Sentences with phrase «at first they increase»

Complexity at first increases, and then decreases with increasing entropy.

Not exact matches

The tariffs, which have increased frictions with U.S. trading partners worldwide and have prompted several challenges before the World Trade Organization, are aimed at allowing the two U.S. metals industries to increase their capacity utilization rates above 80 percent for the first time in years.

As the first chart below shows, the hoped - for increases in U.S. midwest refinery activity have not happened — it's been flat at best.

«The first thing to keep in mind is that, in some long run equilibrium, wage inflation should be equal to what the growth rate of productivity is — so how much workers can produce — and the increase in prices for the goods they produce,» he said at the UBS Greater China conference in Shanghai.

Thanks to the recession, in 2009 consumers used coupons at a faster clip than they did the year before — the first increase in coupon redemption in 17 years, says a new study by Inmar Inc., a company that processes coupon transactions.

Some employees opt out at first, as they don't want to lose the immediate income, but as their salary increases or they start to get older, many realize the importance of having a pension and decide to opt back in.

Ryan Bethencourt, program director and venture partner at San Francisco's Indie.Bio, the nation's first synthetic - biology accelerator, says that when one applies cost reductions to Moore's Law (the concept that digital technology will increase in power at an exponential rate), the landscape of business opportunities is limitless.

For the sake of comparison, consider this: During the first quarter of Obama's second term in 2013, foreign travel to the U.S. increased 6.4 % and in the first three months of 2009, at the beginning of his first term and the global recession, it was down 14.3 %.

In the first three months of the year, Goldman Sachs workers at the mega-bank saw their pay and benefits increased by roughly $ 23,578 since the same quarter last year, according to the bank's first quarter earnings release.

The parent company of T.J. Maxx parent said revenue at established stores was flat in the third quarter — the first time that figure didn't increase since 2009.

At first prices seemed to shrug off news of increased Chinese regulation.

Mompreneurs: Moms first, business second By Katie Engelhart October 04, 2012 An increasing number of stay - at home moms are starting and succeeding at their own businesses.

Shake Shack — which generated nearly $ 79 million in so - called «Shack sales» for the first nine months of 2014 — has grown fairly quickly though sales increases at the company's existing locations have slowed.

Phin Barnes, a partner at First Round Capital and an investor in startup Modern Fertility, says the number of pitches he sees from companies addressing women's health care has increased about 10 times in the past five years.

«It is possible that the acquisition of COL is the first step in separating UTX into two entities: a Commercial Operation and a Defense and Aerospace Group,» Howard Rubel, equity analyst at Jefferies, said in a note last week as speculation about a deal being struck by the two companies increased.

But the first thing I recommend you do when you receive a windfall is to take a «money break» and not increase your standard of living for at least a year.

Plenty of Fish grew slowly at first as Frind focused on learning the programming language and trolling internet forums for clues on how to increase traffic.

And for the first time since the final quarter of 2011, China's debt - to - GDP ratio didn't increase and stayed unchanged at 255.9 percent in the second quarter this year, latest data by the Bank for International Settlements showed.

From the fourth quarter of 2007 to the first quarter of 2011, real GDP decreased at an average annual rate of 0.2 percent; in the previously published estimates, real GDP had increased at an average annual rate of 0.2 percent.

The extra cost of buying them out entirely may appear at first to be an unnecessary increase in the purchase price.

The crucial point is that the first increase likely won't be followed by a second one at the next policy meeting six weeks later and a third one after that.

The nation's largest chain of drive - in restaurants saw system - wide same - stores sales rise 2.2 percent during the first quarter, powered by a 2.3 percent increase at franchise drive - ins, the corporation reported Monday.

Fed policymakers began this year with the wind at their backs, having pushed through a rate increase in December, the first such move in nearly a decade.

At first gradual, the uptick is picking up speed; U.S. oil output rose three - quarters of a million bpd in 2012, the largest single - year increase in history.

Looking first at self - reports of ongoing stress, we found that people experience a sharp increase in stress levels in their late twenties and early thirties,» he says.

The multiple birth rate's precipitous increase since 1980 looks pretty strange at first, but there's clear science behind it.

