There is a lot of work to be done if we are to drag the standard of dementia care in the UK from its position in the bottom third of Europe".
Six-time world champion Steve Davis: "There would be a discrepancy in standard to start with but looking long term, when it drags the standard up of every country, when there are heroes from all around the world, then is the moment all of a sudden that winning the Olympics for your country would be on par with winning the World Championship".
"We no longer have a knee-jerk reaction that immigrants drag down the standard of living," said John Wilhelm, president of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union.
These economists, dragging down the standards of the profession.
Other banks, along with lenders and financial services firms, watched their stocks fall in tandem, dragging the Standard & Poor's 500-stock indowndown about 1percentt for the day.
In particular, many recent mergers have been undone by the presumption that information technology is easy to mesh together.The marriage between Union Pacific and Southern Pacific in 1996 was supposed to deliver a seamless rail service and $800m in annual savings by using UP's top-notch computer system to drag the ramshackle SP up to standard.
Tucker argues that a kite made of the kind of handkerchief that would have been available (a thirty-inch square of lingerie-thin silk), dragging a standard chunky key of the time (a quarter-pound brass latchkey), would have been nearly impossible to fly in the first place, especially if you were trying to keep it aloft from inside a shed — you can't get the key out and up.
Eager to prove his unflagging zeal for reform, he wants one last shot at dragging them up to the standard of the rest.The government's vision for secondary schools has been to provide variety schools that specialise in particular subjects, religious schools, schools that are run more or less independently of local government and to let parents choose.
In my experience, integration didn't at all "drag down" the standards of any schools to accommodate the lesser prepared, but rather these institutions tended to hold tightly to their standards, and thereby created unnecessary suffering for any students previously unacquainted with such relatively rigorous ideals.
Free trade, left ungoverned, can yield the infamous "race to the bottom," dragging down environmental standards and wages in affluent nations.
