Americans already give the president poor marks for his handling of the economy.

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According to Kathleen Stratton, one of the Institute's analysts, some vaccines now in the pipeline are earning poor marks in the model.

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Shareholders and boards themselves are starting to realize just how tough it is to do this job, as compensation committees are generally getting poor marks.

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At age 14, in 1952, he was getting such poor marks in school that his family urged him to drop out and start a trade.

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In the report, Facebook earned poor marks for coal intensity (53.2 percent, the second highest of the 10 companies rated), a D for transparency, an F for infrastructure siting, and a D for mitigation strategy.

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Hawaii, for example, is the only state with one unified school district operated at the state level. (Not surprisingly, the schools get poor marks.) Only Michigan and New York have a higher proportion of unionised workers.

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She described him as a "fantastic" teacher and said he wrongly thought some of the coursework marks would be poor.

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But their efforts, in California particularly as I described them in this 1997 article for Forbes (apologies for the poor web reproduction, which dropped quote marks and includes other typos), were an interesting strategy.

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