We watched the first trade, but it wasn't at $ 85 — it was at $ 100, an 18 % increase over our IPO price.

But to achieve this, Tesla will need to increase Model 3 production from a rate of about 2,000 vehicles per week at the end of its first quarter to its target rate of 5,000 vehicles per week in about two months.

This renewed crisis in the Eurozone comes at a time when the European economies appear to be slowing down after a strong first quarter, and despite this, policy interest rate increases by the ECB are expected in the coming months.

The first four months of the year saw 169 companies in the S&P 500 index increase their dividends while no companies cut their shareholder payouts, «an event not seen since at least 2003,» Silverblatt says.

Real consumer spending increased at a 2.25 percent annual rate over the second half of 2009 and looks to be growing at about that rate in the first quarter of 2010.

The Greater Vancouver Board of Trade is pleased to announce the first program offered by World Trade Centre Vancouver aimed at permanently increasing the export capacity of B.C.'s small - and medium - sized businesses.

Morgan Stanley's Delinquency Diffusion Index, an aggregate measurement of year - over-year increases in the delinquency of several types of personal loans, stood at 19.2 (on a 100 - point scale) for the first quarter of 2016, up from its low in October, 2014, driven by increases in auto loan and credit card delinquencies in 2015 — but far below the 60 - point threshold associated with a pre-recession state.

EverBank offers a higher introductory interest rate for the first year of 1.50 % APY, which drops to 1.15 % APY (or increases, depending on the account balance) at the end of the introductory period.

Kayak, which lets shoppers looking for flights, hotels and vacation packages search multiple sites at the same time, had a 48 percent increase in sales in the first nine months of the year.

There is one other big advantage in terms of Dropbox's model, at least from a founder and early investor perspective: the tradeoff of Box earning ever - increasing amounts of revenue per paying customer is the amount it takes to land that customer in the first place.

That would mark the first year - over-year increase since the first quarter of 2017, when trading revenue at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan, Bank of America and Citigroup rose by 15 percent, according to Sandler O» Neill analyst Jeffery Harte in Chicago.

Increasing your traffic is the first step, the next is to convert those visitors into leads by collecting their contact information — their email address, at the very least, to start.

First, Brookfield's use of listed entities to raise capital allows them to increase AUM at a faster rate than this competitors.

In its quarterly report released Monday, the New Jersey - based real estate and franchise giant reported $ 1.2 billion in revenue, a 2 percent increase compared with the first quarter in 2017, which it said was driven by increases in home sale transaction volume, valued at $ 100 billion.

Considering the company delivered 47,000 Model S and Model X between January and the end of June of this year, this puts second - half deliveries at 57,000 units or roughly a 13 % increase over first - half deliveries.

Considerng it took 16 months to hit the first 50k, I'm now increasing at a much faster pace.

Prior to Impromptu Guru, Jill worked as the Communication Manager for a national franchise, was a faculty member at Arizona State University, and established a nationally - recognized presence in the online education community, by starting up two major online education offices at the largest university in the country, serving 60,000 + students and increasing online tuition revenue by nearly a million dollars in her first eight months.

In order to increase sales at any organization, sales prospecting activity must increase first.

The Moody's team knew that carry traders increased Iceland's vulnerability to a confidence crisis because they were quick to liquidate their holdings at the first sign of distress.

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.»

Plus — with the additional travel protections and benefits, this card will put your mind at ease when using your card knowing your purchases are protected, it's worth looking into this card that offers a 0 $ introductory annual fee, which increases to $ 95 after the first year.

At least for the first few days, after bitcoin futures trading starts, we may see an increase in volatility.

In the first four months of this year, electricity use increased even more slowly, at 6 percent, against a year - earlier gain of 11.2 percent.

Sabet, who worked in the White House's Office of National Drug Control Policy during President Obama's first term and serves as director of the Drug Policy Institute at the University of Florida, said the negative consequences of marijuana legalization include advertising aimed at kids, an increase in drugged - driving incidents and a spillover of marijuana from Colorado into surrounding states, where the drug remains illegal.