Sentences with phrase «at best it falls»

At best they fall back instead on safe phrases like «family values.»

At best it falls into the same trap as Nixon, raising each idea in one scene and then not taking it further.

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At the same time, part of the quarterly sales short fall was the lock of new innovative products as well as a decline in shoes that only recently had been best sellers.

Marino's draft stock had fallen after a disappointing senior season at Pitt, as well as rumors of recreational drug use, rumors which even led Marino's hometown team the Pittsburgh Steelers to pass on selecting him.

That was chief executive Thorsten Heins's message at the annual shareholders meeting in Ontario today, as he tried to defend the company's trajectory after sales of the new BlackBerry 10 line of smartphones fell well below analyst expectations.

That is still better than a year ago, when sales fell 6.5 percent at its American full - line stores.

When the baby moves into his new digs at Kensington Palace (currently under renovation, but reportedly set to welcome the Duke and Duchess in the fall), he will be well - protected, as the building is currently undergoing # 750,000 worth of security updates.

«A # 1 New York Times bestseller and arguably the best business narrative ever written, Barbarians at the Gate is the classic account of the fall of RJR Nabisco.

Yet he anticipates that over the next few years, the pieces of a new North American pipeline system will begin to fall into place, with the result that Western Canadian heavy crude may have a better shot at achieving fair value.

The best talk in the world will land flat if it's introduced at a moment when the audience isn't ready to hear it (just as, entrepreneur readers will note, even excellent, groundbreaking products fall flat if they're out of the sync with the market).

Siegel, who has done MBA admissions at both Emory University's Goizueta School of Business and Northeastern University, says it is one of the best pools she has seen since joining the school in the fall of 2009.

CNBC's Phil LeBeau takes a look at a new report that predicts airline tickets will drop even more in the fall, and while that may be good news for travelers, it could hurt airline revenue.

Furthermore, at its nadir, Canada's GDP fell 5.4 % — pretty good compared with the 5.7 % drop in the U.S., and awesome stacked against Germany's 14.4 % slide or Japan's 15.2 % tumble.

Your superpower will fall somewhere between what you're good at and enjoy, says Thomas.

And, dear reader, please call us out on it here at STAT if you spot us falling for a story that's too good to be true!

The types of tasks that are best outsourced fall into three general categories, according to Gregg Landers, director of growth management at CBIZ MHM, the nation's eighth largest accounting and business services provider.

In the interest of all the students heading to college this fall, I asked my colleagues at Business Insider to share the best things they bought for themselves in college that they might never have thought to pack.

Entrepreneurs are good at growing businesses, but when it comes to personal portfolios, many all too often fall short.

«Canada has a tremendous amount of reputational capital, but it's not taking advantage of it,» says Rob Jekielek, a principal at New York — based Reputation Institute, a research and consulting company that last fall named Canada the country with the best reputation in the world.

When converted to US dollars, many of the salaries fall well short of the average American teacher, who makes $ 44,000 starting out and approximately $ 68,000 at the upper end.

This doesn't bode well for economic growth - the UK economy is heavily reliant on the consumer and falling real incomes will eventually translate into lower retail sales,» Ben Brettell, a senior economist at investments firm Hargreaves Lansdown said on the day.

The ASUS Chromebook C202SA is tough, good - looking and comes at a price that isn't going to make you cry when you drop it, slosh your coffee onto the keyboard or manage to let a bag of tools falls onto it.

Some managers frown upon their staff having fun at work, becoming the best of friends or even falling in love, but I disagree.

But without it, businesses risk falling behind at best and, more likely, death.

But with the unemployment rate, at 6.2 percent, well below its recession - era peak of 10 percent, and inflation showing no signs of falling further, the Fed has begun to trim its monthly bond purchases, aiming to end them completely by October.

Woods opened in August 2017 as a 100/1 long - shot to take the green jacket at the Masters, but after a month of solid play during which viewers have seen flashes of the Tiger of old, Woods» odds have fallen all the way down to 16/1, the seventh best odds in the field.

So now that the sky isn't falling, it's a good time to look back at ads and see the problem Goodell was talking about.

