If an article doesn't receive a good rating, it probably won't earn anything.
While 95% of councils in England got an excellent or good rating, it is clear that this has only been achieved because they are providing services to fewer people.
The top Democrat in Congress, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, has a good rating from gun rights groups and has said he would work to ensure that a variety of proposals are brought to the floor for consideration.
The Volvo S60 sedan was one of two cars to get a "good" rating.
Of the motley bunch, the Airport Authority, with its good credit rating and reputation, could be the next IPO candidate.
What the federal government does have is an extraordinarily good credit rating, which allows it to borrow trillions of dollars at extremely low interest rates.
When an individual, company or government has a good credit rating, we are saying that we trust they will keep their promise to pay off their debts in the future.
Knowing what is missing is difficult especially when you think you are doing all the right things: managing your money well, staying out of debt, maintaining a good credit rating, and contributing to your retirement plan.
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Even if you had a good credit rating, even if you had an ample salary, you just couldn't get a loan for your business, you couldn't get a loan for -- to buy a car, you couldn't get anything.
And if this continues then we end up with only Germany with a good enough credit rating to support the funds.
And you will also have the ability to grade comments, rating the good ones and helping them move up the list so more people read them.
However, there was still work to do and the authority's ambition was to progress to a rating of "good" and "outstanding", he added.
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.
Hospital and care homes will be given an outstanding, good, requiring improvement or poor rating.
It said that a performance improvement action plan was being implemented, along with a "mentoring" relationship with Kirklees College in Yorkshire, which recently moved from a rating of inadequate to good.
According to staffing firm Hudson, IT workers were also less optimistic in August about their personal finances, with just 47% rating them as excellent or good, down from 62%.
Energy Performance Certificates give a property an efficiency rating from 'A' for good to 'G' for poor.
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General Motors got some good news Friday: its first investment grade credit rating since going bankrupt in 2009.
He said that school inspectors had been told to challenge head teachers and governors to justify pay rises to teachers and to give a lower rating to schools that increase staff pay without good reason.
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Many large companies look at a credit rating for a potential customer and if it looks good most are ready to do business.
Gov. Cuomo got a similarly high rating, with 85% saying he did a good or excellent job, and Mayor Bloomberg scored well also, with 75% saying he did a good or excellent job.
Good news for Entergy-Koch, which has an A bond rating--about on a par with that of a typical big-city bank.
"The GOP would point out -- and they would be right -- that the approval rating in the autumn before an election is not a good predictor of how the election will turn out, " said CNN poll analyst Keating Holland, pointing out that Ronald Reagan's approval rating was in the 40-percent range in fall 1983, a year before he was re-elected in a landslide.
Perhaps the most important is that, due in good part to the demise of Executive Life and Mutual Benefit, several rating agencies now scrutinise the ability of life insurers to meet their claims.
Keeping his Buy rating, Yeung says the stock should get off to a good start this year, driven by a strong CS, with some seasonal stall mid-year, then strengthening again later in the year as ultrabook sales pick up and the debut of the Silvermont mobile SOC parts become available.
Rating agencies are famous as great places to start a financial career, make good contacts and leave for greener pastures.
Speaking of player ratings: Richmond once incurred the good natured wrath of former Phillie outfielder Doug Glanville, who was miffed at his defensive rating in 2001.
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