Sentences with phrase «more good points»

More good points, but ultimately, he lost me.

Okay, I'm easy to please when it comes to thrillers, but this film had more good points than bad, even Continue reading Original Sin →

It's been fine stuff from Watford this season, can they claim more good points?

On the other, considering that Chelsea and Manchester City dropped points on Sunday, it's frustrating that... More A good point or a missed opportunity?

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If we can accept them as reasonable judges, they all name Frances Hesselbein — Presidential Medal of Freedom Honoree, advisor to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, former CEO of the Girl Scouts, and more — as the best leader in the country.

Sharing tasks makes you not only more emotionally resilient but also more economically resilient as well, Smith points out: «Flexibility and redundancy add up to greater resilience in the face of economic shocks.»

It's just becoming more and more obvious that a few key players and central platforms in search, social and e-commerce are getting to the point where they will be controlling significant segments of the entire economy and our lives as well.

There are numerous strategies to help take your email marketing to the next level, as well as to eliminate significant pain points from your current process to make it more efficient.

Others pointed to more fundamental concerns of competition, suggesting that CVS Health needed Aetna (or something like it) to better compete with UnitedHealth Group, which has both a managed care organization (MCO) and a pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) under the same roof.

Depression can have a similar effect on decision - making; it can lead to a more pessimistic point of view, one that renders you unable to use the information available to make the best decision.

But as bestselling author and Oprah - anointed happiness expert Shawn Achor pointed out on in an excerpt from his new book on the TED Ideas blog recently, that sort of praise — well intentioned as it might be — actually does more harm than good.

A clear summary of your points is possibly the best thing you can do to not just deliver value to the reader, but also make the book memorable, which helps you sell more books.

The development of the Barcelona Principles is a good starting point, but traditional PR must become more data focused to yield better results and compete against other marketing disciplines.

Jonathan Lehr writes: I disagree about portfolio approach and that more meetings and points - of - contact is better.

According to data from FiveThirtyEight, the state of Arizona has a partisan lean of R +7.5, meaning that an overperformance of 8 points or more would «bode well» for Democrats in November's Senate race.

They think like a video game player: «If I collect more points or coins can I earn better tools?»

For his part, Barry Glassman, CFP, founder and president of Glassman Wealth Services, pointed out that it's crucial the financial advisory community — dominated by older white men — evolve to better serve and ever more diverse U.S. market.

She points to a 2011 study by the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, which found that students who started school at 8:30 a.m. got almost an hour more sleep and performed better on tests measuring attention levels than peers who started at 7:30 a.m.

Companies with women in senior level positions tend to do better than those without any gender diversity, Smith pointed out, citing research by First Round Capital, a major VC firm with more than 300 portfolio companies.

At this point, it's been more than a dozen years since a certifiable blockbuster won best picture.

As you make a point of replacing these negative statements with a more positive, supportive attitude, you'll be better positioned to create future leaders within your company.

But at some point I realized that was the completely wrong approach: I was more effective being a pro skater and being an ambassador for the company, instead of being the guy that created the ads, which someone else could do better than me.

Perhaps the point of contact you despise leaves and is replaced by someone who's more pleasant to work with, or, better yet, the person you do enjoy working with gets a better gig at a competitor and sways his or her new company to hire your firm.

With more trading in that part of the portfolio, Gross pointed out that the better tax efficiency of index funds can keep a portfolio's tax liability down.

My breaststroke probably looked more like a dog paddle, and my fly probably looked... well, let's just say that at one point the lifeguard asked what stroke I was trying to do.

By the end of the year, Best Buy shares soared more than 28 points, from $ 11.67 per share on Dec. 21, 2012, to $ 40.17 per share on Dec. 27, 2013.

Musk's point was that if Tesla engaged in conventional advertising strategies — the company currently does almost no advertising — it could increase demand, but its more pressing issue now is being able to simply built its cars, and build them well.

Shares of Daktronics (dakt) fared well in the second half of last year after starting off slow, finishing the year at $ 10.70, up more than 15 % for the year and 80 % higher than the stock's low point for the year of $ 5.92.

Apps like iSCRM («The better you scream, the more points you get.

The point is that investors with just a few stocks tend to know those companies better, and that gives them an edge over their more diversified peers.

Good communicators don't sacrifice their authenticity to score cheap points by trying (and, more often than not, failing) to impress others.

That would be the biggest one - day slump in stock market history, by more than double, besting the 777 point plunge that happened on October 29, 2008, at the high of the panic surrounding the financial crisis.

And as Kowitt pointed out throughout her questions, sometimes consumers say one thing and do another — meaning they say they want to eat more fresh produce and incorporate healthier foods in their diets, but still spend billions on snacks and beverages they know aren't good for them nutritionally.

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.

Creating a PowerPoint presentation, or deck, for your business plan is a quick, to - the - point means of revealing your best selling points to those reviewing it, while still sending over your more detailed plan.

Ashish Jha, the senior author of the JAMA Internal Medicine paper, points out in a blog post that there are reasons why women doctors might well deliver better care, citing research to suggest that they might adhere more closely to established clinical practice guidelines and that patients often report better personal experiences (something that ultimately might lead to better outcomes).

The reason for such a broad range all has to do with financing, which includes rates, terms, buying points, etc., so find a good lender who can explain all your options, and continue to educate yourself more about the process on our mortgage page and other helpful housing and financial sites.

He elaborated on this the point to BI: «If you want your kids to follow rules, then it's much more likely that, when it comes time to solve a problem, he or she looks to how it's been solved before — what are the conventional ways to doing it — as opposed to saying, «Well, how can I approach this?

In an update to the ASX this week, Calima pointed out that testing of Painted Pony's first well in the Beg Block, just 40kms south of Calima's acreage, had averaged more than 2,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day.

While I share Reyes's deep admiration for Kim, it's worth pointing out that the best way to eradicate poverty is to start more uncomplicated businesses like Reyes's in the developing world and here.

So were the average GMAT scores of its entering classes, which tended to range near 600, more than 100 points below the best schools, which typically report scores in the 700 - plus range on an entrance test where the highest possible score is 800.

More to the point, perhaps, is that it has become widely - recognized not just as standard, but as best.

While that is often the point of launching a social - media campaign, many times an entrepreneur's strategy can backfire — resulting in more harm than good.

But by sticking with a few tried and true design principles, it's easy to tailor PowerPoint decks for the small screen that look good, and even more importantly, get your point across, according to graphic design experts.

The ASCI uses a 10 - point scale for its qualitative questions as well, which allows for more grey area than a more narrow scale, he says.

The point is, you'll find many conflicting opinions when it comes to the amount of cash you should have to open an apparel store, but we won't get into any trouble by saying the more money you have, the better off you'll be.

Lars Schmidt, a former HR practitioner who now runs Amplify, an employer branding and search consultancy, points out that while the field has evolved significantly over the past few decades — becoming more strategic and aligned with business, as well as more automated and data - driven — the practice of employee relations, or how workplace grievances are handled, has hardly changed.

After devoting a solid 15 pages of his letter on how the U.S. should slash regulations, Dimon made a point to single out a single area of government oversight that has undeniable value: «Some regulations quite clearly create a common good (e.g., clean air and water),» Dimon noted, in a sentence that went on to catalog the ways regulation is otherwise bad for the economy — making it all the more striking that he chose to highlight environmental issues.

They have accepted that if they want to innovate by doing things better and more profitably, they will inevitably stumble at some point.

As time goes on, we will get better in making these experiences even more complementary, but at this point we wanted to offer a slice of what is to come.»