The leading credit rating agencies failed to do their job in rating these Fannie and Freddie subprime mortgage securities AAA, misleading everybody as to the real risks involved.
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Those who voted today gave him a 48% job approval rating, on the higher side than usual.
If members of Congress thought 2007 was tough--lawmakers' job approval rating is now a dismal 25%--just wait until 2008.
There's one big difference: In 1996, Clinton was on his way to re-election with a job approval rating of 58 percent.
Our new Zogby Analytics of 1000 likely voters shows President Barack Obama holding on to a majority job approval rating, while 46% disapprove.
An office holder with a job approval rating consistently in the mid 40% range might be scrambling to present a new face to voters.
Bush's job approval rating also rose to its highest level since April, with 52 percent saying they approved of his performance and 45 percent saying they did not.
It's reassuring to know that, even with Congress' job approval rating in the low double digits, a seat in the U.S. Senate is still considered a prized possession.
Some have even broken through the 70 percent mark, and one truly stunning result compiled by NBC News and The Wall Street Journal (published Feb. 9) found Clinton's job approval rating at 79 percent.
In Gallup's tracking poll, Obama's average job-approval rating so far this year is 50 percent.
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Numerous national polls showed that the storm had cost Mr Bush around ten percentage points from his job-approval rating.
Rankings such as these would amount to less than half of a teacher's annual job-performance rating under a new statewide plan to evaluate public schoolteachers.
Mr Saakashvili's job approval-rating is higher still.
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An important limitation of surveying MBA students at the time of graduation is that short-term annoyances such as a low grade or difficulty finding the right job can cause a few students to give the school a low rating, causing the student ratings of the school to plummet.
Gov. Cuomo got a similarly high rating, with 85% saying he did a good or excellent job, and Mayor Bloomberg scored well also, with 75% saying he did a good or excellent job.
The numbers were combined to find an average rating of overall employee happiness for each respondent, and then sorted by job title to find which occupations had the unhappiest workers.
The numbers were combined to find an average rating of overall employee happiness for each respondent, and then sorted by job title to find which occupations had the happiest workers.
While many Japanese firms provide employees with punchbags of bosses, and Latin American companies target job enjoyment, UK chiefs surveyed by the Institute of Management gave workplace fun a lowly rating.
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