The report said that the two degree average change in temperature that most scientists agreed on is more likely to average around 8 degrees warmer.
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Even those who do well in school, like the three girls in the article, will struggle: only about a quarter of low-income eighth graders with above-average scores get a degree, yet 30 percent of students with lower scores but more money will.
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Reynolds indicates the median income of households where the head holds a doctorate degree is about two and a half times as large on average as the median income of households where the head holds only a high school degree, and 5 times as large on average as for households where the head holds less than a ninth grade education.
Their life expectancy is now 73.5 years, while white women with a college degree have an average expectancy of 83.9 years.
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"Being a total geek, I'll look at degree days over average temperature when going on holiday, " says Martin Bromley, one of two directors of BizEE.
Most students leave university with a degree - and an average debt of several thousand pounds.
What should matter is not so much your degree or grade point average but how well equipped you are for the next stage in life.
But the report warned that just a one-degree centigrade rise in average temperature would reduce this to 500 viable slopes, and that this was likely to happen between 2020-2025.
First, global temperatures were a bit up in June, perhaps a couple of tenths of a degree higher than their average over the last 15 years, but by no means unprecedented. (click to enlarge any of the following graphs).
That's a full degree above the 20th century average of 57 F (13.9 C).
Today, the unemployment rate for Americans with at least a college degree is about half the national average.
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In March the seas were 7.2 degrees, which is more than a degree colder than the usual monthly average.
Asian immigrants and their U.S.-born descendants tend to be better educated: half of all Asians over 25 have a college degree, almost twice the national average.
The air exiting the cave would be cooled by the thermal mass of the surrounding rock to within a degree or two of the yearly average temperature.
Next, someone with an associate of arts degree, or two-year degree, from college earns about the average salary.
And the average accounts receivable days and the average inventory days have each increased to a smaller degree this year than in 2011.
The unemployment rate for Americans with a college degree or more is about half the national average.
Right now, the unemployment rate for Americans with a college degree or more is about half the national average.
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In fact, on average, the holder of a four-year college degree will earn 62% more over their lifetimes than a typical high-school graduate.
We have reached the third degree where we devote our intelligences to anticipating what average opinion expects the average opinion to be.
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When the effects are calculated in a standard climate model, the result is a reduction in average temperature of 0.00005oC (one twenty-thousandth of a degree Celsius, or one ten-thousandth of a degree Fahrenheit).
While it is true that college graduates do, on average, earn more over their lifetimes than those possessing only a high school degree, it has not been demonstrated convincingly that college attendance causes this wage differential.
Based on technical analysis and charting, the major market indexes like the Dow and Nasdaq are short-term oversold beneath their 50-day moving averages to a degree that almost always brings a rally back up to the moving average.
Among the broad categories of majors, education (5.4%), business (4.2%), and communications (4.1%) experienced the largest increases to their average starting salaries, but for the first time the report looks at specific degree types to better pinpoint the robust demand for tech candidates.
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If you've got some college or an associate's degree, less than a bachelor's degree, it's higher but it's lower than at national average, 7.72 percent.
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At their peaks, global stock markets, including that of the U.S., were extremely overbought above their long-term 200-day moving averages, to a degree that almost always results in a decline at least down to retest the support at that moving average.
It's also worth chucking into the mix that the global average temperature variation between even the strongest El Nino event and the next ordinary year is a fraction of a degree Celsius - certainly less than the rise of about 0.6C that we've seen since the beginning of the study period, in 1950.
The United States is competitive to the degree that companies operating here can compete successfully in the global economy while simultaneously raising living standards for the average American.
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