Ministers had pointed to the relatively higher improvement in results in specialist schools when they published last year's school performance tables.
In Northern Ireland, students bucked the national trend of falling GCSE grades and instead saw a slight improvement in their results.
In Northern Ireland, students appeared to buck the trend of falling GCSE grades and instead saw a slight improvement in their results.
Home Depot shocked no one when it posted a drop in fourth-quarter earnings, but the home improvement chain expects results to continue lagging for the rest of the year.
You've got ideas that are showing concrete results in improvement, not in absolute test scores, but in the progress that that school is making, we're going to fund those improvements.
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While cheers greeted each slight improvement in the projected results for Mr Obama, as the hours passed it became clear that, despite his recent double-digit lead in the polls, Mrs Clinton had won.
Rising top-lines, with margin improvements, result in geometric improvement in earnings, which results in higher multiples.
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"Generally speaking I expect bank results to show improvement, albeit from stress levels, during the second quarter, " says Barclays Capital analyst Jason Goldberg.
Such clear-cut results are an improvement on the more subjective read-outs from microscopy, and are welcomed not just by health workers in poor countries, but also by the American army, which has put Optimal through its clinical paces in such malaria-ridden places as Peru and Thailand.
That computerized doctor ordering automatically results in a big improvement in patient safety.
As he reported recently in Science, the use of such real starting data made a huge improvement to the accuracy of the results.
Where supportive policy and appropriate incentives have been addressed, results have shown significant improvement, for example, the in-service teacher trainees in NTU project, teachers were given higher status and a salary boost when they accomplished their training courses.
Relentless pressures from Wall Street to produce continual improvement in quarter- to-quarter results.
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Wright discovered that progress increases with experience: each percent increase in cumulative production in a given industry results in a fixed percentage improvement in production efficiency.
Bank of America saw mixed results in 2010 with macroeconomic improvement that allowed the firm (as well as other banks) to reduce reserves for losses, bolstering profits.
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While the fourth quarter of 2011 marked wider than expected losses for U.S. Steel with low realized steel prices and a slump in demand, Q1 results should easily show sequential improvement.
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Ron started on the phone, but quickly rose to the top by his results and his approach to continuous improvement.
Results: All patients showed significant improvement in personal orientation related to cognitive function on both the GBSS-J and TDAS after therapy.
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Coach 's fourth-quarter results may be indicative of continued improvement in the luxury goods market as the company posted a 34% jump in profit and issued bullish outlook for fiscal 2011.
One example from Uganda suggests that PETS results can make an impact on system improvement provided there is strong government commitment.
The survey results also continue to reflect an overall improvement in moods with bullish sentiment now above its historical average for nine out of the last 14 weeks.
The results, announced Wednesday, are an improvement from the first half of the year, when cotton costs soared and the company was bearing costs to eliminate some of its businesses to focus on the most profitable ones.
Among the leading requests for improvement: transparency (85 percent), statistically robust results (over 80 percent) and consistency (75 percent).
However, Klotz says it's possible to see results in individual schools by comparing the reading improvement of kids who participate in the program with kids who don't.
The 1st Law of Improvement is that every system is perfectly designed to achieve the results it gets (ie: the current system is performing as built).
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The company says there are 33 million light- and medium-duty trucks on the road, and converting them to plug-in hybrid results in an 80 to 200 percent fuel economy improvement.
After each innovation and burst of performance improvement, gains level off, return-on-effort diminishes and results plateau out.
Fourth-quarter results came in better than expected Tuesday morning and the home improvement heavyweight rallied in pre-market trading.
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As a result of excellent results, the combined ratio had a 9.9% improvement (before catastrophe losses) to 96.1% for the full year 2012.
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Still, it posted strong results for the October-December quarter, helped by an improvement in some business segments which several analysts cited as a sign of a turnaround.
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