Sentences with phrase «mean averages work»

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A 60 per cent replacement rate means that someone who earned $ 40,000 on average while working would receive $ 24,000 in retirement income from public sources.

For employees used to glowing performance reviews, an average rating (meaning they are working at the same level as their co-workers) can be «the worst thing that ever happened in their career,» Don Faul, Facebook's former president of online operations, told the Journal.

Given the average professional service business runs on profit margins of around 10 percent, having clients not pay you for 100 days means you're eating up every cent of profit for a year worth of hard work to cover their bad behavior.

Of particular concern, working - age population growth is running at just a third of the long - term average, meaning the current housing boom lacks the robust demographic underpinnings seen in previous cycles.

If you're skeptical about an «innovation index» meaning much in a practical sense, then consider this: in terms of productivity (measured by GDP per hour worked), Canada ranks far below the G7 average — a staggering 12 per cent below, in fact — and only marginally above that of the broader OECD.

Doubling employment would mean an extremely big increase in real wages to get twice as many people willing to work, and it would be a very strange (though not theoretically impossible) halving of average labour productivity that would be compatible with a very large increase in equilibrium real wages.

The weighted average of the MERs charged by the component ETFs works out to about 21 basis points per year, which means the Sleepy Portfolio costs about $ 275 every year or about 75 cents a day — less than half the cost of a large double - double these days.

Although I believe that it is the grafting of the work of American theologians on the history of German, or Central European, theology that has most clearly defined the meaning of theology, and its irrelevance to the average American Christian, this is not the only role played by professional theologians.

The story was old, the musical setting the work of genius, but the music, at the time, was familiar; Bach employed scores of earlier hymns and even popular songs, and of course the language was German, with the result that the average Protestant churchgoing listener had a new experience — the words and music of the time were recast to provide religious relevance and meaning.

When I worked at the CIA (meaning The Culinary Institute of America — though if not prompted, I will let strangers assume otherwise), I lived in a pretty average apartment.

A good cup of coffee can mean the difference between an average morning and a great morning, so that's why Minnesota - based Cameron's Coffee puts so much hard work into making sure its coffee is the best available.

But let's get one thing straight that does not mean ramsey is a class act etc etc far from it he is bang average and yes wenger is purely playing him becuase of his work rate nothing else, the guy is clumsy, dilly dallys on the ball too often slowing things down if it wasn't for the excellent bellerin the right hand side would be non existent.

It seems a mystery to me that a man who is so Convinced that he is on the right tact would stick with a club that has a board who are not willing to invest as heavily as they could in order to reap the rewards later down the line and this, knowing his personality means that he agrees with their policy in which case loosing Wenger wont make one iota of difference to the Boards policy and that appears to be to coast through and work hard to be average and just make fourth spot every year.

For although it is commonplace to suggest that football supporters are stupid, most in fact have brains enough for two — a necessary evolutionary step that enables the average fan to be able to disentangle the absolute rubbish spouted by your average football pundit or commentator and work out what his gibberish actually means.

For example, Henderson is top of this category with an average of 2.3 clearances per game — this sounds great and it shows that Henderson gets through a lot of work during a game but it also shows that Liverpool are under pressure a lot of the time meaning he's potentially more likely to make more clearances per game than say Arsenal's Jack Wilshere — with the Londoners dominating most games they play in.

It does have a higher rise in the waist over the regular Best Bottom cover, meaning you will likely need to wait to loose your umbilical stump, but I can easily see this working on average sized 8 - 9 pound newborn (especially with a folded on prefold or flat diaper which adds additional all over bulky).

Our current contract — «until death» — might have worked when people didn't live all that long (according to the American sociologist and author Stephanie Coontz, the average marriage in colonial times lasted under 12 years); or when many women died in childbirth, freeing men to marry multiple times (which they did); and when men of means needed women to cook, clean and caretake, and women needed men for financial security.

An upstate prison nurse raked in a state - leading $ 153,708 in overtime in 2017, which would mean she put in an average of 12 hours a day if she worked every day for a full year.

Success in meeting the goal is calculated by averaging the hours worked at the end of a project, so missing the goals in some months does not mean they can't or won't be met overall, Schuler said.

According to the report, the average personal income of bus commuters in New York City is $ 28,455, lower than subway commuters and New Yorkers who get to work by other means.

That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Welfare Benefits Up - rating Bill because it fails to address the reasons why the cost of benefits is exceeding the Government's plans; notes that the Resolution Foundation has calculated that 68 per cent of households affected by these measures are in work and that figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies show that all the measures announced in the Autumn Statement, including those in the Bill, will mean a single - earner family with children on average will be # 534 worse off by 2015; further notes that the Bill does not include anything to remedy the deficiencies in the Government's work programme or the slipped timetable for universal credit; believes that a comprehensive plan to reduce the benefits bill must include measures to create economic growth and help the 129,400 adults over the age of 25 out of work for 24 months or more, but that the Bill does not do so; further believes that the Bill should introduce a compulsory jobs guarantee, which would give long - term unemployed adults a job they would have to take up or lose benefits, funded by limiting tax relief on pension contributions for people earning over # 150,000 to 20 per cent; and further believes that the proposals in the Bill are unfair when the additional rate of income tax is being reduced, which will result in those earning over a million pounds per year receiving an average tax cut of over # 100,000 a year.

