Significantly, many kindergarten and pre-school teachers report that RTLP child-graduates have greater reading capacity and are therefore able to easily master new literacy skills than their classmates who never participated in the programme.

UNESCO: Reading Together

Industrial capacity utilization hangs at a recessionary reading of 70%, showing no sign of immediate resurgence, but the non-financial sector holds and generates more cash and refinances debt at attractive rates.

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The STAR programme is therefore designed to provide virtual and face-to-face training services and technical assistance to Adult Basic Education (ABE) instructors or teachers in order to enhance their knowledge about and capacity to effectively use evidence-based reading instruction strategies or practices to teach and assist adult learners to improve their reading skills.

UNESCO: STudent Achievement in Reading (STAR)

Phillips 66 will take 238, 000 barrels per day offline as they shut down their Bayway Refinery in Linden, New Jersey, while Hess will be taking another 70, 000 daily barrels of capacity off the market as it shuts down their operations at Port Reading, New Jersey.

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The intention to sell its 19 terminals, which have a storage capacity of approximately 28 million barrels, and the closing of its Port Reading refinery in New Jersey, Hess is moving ahead with its plan to become purely an exploration and production company, much like ConocoPhillips and Marathon Oil.

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