Customers in the Hilton HHonors program, for example, need to fulfill annual qualification requirements or they may be downgraded to a lower rewards tier.
The excess stockpile will be sold overseas or downgraded to a lower level of enrichment.
Basically, when proxying competencies, in countries with strong vocational training systems the vocationally educated should, be downgraded to the next lower ISCED level.11.11
Hurricane warnings were downgraded to gale warnings for the lower Texas coast south of Freeport from the late afternoon of August 10 into the early morning of August 11.
According to the FSNAU's latest findings, areas in Middle Shabelle and among displaced populations in Afgoye and Mogadishu remain in famine with previous famine-affected areas – Bay, Bakool and Lower Shabelle – downgraded to Emergency levels.
Neither the nation's unions nor the government has tracked the number of jobs downgraded to the equivalent of a lower-tier wage scale, or the number of people who, like Ms. Thomas, have gone through the experience of a downgrade: in her case, from $19 an hour at the Ford auto body stamping plant — until she was laid off in 2005 — to a starting wage at G.E. a few months later of $12 an hour.
Citigroup, whose rating was downgraded to Goldman's level and, like Goldman, had its short-term rating lowered, was irate.
— have now been downgraded to junk status.
Twenty-four oft of 25 cases were downgraded to B2.
When the market, egged on by the media, responds to these downgrades by driving prices lower, the agencies issue further downgrades to reflect the new "market" reality or maybe just to show they are tougher than a competing agency.