While most previous such work focuses on mean or average values, the authors in this paper acknowledge that climate in the broader sense encompasses variations between years, trends, averages and extreme events.

Of course you have to look at these in great detail, but what that means for 2050, when I worked out the numbers, assuming our world population of 8 or 9 billion in the year 2050, is that if this world economic growth rate continues to 2050 the way it has been in the past 30 years, you get an average person in the world in 2050 being like today's average European or Japanese.

The precision of the gate is a measure of how well this works: in our case, 99.9 % precision means that, on average, 999 times out of 1,000 we will have generated the entangled state correctly, and one time out of 1,000 something went wrong.

«The mean provides estimates for how many bushels the firm can expect on average, while the standard deviation captures the expected variability in the growth process,» said Bansal, who worked with Genaro J. Gutierrez, associate professor of information, risk, and operations management at the University of Texas at Austin, and John R. Keiser, of Dow AgroSciences.

«It does work out in our favor that people are risk averse because it means on average we're going to be paying people less.»

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Recent statistics suggest that ambitious Canadians are working far beyond the average 40 hour work week, 2 meaning many of Canada's single professionals end up putting their romances to the side while they focus on keeping up with the demands of career and office.

Indeed, with an average age range of 30 - 55, many are in the prime of their careers; meaning they appreciate the efforts needed to find a work / life balance.

Im a tall average male and when I mean tall im 6» 7» and 220 with blue eyes that im told every girl would die for im a hard working guy im a single father of a beautiful little girl that is my world.

Recent statistics suggest that Australians are working far beyond the average 40 hour work week, meaning many of Australia's single professionals end up putting their romances to the side while they focus on career and work life.

A well - meaning bong - rip of family drama, if a bit meandering and overcooked, Boundaries is definitely not your average stoner film, and works best as an earnest two - hander between the always reliable Plummer and Farmiga.

Where Starsky is on the side of the law, Hutch is on the side of the average man and sometimes that means working with criminals.

In the median state, less than half of all teachers are expected to work long enough to vest in their retirement plan — meaning that despite big spending and promises, less than half of all public - school teachers, on average, will ever receive retirement benefits for their years on the job (see Figure 3).

And just because many studies show that on average online and blended learning work better than does face - to - face learning, this does not mean that just because a program is online that it will be good.

But the fact that attending a private school worked for the average low - income student in the FTC program does not mean it will work for everyone, nor that all private schools are better than all public schools.

It is ideal for testing learners knowledge and application of skills in the following areas: Reading data and completing tables Measuring areas and volumes Converting measurements Averages (mean, median, mode and range) Money Ratio (and simplifying) Percentages Working with measurements (mm, cm, m, g, kg) Fractions The activity is laid out in the style / format of an extended Functional Exam Question.

This means that if your 3rd grader receives a grade equivalent score on an individual achievement test of grade 5.8 in math, that she is working, at least on the questions that were asked, at the level of an average late 5th grader.

This means they shouldn't include nonacademic factors and grades for group work and they shouldn't be calculated using averages or zeroes.

«Higher than average refunds mean more money in the pockets of Newark's working families to help them make ends meet,» Zalkind said.

As you can see the amount of knowledge retention has rapidly decreased from over 75 % in 1986 to just around 10 % in 2006 for an average knowledge worker, which essentially means that today a knowledge worker largely depends on acquiring knowledge «just in time» to do her work.

Every parent who has ever paid hundreds of dollars for SAT prep knows it works — but no parent is foolish enough to think that the average 56 point «coaching» jump in an SAT score means that their child is more «college ready.»

In a letter to parents, Ms Johnson had said a «huge workload» meant teachers work an average of 60 hours a week during term time and holidays «to keep up».

First, the question of schools doing «better than average» raised eyebrows as determining average performance means adding all schools» together and then dividing the by the number of schools — in the case of K - 12 public education, that's well over 98,000 schools, a substantial portion of which would have to be «below average» because that's how math works.

It says that, based on data provided by the majority of owners via OnStar, only 45 percent of them charge off a 220 - volt home system, though the owners charge on average 1.4 times per day, which means many recharge at work or in public spaces.

However, this doesn't mean that its rivals lack somewhere; it is just that Honda's cars are considered to be more than just average cars, a belief that works in the company's favour.

This is by no means the average, and it was also doubly awkward when publishers I was working with started rejecting my book.

Which means those who ARE talented and working hard must necessarily be far above the average.

The concept of what Bridge is and how it works isn't simple for the average person to grasp, and while it does seem like it should work ok, the inherent lag of the Bluetooth connection means I'd personally rather just handle these tasks on my phone directly or on a computer.

This meant I had the total number of pages read in June and the total borrows for the month so I could work out that the average borrow was 228 KENPs.