The institute gave the 2001 RAV4 an acceptable rating.
When Washington State instituted experience rating in response to federal incentives in 1985, employers became less likely to lay off workers than were their counterparts in Oregon and Idaho, according to a study just published in The Journal of Public Economics by Patricia Anderson of Dartmouth and Bruce D. Meyer of Northwestern.
New Jersey instituted community rating and guaranteed issue way back in 1992.
A year earlier, a British research institute rated Beijing a third-tier city on a par with Warsaw and Bangkok.
The institute rates on a scale of good, acceptable, marginal and poor.
Some of the nation's top-selling S.U.V.'s and pickups were among those the institute rated the lowest.
By comparison, to achieve the same proficiency in Hebrew, which the institute rates as "hard," requires 44 weeks, Mr. Bernhardt said.
The insurance institute rates vehicles in five crash tests on a scale of Good, Acceptable, Marginal or Poor.
The insurance institute rates head-restraint designs as good, acceptable, marginal or poor based on how the restraint meets two criteria for an average-size male, whom it defines as 5-foot-10 and 170 pounds: * Restraints rated marginal must be high enough to protect an average-size man from whiplash injury; those rated poor are not high enough.
If Mr. Hollande as president really instituted such a rate, he would drive most of France's remaining big earners offshore.
If we now instituted a top rate of, say, 75 to 80 percent, adjusted downward for lower earners, we would not only raise badly needed government revenue but would also put an end to excessive executive pay.
