Sentences with phrase «high point world»

Townhouse: 2 Bedroom, 3 Bathroom, Sleeps 6 Location: Kissimmee, Florida, United States Description: High Point World Resort is on the front gate of Disney's main entrance but set back far enough to be a hidden treasure.The resort is 108 unit.

Not exact matches

Some higher - end brands live in both the fashion and comfort world — even if a few luxe designers are loath to admit they try to make shoes comfortable, as though it devalues their brand, Schneider - Levy points out.

And while Macdonald did not look into it, other studies have pointed to another major influence China has had lately on many countries, including Canada: how its high savings rate and mounting foreign currency reserves, much of it invested in benchmark U.S. government debt, have depressed interest rates around the world.

What I also never imagined is that we'd have one of the two highest - rated Syrahs, with 96 points, in the world.

The four critical factors are: (a) businesses with recurring revenue bases — like a renewable subscription — are far better than ones dependent on constantly securing new customers; renewals are much easier and less expensive to secure than new sales; (b) customer retention is absolutely critical — all customers are very costly to acquire and very easy to lose in a world of almost infinite choices; (c) businesses based on products that require constant replacement or renewal (the «razor blade» model) are much more attractive than durable goods businesses (like selling refrigerators) where the products have very long repurchase or replacement life cycles and where the market could even fairly quickly reach saturation points; and (d) businesses that offer products or services that had a predictably high rate of obsolescence were much more attractive than those where the products had long, useful lives.

He became so addicted to it that by high school he had assembled a team of about 40 people that quickly earned enough points to be the game's highest - ranking team in the world.

Not to belabor the point about the irrational exuberance that was the taper talk, but it's not often that one finds moments of true comedy in the staid world of high finance.

According to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, the combined government debt held by the world's advanced economies is at its highest point since the Second Worldworld's advanced economies is at its highest point since the Second WorldWorld War.

He spent nearly a decade in the corporate world building high - end printers, not, it should be pointed out, manipulating plasma fuel for fusion experiments.

But with monthlong high - tech - product life cycles, just - in - time manufacturing operations, and overnight global currency crashes, the business world might just be coming around to the marines» point of view.

The company's Canadian penetration rate is among the highest in the world and could be reaching its saturation point, Credit Suisse analyst David Hartley said in a note to clients.

His deep - value philosophy can be boiled down to four points: he's looking for high - quality stocks that protect against the downside; he wants businesses where short - term issues have caused investors to abandon the company; he wants to wait until valuations are «out - of - this - world» cheap, and he tries not to pay attention to macro issues like eurozone debt or Chinese growth.

Frothy asset prices As the WGC points out, not only did asset prices hit multi-year highs around the world in 2017, but the S&P is still sitting at an all - time high.

It turned out that the company's expertise in generating and displaying complex graphics and getting high fidelity data from point A to point B in fantasy landscapes had a very useful real - world application — helping U.S. military operatives maintain an edge while engaging in ongoing cyber warfare.

Case in point: China's gross savings rate has been high for decades, averaging around 45 percent of GDP for the last 20 years, per the World Bank.

While the «pure» MSCI World High Dividend Yield Index outperformed its parent MSCI World Index from November 1998 to August 2015, when we applied screens to the stocks in our study to avoid yield - traps, the active return increased to an annualized 3.3 percentage points.

While Canada is ranked fifth in the world (behind the U.S., China, India and the U.K.) in terms of global venture capital investment, and many Canadian companies achieve success in their first five years, only three per cent of firms that survive beyond that point classify as high growth.

The RSA Security conference made news recently after some high profile folks on Twitter pointed out that, of the nearly two dozen keynote speakers lined up for the event — perhaps the most prominent conference in the world — only one was female.

