(1) Pensioners are biggest income gainers in year to April 2016 Photograph: Resolution Foundation and Office for National Statistics Anti-poverty campaigners also said the breakdown of incomes into large groups failed to capture the soaring earnings of the super-rich and executives in the top 1%.
(2) Miners Anglo American, Glencore and BHP Billiton were among the top gainers, tracking the price of copper higher.
(3) Those on lower incomes are significant gainers from the system.
(4) The paper was selling 306,000 before the closure of the NoW, making it the biggest gainer over the whole period.
(5) Suppliers of catering crockery have been the main gainers in recent years, because of a social shift to eating out.
(6) Shares in the bailed-out Lloyds Banking Group and Royal Bank of Scotland were among the early gainers because the Conservatives have pledged to press on with sales of their shares.
(7) The Spanish IBEX is the biggest gainer, up 1.2% today to 9964.
(8) The key beneficiary of this weekend’s news has not unexpectedly been travel stocks with Air France-KLM higher in Paris and Easyjet and International Consolidated Airlines in London amongst the gainers as well as turnaround story of the year Thomas Cook whose shares have risen over 700% in the last 12 months, and who are expected to show a return to profit when they report their latest numbers on Thursday this week.
(9) The maker of Pot Noodle, Dove soap and Vaseline's shares are up more than 4% in early trading, leading the FTSE 100 gainers.
(10) By contrast, rapid gainers were more compliant with prenatal visits and reported more depressive symptoms and alcohol consumption than did other study subjects.
(11) Energy companies and utilities Facebook Twitter Pinterest Shares in Centrica, shown on this chart against the FTSE 100, and SSE - Scottish and Southern Energy - were among the early gainers in the FTSE 100.
(12) Barclays and the bailed-out RBS were the biggest gainers in the FTSE 100, rising more than 2% each.
(13) R3-R14 manufacture specific low molecular weight peptides (Gainer and Wollberg, '74), and both the cell bodies (Iliffe et al., '77) and the germinals contain unusually high concentrations of glycine.
(14) Most female reducers and male gainers were already normal weight.
(15) In prospective studies weight gainers in adolescence are more often hypertensive than weight stable individuals.
(16) With the notable exception of the topmost twentieth, income groups in the top half were net gainers from the changes.
(17) One consequence has been the speed of the depreciation of the euro.” Carmakers, which rely on exports and benefit from a weaker euro, were among the biggest gainers, with BMW shares up nearly 5% to hit a record high and France’s Peugeot Citroën rising 3.7%.
(18) This underestimation, caused by not taking into account infants' random deviations from their own growth trajectories, ranged from 59% to 94% and resulted in misclassification of approximately 24-67% of infants as abnormal gainers (below the 5th percentile or above the 95th percentile with respect to existing reference data) in the intervals evaluated.
(19) In axoplasm, only the major 200,000 M(r) neurofilament protein and a specific protein of approximately 400,000 M(r) were labeled, as reported previously [Pant, H. C., Shecket, G., Gainer, H. & Lasek, R. J.
(20) MarketWatch (@MarketWatch) Pfizer up 3%, leads Dow gainers April 28, 2014 AstraZeneca's shares are still up 15% in London.
Grainer
Definition:
(n.) An infusion of pigeon's dung used by tanners to neutralize the effects of lime and give flexibility to skins; -- called also grains and bate.
(n.) A knife for taking the hair off skins.
(n.) One who paints in imitation of the grain of wood, marble, etc.; also, the brush or tool used in graining.
Example Sentences:
(1) The theme was composed by Ron Grainer, a child prodigy.
(2) Webber died in 1969, Coburn in 1977 and Grainer died of spinal cancer on 21 February 1981, aged just 58.
(3) Grainer’s eerie melody has always been wonderful – even when the Derbyshire mix was replaced, even when played by an orchestra at the BBC’s popular Doctor Who at the Proms concert.
(4) It was done literally by choosing frequencies, recording them the right length, and sticking all the separate notes together.” The Doctor Who Experience in Cardiff pays tribute to Derbyshire, while practically ignoring Grainer, except to credit them both.
(5) Born in the Queensland mining town of Atherton, Grainer studies in Sydney under Sir Eugene Goossens.
(6) Mark Ayres, composer on the current Doctor Who series, describes it as “a piece of sixties wonder … just one of those tunes that lives on.” And it gives Grainer an impressive claim to fame: the only person whose contribution is obvious in all 786 episodes of Doctor Who.
(7) Neither Grainer nor the writers were around to celebrate the show’s 50th anniversary in 2013 – or even its 20th.
(8) In case that’s not enough reason to move production to Australia, Grainer wasn’t the only Australian who helped to develop Doctor Who.
(9) Derbyshire was never officially credited on the show, despite Grainer’s best attempts.