Sentences with phrase «small improvements at»

«Making small improvements at the beginning of the year is a lot easier than trying to play catch - up,» says financial planner Rick Rodgers, author of «The New Three - Legged Stool: A Tax Efficient Approach To Retirement Planning.»

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A 2010 study at the University of Texas at Austin found that small improvements in data quality, usability and accessibility can increase a company's annual sales per employee more than 14 percent.

At the same time smaller, nimbler business models are blossoming, which means slightly less certainty in the job hunt, but often more flexibility and some sorely - needed improvements to work - life balance.

The medical loss ratio provision of the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, requires most insurance companies that cover individuals and small businesses to spend at least 80 percent of their premium income on health care claims and quality improvement.

After a month without any dividend or interest income, this is at least a small improvement.

While small business owners gain prestige and influence by contributing to community improvement, corporate managers garner status by advancing the company's interest, even at the expense of the community.

The danger is this: self - examination may spawn attempts at self - improvement, with the result that looking at self replaces looking to God, and small measures of merit replace the immeasurable grace of God.

Not nearly the same but i have been battling a injury for a few weeks now and the small pleasures of feeling better (or at least improvement) is amazing.

I.e., I like a few recipes from Sally's Baking Addiction, who has a reputation of adapting the base recipes from Cook's Illustrated and other very reputable sources, and just not giving them any credit at all; she's lately started joining the «adapted by» group, which is a (small) improvement.

Wenger has got problems he created for himself, I am sure that he knows this and if JM gets Lemar will tell us that he is weak.So far the small change will not effect an improvement and as a fan I am preparing for the painful losses thats to come.Yes it is about business but at least repair the problems we got.You can not make a racehorse out of a donkey.

Nicholas told Sky Sports that he feels that any improvement in the Arsenal side of the current season is only a very small one, despite the fact that ahead of the clash with Spurs we had taken 25 points which is a significant improvement on the 17 points we had at the same point last year.

i think its the most important part of arsenal game that needs improving, all other area has small improvements, especially at the last few games of the season

It is the same year after year with all 3 points and we can forget any chances of a championship with Wenger in charge, because he has had the problems for at least 10 years, and the small signs of improvement this year have now disappeared.

We were so dissatisfied with the Lupita that we decided to move to the Riu Tequila, which was a great improvement at a small additional cost.

The plan still requires sign off from the Village Board, but it gained the Plan Commission's recommendation April 4 after village and park officials agreed to transfer a small portion of land at Locust Street and Ogden Avenue to the village so it can complete improvements to the intersection.

You'll need some holiday colored paper straws (I grabbed some at the dollar store), some Christmas themed erasers (12 / pk at the dollar store), small eye screws (home improvement store) and necklace cords with clasps or you can use plastic cording and tie knots in the ends to make necklaces.

Keep at it, and pay attention to small improvements along the way.

Mary J Renfrew: has received grants for quality improvement work related to feeding infants in neonatal units; small amounts of money, in regard to co-authoring a book; and been an invited speaker at a range of professional and academic organisations, for which no fee was received.

HOFFMAN ESTATES — Parks officials are considering making improvements to a playground at Willow Elementary School because of complaints that the equipment may be too large for small children.

The DOT has outlined some small adjustments it's considering, like traffic light improvements, enhanced left - turn lanes and having traffic - enforcement agents for pedestrians crossing at Richmond Terrace and Bay Street.

On the economy, Lancman supports creating jobs by investing in infrastructure improvements, which he called the «modern - day new deal» at a debate on June 21, and by making it easier for small businesses to get credit.

Clinton is proposing a package of ideas aimed at helping small businesses, including a new standard deduction that could simplify tax filing and improvements to a little - used tax credit for companies that offer workers health insurance.

This is a small improvement on our current system of first past the post, since it allows voters to rank candidates and reduces the need to vote tactically, but it does not address the crucial unfairness at the heart of our democracy which is that a party's share of seats in parliament does reflect the number of votes it receives across the country - a situation which leads to millions of wasted votes and a shameful system of «safe seats» where a donkey could be elected so long as they were wearing the right coloured rosette.

At the moment such printers are the domain of hobbyists, spitting out small plastic trinkets, but improvements in the technology mean more complex materials and shapes will soon be possible.