During the middle of the 18th Century and well into the beginning of the 19th Century India produced far more textiles — and usually much cheaper and of better quality — than did England, but a number of measures aimed at undermining Indian textile producers and protecting British textile producers (tariffs that almost always exceeded 50 %, for example, and by 1813 were as high as 85 %) meant that at some point in the first half of the 19th Century the British textile industry had become the most efficient in the world and was able largely to eliminate the Indian textile industry from global competition.

As has been pointed out by several authors, rising living standards in the developing world have seen rising demand for a higher - protein diet and hence grain to feed animals.

Twice a year High Point holds a furniture market that attracts people from all over the world.

It has ran up to $ 71.44 at its 52 week high and currently trading at $ 41.64 almost 42 % lower, kissing almost 5 year low due to slowing world growth but at this price, provides an excellent entry point.

However, it's worth noting that at the time of the attack on the World Trade Center, the Dow was already down 1,500 points from the year's high.

With the tax code in need of reform but debt at its highest point as a share of the economy since just after World War II, Congress should pass a fiscally responsible tax overhaul that grows the economy but does not add to the debt.

Caterpillar Inc, the world's largest heavy equipment maker; 3M Co; and Stanley Black & Decker Inc are among companies that have pointed to higher material, commodity or other costs in their reports to investors.

When women routinely win Nobel Prizes in physics, chemistry or medicine, when a woman becomes a world chess champion, when a woman conceives and develops a brand new computer chip that represents a significant advancement over quad cores, when a woman invents warp drive or phasers, when a woman solves an «insolvable» math problem, when a woman, while working with the Large Hadron Collider, discovers the now - hypothetical Higgs Boson to be an actual scalar subatomic particle, when a woman figures out how to pinpoint the exact location of an electron at any point in time, when a woman working for Merck or Pfizer develops a remedy for Alzheimer's disease, when a woman's baseball team can defeat the New York Yankees, when a woman can bench press six hundred pounds, run the 100 meter dash in under nine seconds or set a world record in the high jump, then the fairer sex will have made an advance or contribution unlike any it has made before.

Are we to believe that they had tools to measure the lowest, & highest point of land (mount Everest) back in 7th century Arabia or anywhere in the world???!!! LoL

If one has built a career, a home and family in a given community, the real world cost of outwardly contradicting the behavioural patterns of that community is too high for those unwilling to abandon not just the supernatural tenets and reliigious rites, but everything they've built in their lives up to that point.

Dreams, for example, were given a high place as media of divine revelation; (Genesis 20:3; 26:24 - 25; 28:10 - 16; 31:24; 37:5; 41:1; 46:1 - 4; Judges 7:13 - 15; I Kings 3:5 - 15 etc.) omens were trusted, such as the first word to be uttered at an expected meeting, (I Samuel 14:8 - 15) or a chance action regarded as a sign, (Genesis 24:12 - 14) or wind in the mulberry - trees taken as Yahweh's command to join battle; (II Samuel 5:22 - 24) and, in general, dealing with the superhuman world suggested nothing so simple and spiritual as private communion in prayer, but rather a whole array of magical techniques and, from the modern point of view, incredible superstitions.

The scholars who study Islamic culture today point out that the chief factors which have influenced contemporary Arab Muslim society are: the Western ideas which penetrated Arab society through education and increased contact with the West, socialist concepts which have spread throughout the world, communist doctrines which challenge religion in general, the expansion of university education, the admission of Muslim women to higher education, the study of ancient and modern philosophy in the universities, and the modern Muslim movements which have been so influential.

But if we are failing to be salt and light in the world, then we are supposed to be held to higher standards, and sometimes this means people will point out to us our failures.

At that point in Science and the Modern World where Whitehead observes: «The relation of part to whole has the special reciprocity associated with the notion of organism, in which the part is for the whole»; he confirms: «but this relation reigns throughout nature and does not start with the special case of the higher organisms» [SMW 149].

With this prayer, Augustine points to the summum bonum of both this world and the next: not the only good, but the highest, the one that gives life to all the rest.

