The slopes are craggy, storm-blasted and steep, and food is pretty much limited to potatoes and whatever animals you can chase up a 50-grade incline without falling down the adjacent precipice.
Even junk issues have been inhaled by investors desperate for any yield pick-up over puny Treasury and high-grade bond yields.
There are some very nice DVD up-scalers out there that have ether very good up-scaling ability or audiophile grade components.
Mr. MONTY NEILL (Co-Director, National Center for Fair and Open Testing): While scores have tended to go up on NAEP at grade four--and in math they went up fairly solidly for a while--they've now leveled out.
An increase in traditional freight-train traffic was slowing up rail service, so potatoes that were top-grade when they were loaded in Idaho were mashed--and not by design--when they arrived in Philadelphia.
The risk premium in financial markets comes in as Treasury yields move up and fewer below-investment-grade debentures stop trading like yesterday's sardines.
Even perennially deficient models like the Chrysler 200 (formerly the Sebring) and Dodge Avenger have been inching their way up from the rental-car-grade abyss with freshly cast interiors and much-improved V6 powertrains.
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The university operates four charters for (mostly) poor black children up to ninth grade (14-15), and college-acceptance rates for children going through them have been above 98% in each of the past three years.
For increased data protection of backed-up files, the software also features an AES 256-bit government-grade encryption.
While the company is focused on lithium carbonate, an updated feasibility study in October 2012 showed the ability to produce an additional 2, 000 tons of battery-grade lithium hydroxide and up to 30, 000 tons of sodium sulphate annually.
But "the vegetarian menu fits right in with our mission, and we are thrilled that our students in pre-kindergarten all the way up to grade three understand the importance of healthy and nutritious meals, " Groff said in a statement.
As a sign of just how mixed-up things are, directly across the street is another kindergarten-through-eighth grade school that is run by the state.
Also, the city now has a bond rating that is investment-grade, which should free up access to tens of millions of dollars for infrastructure improvements.
That said, the Bank of American Merrill Lynch High-Grade Bond Master Index is up 3.75% through April 30 as a result of spread compression across the credit markets from the more lofty levels of the fourth quarter.
If Spencer can get up and running, his plan could produce high-grade profits along with high-grade ahi.
That feed has enterprise-grade encryption and can run at up to 60fps over faster connections, but streams lower framerates over 3G as well.
In August Garvey threw up his hands and announced the sale of the high-grade bar business.
What if we could build a nuclear reactor that offered no possibility of a meltdown, generated its power inexpensively, created no weapons-grade by-products, and burnt up existing high-level waste as well as old nuclear weapon stockpiles?
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Vivendi's stated goal is to persuade the credit-rating agencies to raise its debt back up to investment grade.
Specifically, we grade mutual funds on their performance over three up-and-down market cycles, and rank them on relative returns and annual expense ratios.
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Albert is doing ninth-grade work at age 12 and just signed up for his first -- free -- online class on Java programming with CodeWarriorU.com.
Bain, a consultancy, now expects as many as 140 American speculative-grade companies to default in 2010, sharply up from a forecast of 40-50 in April.
Brad Hintz, an analyst at Sanford Bernstein, calculates a potential hit of 28% to Bear Stearns' 2008 earnings per share if income from fixed-income trading falls 20%, financial sponsor merger and acquisition dries up and it sees a 35% reduction in below-investment grade loans.
Klein began dancing in fifth grade, when his mother signed him up for hip-hop and tap classes on Long Island without warning him.
The second phase involved filtering the waste-water a third time, to bring it up to irrigation grade quality, so that it could be reused locally without upsetting anyone downwind of the plant.
Not willing to accept that she would have to settle for a low-grade job, she took the opportunity to set up her own business, and it was organising a family get together that gave her the inspiration.
Then, changes in the mine plan delayed access to higher-grade material, as well as a slower ramp-up of the DOZ mine, Adkerson expained.
But at 0.21%, up from 0.08% last January, it remains easily in investment-grade range.
Balanoff, our third-grade teacher, that we could be anything when we grew up, we felt challenged by 320 pages of incredible feats.
Investment-grade, intermediate municipal bonds are yielding 2.2% and up, or 3.4% after tax for upper-income investors.
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