Sentences with phrase «early years points»

When I wrote a post earlier this year pointing to this classic tweet by Randi Zuckerberg laying out «the entrepreneur's dilemma», it was clear from readers» responses that it struck a nerve.

Earlier this year I pointed out how in the Western context hatred towards Muslims and Jews are usually linked, meaning someone harbouring hatred to one group is more likely to hate the other as well....

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An Angus Reid poll of 799 British Columbians last October suggested 75 % felt it should be taxed and regulated rather than prohibited, up six percentage points from a year earlier.

But he points to a report from the Parliamentary Budget Officer released earlier this year showing that, since 2009, the debt service ratio — a measure of income spent to pay debt — has remained steady at around 14 per cent, not much higher than the long - term average.

NFIB found that a net 23 percent of respondents raised wages in the three months prior to September, a 5 percentage point increase compared with the same period a year earlier.

«We often use that service as the thin edge of the wedge,» says Kureluk, pointing out that this software gives Yardstick the opportunity to upsell other products and services to its customers, such as the «e-learning» software tools developed by a firm that Yardstick bought earlier this year and sold online.

«This is only a few billion below the figure at a comparable time last year, and above the figures reported for some earlier years (almost 60 % of the full year's refunds are typically received by this point in the year).»

Forty - five percent of those surveyed by NFIB said they found few or no qualified workers to fill open positions, which is 3 percentage points higher than September a year earlier, and 4 percentage points higher than the same time period in both 2013 and 2012.

Kane points out that a shortage of ski instructors and service workers prompted the federal government to ease restrictions for Banff, Alta., and Whistler, B.C., earlier this year.

DTS earnings before tax as a percentage of DTS total revenue and DTS operating revenue (a non-GAAP measure) were 4.4 % and 6.5 %, respectively, up 20 and 70 basis points from the year - earlier period.

Credit union approvals for May dropped about 1.4 percentage points to 43.6 percent, compared to a year earlier.

The benchmark 10 - year JGB yield was up 9 basis points at minus 0.050 %, touching its highest levels since early April.

Some early behavioral economics studies found that a salary of roughly $ 75,000 a year was the point at which happiness began to plateau.

But it also had trouble filling up all its seats, with its consolidated load factor falling 0.3 points to 81.3 % in March compared to a year earlier.

Earlier this year, in the first quarter, VC spending hit its highest point since 2001, with $ 10 billion across 888 deals.

The business now represents about 13 % of Alphabet's total revenue, compared with 10 % a year earlier,» notes a Reuters report, which points to revenue from things like Pixel phones and cloud computing services for business customers.

A survey published earlier this year by Junior Achievement and PwC found that 24 % of students aged 18 to 29 believe that their loans will be forgiven at some point.

As Harvard Law professor Jack Goldsmith pointed out in an essay earlier this year on the Lawfare site, it is extremely difficult — and perhaps even impossible — to draw a meaningful distinction between what the New York Times does and what WikiLeaks does.

In his usual forthright manner, state Treasurer and Transport Minister Troy Buswell made some pointed comments earlier this year about the role of the state's port authority boards.

And the announcement that Vudu is finally headed to Apple TV follows similar news from earlier this year, when Apple announced that the Amazon Prime Video app will finally be available on Apple TV at some point in 2017.

While geopolitical uncertainty was a major focal point earlier this year — with several North Korean missile launches initially sending investor scurrying into safe - have assets — risk appetite has since improved, with markets looking instead to stronger economic growth globally.

It's the first time that the streaming service — which has endured a rocky start since it was relaunched by rapper Jay Z early last year — has hit number one on the app rankings, a point that West himself championed on his ever - active Twitter account:

Captain America: The Winter Soldier, this year's top - grossing film so far, came out in early - April and the scattering of big movies around the calendar is one reason why all 2014 films have only grossed about 5.4 % less than all films had last year at this point.

Groups including the Electronic Frontier Foundation have been making precisely that case for years, pointing out as early as 2005 that EULAs force users to give up not just control of their data, but many other legal rights.

At any point earlier in the year, however, the two company records will look very different.

