Despite antique appearances, the car is actually built from a carbon-fibre monocoque produced in an aerospace-grade autoclave (in this case, one that Boeing uses), with a body sculpted from a carbon- Nomex sandwich.
According to the Council of the Great City Schools, students in sixty-six major city school systems in thirty-eight states showed gains in fourth- and eighth-grade math and reading in 2005.
Kids go in and grade-by-grade they progress until they graduate and become productive little worker bees in the American economy.
In fourth-grade reading, six urban districts have participated since the exam was first given in 2002 and each posted gains of at least twice the national average of three points.
We choose to take 75 cents on the dollar and invest in investment-grade securities, because we want to stick to what we think we have an expertise in.
Active managers in intermediate-term securities fared better than managers in long-term securities, and managers in investment grade bonds fared better than managers in high-yield securities.
But at 0.21%, up from 0.08% last January, it remains easily in investment-grade range.
Ooma now brings to the home the data redundancy sophistication normally found in industrial-grade Internet telephony products.
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In eighth-grade math, nine of the 10 districts equaled or surpassed the average national improvement of seven points only Cleveland didn't.
The company has already warned that its earnings margins will take a hit from investments in high-grade products and marketing.
This is due to lower throughput capacity at Goldstrike in Nevada as autoclaves are modified, along with mining in lower-grade ore zones at several mines.
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If and when they do, additional portfolio investment is expected to flood into Philippine stocks, bonds and other assets, as the upgrades clear the way for investment funds that are restricted to putting their money in investment-grade economies.
In 1998, the percent of fourth-grade students in the highest-poverty public schools who met or exceeded the NAEP Basic level in reading was about half the national rate, and progress in reading overall is only back to 1998 and 1990 levels.
This was seen as a significant end to year-on-year "grade inflation", but the surge in re-marks and grade changes suggests that this dip might have narrowed.
In Shanghai, for instance, rents this year have increased 18% for grade-A and grade-B buildings in the popular Puxi district as vacancies have fallen to a ten-year low of around 7%, according to Jones Lang LaSalle, a global property consultant.
Investors in American investment-grade bonds get the same yield as they would for junk in Japan.
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High-yielding debt in risky, speculative-grade companies has gained 38% this year.
On a recent day in Lopez's third-grade English class in Miami, the students learned the four points of the compass by reading and acting out a poem.
One high-profile deal involves its purchase in late 2012 of a grade-A office and five-star hotel complex in downtown Shanghai from a distressed local developer.
Their attitude is, we want our kids learning English when they're in first grade -- and we're laying off teachers here in North Carolina?
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Considering that these guys were probably in actual grade-school halls when some of those works emerged, it makes Naledge's claim to be "so hip-hop" sound a touch calculated.
Bear Stearns said there was "effectively no value" left for investors in its Enhanced Leverage Fund and "very little value" in the High-Grade Fund, which is the one the bank is bailing out.
For one thing, it is hard to know how much companies have in fact lengthened the maturity of their debts because the interest-rate swap market allows them to swap those fixed bond payments into cheaper floating debt, a popular strategy in the investment-grade market.
Brad Hintz, an analyst at Sanford Bernstein, calculates a potential hit of 28% to Bear Stearns' 2008 earnings per share if income from fixed-income trading falls 20%, financial sponsor merger and acquisition dries up and it sees a 35% reduction in below-investment grade loans.
Dale, operating in a modern stone-and-wood restaurant designed by New York's AvroKo, plays with classics, grilling the romaine in a deconstructed Caesar salad, adding Cherry Coke to the sauce in a duck tamale, and marinating sushi-grade tuna in smoky Lapsang souchong tea with, respectively, good, bad, and indifferent results.
As part of my job, I reported alarming inadequacies: in one case high-grade equipment (ASME III, class 1) was operated in nuclear power reactors with no accepted safety file, regardless of a previous accident and a half-dozen failures in achieving acceptable design results.
But while the Institute ranks the car as a "top safety pick" based on its performance in front- and side-impact tests, it gave the 2012 Mercedes C-Class a "poor" grade in the new small-overlap test.
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