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And Rushing’s catching abilities, while improved, remain a work in progress; at least relative to the high standard the Dodgers expect out of their backstops.

"They are a minuscule part of the mining industry and the economy of extracting them is very uncertain, whereas the investment to start extracting is very high. The risk of the investment is too high relative to the potential gain."

“The best thing to do is raise consumer incomes,” Sumner said, because the problem “is not food prices, it’s food prices relative to people’s incomes.”

Given that grades, teacher feedback and comparison with peers can be subjective or vary from class to class or from school to school, “the standardized score and its label might be important in shaping how well students and parents understand the students’ skill levels relative to a common standard,” said Sean F. Reardon, professor of poverty and inequality in education at Stanford.

"Over the past decade, funding for GPs has been cut relative to the rest of the NHS, while the number of targets for GPs has soared," he said.