Birinyi called that the first phase, or "quartile," of the bull market.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

Those in the second quartile, 38 percent greater risk.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 22, 2003] Reference

Last year the plant had reached the top quartile of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

And then we call the bottom quartile the "no parking zone.".    From Wordnik.com.  [White House Conference On Corporate Citizenship] Reference

But managers ranked in the third quartile produced only 8.5 percent.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Hedge Fund's Wilting Fortunes] Reference

The tiny dot in the top right quartile is planet Earth - Susy Edyvean.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference

On a third, Pepco recently rose from the third quartile to the second.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pepco defends post-storm efforts at hearing] Reference

It's difficult to place a value on the security of savings. third quartile.    From Wordnik.com.  [jaimewolf Diary Entry] Reference

End tenure, fire the bottom quartile of teachers and pay the good ones more.    From Wordnik.com.  [Let's Have a Boom!] Reference

Most of the firm's bond funds were in the bottom quartile among peers last year.    From Wordnik.com.  [GMO Taps 1st CEO in 32-Year History] Reference

I'll bet that the bottom quartile of his fellow USNA grads never saw the inside of a jet cockpit.    From Wordnik.com.  [New McCain General Election Ad: "I Hate War"] Reference

"Both of these ratios should maintain our position at or near the top quartile of our peer group.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Regional Banks Defy Skeptics] Reference

The company's aim is to provide top quartile risk-adjusted returns to retirement funds of workers.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

For the past 5 years it ranked in the last quartile of all funds in its category (by total return).    From Wordnik.com.  [Dan Solin: Jeff Zucker Is Wrong -- CNBC Deserves the Criticism] Reference

Today, he says, America barely makes the top quartile, and it's fallen to the bottom quartile in R&D.    From Wordnik.com.  [We’re No. 11!] Reference

"We're in the top quartile of VC funds and we're proud of delivering strategic and financial returns.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Just in Case] Reference

But in the previous seven years, 98% of all playoff games were won by teams in the top payroll quartile.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Selig faces visit to 'aberration'] Reference

News & World Report rankings, WNEC is a tier 4″ law school, meaning that it is in the bottom quartile.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Federalists “sniped” at Western New England College School of Law:] Reference

It has moved almost the entire third quartile of the world's population from poverty to the middle class.    From Wordnik.com.  [How The Cheap Revolution Confuses Policymakers] Reference

Free testosterone values should be at or below the lowest quartile of the normal range. clinical symptoms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dysfunction or Dissatisfaction?] Reference

Given that personal consumption accounts for 70% of our economy today, that top quartile has become crucial.    From Wordnik.com.  [The toniest streets] Reference

"The odds of a bottom quartile school's rising to the top quartile were about one in seventy (1.4 percent).".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Turnaround Myth] Reference

On the one hand, India falls in the lowest quartile with respect to the number of women in parliament (9.1%).    From Wordnik.com.  [What Is the Role of Women in Indian Politics? Growing Stronger...] Reference

It has been placed in the upper quartile of pension fund investment performance based on independent surveys.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

For example, a mutual fund ranking in the top quartile has performed in the top 25% of an equity fund universe.    From Wordnik.com.  [How's Your Mutual Fund Really Doing?] Reference

Its returns were solid -- in the category's top quartile in 2005 and 2006 -- but didn't suggest aggressive bets.    From Wordnik.com.  [What We've Learned] Reference

You are in the upper quartile for your region (Only 22% of your regional companions earn the same or more than you).    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Steele: ‘Trust Me, After Taxes, A Million Dollars Is Not A Lot Of Money’] Reference

AlpInvest Partners has more than one-third of its portfolio in top-quartile funds, according to data provider Preqin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Private Equity's Most Influential Investors] Reference

Did anyone catch Larry Sabato's assessment that Kaine belongs in the lower quartile of Virginia governors since 1962?.    From Wordnik.com.  [NIGHTMARE: Kaine picked tonight?- UPDATE] Reference

As well as being in the lowest quartile even decile on exes claimed they are in the lowest quartile on attendance etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-02-03] Reference

Investec Asset Management's five year performance was, at June, ranked in the top quartile by major investment surveys.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Most equity styles were first or second quartile, although Japan, U.S. small-cap and global ex-U.S. growth disappointed.    From Wordnik.com.  [UBS Asset Management Reorganizes U.K. Bond Team] Reference

Australia, Canada, European, global sovereign, Japanese and Swiss bonds were second quartile or better over the 12 months.    From Wordnik.com.  [UBS Asset Management Reorganizes U.K. Bond Team] Reference

Today's teachers score in the lowest quartile of college grads and too many of the schools that train them are diploma mills.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lessons From Locke] Reference

In one generation it has lifted most of the third quartile of the world's population (by income) from poverty to the middle class.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ten Rules of the Cheap Revolution] Reference

Similarly, if corporate performance is in the lower quartile of the peer group, compensation should also be in the lower quartile.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Boards Can Hold Executives Accountable] Reference

He also added that she was a ‘parasite’ and ‘vermin’ which moves him towards the leftish quartile of the chart, I suppose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don’t get so worked up — it’s only a blog] Reference

President Barack Obama's proposed budget would penalize hospitals in the highest quartile of readmission rates for certain conditions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cutting Repeat Hospital Trips -- Simple Idea, Hard to Pull Off] Reference

Pisces, or in quartile to both places, the Long Parliament began; and near the same time the Scots and English disagreed; and when Charles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference

Over the 12 months through April 30, the fund is down 19%, putting it among the bottom quartile among peers, according to Morningstar Inc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oppenheimer Fund Refused to Budge] Reference