They're not very accurate as a detailed performance indicator and universities shouldn't waste too much time obsessing about rankings. |
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Victory at the Deutsche Bank championship lifts Singh to number one in the world rankings. |
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With descent in the rankings comes the withdrawal of privileges, such as the exemptions for the majors. |
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Why else would he point to the Macleans rankings which I posted on a few days ago? |
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Small is currently ranked 37 in the world, a grim reminder of just how far he has slipped down the rankings. |
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The report is backed up by disappointing rankings in the world's top 500 universities. |
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In the arena of open competition, the talkers are quickly moved to the bottom of the rankings. |
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They were dark days for the Elephants, who soldiered on with young talent but never climbed up from the bottom of the rankings. |
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This is not to say their current rankings are undeserved or their upset wins were not legitimate. |
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It's an appropriate metaphor for a state mired near the bottom of national rankings in poverty and education. |
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The rankings reflect how education systems manage to raise the achievement of less able pupils. |
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He is currently keeping magnificent company in the European Golden Shoe rankings. |
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The combine rankings give fans insight into who may be among the top players in the draft, but that's about it. |
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The faster these changes are picked up the quicker you will be able to react to drops in rankings. |
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On Monday, RSF issued its second World Press Freedom rankings, placing Ivory Coast 137th out of 166 countries. |
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The British No 2, now up to No 98 in the rankings, was not disturbed by 12 double faults in the match. |
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One example is word rankings based around pre-releases of Hollywood films and searches for Web sites of these films. |
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The relevance rankings of the journals varied among the different occupational groups. |
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And success could also fast-track him up the rankings towards a potential shot at the domestic title. |
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Eventually those who receive kyu and dan rankings as a result of the popularization of Aikido will end up at Hombu. |
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Takahashi Sensei had dan rankings in aikido, kendo and judo and was very much an inspiration to me in my early years. |
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Several newspapers produce rankings using a variety of sources for their data. |
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Clearly, there was plenty of suspense built into this year's player rankings. |
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Ireland is ranked one place above South Africa in the IRB world rankings, in fifth place. |
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Haga's double victory lifted him from fourth to third in the overall rankings. |
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Educational diversity is threatened by the over-reliance on objective scores and rankings. |
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At his peak, he was ranked fourth in the British rankings for the 5,000 metres. |
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I try not to think about the rankings but you can't help it because everyone keeps talking about them. |
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Indeed, so far as the Masters is concerned, the rankings appear to be essentially meaningless. |
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But since tennis became truly global, it has been reflected in the world rankings. |
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Despite his gradual ascent up the World Cup rankings, his lifestyle has remained far from glamorous. |
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He's ranked 13, but for six consecutive years he was untouchable at the top of the rankings. |
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The surveys from other websites at various times may not have the same rankings. |
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That, by a remarkable coincidence, is the minimum requirement for inclusion in the rankings. |
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Unfortunately, some colleges seem more concerned with their own rankings than with fairly ranking applicants. |
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Furthermore, advertisements, rankings and ratings issued by fund companies only describe past performance. |
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We certainly never got any credit points for our subjects, nor did our results there count towards our final rankings at the Knights' Academy. |
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He plans to sell the promotional rights to the rankings to the stations with the best forecasters. |
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We are going to make sure that the news gets out to players of all rankings. |
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There are tournaments to play that move you up the world rankings and that's more important now. |
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All houses competed aggressively, and even the last race made a difference in the rankings. |
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And yet Brazil, though top of the world rankings, are not the top team in South America right now. |
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For the past 12 months, since displacing David Duval, Mickelson has been the official No 2 to Woods in the world rankings. |
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They appeared in the late '70s and rapidly climbed the charts, both in sales and in fans' rankings. |
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Just as they prepare to rocket ahead in the rankings, the coach is shocked to discover his boys have failed to live up to their contracts. |
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This way, students will not be wasting their number one rankings on jobs that are already taken. |
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Beauty and looks may well be skin deep, but in this game, the coolest dudes and babelicious babes get the highest rankings. |
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As far as she was concerned, they still had to force their way up the rankings if they were to be considered a credible threat. |
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The boards on the walls turn out to be squad rankings, combat exercise scores, award runnings. |
