But the format, which also has a successful celebrity spin-off, has been criticised by some commentators as low-grade television and even cruel.
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It has already said if the switch-off took place, the Grade II listed lighthouse would remain intact.
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Now that its bonds are rated junk, they will be off limits to investors that buy only investment-grade debt.
Should they defer to their husband when he insists that she stop kissing their first-grade son at school drop-off?
Marubeni, a Japanese commodity trader, signed an off-take agreement in early January with Canada Lithium where the Marubeni will distribute 2, 000 tons of battery-grade lithium carbonate for three years with an option to increase distribution to 5, 000 tons.
Their attitude is, we want our kids learning English when they're in first grade -- and we're laying off teachers here in North Carolina?
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If its credit ratings should sink below investment grade, GMAC's unsecured bonds would become off-limits to many institutional investors, making it even harder for GMAC to borrow money affordably.
And by the time they reached tenth grade, they had slipped off the map twenty-fourth place internationally.
Cathy Bryd, a third-grade teacher in King George, Virginia, got a day off and sent in an iReport.
Emerging market and investment grade bonds have sold off in the last few days, and the dollar high-yield index has plateaued, but European high-yield has remained on course, edging higher.
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The Los Angeles public school system is backing off its plan to end so-called social promotion, whereby kids are sent to the next grade even though they are not qualified to be there.
Even without an investment-grade rating, the Philippines had attracted sufficient quantities of foreign investment to set off an appreciation of the peso, to roughly 40 pesos to the U.S. dollar this year from between 43 and 44 pesos to the dollar in 2011.
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