As a result, a rating that is reasonable in one climate becomes unreasonable in another.
First, the obvious problem: Rating agencies make their living by selling ratings to borrowers.
This could happen if Japan's sovereign-debt rating falls another notch, which given the country's worsening finances could easily happen.
Last year the BBFC awarded the same rating to the Nemesis Sub-Terra ride at Alton Towers.
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Corporate governance rating systems covering all listed companies have been proposed in Hong Kong and the Philippines.
Alexis Camelon, the managing director of Pleasurewood Hills, said the BBFC rating would help "manage expectations" of visitors.
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This was one of the reasons the credit rating agencies began their recent spate of downgrades.
But with all the sheer clothing on display, should there have been a PG 13 rating?
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Recent opinion polls show Mr Hollande's approval rating among the public has fallen to about 25%.
House of Cards, scoring a 76 rating on a scale of 100 from Metacritic.com, worked.
The Kyle and Jackie O Show is the highest-rating breakfast radio programme in Sydney.
And then peers turn to the report stage of the Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill.
The proposals will see cooked food outlets compelled to display a 0-5 rating on their premises.
Haddin brushed off the results of a supporters' poll, which gave Clarke a 15% approval rating.
The last one was Goldman Sachs slapping a sell rating on its shares yesterday.
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Morgan analyst Rod Hall cut his rating on the stock to Underweight from Overweight.
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Teams compile their Draft Boards by position and by overall athletic rating and prepare to draft.
General Motors ' financing arm has a buyer but not a coveted investment-grade credit rating.
The debt-rating agency Moody's downgraded Merrill Lynch's debt within minutes after the results were released.
Credit rating agencies are considering downgrades of BNP Paribas and two other major French banks.
With the price adjustment, Citi maintained its buy rating on the Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania based company.
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In Gallup's tracking poll, Obama's average job-approval rating so far this year is 50 percent.
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Groupon already leverages third-party rating engines like Yelp and Google to help consumers assess merchants.
Hapoalim Securities went even further, repeating a Sell rating and setting a target of 50 cents.
As of the middle of August, Christie had 47% approval rating, with 46% disapproving.
Not surprisingly, once golden California suffers consistently near the worst debt rating of any state.
But the rating was not much different among those older than 65 (72 percent approved).
A. Davidson analyst Aalok Shah raised his rating on the stock to Buy from Neutral.
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Likewise, Stifel Nicolaus analyst George Askew cut his rating on the stock to Hold from Buy.
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Raymond James analyst Aaron Kessler cut his rating on the stock to Market Perform from Outperform.
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