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Two years after winning Olympic gold he was plummeting down the rankings like a stone. |
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Which one a student decides to attend is a personal choice that should be influenced not a whit by a marginal difference in rankings. |
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Positive factors such as the correlations between social media shares and higher rankings earn a lot of attention. |
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He is recently married, his golf has never been better and he is back where he belongs, at the top of the rankings. |
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These will also become the basis for comparing and benchmarking schools of similar socio-economic rankings. |
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By October she was back to the No.1 spot in the rankings and her career was back on track. |
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They claim they can help companies place higher in your rankings, but sometimes they resort to treachery. |
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This was the year that Edwards leapt not only to the top of the triple-jumping rankings, but also into the record books. |
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Her best this season in four races was a fifth place in Germany which left her in seventh place overall in the rankings. |
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It's not surprising that both of us pick Tulane to win Bracket 2 as they have been atop many rankings for a long time. |
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Last year it tumbled to the bottom of the official rankings when it failed to score a single star in the government rating system. |
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The company has set up leagues on the web, which include player rankings. |
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Further reform will tighten the rankings given to schools by inspectors. |
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Compared to other students, bullies have larger friendship groups, higher sociometric rankings, and earlier dating experiences after controlling for pubertal development. |
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Calleri is one of several Argentines moving steadily up the rankings. |
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Oxford reached the top last year after the rankings system was reworked to take account for the balance of arts and science within the universities. |
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Scotland are now beneath Jamaica and Zimbabwe in world football rankings. |
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As images and sounds move onto the Net and are indexed and subject to search, there will arise rankings of leading images and leading sounds for particular moments in time. |
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The problem with search engines getting high Google rankings, and the problem with Google bombs, is that they are a response to the success of Google. |
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This factor seems to jibe with our overall rankings more than any other component. |
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It will be a moment of deep sadness that will, unless some bowlers of similar calibre are unearthed soon, herald Sri Lanka's slide down the world rankings. |
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Like the national football team we are showing an uplift in international rankings, but are still somewhere short of World Cup finals qualification. |
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I agree that varying the anchor text is very important and will continue to become even more important as the social sharing of links is weighted for rankings. |
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Clark Merrefield led the research for these rankings, assisted by tali Yahalom and Jaimie Etkin. |
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Similarly, a high level of internal due diligence and quality assurance supports these rankings. |
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The browser rankings are scrutinised for indications of consumer trends. |
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This boosts the average SAT scores at the college, and the school moves up a rung on the rankings ladder. |
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And my rankings, for that matter, as I have simply done a quick-and-dirty estimate of how the fourteen AL teams ranked in their efforts Tuesday and Wednesday. |
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Her standing in the world rankings for right-on activists took yet another dive. |
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Keep tabs on all the latest position battles and injury information, stay plugged into training camp developments, and adjust your rankings accordingly. |
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The matches against Scotland and versus Italy, in two weeks' time, are most important for Argentina, as they can be leapfrogged in the IRB rankings by the Scots. |
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Confidence was also high on Oman Air even though they dropped a place in the rankings, due to a couple of overenthusiastic starts. |
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The 2004 rankings acknowledged several new indicators while continuing to rank city economics more heavily than political or cultural factors. |
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Please note that rankings for exporters below a billion dollars are less meaningful, as they can be swayed by single contracts. |
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Please note that arms import rankings fluctuate heavily as countries enter and exit wars. |
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In 2004, when the rankings first appeared, academic peer review accounted for half of a university's possible score. |
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This indicator accounts for 20 per cent of a university's possible score in the rankings. |
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Citations of published research are among the most widely used inputs to national and global university rankings. |
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Whether the QS rankings should be taken seriously by the higher education community is questionable. |
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Its longtime rankings rival, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is number one for twelve subjects. |
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These rankings use some of the same criteria as the world rankings, but there are changed weightings and new criteria. |
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This set of rankings adopts 8 indicators to select the top 100 higher learning institutions in BRICS countries. |
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The majority of players use the Challenger Series at the beginning of their career to work their way up the rankings. |
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The women's world rankings featured players from sixteen countries, led by England with eleven. |
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Ranking points, earned by players through their performances over the previous two seasons, determine the current world rankings. |
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Both organisations allocated rankings to the tournaments, but these two events are now discontinued. |
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Improved results meant that Scotland rose up the FIFA rankings and won the Kirin Cup, a friendly competition in Japan. |
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These improved results, particularly the wins against France, lifted Scotland into the top 20 of the FIFA world rankings. |
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They reached a low point in 1999 with a series loss to New Zealand leaving them bottom of the unofficial Wisden Cricketers' Almanack rankings. |
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However the top eight full member teams in the ICC T20I Championship rankings on 8 October 2012 were given a place in the Super 10 stage. |
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They did not contain any scores or rankings, but the report for Paris was considered the most positive. |
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In 2008, their rankings slipped so that during the 2009 Six Nations Championship they dropped to their lowest ranking of 8th. |
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After winning his first 21 fights, he defeated Donovan Ruddock in 1992 to take over the number one position in the WBC rankings. |
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Since the formation of the WDF rankings in 1974 the method used to calculate a player's ranking points has changed several times. |
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The rankings are based on a cumulative points system similar to ATP Rankings in tennis they are done on a rolling one year basis. |
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When a tournament is played, the previous year's results are removed from the rankings. |
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According to Emporis, there are 1,223 skyscrapers in Hong Kong, which puts the city at the top of world rankings. |
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In both its 2011 and 2015 rankings, Walk Score named New York City the most walkable large city in the United States. |
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Consequently, in October 2011, Wales had rapidly risen to 45th in the FIFA rankings. |
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The match was a culmination of Speed's efforts which led Wales to receive the unofficial award for biggest mover of 2011 in the FIFA rankings. |
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Djibouti was ranked the 177th safest investment destination in the world in the March 2011 Euromoney Country Risk rankings. |
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Durham does marginally less well in global rankings than in national league tables. |
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According to some rankings, it is ranked as the third best university in the United Kingdom, behind Oxbridge. |
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Chicago high school rankings are determined by the average test scores on state achievement tests. |
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Unusually for a snooker player Griffiths retired whilst still inside the top 32 and 23rd in the rankings. |
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On 1 August 2006 Cooke took over as number 1 on the UCI's women's world road race rankings. |
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France performs well in international rankings of education, health care, life expectancy, and human development. |
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In Financial Times' 2005 rankings it placed 29th globally and 7th in Europe. |
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In 2007 Ukraine occupied 8th place in Europe by the number of tourists visiting, according to the World Tourism Organisation rankings. |
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But their rankings in their respective religious spheres may have been very different. |
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Due to this, Bahrain lost some of the high International rankings it had gained before. |
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Baja California has one of the best educational programs in the country, with high rankings in schooling and achievement. |
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Vanuatu was ranked the 173rd safest investment destination in the world in the March 2011 Euromoney Country Risk rankings. |
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There are several different law school rankings, each with a different emphasis and different methodology. |
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In general, these rankings are controversial, not universally accepted as authoritative. |
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Leiter's rankings tend to emphasize the quality and quantity of faculty scholarship, as measured by citations in a select group of journals. |
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Production figures of joint ventures are typically included in OICA rankings, which can become a source of controversy. |
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Did you really think I wouldn't discuss the most important segment of the season before beginning with the rankings? You must be new here. |
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The OECD Pisa survey revealed Irish whiz-kids have climbed five places in the rankings to ninth. |
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The new 2013 Toyota RAV Sports Utility Vehicle has received the maximum five stars in the EURO NCAP's safety rankings. |
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The AKC today also announced its nationwide rankings which places Dallas's favorite breed, the Labrador Retriever, at number one. |
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They a renumber one in the world rankings, but France are capable of lifting their level in the World Cup. |
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Barbie Latza Nadeau on the unforgiving world of epicurean rankings. |
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Figure 6 shows the average deviations from the sea legs ranked from highest to lowest and compared against the rankings from the OZ and US legs. |
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InfoWorld's Bossies offer this source, and we are pleased to be included in this year's rankings. |
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Species rankings for carbon fixation rate, one estimate of competitiveness, depended on light levels to which their leaves were exposed. |
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Gundlach, along with Co-Manager Philip Barach, have consistently received high-return rankings and below average risk rankings from Morningstar. |
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College rankings are ubiquitous, confusing, and often indiscriminate. |
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In November, Coria ended his season at a disappointing 116th place in the ATP rankings. |
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This is Pangea Properties' third consecutive year making the list following rankings of 42 and 720 in 2013 and 2014 respectively. |
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Having Spieth snapping at his heels, on the course and in the rankings, should motivate him to raise his own game to even headier heights. |