Despite Marsh's sanctimoniousness, Ars Technica points out that earlier this year a Tennessee senator described AT&T as «the most powerful lobbying organization in this state by far» as it battled to stop Google from using utility poles in Nashville.

Additionally, Tchir argues that European investors have shown a proclivity to rush into trades leading to what he calls «periods of violent indigestion,» pointing to the big swing in German bund yields seen early last year following the European Central Bank's announcement of more QE as a prime example.

But in the quarter ending Dec. 31, which included the key holiday season, handbags costing $ 400 or more generated 50 % of sales, up 20 percentage points from a year earlier.

That's 13 points lower than a year earlier.

PMI was anticipating market share growth would plateau at some point this year because the company knew it was close to saturating the early adopters and innovators, he said.

During Virgin's early years, one difficult decision we had to make involved Virgin Records, which at one point was in desperate need of cash to sign bigger artists.

In July, the proportion of Americans aged 25 through 54 who had a job or were looking for one rose to 81.8 percent, up a half - percentage point from a year earlier and the highest since December 2010.

Earlier this year, the Dow plunged 150 points.

At one point, Doctor said there were plans to have Patrick Soon - Shiong — a billionaire who invested in Tronc earlier this year in return for a significant stake in the company — acquire the Los Angeles Times and let Gannett acquire the rest of the company, including the Chicago Tribune.

But I got to a point earlier this year where I was having venting sessions almost daily with my co-workers.

Mr. Wang recalled a story of how on a long drive near his hometown years earlier his father pointed out all of the tunnels and bridges in China built using his cement.

When wife - and - husband duo Ellie and Quang Dinh founded their newly launched brand Girlfriend Collective earlier this year, they wanted to hit three main points: 1) to create a chic athleisure line that was minimalist in design without compromising performance, 2) to be eco-friendly and offer complete transparency with every step of the apparel - making process, and 3) to deliver a luxe product that people would trust.

Our most recent buy entries into $ FB (Facebook) resulted in two separate price gains of 49 % and 12 % earlier this year, but we would still consider re-buying $ FB in our newsletter if it presents us with a low - risk re-entry point (such as a cup and handle pattern) in the coming weeks.

In the housing market, meanwhile, millennials made up 32 percent of sales in 2014, up 4 percentage points from two years earlier — making them the largest segment of buyers, according to the National Association of Realtors.

At that point, you'll have the flexibility of cashing out one certificate a year without facing early withdrawal penalties.

Case in point: Brazilian consumers have long paid sales taxes on online purchases, unlike in the United States, where internet commerce got a break in its early years.

The net interest margin fell seven basis points to 1.93 per cent from the year - earlier period and was down 5 basis points compared to the previous first half.

Earlier this year, both the World Economic Forum and the Global Opportunity Network have pointed to this challenge as respectively the biggest risk and opportunity that we face.

As for inventories, OECD stocks held steady in July from a month earlier, which is actually a bullish sign given that they typically rise at this point in the year.

According to a 10 - Q filed by Bank of America earlier this year, a 100 - basis - point increase in both long - term and short - term lending rates would boost its interest income by $ 6 billion, which is essentially double (if not more) what its closest peers, Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase, would see in interest income increases.

This recent turn of events favoring international equities over U.S. equities could point to the early makings of a mean - reversion following years of outsized gains for U.S. equities.

Nevertheless, I find it untenable that a quarter point cut in January was enough to close the output gap one year earlier than the Bank of Canada's models were otherwise telling them would occur in the absence of a small cut especially since only 15bps of that cut was passed through.

The Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, Pennsylvania's Rep. Galusha Grow, managed the Act through Congress and echoed a point made years earlier by former President James Madison that population growth would eventually make obsolete a broad - based property ownership policy limited only to the ownership of land.

Herbalife investors were spooked earlier this year when another hedge fund manager, David Einhorn, asked pointed questions on a conference call with the company's management.

In a piece earlier this year, The Economist pointed out that Terrapin had «bought a dairy company and some vineyards and tomato fields in California, and converted all to grow almonds, whose price has soared as the Chinese have gone nuts for them.»