Even then it was low by relative standards, but by 2010 it was down to 29%.
Given the frequency with which college coaches are courted by the NFL, the ultra competitive recruiting landscape, the higher-than-average academic standards relative to other Division I schools, and the inherent uncertainty of knowing how 18-22 year old kids will perform under pressure, there are no guarantees for prolonged success.
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Schools for the rich, traditionally oases of relative excellence, will likely see standards fall as an influx of underprepared students are rammed into classrooms by fiat.
Even at that age I could sense the gap in wealth and living standards compared to the relative comfort of growing up in a single parent family in Croydon.
Bollettieri also believes the worldwide growth of tennis with many more countries now producing top-ranked players is responsible for the relative decline in U.S. standards.
Basically, what Little League means is that the bats meet standards that essentially give metal bats the same relative lack of pop as wooden bats.
People are less concerned about absolute levels of wages or standards of living, compared with how they are doing relative to others.
These are described as "resilient" pupils, who achieve high standards of attainment by international standards, despite coming from a background that was poor relative to their own country.
For de Waal, these experiments complement research showing that people are less concerned about absolute levels of wages or standards of living, compared with how they are doing relative to others.
Relative to sales, inventories of unsold new homes are not high by historical standards.
The result will be a dramatic redistribution of income, a rapid erosion of the West's relative economic clout and, for many Western citizens, an end to the cosy expectations of ever rising living standards.
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