Sentences with phrase «as an improvement at»

After an impressive season at West Ham United, Aaron Cresswell is being linked with a move to City as an improvement at left - back, though is he really better than Gael Clichy or Aleksandar Kolarov?

Our results indicate that NCLB generated statistically significant increases in the average math performance of fourth graders (effect size 5 0.23 by 2007) as well as improvements at the lower and top percentiles.

I have nothing to suggest as an improvement at all!

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Over the next three days — as Harvey gained power and made landfall early on Saturday — the world's largest home improvement retailer set up a temporary hurricane command center at its Atlanta headquarters.

As another analytics tool, Social Clout looks at where you can make significant improvements in engagement, campaigns and keywords.

You're talking about two kinds of improvement — Tesla updating your car's software over the air at night as well as deep learning capabilities.

The progress at companies such as Netflix, Apple, Amazon and Tesla derives from company cultures that thrive when people are addicted to improvement and innovation.

Although companies like Netscape and Google are almost always presented as radically innovative start - ups, out to change the world from day one, the fact is, they began as incremental improvements, executed at opportune moments.

While new gadgets such as tablets or even e-readers have debuted at premium prices and then quickly nose - dived to dirt cheapness, SLRs have stayed expensive for decades — even despite the digital revolution — largely because the glass and precision parts used to make lenses simply don't see Moore's continual price - performance improvements.

While both Home Depot and Lowe's have benefited enormously from the home improvement boom caused by increasing home values and the aging housing stock in the United States, Lowe's has not been as adept at capitalizing on that.

When the team looked at these numbers — average rate of improvement between third and eighth grade in math and reading — many schools that are traditionally thought of as «bad» suddenly seemed good.

To kick off the process, Subway is introducing a new roast beef recipe, roasted with garlic and pepper, which the company describes as the latest example of menu improvement at the chain.

Most of the improvements in carbon intensity to date have come from efficiencies such as using larger trucks at mine sites, and the returns there are diminishing.

They were given more resources and support at work, improving their job performance, and, perhaps as a result, they saw improvements in their income.

As a platform that enables homeowners to reach any home improvement service that they need at the touch of a button, Porch has found a niche market that is worth millions.

According to Whoriskey, ``... executive compensation at the nation's largest firms has roughly quadrupled in real terms since the 1970s, even as pay for 90 percent of America has stalled...» Setting aside imprecision of language, that suggests a significant disparity — not disparity of outcomes (which are a given, here) but disparity of rate of improvement.

Hard thinking about whether packaging is needed at all, and whether there are better ways to do it, can lead to cost savings, environmental improvements, and possibly even new revenue streams (such as the «mushroom packaging» invented by the company Ecovative).

At Porch.com, a home - improvement network, we hold a 30 minute all - hands meeting every Friday that we refer to as «Around the Porch.».

Wal - