Schools that fall below the mark face sanctions, such as firing the entire staff or closing.
Meanwhile, the market has also been affected by slower than expected economic recovery in the United States, a plateau in European demand, and continued pressure on prices globally are among the reasons investment will remain below the 2008 mark in the short term.
By the time that all the petitions that were declared void for this error were thrown out, Governor Perry was well below the 10K mark, and was disqualified relatively early in the process.
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This fraud, if true, on its own would have pushed Gingrich below the 10K mark.
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Its government's yuan debt is now rated AA-, just three notches below the safest mark.
This meant that the overall level of pension scheme membership has dropped below the 50% mark for the first time since modern records started in 1997.
Still, the index remains below the 50 mark, indicating that more builders continue to view sales conditions as poor versus ones that view them as favorable.
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Though Sharp shares have recovered some of those losses, they are still trading well below the 550 yen mark and there are concerns that the deal may not happen at all.
The Dow Jones industrial average dropped below the 13, 000 mark for the first time since August, falling 2.4%, or 312.95 points, to 12, 932.73.
Yields on the 10-year Treasury note traded below the 3% mark this week.
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Opera Mini hovered a tad below 20 percent, with RIM's and Microsoft's offerings duking it out below the 10 percent mark.
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U.S. Treasuries have been falling since the morning, however, the yield on the 10-year bonds reaching 3.01% after a lengthy streak below the 3% mark.
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By a nice irony, however, a sustained period of low growth has meant that Germany itself is now unable to keep below the 3% mark.
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Spain's 10-year bond yields sank as low as 6.88%, around 0.46 percentage point lower on the day, and below the 7% mark a level widely deemed as unsustainable by financial markets.
Eurozone manufacturing PMI increased to 46.0 from 46.4 in November, while Germany and France both showed modest increases, but remained below the 50 point mark that separates contraction from expansion.
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The high water mark rested just below the signatures of the city's Department of Design and Construction the last group to sign the column.
The Bank still expects inflation to fall below the current 6.5% mark by the end of the year.
The changes initially caused ratings to plummet to well below the crucial eight million mark.
Since then, it has screened applicants to keep numbers below the 145, 000 mark.
News of stronger hiring over the past three months briefly propelled the Dow over 15, 000 on Friday, but it ended the week below that mark.
Legally, everything below the high-water mark is public property.
At about the 4:15 mark in the video below you can see what that segment will look like.
The stock market remains in the doldrums and the baht, rather than stabilizing in the mid-30s as once hoped for, has quickly slipped below the psychological 50-to-the-dollar mark.
The euro rests Monday morning slightly below its mark last week, at 1.3754 against the doller.
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The four-week average remains in a modestly downward trend, well below the meaningful 400, 000 mark.
Unemployment may not fall much, but could dip below the psychologically powerful 4m-mark next year.
Red alert: it was the first time the indicator fell below the 1, 000 points mark in 12 months.
Yesterday brought the worst drop for the blue chip index in almost a year, and sank it below the key 13, 000 mark.
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This is the first time in four weeks that pessimism is below 40%, though the current reading is admittedly just barely below that mark.
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