Sentences with phrase «group at advantage»

Guest blogger Bea Wray is the Chair of the Entrepreneurial Practice Group at Advantage Media Group Forbesbooks in Charleston, S.C..

Both first - time moms regularly attend Mother Nurture Breastfeeding Support Group at Advantage Health Centers» Thea Bowman Clinic.

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When Hostess filed for bankruptcy last November, Stuffed: An Insider's Look at Who's (Really) Making America Fat author Hank Cardello argued in a piece for Forbes that Hostess could have avoided its financial troubles if it had taken advantage of health - conscious consumers, a group that contributes to a third of grocery market sales in the U.S..

Kevin Lynch, vice-chair at BMO Financial Group, says that this change has been a huge advantage for Canadian financial institutions expanding abroad, but he believes that putting the focus on Canada's stability could help any business gain traction.

And it might be that the baton is being passed to a group that could not be more deserving of a little advantage at this stage in the game.

Malcolm Hamilton, a partner at consulting firm Mercer, thinks there is room for the PRPP as long as the fees are low and the plans offer enough advantages over group RRSPs for employers to adopt them (e.g. much of the administrative burden transferred to the government).

«While Groupon had first - mover advantage, many competitors followed suit, driving down prices and commoditizing the market,» said Jeremiah Owyang, an analyst at Altimeter Group in San Mateo, California.

«Many cross-border deals offer no advantages at all,» says Andre Cappon of consultancy the CBM Group.

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But take a look at the carnage in the Thirty Years War, a war between two groups of Christians who were horrified that anyone dared to believe other than the way they did, and tell me with a straight face that the religious zealots who waged that war wouldn't have used ANY technological advantage they might have gotten their hands on and didn't kill with modern bombs not because of self restraint but because of lack of availability.

It has also been used to great advantage in singles groups, divorce recovery groups, young people's groups, parents groups, marriage enrichment groups, pre-marriage groups, marriage counseling groups, therapy groups of women and men, professional conferences, and as a demonstration at any workshop or conference on human liberation.

Informed opinion, however, agrees with Gunnar Myrdal in An American Dilemma that there is a vicious circle at this point.8 Denied the cultural, educational, and economic advantages held by others, underprivileged groups tend to remain in this status, as in America the restriction of Negroes to unskilled labor and meager educational facilities has prevented their advancement to positions of leadership comparable with the more privileged.

He describes some of the information at hand as «ammunition» that can be confidentially used to the group's advantage, and says he will provide internal information stripped of his department's logo.

The few games I've been able to get to this year, attendance in the student section is so bad that you'll see clusters of students sitting down, taking advantage of the leg room available while there is a group down at field level about 10 rows deep, standing and cheering as you'd hope.

Even if there is an advantage to not playing in Europe, which there may well be, we only have two group games left and our EPL games after those are against Bournemouth and Stoke City, both at home, so how do you see the title race going over the next two months?

However judging from the following options, and considering the fact that we will play the second leg at home, there is a distinct advantage to us winning the group.

They have the clear star power advantage at forward with Malkin, Crosby, Phil Kessel, and Patric Hornqvist, but they're depending on a defensive group without an elite talent.

The giants from Munich are at home for the first leg on Wednesday and know that they will have to take a strong advantage for the away leg to progress to the group stage of Europe League competition.

Spurs should fear no - one after finishing the group stage with more points than anyone else and they are at home in the second leg, which is usually considered an advantage.

The Red Devils could be able to take advantage of Arsenal's recent performance at Champions League group stage.

Despite chances being created freely down both ends, our two - goal advantage remained intact throughout the remainder of the contest as we moved clear at the top of Group C.

Maribor come to Anfield in a fortnight's time and the Reds will be looking to take full advantage in an unpredictable group, hoping to ease the pressure at the top with Spartak Moscow breathing down their necks level on points in second place.

Overall IQ: Tests after 20 years show a small but significant (3.6 percent) advantage in overall intelligence (IQ) for the most fragile KMC babies (those with an abnormal or transient neurological exam at 6 months) compared to similar infants in the control group.

Therefore, future (longitudinal) research should take a closer look at the advantages of birth centers and should examine to what extent birth centers actually fulfill the personal wishes of specific social groups such as ethnic minorities.

Moreover, as Professor Leslie Green shown in a recent programme at the British Academy (Gay Marriage: Prospects and Realities, 29 May 2012), marriage offers a number of advantages not offered by same - sex civil partnerships, including portability of status, a broader understanding of the couple's status, as well as the potential for religious recognition, depending upon the religious group involved.

Speaking to Regeneration & Renewal, Miliband says: «I think that the advantage of the new Office of the Third Sector is that, whether you are a social enterprise or you are a small community group, you are going to have a voice at the heart of government.»

