But the Lions sold out all their home games this year as the team raced out to a fast start, and a game against the Chicago Bears in October set an attendance record at Ford Field and posted an all-time high television rating in the Detroit market.
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Even mighty GE, which still boasted a top-notch credit rating at the time, resorted to extreme measures.
Changes in short interest, then, do not explain much of the stock price decline around the time of the bond-rating downgrade.
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Under the CDS contracts of the time someone with an AAA rating only had to pay out on a CDS contract if a credit event occurred.
These issues and others led to the filing of a class action lawsuit against the USGBC by Henry Gifford, a long time critic of the LEED rating system.
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Over time, Swift's approval rating has risen from 20 percent into the 40 percent range.
The system produces reliable power 99.9999 percent of the time, giving it a reliability rating of "six 9s, " according to the bank.
Facebook was ranked as the top employer for a second time, with an overall company rating of 4.7 out of a possible 5.
Over time, we will build toward rating all programs every year.
The only truly upbeat firms in America nowadays are the accounting giants, which for once are not being blamed for a financial disaster (this time that honour belongs to the rating agencies).
Likewise, character creation has a few extra options including more skin colors (my Pawn started life as a blue-skinned behemoth this time around.) The Pawn rating and gifting system is gone as well, apparently.
The number of Scottish businesses going bust last month has halved compared with the same time last year, according to credit rating agency Experian.
These take many forms: underwriting and registration fees, credit-rating costs, taxes and the time it takes to bring a bond to the market.
Helping out a colleague, common sense would suggest, may boost your popularity rating but at the expense of time spent on your own tasks.
Tensions between Bush, whose approval rating is near an all-time low, and Congress have been growing for some time, and the president's vow to veto the legislation angered many of his congressional allies.
Meanwhile, Ackman was making another big bet, this time against bond insurer MBIA, whose triple A rating he questioned in a research report.
Around that same time Ackman was making another big bet, this time against bond insurer MBIA, whose triple A rating he questioned in a research report.
In 2004, the final game of the AL Championship series between the Yankees and Red Sox drew a 19.4 rating, beating all programming during prime time, including the Red Sox sweep of the Cardinals.
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But the companies defend their narrowing of options by saying that if they included thousands of hotels, users would have tough time searching the entire inventory by rate, star rating and location on a tiny smartphone or tablet screen.
The last time shares of COF earned a 2 out of 10 rating was back in mid-August.
The downgrading by Moody's of Italy's credit rating could not have come at a worse time for the eurozone.
Some time was also spent discussing the new liability standard for rating agencies.
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They just want to remember it for next time and maybe give it a quick five-star rating, Zachariassen says.
When the time comes to reverse that process, your favorable credit rating in the past looks more like a curse than an advantage.
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At this time, it is unlikely that we will initiate a rating change on TIF in the next few weeks barring anything earth-shaking.
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Bloomberg recently found that yields moved in the opposite direction from sovereign rating moves more than 50% of the time this year.
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They can just keep pointing out that the debt ceiling prevents the U.S. from paying bills for spending Congress has already approved, and watch the Republicans take the heat should Social Security checks not go out on time, or should the U.S. credit rating suffer another downgrade.
Market Cap, Liquidity, Credit Rating, Industrial Activity etc, and try to time the entry and exit correctly.
Turkey received an investment-grade credit rating from Fitch Ratings last November for the first time since 1994.
Proof: OWN drew a 0.9 rating (1 million viewers) in prime-time, enough to make the newly launched network the third most-watched basic cable net for the night (behind power-houses ESPN and USA) in the Oprah-friendly women 25-54 demo, according to preliminary figures from Nielsen.
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