The best performing guru had a 68.2 percent grade while the worst performing one had a 21.7 percent grade.
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Just 7 percent of fourth-grade and 3 percent of eighth-grade English learners scored "proficient" or above in a nationwide reading exam, and thousands languish for years in ineffective English-as-a-second-language programs.
In fact, Tractor Supply is the only non-rated tenant and the company does not carry enough debt on its balance sheet to be rated. (effectively meaning an investment grade shadow rating would result in a portfolio that is 100 percent investment grade rated credit).
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The consistent 48 percent accuracy grade has led CXO to make a command decision.
Overall, 38 percent of Hispanic fourth-grade students were identified as English learners, as well as 20 percent of Hispanic eighth-grade students, according to the 2011 National Assessment of Education Progress math test.
Fifty-four percent of teens received a failing grade (F), compared to 46 percent of adults.
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Argentina has the highest "survival rate", with 94 percent of pupils reaching grade 5.
According to research by the MacArthur Foundation, 65 percent of students starting grade school today will end up doing jobs that have not yet been invented.
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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.
Simply, all the intelligence out of Australia and Appalachia points to higher pricing, some 10 percent on high quality metallurgic grade coal next year.
Their parents have applied for Harlem Success Academy, a highly regarded charter school where "about 95 percent of the kids are at grade level, " Sackler said in an interview with CNN.
Investment-grade corporate bonds yield 3 percent and riskier "junk" bonds yield just under 6 percent.
Among gurus with more than 100 observations, the best grade was 65.0 percent while the worst was 28.9 percent.
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Also the portfolio is of the highest quality as 99 percent of rents are derived from investment grade rated tenants.
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In fact, a recent survey found that 42 percent of Americans would prefer a letter grade associated with a credit score rather than the traditional three-digit number.
While most are enriching below 20 percent, this material, too could be turned into weapons-grade uranium, although with greater effort than is the case for the 20-percent stockpile.
Companies with low investment grade rating are calling outstanding 7 percent preferreds and replacing them with paper yielding 5.5 percent.
In fact, for the third year in a row the default rate for non-investment grade bonds stood at 1.9 percent, Fitch Ratings said Monday in a special report.
Fewer than 2 percent of all diamonds in the world are given this grade of purity and most of those diamonds are white.
Less than 2 percent of all diamonds in the world are given this grade of purity and most of those diamonds are white.
Historically, investment grade bonds have earned about 1.5 percent over inflation.
Even stranger, 1 percent listed "lead actress" as their reason for buying a ticket -- and that 1 percent gave the movie a harsh "B-" grade.
Our 30 year forecast for investment grade bonds has been lowered by 0.2 percent since last year.
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At the talks in the Kazakh city of Almaty they are asking Tehran only to greatly limit its production and stockpiling of uranium enriched to 20 percent, which is just a technical step away from weapons-grade uranium.
"One for the Money" drew an audience that was 75 percent female, and CinemaScore participants gave it a "B-" grade.
In its most recent report card on the nation's infrastructure, the American Society of Civil Engineers gave the nation's bridges a grade of "C" and said that in 2003 27.1 percent of them were deficient.
Leave 10-year Treasuries yielding 2 percent to fat cat institutions who have nowhere to go with their capital which needs investment grade ratings.
The current interest rate on investment grade bonds, as measured by the Barclays Capital Aggregate Bond Market index is 2.0 percent.
Despite the average grade, with reviews so much stronger than most films aimed at teens, and an encouraging 18 percent bump on Saturday (which suggests positive word-of-mouth), "Chronicle" might not plummet at the box office the way "F" graded "The Devil Inside" did a few weeks ago.
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