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Companies and their Fast 500 rankings are Accuvant, Pharmion Corporation, Evocate, Inc. |
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After failing down the world rankings and suffering dartitis, a psychological condition that affects a player's technique, Burnett's career looked over. |
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The following are international rankings of the United Kingdom, including those measuring life quality, health care quality, stability, press freedom and income. |
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It placed Russia at 154th out of 178 countries in its corruption rankings, level with failed narco-state Guinea-Bissau and worse than Haiti and Pakistan. |
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In other words, the rankings on the availability of legal services was highly dependent on whether an attorney or small business owner was responding to the question. |
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Murray held his opening service game but struggled after that as Djokovic produced the type of precise power hitting that has elevated him to the top of the world rankings. |
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British number three Jamie Baker, 254th in the ATP rankings, benefits from a wild card, as do Russia's Teimuraz Gabashvili and Andrey Kuznetsov and German Nicolas Kiefer. |
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For the first time, Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto, Canada, conquers the top spot of the 2009-2010 Beyond Grey Pinstripes rankings. |
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It proves his disappointing defeat at the hands of Connaught's Tim Garner earlier this month was a mere aberr ation on his planned climb back up the rankings. |
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Working breeds like the Boxer, Doberman Pinscher and Bullmastiff moved up in Detroit's overall rankings, while the Poodle dropped out of the top five. |
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Several other ranking systems are explicitly designed to focus on employment outcomes at or shortly after graduation, including rankings by the National Law Journal, Vault. |
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Private business schools also stand out in international rankings. |
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The following are links to international rankings of Lithuania from selected research institutes and foundations including economic output and various composite indices. |
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The cargo rankings based on tonnage should be interpreted with caution since these measures are not directly comparable and cannot be converted to a single, standardized unit. |
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In the 2009 rankings of Masters of Management, the school reached first place with the CEMS Master in Management and a tenth place with its RSM Master in Management. |
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The quality of education in Northern Europe is rated highly in international rankings, with Estonia and Finland topping the list among the OECD countries in Europe. |
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These early season wins led to her setting a new record in the UCI's women's world road race rankings for the gap between the first and second ranked cyclists. |
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Argentina ranks 95th out of 175 countries in the Transparency International's 2016 Corruption Perceptions Index, an improvement of 12 positions over its 2014 rankings. |
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In the subject rankings for 2017, Durham was ranked 3rd in the world for theology, divinity and religious studies, 4th for archaeology and 7th for geography. |
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In September 2015, England dropped to 10th in the FIFA rankings making Wales in ninth the highest ranked British team for the first time in history. |
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Started in 1971, it was a pioneer in evaluating tertiary education, and has grown to be one of the most respected for its national and world rankings. |
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The following are links to international rankings of Poland from selected research institutes and foundations including economic output and various composite indices. |
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It also runs its own world rankings based on players' performances. |
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The rankings show Deta Hedman and Trina Gulliver as consistently being the leading women's player's, having been number one on a record ten occasions each. |
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The Committee seeds the top players and pairs on the basis of their rankings, but it can change the seedings based on a player's previous grass court performance. |
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The IFNA is responsible for compiling world rankings for national teams, maintaining the rules for netball and organising several major international competitions. |
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As of June 2009, there were players from nineteen countries in the top fifty of the men's world rankings, with England and Egypt leading with eleven each. |
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These tournaments also contribute towards a player's ATP rankings points. |
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These teams have dominated world rankings in recent years, and many considered the Tri Nations to be the toughest competition in international rugby. |
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Since the split from Times Higher Education in 2009, further concerns about the methodology QS uses for its rankings have been brought up by several experts. |
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In 2009, THE announced they would produce their own rankings, the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, in partnership with Thomson Reuters. |
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Amongst its recommendations were world university rankings, which Lambert said would help the UK to gauge the global standing of its universities. |
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In The Guardian newspaper's 2012 rankings, Cambridge had overtaken Oxford in philosophy, law, politics, theology, maths, classics, anthropology and modern languages. |
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Both the WDF, BDO and PDC each maintain their own rankings lists. |
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The following are international rankings of Norway, including those measuring life quality, health care quality, stability, press freedom and income. |
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In order to define relative criticalities in categories 1 through 4 of the first-pass model, subjective rankings obtained from survey questionnaires are used. |
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After falling down the world rankings and suffering dartitis, a psychological condition that affects a player's technique, Burnett's career looked like it was over. |
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