First, determine the direction of the change in rating and tone of the commentary.
The show has been on a steady decline in rating but getting beat by Modern Family is a new low.
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It is particularly keen to tap Fitch's expertise in rating bonds that are backed by packages of consumer loans or mortgages.
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The subcommittee asked for all documents related to meetings between MF Global officials and rating firms' employees, as well names of analysts involved in rating the firm's debt.
The leading credit rating agencies failed to do their job in rating these Fannie and Freddie subprime mortgage securities AAA, misleading everybody as to the real risks involved.
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The international small-cap fund sports a Forbes A rating in down markets and a C rating in up markets.
Americans for Democratic Action, a liberal political group, gave Kerry an 85 percent rating in 2002 and a 95 percent rating in 2001.
"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.
Brady's 89.8 rating in these losses is the best, but barely better than the 87.8 cumulative rating of all other passers in the league.
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Winners in this rating system are counties whose schools deliver high performance at low cost.
Would a cut in the rating be further impetus for our leaders to act?
The companies on the following pages didn't get any credit in our rating formula for share price gains.
Clinton saw an overall increase in his approval rating from 62 percent in mid-January to 71 percent after the State of the Union speech.
Such a drastic change in our rating on a company is possible only when two rare events occur simultaneously: (1) the business accomplishes a dramatic improvement in its underlying economics, and (2) the market price fails to recognize the turnaround.
But his combined rating in 2010 and 2011 is right on par with the 76.6 rating that Trent Dilfer put up with the Baltimore Ravens in their 2000 championship season.
The March sold in Brazil obtained a 7.62 rating in its frontal-impact test.
For a brief moment, indeed, Ms Merkel was the most popular chancellor in history, scoring an 80% approval rating in the polls.
The stock has soared since its public debut in December 2011 and rose 71% in 2012 after Ms. Freedman gave her rating in January.
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Clinton fared less well in the South and in rural areas, but even in these categories his approval rating was in the neighborhood of two-thirds.
Shares in the US credit rating agency Moody's fell 7.7% in trading in New York on Friday amid fears of legal action surrounding rating agencies.
In the fall, the Princeton Review plans to include a green rating in its annual guide to colleges and universities.
Northerly situated Scandinavia, which gets some of its currents from the Arctic Circle, is home to a lot of snow and cold, with Helsinki, Finland, facing the moisture of the Baltic Sea in addition to low temperature, rating tops in both categories.
Some expect the bond market and a downgrade in our credit rating to force limits, which seems unlikely given weaker conditions in other countries.
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Boston's win in Game 7 of the 2011 Stanley Cup finals drew the sport's highest rating in 37 years.
And Italy's new prime minister, Mario Monti, although running an unelected government, basks in the highest popularity rating of any Italian leader in years.
It was the latest in a series of fiscal showdowns that already caused an unprecedented downgrade in the U.S. credit rating earlier in the year.
The rating is in effect, double the highest possible rating on the normal chart, and considerably higher than consumers are accustomed to seeing on suntan lotion bottles.
But the Lions sold out all their home games this year as the team raced out to a fast start, and a game against the Chicago Bears in October set an attendance record at Ford Field and posted an all-time high television rating in the Detroit market.
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According to a Mercer press release, 77% of the 1, 500 workers polled expect the economy to grow, roughly the reading before the recession began in 2007 but more than the 56% rating recorded in 2008.
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In terms of approval rating for U.S. policy in the region, Jordan's one of the lowest countries in terms of supporting U.S. policy in this region.
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