Advantage Group president Scott Levenson was the political director of NYCLASS and its campaign was run out of his Manhattan office, while at the same time the group spent money to promote the candidacies of two of Levenson's clients — Levine and CGroup president Scott Levenson was the political director of NYCLASS and its campaign was run out of his Manhattan office, while at the same time the group spent money to promote the candidacies of two of Levenson's clients — Levine and Cgroup spent money to promote the candidacies of two of Levenson's clients — Levine and Cumbo.

One of the advantages incumbents in the state Assembly have over their challengers is a printing budget that enables them to mail out quarterly newsletters to their constituents, which at least one good government group says is in need of reform.

Prior to Christmas the regular YouGov polls were showing the Conservatives still leading amongst women while they fell behind amongst men — this year Labour have more usually lead amongst both groups — certainly it looks at first glance as though the Tory advantage amongst women is fading.

Once elected, incumbents have helped redraw their own districts to their and their party's advantage and regularly pass legislation benefiting the people and interest groups that help them stay in office (redistricting will be done differently in New York next time thanks to a constitutional amendment passed at the ballot by voters in 2014).

If it was a group of people wearing green shirts that takes advantage, people would be pissed at them.

Stolt - Bergner will be evaluated for potential promotion to a junior group leader position at IMP in her 5th year, and she feels that she would also have an advantage in the broader job market.

Only in patients with moderate or severe knee pain at the outset did the supplements show a significant advantage over the placebo, with almost 80 percent of that group reporting a significant improvement, compared with 54.3 percent who took the inert pills.

Nelson's report corroborates a recently released study by the U.S. Department of Education that emphasizes the disproportionately high number of male S&E professors.10 The report also cites the salary advantage men of all racial groups enjoy over women.10 While the unadjusted salaries of African - American faculty members were lower than those of whites, when variables were controlled, the wage gap disappeared.10 However, the study cautions that the markedly lower numbers of tenured and working African - American faculty at doctoral institutions could obscure racially biased salary discrepancies.10

In devising their experiment, the researchers took advantage of ambulance company practices that essentially provided a randomized group of patients to study, making it possible to compare outcomes at different hospitals.

However, median progression - free survival is statistically significant, with the control group at about 8.6 months and the treatment group at 24.5 months — a 16 - month advantage for the ICT - 107 group.

Second, we believe the vaccine may be particularly beneficial for a group of patients with the HLA - A2 type, which suggests that as we move forward, there may be advantages in targeting this population,» said John Yu, MD, vice chair of the Department of Neurosurgery, director of surgical neuro - oncology, medical director of the Brain Tumor Center and neurosurgical director of the Gamma Knife Program at Cedars - Sinai.

«That only about a third of patients reported having a discussion of advantages and disadvantages is an alarming statistic,» said study lead author Dr. George Turini III, clinical instructor in medical science at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and a urologist with the Southcoast Physician Group.

Evaluation of T1 - 2N0 - 1M0 cancers, which are at a stage when metastasis to distant organs has not yet occurred, in both groups showed a considerable advantage for BCT in patients with increasing age, those with comorbidity, and those who did not receive chemotherapy.

However, the real big advantage bodyweight cardio exercises have is they allow you to work far more muscle groups and if you do your chosen exercises in sets of 10 repetitions and move straight on to the next exercise this type of training becomes both aerobic and anaerobic at the same time.

This helps you take advantage of higher volume training for each muscle group at an increased frequency.

Only the group that started out eating nuts, and continued to eat at least the same amount of nuts, had the significant survival advantage.

eTable 1 (below) shows that the advantage for low carb was slightly bigger at 3 months (6.9 kilos lost vs. 5.8 in low - fat group) and at 6 months (9.1 kg lost vs. 7.5 kilos in the low - fat group).

Generally I prefer one on one time with people, but can handle myself in any size group and am really good at spinning things to my advantage.

These include: • Create a list of about 200 of your preferred profiles • Be a part of a group chat • Create your personalized profile • Have a simple glimpse at those of other people • Get in touch with 10 matches • Send a reply However, in order to be able to take advantage of all of the dating perks on the website, you will need to sign - up and pay for a full membership.

Lucy isn't actually part of the group in any way, except that she lives above and is always at the local bar to take advantage of an open wireless Internet connection.

Compare being able to stay at home with family and learn within a small group to a city university setting with classes of say 300 people and you can already see the advantages.

Every member of this remarkably diverse group will embark on a unique multidisciplinary research trajectory, taking full advantage of faculty and resources at all of Harvard's graduate schools.

America Achieves» contribution is to group students by social and educational «advantage» into four quarters, using an index based on such items as a poverty indicator, educational environment at home, and quality of peer group at school.

Mr Herrington previously worked as director of the academies group at the Department for Education (DfE)-- though when asked about this, he downplayed the advantage this would give him in the role.