The other factors were better ore grade at Veladero and the fixed sharing mechanism at San Dimas.
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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.
Active managers in intermediate-term securities fared better than managers in long-term securities, and managers in investment grade bonds fared better than managers in high-yield securities.
Grade inflation makes students feel better about themselves, but because the highest grade is fixed, it also causes grade compression, which distorts relative prices.
Investors would have been better off in investment grade corporate and emerging market debt.
Have wines actually gotten that much better, or has grade inflation become as common among wine critics as it has among high-school personnel?
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Dry aging is so important that it supplants USDA grades: dry aged choice beef tastes much better than the highest grade, prime, un-aged.
Mr McKenzie, vice principal of Morley Academy in Leeds, says this paper is marketed at the students who would have had to work the hardest to achieve a C or better and who needed the grade to enter apprenticeships, employment or further education.
They better start teaching economics early in grade school, and require courses in the role of stock markets and investment and the history of money.
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It makes sense for the investment-grade bond index to do better once its worst credit has dropped out.
The subsequent results show that the children who received vouchers were 15-20% more likely to finish secondary education, five percentage points less likely to repeat a grade, scored a bit better on scholastic tests and were much more likely to take college entrance exams.
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Grade-schoolers fared only slightly better, with less than a third reading at or above national norms.
Overall, most Americans surveyed felt their personal health plans deserve a grade of "B" or better.
In school, all of my teachers from kindergarten through 5th grade have helped me be a better person.
To imagine that private industry, needing to cut costs to the bone, could do a better job at securing massive quantities of bomb-grade material is a fantasy.
Approximately 1, 700 stocks are ranked relative to one another, based heavily on measures of earnings momentum and price momentum, and given a "timeliness" grade of 1-5 (the lower the better).
Although the main rating agencies still award big European telecom firms an investment-grade rating, some sophisticated investors think that they are now little better than junk.
The company is being funded by a number of prominent tech giants, including Intel, and says the tech can be used to improve everything from USB keys to SSDs to enterprise-grade servers -- wait, bigger, cheaper, and potentially better?
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Carlson has delivered a 13% compound annual return since then, a percentage point better than the emerging market index and better than double what you would have earned from the collection of high-grade U.S. paper in the Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund .
"I just don't understand how you can possibly think that the Commodore 64 is a better machine than the Apple IIe, " I told my best friend in eighth grade.
They are all investment grade, some even AA. Their governments balance sheets are fiscally sound, way better than nearly all of Western Europe and even the U.S. In Asia, the government bond market is highly liquid, with yields between 100 to 175 basis points over Treasury bonds.
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When my local radio station is reporting everyday on how the mayor is re-negotiating or canceling municipal or county collective bargaining agreements due to financial crisis, will this somehow hit home better when the broadcaster relays the results of the stress test, maybe even telling me some grade from A-F has been assigned to my home town by the government?
The state gives extra money to schools that get an A or improve their grade, and children at schools that get two F grades in four years are allowed to transfer to better schools.
Entitled Opportunities Lost: The Impact of Grade Repetition and Early School Leaving, the Digest presents a wide range of UIS data and indicators to better identify the millions of children that are falling through the cracks in education systems and leaving school, often without being able to read or write.
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