Active GRP: GRP, or a gross rating point, is at the heart of offline media measurement.
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Nationally, Martha Stewart Living's ratings in February dropped to a ho-hum 1.5 (one rating point equals almost 1 million TV households), down from 2.4 two years ago.
In this group, the drug slowed cognitive decline five points on a commonly used 70-point rating scale.
The 100-point rating system is a clumsy and useless tool for examining wine.
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It has already won numerous top medals in spirits competition and was given an impressive 92 point rating by the Wine Enthusiast.
Netflix began the session on Wednesday with a Short Term PowerRating of three and saw its rating drop a point to a two going into the close.
Crash-test footage shows the front of the car folding up like an accordion, giving it a 2.0 point rating, the second lowest of the 28 cars NCAP has examined.
"At the margin, this could reduce demand, but nobody should have been buying this stuff on the basis there wasn't a material probability of at least one junk rating at some point in the future, " Mr. McNamara said of the bond sale's postponement.
Too many would-be wine connoisseurs rely exclusively on the 100-point vino rating system when choosing a wine even though oenophile and critic Robert M.
In his first full month back at the job since undergoing treatment for pancreatic cancer in July, Jobs saw his already impressive approval rating inch up one point to a stellar 92%, placing him in the top spot for the sixteenth month in a row.
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But the company's "junk" credit rating has impeded its fundraising to the point that it has difficulty borrowing at rates that make the loans profitable.
One poll for Le Parisien showed a seven-point drop in his approval rating to 48%, as fewer respondents agreed that Sarkozy had the ability to tackle the country's problems.
Separately, the city and the United Federation of Teachers said they agreed on a process for teachers to contest a poor rating, which had been a major sticking point in talks.
The German telecoms giant Deutsche Telekom continued Wednesday's share price fall, sliding 4.8% to a new low at one point on Thursday after the credit rating agency Moody's cut its outlook for the group.
This finding represents a two-point decline in Bush's approval rating compared with a CNN poll conducted a week earlier.
Many question whether a mainstream fund-rating firm is up to the task, and point out that, if retail investors are led to rely on faulty measures, they may find themselves in trouble.
Opinion polls conducted by the respected Merdeka Centre (the latest were for June) gave the prime minister an approval rating of 64%, down from the high point of his popularity in the middle of 2010.
To support the ample sensitivity of the new camera's sensor, the EOS 6D camera's Auto Focus (AF) system includes a newly-developed 11-point AF sensor featuring a high-precision center cross-type point with an exceptional EV -3 sensitivity rating for accurate focusing even in extremely low-light conditions.
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He has a commanding 23-point lead in the polls and a healthy 69 percent approval rating.
On Blindfold Brackets, each tournament team received a one-through-five rating in six categories (offense, defense, size, experience, three-point shooting and recent play).
Fitch, the ratings agency, helpfully made the chancellor's point for him last week when it put the UK's AAA rating on negative watch.
"The GOP would point out -- and they would be right -- that the approval rating in the autumn before an election is not a good predictor of how the election will turn out, " said CNN poll analyst Keating Holland, pointing out that Ronald Reagan's approval rating was in the 40-percent range in fall 1983, a year before he was re-elected in a landslide.
After a while, we get the point: because children are the principal audience, the picture needs a PG-13 rating.
Our Blindfold Bracket gave each basketball team a rating in each of the following categories: experience, size, offense, defense, three-point shooting and hot streak.
According to Moody's, a rating agency, the third-quarter delinquency rate of 3.89% was almost a full percentage point below the historical average.
That bank branch now makes a point of hiring a mix of ages for their tellers, and has the highest customer satisfaction rating in the country.
One envisages Italy's public finances deteriorating to the point where its debt loses investment grade (which would require only two further downgrades by the main rating agencies).
And in the fierce quest to win over voters in swing states, "a one-point movement might be huge success, " said Geer, who also heads up Vanderbilt 's Ad Rating Project.
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