The deterioration of neighborhoods in our inner cities, the decline of elemental safety — never mind education — in many of our schools, the burgeoning of jail populations (to the point that we have the highest percentage of incarcerated citizens of any country in the industrial world), the great strains on the family, the general slackening of discipline, which a consumerist and media - driven society relentlessly encourages, and a huge transfer of wealth In the 1980s and «90s (during this period, the upper 1 percent of Americans more than doubled its wealth, while the lowest 20 percent suffered an actual decline)-- all these changes signal a community at risk.

I think the point is that addicts tend to see themselves as scumbags: they enjoy themselves freely at everyone else's expense, ruining the world just so they can get high.

The high point of ideological ferment following Allied victory in World War II provoked furious reaction.

An OMF report, saying that the percentage of drop - outs of missionaries in the Third World countries is higher than that of Western countries, pointed out that the main reason for this is the lack of needed training.

Moreover, scientific and technical progress in the next ten years will introduce unprecedented achievements In this field and it is no exaggeration to assert here and now that teleconimuni - cation will play a primary role both on the national and on world levels and it could also be pointed out that the most difficult problems are not generally of a purely technical nature and that telecommunications questions should more and more command the attention of governmental authorities at the highest level. . . .

I will only recall that, by virtue of its convergent nature, hominization is scarcely conceivable (seen from the point at which we find ourselves) except as terminating, whatever road it follows, in a point of collective reflection where Mankind, having achieved within and around itself, technically and intellectually, the greatest possible coherence, will find itself raised to a higher critical point — one of instability, tension, inter-penetration and metamorphosis — coinciding, it would seem, with what for us are the phenomenal limits of the world.

With that in mind, I have noticed that many, if not most new converts can have, in all appearances, a genuine spiritual experience before any high doctrine of «scriptural authority ever enters their head.Now, some may say that just how it works, first you crawl, then you walk... baby food, then the meat, but this is my point... the world is full of «spiritual meatheads»... there are so many believers who wdn't know an original thought, unless of course, they cd find the chapter and verse to unequivocally support it.Is it so difficult to comprehend how a collection of ancient documents may not be the final, complete and indisputable Word of God, but mere human artifacts, sometimes godly, sometimes not, sometimes helping, sometimes hindering.?

«11 Yet, beneath his rhetoric, Anderson assumed that New England civilization «is the highest and best, in a religious point of view, the world has yet seen.»

In these questions there is doubtless at work in Aristotle's mind a concept of bodies that is pragmatically oriented to the world of things, a concept that Whitehead, from the higher vantage point afforded by modem scientific knowledge, is able to dismiss.

I was simlpy making the point that in the natural world all things tend toward decay or disorder, and that any order (ie the resence of intelligent life), is a strong evidence for the existance of God (Higher intelligence).

At its high - point in the late 1800s, Nelson's Green Brier Distillery was known the world over, selling close to 380,000 gallons of whiskey annually, more than ten times the production capacity of other known brands.

Burgundy is still held in high regard as the reference point for Chardonnay, but fine examples from the New World can rival if not surpass top Burgundy wines in quality and style.

Opposition Competition Spokesman, Andrew Leigh, was quick to respond, suggesting that Sims» critique of the critique was simply «wrong» and would represent the end of the world (ok, he didn't go that far, but he did label it «wrong», pointed to previous reviews rejecting an effects test and suggested it would somehow lead to higher grocery bills for regional consumers).

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Constellation is the number three beer company in the U.S. with high - end, iconic imported brands including Corona Extra, Corona Light, Modelo Especial, Negra Modelo, Pacifico, and Ballast Point, one of the most awarded craft brewers in the U.S. Constellation is also the world's leader in premium wine selling great brands that people love including Robert Mondavi, Clos du Bois, Kim Crawford, Meiomi, Mark West, Franciscan Estate, Ruffino and Jackson - Triggs.

, is he high or just can't pin point world class players

Metta World Peace had a team - high 24 points for the Lakers and added six rebounds and four steals.