Sentences with phrase «about using points»

I wasn't fired up about using points such as Starwood Starpoints to book hotels in Venice.

Keep that in mind if you're thinking about using points to book your Venice hotel.

Dear Cashing In, I have some questions about using points from a credit card for travel.

I won't name any names but I heard someone talking about using their points to buy a laptop not too long ago.

My initial impulse would be to accumulate UR points using a combination of [Chase Sapphire Preferred] and the Freedom Card, but I've noticed a lot of people talking about using these points for aspirational travel, i.e. first or biz class flights.

As the sharing economy continues to grow, more and more people are asking about using points for Airbnb and Uber.

The best thing about using points is being able to do trips you wouldn't normally do, not necessarily seeing how much time you can spend in a first class seat.

If you have to pay high fees or fuel surcharges on an economy or short - haul flight, you should be especially cautious about using points for that redemption.

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Finally, it's difficult to justify the 40,000 + points per night required to stay at most Ritz - Carlton properties, but if you're even thinking about using your points at the Ritz, your level of spending may be high enough for redemptions at that level to not scare you off.

The good thing about using your points this way is that you don't have to worry about routing rules and finding open seats.

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The point is that businesses need to be more transparent and come clean with customers about how their data is used — and who it's getting handed off to.

You have brought to light some very important points about the increasing popularity of gift cards and the potential of lost revenue should you simply choose to not use gift cards.

-- Douglas Merrill, former CIO of Google and now CEO of ZestFinance, a big - data startup that uses more than 100,000 data points about an individual to figure out if he or she will pay back a loan.

He points to organisations that are more uncertain about the future, the fact that there have been significant layoffs, and a bigger use of contract workers.

Just like any filler word, «so» is used by speakers at points of uncertainty to stretch the time their brains have to think about the next point, response, or question.

Asked about the remarkable arrest, in which the suspect appeared to draw an object from his pocket and point it at the policeman, Chief Saunders answered: «The officers here are taught to use as little force as possible in any given situation.»

More often, AI and smartphones cameras are used to bring up information about whatever you're pointing at with the phone's camera so you can search without typing.

One of his shocking points about how Patagonia, an Inc. 500 alumnus, differentiates its products from others in the outdoor apparel industry by their exclusive use of 100 % organic cotton elicited gasps.

He used cans of Campbell's Soup and Coca - Cola to stress his point about what he called insignificant price increases from Trump's tariffs.

I love that Stacey brings up the point about being active in private Facebook groups, this is an often untapped network possibility that one may not participate in if they are set on using their profile for personal use only.

It's a common word filler that many of us use, but saying «so» too often ignites the feeling that you are being passive about making your next point or reaching a conclusion.

Combine this with another of Twitter's problems — that it's often a source of spoilers for things I do care about, like Game of Thrones plot points, and the alternative of simply not using it looks far more appealing.

You might be working on gaining an essential contract or be just about to close a deal and your client asks for your company registration number — At this point of course you can register a new company but, how much easier would it be to use a readily available genuine company number.

Dish hasn't been shy about using its new muscle against other content providers either: It has taken recent disputes with both CBS (cbs) and 21st Century Fox (fox) to the point where both removed their channels from the network, but ultimately signed new agreements at what Dish felt were more favorable rates.

If you're using a rewards credit card, think about saving and redeeming your points or miles strategically, she said.

Robert Burgess, editor at Head for Points, talks about the most cost - effective way to use air miles and which airlines have the best schemes.

The four main anxiety points he hears about: taxation and budgets; changes to labour laws; more environmental regulation; and changes to resource industries» use of Crown land.

«Many people automatically book round - trip fares for vacations, but if you aren't sure about your itinerary and you're using points, you should absolutely consider booking a one - way ticket,» said Sean McQuay, NerdWallet's credit card and banking expert.

According to a Pentagon inspector general's report: «Leon Panetta was fully cooperating with the movie project and that several CIA staff used White House - approved talking points to talk to Mr. Boal [the producer of Zero Dark Thirty] about the intelligence that led to UBL's [Usama bin Laden's] location.»

McGonigal points out that one of the most replicated findings about willpower is that it seems to be finite — that is, we only have so much and it runs out as we use it.

He points out that the company's business model allows it to turn its inventory around about twice as many times as its peers and its strong free cash flow — the company has about $ 4 of cash per share, he says — could be used to buy back stocks, which it has done in the past.

Yet the movie used every opportunity to point out what racism is, that it is bad, and that this is a movie about racism.

Wolfers's point about Obama and Trump stands even if you look at the percentage gains in the Dow under the six most recent presidents, though Trump either out - performs or slightly under - performs George HW Bush depending which index you use.

That's why sales reps should be able to speak intelligently about each feature, use case and integration point of every product they're selling.

Could you tell us a little something about the algorithms and data points you're using?»

Investment - grade corporates pay about two percentage points more than short - term government bonds, and they're less risky than they used to be.

Case in point: In a 2005 in - house security test, a California credit union's IT team used a tool that cracked about 80 percent of employee passwords within 30 seconds.

That is, when debt service ratios are calculated using the discounted mortgage rates actually charged by banks (about 125 percentage points below posted rates), the average Canadian homeowner is paying just 25 % or so of income on mortgage payments, far below the 32 % benchmark used for mortgage - insurance qualification.

Of course, this list isn't for everybody, but the larger point is simply to get you thinking about the potential of using the winter holidays soon to come as a great opportunity to cozy up and catch up on your reading.

We've talked about why businesses stop growing, and the first two points looked at those reasons, but the last two points could easily be turned around and used as the start of a growth strategy.

What it's about: «Sargeant York» may have been about World War I — a sharpshooter becomes an unexpected hero after attacking and capturing a German position using the same strategy as turkey hunting — but the American - proud movie became a point of major discussion in the United States over the merits of entering World War II.

At one point, one of either Campbell or Wilson started yelling about having to use the washroom.

When asked about the other «tools» Facebook uses internally, Goler points to Quip — the document creation and collaboration service created by Facebook's former chief scientist Bret Taylor and recently acquired by Salesforce.com.

Use your summaries to create financial reports that will tell you specific information about your business, such as how much monthly profit you're making or how much your business is worth at a specific point in time.

MT: What I love about Apple Pay — I don't use it in terms of presenting my phone at the point - of - sale — but the cards that I have are on my phone — the transactions can be pulled up right away.

To calculate your value of a Facebook Like, you can easily answer these questions using your Facebook Insights and your closed - loop marketing analytics (in the calculator, click the question mark next to each question for an explanation about how to acquire each data point).

Both the PBO and the Department of Finance identify a reduction of the CABB of about two percentage points of income (Finance uses Gross Domestic Product, the PBO uses Gross Domestic Income) between 2005 and 2009, bringing what had once been a structural surplus into deficit.

It uses Yahoo! to find links that point to a website, accumulates relevant information about these links and pages, and tries to filter out duplicate and low - quality links.

According to several lenders, borrowers may see their FICO score increase by about 20 points three months after consolidating their credit card debt using an installment loan.