He has to get his positive rating up and he has to articulate a vision.
The deal has worked out great for CBS. In 2009, the first under the new deal, the game drew a 4.2 overnight rating, up 75% from the previous year and the highest overnight rating for the Army-Navy game since 1999 (4.9).
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The international small-cap fund sports a Forbes A rating in down markets and a C rating in up markets.
Clinton's favorable rating is up six points since last week, and the number of Americans who believe the allegations concerning former White House intern Monica Lewinsky have significantly dropped.
With 25 of the 28 nights of the sweeps period concluded, NBC is in first place among the valuable adults 18-49 demographic, averaging a 2.8 rating, up 17 percent from last fall.
Some would argue the problem was that the packagers of credit snookered the credit rating agencies leading up to the credit crisis.
The most recent rating will show up on the restaurant hub, but go deeper and you'll find a history of recent inspections, including notes on any violations.
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Many question whether a mainstream fund-rating firm is up to the task, and point out that, if retail investors are led to rely on faulty measures, they may find themselves in trouble.
And then peers turn to the report stage of the Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill.
It assigned the Post Co. a Narrow Moat rating, a notch up from its rivals.
The Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill, which will cap the benefit rises until 2016, passed by 305 votes to 246.
We could ask the rating agencies to give up attempting to produce absolute measures of credit quality and instead focus on providing only relative measures.
In a Commons statement on the the annual up-rating of social security benefits on 8 December 2010, he also announced that the state pension will rise for single people from next April.
After that it's on to a committee-stage debate on the Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill - with Labour continuing their rearguard action against the cap on benefit increases to 1% - below the rate of inflation.
The Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill will probably be given its third reading in a matter of minutes and then peers move on to deal with changes made by the Commons to the Crime and Courts Bill.
Things may then become a tad less consensual as peers get their first chance to debate the Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill - the measure which is designed to make sure that benefit payments don't increase faster than wages.
In the Lords (from 2.30pm) peers should complete their consideration of two more private members' bills sent over by MPs - the Presumption of Death Bill and the Mobile Homes Bill - and then they turn to their second committee stage day on the Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill.
It might be necessary next to regulate the rating agencies (perhaps by using information from the agencies that would spring up to rate the rating agencies).
In other words, if the firm paid up, the rating might be more accurate.
Most have also come up with a rating system to give buyers some indication of what they are getting.
Keen to restore securitisation's credibility, Wall Street's main trade groups, too, want the TALF opened up to smaller rating agencies.
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 firms will deny, deny deny and say the SEC has it wrong and that their jobs are simply to come up with a rating based on the information provided to them by the companies.
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Likely catalysts such as a possible late-March iPad refresh with a lower price point on the iPad 2, a mid-year iPhone refresh, and the launch of the iOS-based television launch in late 2012 or early 2013 back up the positive rating for the company.
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So, as I said yesterday, the eurozone's leaders have an uncomfortable choice between maintaining the EFSF's current resources - deemed as meagre by many - at the new lower AA plus rating, and finally giving up on the idea of leveraging or boosting the fund (because that kind of financial engineering is harder in the absence of an AAA).
Given the turmoil in the credit markets, here's an initiative the White House should adopt: busting up the credit-rating-agency cartel.
The vast majority of districts reached deals that set up four-tiered rating systems based in part on student scores on standardized tests.
The upgrade is part of a current trend in emerging market debt catching up to the A rating standards of the core economies.
"The prime minister called it silky, " it reveals of Baroness Thatcher's enjoyment in 1989 of the Chateau Margaux 1961 - which was subsequently bumped up from an A rating to an A1.
The organizer, Rentenna, is a start-up in the business of rating the city's rental buildings.
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