Lower-risk funds have the reverse pattern, a bad grade for bull markets but a good one in bear markets.

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It found a good supply of medium-grade crude but had to shut in the well for lack of a pipeline to get the oil to market.

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These days, the best network comedies are too good for viewers to grade newcomers on a curve, out of gratitude for a bit of representation, a slice of the power pie.

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It's like the difference between reading books for the sake of reading and reading books just to get a good grade.

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Is now a good time for you to send money to sub-investment-grade countries?

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Rents for grade A office buildings has been on the rise due to tight supply and good demand, according to a report by brokerage DTZ.

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It is now establishing a rating system for good governance, to be launched soon, on the theory that directors will care about the stigma of a bad grade.

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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.

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