«The findings are intriguing,» says Daniel Ansari, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, but he doesn't find the long - term improvements overwhelming, owing to the small number of volunteers who returned for testing.

«Our results suggest that the use of these small, relatively inexpensive devices is associated with significant increases in physical activity and improvements in some key health outcomes, at least in the short term,» internist Dena Bravata of Stanford University and her colleagues report in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Says David Greene, a transportation researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratory: «If manufacturers were to take the available technologies and apply them to fuel economy over the next 10 to 15 years, they could cost - effectively achieve a 40 to 50 percent improvement without making vehicles smaller.»

At NPL, we are proposing a low - cost, small satellite mission to help set benchmarks for climate studies and to achieve tenfold improvement over previous measurements.

A new study by researchers at Rice University and institutions in Israel showed patients in a small trial experienced remarkable improvement after two months of treatment.

At the very smallest scale, I think that improvements in high - resolution microscopy will be really central for looking at how cells work on the insidAt the very smallest scale, I think that improvements in high - resolution microscopy will be really central for looking at how cells work on the insidat how cells work on the inside.

Certainly advances in representing topography at a finer scale — putting the mountains in the right place, achieving the right height for the small scale — would represent significant improvements for the small islands.

«There are a lot of small observational studies that looked at people who were treated for blood pressure and, generally, there was an improvement in cognition [thinking skills],» Iadecola said.

They found that when you look at all of the best studies, the people who train 3 times per week usually gain more muscle than the people who train 1 to 2 times per week, but the improvements were small.

In elite competition, the pool of athletes at the top is small, the margins of improvement narrow.

I thought that transformation was mostly internal until I looked back at these collages and saw all the small changes I had made throughout the 12 months last passed, from ditching my jeans altogether even for runs to the supermarket to a marked, marked improvement in my hair game.

It came in a smaller quantity than at the home improvement stores.

«Zero Charisma» is a movie about emotionally inert people who labor mightily to change their lives in small ways, and whose efforts at self - improvement are thwarted by emotional feedback loops that cause them to make the same mistakes over and over.

There have been some small improvements in the way the game handles, with the melee combat now at least enabling you to connect with your target most of the time.

And your answer will always be the same - Do some ill - defined new fad with a vague social justice air to it - Let's call it differentiation this decade - And viola, find that there's no improvement at all and we couldn't possibly take him out of class to a smaller setting for specialist help because it might stunt his self - esteem.

He was a professor of rural education at Teachers College, Columbia University, until his retirement in 1965, and helped launch school - improvement projects in small, remote school districts.

The ideal assessment will be more nuanced, gathering student data over time but also looking at the small, yet significant improvements in achievement, such as higher grades or increased participation in class, which might not be immediately reflected in students» test scores.

Studies of modern, scaled - up programs that intend to impact long - term child development find, unlike the studies of small hothouse programs from the last century, that improvements in children's measurable skills and dispositions found at the end of participation in such programs usually fade away entirely by the time children are in the first few grades of elementary school.

A: A small group of superintendents came together to form the Network, partly as a result of an annual meeting they had with their colleagues under the sponsorship of the LAB at Brown University, a national organization dedicated to the promotion of school improvement through school - researchers - community collaboration.

For an analysis of how district administrators differentiate support for improvement to schools, for example, we focused on medium - to large - sized districts serving multiple schools at all levels, rather than small districts with only an elementary, middle, and high school.

If principals spend time documenting and reviewing the small things, such as staff engagement at a meeting, tone of responses to an inquiry, or the types of concerns raised by parents, they might notice a larger trend, uncovering areas of strengths and areas for improvement.

He has received international recognition for his work in school improvement, small schools, alternative education, and for his efforts to help youth at risk.

At Anna Yates, she led the school to significant achievement gains and improvements in the educational experience of students through community partnerships, parent outreach, and smaller learning communities.

In a recent opinion piece for Education Week, Arthur Wise of the Center for Teaching Quality writes that current mainstream ideas on how to improve American public schools will result in «at best, a marginal improvement for small numbers of students.»

The improvements at Miami Central are too small and too new to conclude that firing principals and teachers works.