In our schools real standards are stagnating and our weakest pupils are suffering.
Sure, Real GDP will fall just as much, real living standards will fall just as much.
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To do that requires actual interaction with professors, small group classes, and real admission standards.
It has to do this in the face of a robust and so far non-inflationary economic recovery, and rising real living standards.
The relative size of these components differs greatly between countries and over time, and can be particularly important in the level and growth of real living standards in the poorest countries.
More important, companies are the only entities that can make standards real, by embodying them in products and services.
And when it comes to trade, we're going to have real, enforceable standards and protections for our workers and our environment.
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The broadest and most accurate measure of living standards is real per capita consumption.
The technology, and our ever-improving ability to put it to productive use, will continue driving real gains in living standards.
This might include by mandating social performance through environmental standards in real estate, or by using tax credits to favor subsectors like affordable housing.
The development agency says the plan is not about image, but a real improvement in service standards, particularly for the business visitors who spend one tourism dollar in three in the capital.
But with sustained real compensation growth of 2%, after just 20 years the real incomes and living standards of working people would be nearly 50% greater, and after 40 years they would be 120% greater, more than doubled.
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The book expresses the growing concern among more careful real climate scientists, rather than political scientists, that trends in solar activity portend a return to the cold, limited agricultural output, and widespread disease of the Little Ice Age, or even a more full blown, overdue by historical standards, real ice age.
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It looks like a chunky walkie-talkie, and the stubby external antenna is a real honker by today's standards.
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Mr Twigg said this was a "real and growing threat to school standards".
Mr Laws added that England needed a fully independent "Education Standards Authority, with real powers to stand-up to the government".
Securitization of mortgages played a big part because it meant mortgage servicers had no real incentive to impose strict credit standards on borrowers.
When bringing Madrid's Teatro Real up to 21st-century standards, its designers opted for a neutrally modern auditorium with the exterior a pale imitation of its former self.
Financial Accounting Standards Board rules say that real property should be depreciated over 40 years.
The real power of OpenStack is its open standards across compute, storage and networking resources.
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Schools Minister Diana Johnson said another independent report showed pupils in England making real progress in maths and that GCSE standards were rigorously monitored.
"Yet here we are for all the difficulties in Northern Ireland able to point back to real improvements in the security and the standards of living, " Blair said.
If a franchisee repeatedly fails to hit the minimum standards, Ledsinger's only real option is to pull his flag.
While 2025 may seem like a long way off, and the new standards will be reviewed in 2018, real consequences will occur rapidly.
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It also aims to support the review and revision of curricula to ensure they meet international standards and respond to the expressed and real needs of young people in each country.
Its chief executive, Colette Kelleher, was quoted by the Department for Education and Employment as welcoming the new standards because they would give "a real consistency of quality" across different establishments and across the country.
The Philippine central bank proceeded to impose a 20% ceiling on banks' lending to the real estate sector -- a modest level by Asian standards.
The real goody two-shoes, however, inflict those standards on their competitors.
Economic liberalization stimulated real economic growth, and as productivity increased so have living standards.
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By those standards, Conrad Black, Canada's only real newspaper tycoon, is most unCanadian.
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