of its KKR-generated debt to regain an investment grade rating from the credit agencies.
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Officials said the main charge was a high-grade military explosive which would have been able to bring down an aircraft, and that it could have been detonated in two ways, in case one failed.
They will say that between January and June 2012 it was decided that too many students were going to get a C grade or better in GCSE English, so a decision was taken to push up grade boundaries for the exams marked in June to bring down the numbers of good grades for the year as a whole.
First, the colleges water down the curriculum and their academic demands, something manifested most obviously in grade inflation.
The approach to Vizcaya leads the visitor down from the ridge to the house, visually emphasizing the change in grade.
Both involve heating organic materials in a vacuum until they break down into carbon and vapors that can be condensed into a low-grade fuel oil.
Because he was an ad-sales guy and not a journalist or wordsmith, Garrett tracked down someone whose verbal skills and temperament he trusted: his eighth-grade journalism teacher.
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