The approval rating is Bush's highest since June and is a significant gain over his rating of 50 percent a month ago.
Risk of EU default leading to market uncertainty: The EU heads, led by France and Germany, are trying to restructure Greek debt held by banks but uncertainty remains over whether rating agencies will still view this event as a default.
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It is unlikely that we will raise the rating over the near term.
Blogging service Tumblr and photo-sharing service 500px have also seen their iPhone and iPad apps boosted to the maximum age rating over the past fortnight.
The comments from senior French figures followed a recent warning from US credit ratings agency Standard and Poor's that France could lose its triple-A credit rating over the eurozone crisis.
For example, recent statistics show that the US is further from recession than was widely feared it would be, when the government of the world's biggest economy lost its AAA rating over the summer - although growth is sluggish and unemployment intractably high.
Palin currently has an approval rating of over 80 percent in her home state, in part due to her willingness to take on corruption in the Alaska GOP.
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Participants were reacting to the loss of high-quality Libyan crude and its subsequent faster-than-expected resumption, Middle East unrest, the U.S. credit-rating downgrade over the summer, and the ongoing euro-zone sovereign-debt crisis.
Ronald Reagan's approval rating stayed over 50 percent until November of his first year in office, but once it slipped below that mark, it stayed under 50 percent for two years.
First, if Chesapeake does get a credit rating upgrade over the next two years as a result of this plan, it could possibly see a small decrease in the interest rates it needs to pay on future borrowings.
The Philippines, whose sovereign credit rating was upgraded to investment grade by two rating firms over the past two months, has been fighting the so-called hot-money inflows with several measures, including making it easier for locals to take money abroad and lowering a deposit rate for banks that do cross-border business.
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It gets my very attractive rating by allocating over 57% of its value to attractive-or-better-rated stocks.
This charge, which is rolled out whenever a rating has proved over-generous, is hard to stand up.
France has been given a warning over its top AAA credit rating by Moody's, one of the main rating agencies.
It gets my very dangerous rating by allocating over 89% of its value to neutral-or-worse-rated stocks, and to make matters worse, nails investors with total annual costs of 6.49%.
The inquest heard that the married mother of two had been concerned the school would lose its outstanding Ofsted rating after taking over and was later off for four weeks with work-related stress.
Denmark and two-time champions France won their qualifying groups, but face the prospect of being drawn with two other major nations after being put in Pot 4 due to a low coefficient rating for results over the past few years.
The economy ministry also hopes to cut its interest burden by strong-arming pension funds (over sour looks from the big rating agencies) to swap short-dated government paper for long-term bonds.
Now the Conservatives have been deeply criticised for a poor performance over the summer, their poll rating had made a bit of an improvement but now it's dropped back to below 30 per cent.
According to rating agencies, heading over the fiscal cliff might have a similar impact for the U.S. government as a so-called Grand Bargain, which could capture the revenue increases Democrats are pining for and the spending cuts Republicans continue to hold out on.
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The firm's BrandIndex service surveyed two slices of the U.S. population, adults 18 to 34 and those over 35, to discover if their perception of the Facebook brand has grown more positive or negative over the past few weeks and rating the results on a scale of -100 to 100.
Over time, Swift's approval rating has risen from 20 percent into the 40 percent range.
In organizations whose employees gave their superiors an "average" leadership rating, sales improved just over 6% within a year.
Over the past year, Kroll Bond Rating Agency, Inc. (KBRA) has staked out a claim in the highly-profitable and much-criticized world of credit ratings.
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Over time, we will build toward rating all programs every year.
Amid the heat of battle, Fitch entered the scene announcing it was placing Southern Union on rating watch negative given uncertainty over its future corporate structure.
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McCain voted for the 2001 law, which has given the federal government unprecedented authority over testing, academic standards and the rating of the nation's public schools.
Although the president's personal approval rating is still running comfortably over 50%, support for her cabinet has plummeted: 74% of Chileans think there should be a reshuffle, according to one recent poll.
Barbara Bruns, an economist at the World Bank who has written a book about Brazilian schools, praises the system, created over the past 15 years, of rating schools on how much students learn and how many of them drop out or repeat grades.
TNT's 2009 PGA Championship coverage earned significant television ratings increases on each of its four days of coverage, averaging a 1.4 US HH rating, a 75% increase over 2008.
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