Of the roughly 75, 000 city teachers, 235 have been rated "unsatisfactory" for incompetence for two consecutive years.
The Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust said staffing levels have been rated as "compliant" in subsequent CQC visits.
Two Lancashire hospital trusts have been rated among the worst in England for mortality rates in a new report.
The first schools to change will have been rated "outstanding" by Ofsted inspectors, as top-rated schools are being fast-tracked.
None have been rated excellent and two - Blaenau Gwent and Anglesey - have been put in special measures.
Children's services at Peterborough City Council have been rated as adequate by Ofsted, after two consecutive years of "poor" ratings.
The list includes 10, 000 words that have been rated on a scale 1 to 10 according to how "happy" they are.
British importer Caspar Bowes explains that many of today's vintages are better described in terms of style rather than quality, arguing that those vintages that have been rated "great" in the past, such as 2009 and '10, are merely those that have had the ripest fruit and the most power.
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Certainly they have had talented players on their roster, but none have been highly rated coming out of high school.
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Taxi drivers have always been rated informally and occasionally fired for egregious behavior, but the Uber app puts the trigger for rating your driver right next to your statement of how much you have just paid for the pleasure of their service.
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So this round-up favours apps that have been frequently downloaded and are well rated by other users, as a gauge of mass opinion about how good they are.
Programs in some states that allow workers whose hours have been cut to claim pro-rated UI benefits so-called short-time compensation or work sharing programs help to keep workers on the job.
The idea is that when someone is looking at Ness for a restaurant and chooses one, they can see which of their friends have been checked-in there or rated that business and send a message asking what to order there.
Low-rated mobile apps that were initially outsourced have been redone in-house and now receive much higher ratings from users.
Just 1% of the mortgage bonds securitized so far this year and rated by Moody's Investor Service have been downgraded or put on watch, for example.
Robinho, Roque Santa Cruz and Benjani have already been consigned to the injured list and Carlos Tevez is rated extremely doubtful to face his old club.
The highest-flying markets in recent weeks have been for bonds issued by the least creditworthy companies: those rated B and lower. (For comparison, the highest is AAA and D stands for default.) The Merrill Lynch index of B-rated corporate bonds now yields 7.4% a quarter of a point less than a month ago, even though Treasury-bond yields are higher.
If the Tacoma had been rated with the Standard Pickup Trucks, it would have been among the cleanest available.
Stocks that are highly rated by a lot of analysts are likely to have been pulled up by those recommendations above the level justified by the available information.
Known as conduits, these special-purpose vehicles borrow in the short-term, commercial-paper market to make acquisitions of highly rated paper in American asset-backed securities, and have been walloped by the plunging value of those assets since the frailty of subprime loans were exposed.
These have been rising in part because the appetite for yield has encouraged many lowly-rated issuers to come to market.
But when states have tried to keep under-18 kids from playing games rated "M" for mature, the proposed restrictions have often been challenged successfully in court.
The "stars" are rated by how many minutes they merited on Hard Copy, and have been split up into three categories: 1-5 minutes, 6-10 minutes, and 11-15 minutes.
The biggest impact that can be expected is in investment funds, including pension funds, where you may have been promised that at least part of the fund is invested in triple-A rated government bonds.
Three new faces have been included, although only the 28-year-old Wolfsburg striker Tomislav Maric is rated as a real option for the World Cup.
In the interests of transparency, we can confirm that, had the data been included in the calculations, Temple's full-time MBA programme would have rated in the top 100 globally and the top 50 in America.
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Boring old utility companies that had been hoping to be re-rated by the stockmarket as exciting, new Internet firms may have their hopes dashed after all.
Limiting the sample to maturities at issuance of seven years or longer, to capture standard high-yield structures, there have been 11 such issues thus far in 2013, versus 20 offerings in all of 2012 (excluding split-rated deals).
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