The bulk of the widely tracked Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index, for example, is loaded down with government debt, which currently suffers from low yields and high valuations.
The performance values are calculated from low to high, and therefore are high, as no one gets in at the low or out at the high.
Discounters like Wal-Mart and Target were sapping it from the low end, and class acts like Nordstrom from the high.
But over the next two decades the school system shifted from high autonomy and low accountability to the very reverse: low autonomy and high accountability.
The new flows are growing from a low base, and a high growth rate still yields only modest total values.
And for effortless image composition and image playback, the PENTAX X-5 also features a large tiltable 3.0-inch, high-definition LCD screen that offers sharp image viewing, even in bright sunlight, while allowing users to shoot from high and low angles to keep the subject neatly framed in the image area.
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Ms. Huntley, a mother of three and longtime community activist, spent other money from the nonprofit group for "community expenses, " the memorandum states, including paying for a child's funeral, caps and gowns for high-school seniors from low-income families and contributions to charities.
The Dow also held its 61.8% Fibonacci Retracement of the rally from the 1987 low and the October 2007 high.
Many commercial properties still are suffering from high vacancy and low demand, and the resulting defaults have caused losses for some commercial-mortgage security investors.
Air France-KLM is renegotiating pay and conditions with its staff and cutting more than 5, 000 jobs, as high fuel costs and competition from low-cost airlines take their toll on the debt-laden company.
In the book, which is told via a parable, the management team at a janitorial company suffering from high turnover and low employee engagement turned its fortunes around by finding ways to listen better to their employees and help them lead the lives they want to.
He also speculated about what control device might be included in various Steambox setups (the systems are said to range in power and price, from low to very high).
He and many other high-income taxpayers benefit greatly from the low tax rates on capital gains and dividends.
Overall, I believe it is fair to say that the Stern Review consistently leans toward (and consistently phrases issues in terms of) assumptions and formulations that emphasize optimistically low expected costs of mitigation and pessimistically high expected damages from greenhouse warming relative to most other studies of the economics of climate change.
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She switches from high beams to low beams, and sometimes gets stuck in between.
The Dow gained 1, 492 points from its June low to its September high, and has now given back 800 points since that September high.
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As a rule of thumb, I prefer a juicy red wine, something like a Barbera from Piemonte, whose low tannins, high acidity and power cut through the pizza.
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"With the high resolution Mars Orbiter Camera images, things that look smooth at low resolution appear very rough from high resolution and vice versa, " said David Spencer, mission manager for the Mars 2001 mission.
The Shenzhen-based company had 3.1% of the global market in 2011, up from only 1.3% the previous year, as it continued to transition from low-cost phones to high-end smartphones and tablets under its own brand.
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Overall, ministers judge that the political benefits from reforming local-government finance are low and the costs are high.
Islamic banks will face a higher cost of credit because returns from profits are variable: high in good years and low in bad ones.
The ratio of home ownership has already declined from high sixties to the low sixties percentile, and the rentals index is favorable, but not forever.
In his day job, Frey is a principal at a private equity firm, so his tales of high finance and low chicanery come from the perspective of a guy who's been there.
Among the two dozen apartment REITs, the most promising are those few that focus on luxury buildings in neighborhoods that are well protected from new housing by local governments, thus assuring low supply and high demand.
Technically, February Comex gold futures prices have made a good rebound from the late-December low and hit another fresh four-week high overnight.
The Los Angeles-based footwear brand Creative Recreation makes a shoe that, with a little unzipping and unlacing, goes from high-top to low-top.
The Fibonacci retracement resistance levels calculated from the October high (point 1) and the January low (point 3) allowed one to define the levels where the rally could be expected to fail.
The new era emerges from the build-out of the wireless information highway and low-cost high-performance computing engines.
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Technically, December gold futures prices closed nearer the session high Wednesday, and well up from the daily low.
The proposed budget was already super-austere, because inflation is high and oil prices low, reducing revenues from Mexico's state-owned oil company.
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