«Strong encryption is in our nation's best interest,» he said at a Wall Street Journal conference last fall, as Fortune's Kia Kokalitcheva reported.

And what happened to us was that our salaries stagnated and fell while the cost of the things we couldn't do without went up at rates well beyond that of inflation for decades as the social safety was being pulled out from underneath us.

-- BlackBerry (TSX: BB) delivered a hazy look at its first - quarter results on Friday, posting a loss of US$ 84 million that fell short of analyst expectations, while offering few details on whether its new phones are selling well.

The good news, according to gas price analysts at Kent Marketing Services (formerly M. J. Ervin & Associates), is that significantly lower gas prices of just above a dollar a litre are probably coming to Canada this fall, based on what's already happened in crude markets.

Small business owners expecting better business conditions fell 11 points to a net 32 percent and expected sales fell to a net 20 percent, though both remain at historically high levels.

Here's a look at some of the best images taken by Globe photographers last month: a funeral for a fallen police officer, the Boston Marathon, and a new home for a lost dog.

So, again, I think it's a good opportunity to do an apples - to - apples comparison of what does it look like, where are you at in the tax bracket, where do you fall in the new marginal tax bracket, and then do an apples - to - apples comparison to see do municipal bonds provide a greater after - tax value for you or does being in a taxable bond portfolio provide that greater value?

Earlier in the fall, we commissioned economic modelling to look at the benefits of building on the best elements of today's provincial climate policies.

With $ ACAT and $ ALLT falling substantially lower after hitting our stop prices just on an intraday basis, odds are good these stocks may move even lower in the coming days, which would trigger the deadly emotion of hope for traders who failed to sell at the proper exit point.

But by the time MPs actually get around to holding hearings several months from now, the price of crude may well have fallen to the point that this most recent bout of pain at the pumps will have been forgotten — or it may have soared so high that the only affordable way anybody will be getting to Parliament Hill is by bicycle.

How Xerox fell so far is a case study in what management experts call the «competency trap» — an organization becomes so good at one thing, it can't learn to do anything new.

I began seriously investing for dividend income around 2007 when my business at the time was literally falling off a cliff, as most of the world was starting too as well, when my need for another income stream became more apparent.

At the same time, Tide's consumer perception is acting like most brands undergoing a major crises: after falling for nearly three months and hitting bottom on February 20th, perception climbed back up until it hit a ceiling on March 30th, still remaining well short of where it was before the fad took off.

For the best car insurance rates in Great Falls, we suggest drivers take a look at GEICO, Progressive, State Farm, Farmers Union, and Allied.

We upgraded our view on U.S. consumer discretionary stocks last fall and still believe that households are in a better position than they were just a few years ago: Consumer debt is down while household wealth is up, gasoline prices are much lower than a year ago and the U.S. is creating jobs at the fastest pace since the 1990s.

We are now well into the year when I said stocks would plunge in January and would prove to be a gaping «crack» in the economy by summer, and look at how seriously the market has fallen apart since it started to drop in the last week of... [Read More]

Once you've decided where exactly your business falls, you can better understand how the benefits, cuts, and deductions will hit you — if they will affect you at all.

To better understand our prescription trends, we have isolated the impacts of Express Scripts day fall and cough / cold / flu, adding back the 10.7 % negative impact we experienced from exiting the Express Scripts network, to reconcile to an adjusted 1.6 % prescription growth rate, which compares favorably to the industry, including Walgreens, which decreased at 0.3 % over the same period per IMS.

Jones was certainly touted by Kalanick as a big hire when he arrived at Uber last fall from Target, where he was its well - regarded CMO.

The key to why the earnings aren't good enough and the stock is falling is this line in the company's shareholder letter: «Revenue came in at the low end of our guidance range because brand marketers did not increase spend as quickly as expected in the first quarter.»

«Better to have fewer, more capable people at the top for steady profit growth,» says Fell.

That review, well under way at the DOJ, now falls to him.

Ventures» net income to shareholders fell slightly year over year to $ 13.6 million, largely due to lower revenue and higher costs at one of Markel's industrial products businesses, as well as the impact of acquisition expenses and lower seasonal sales from Costa Farms.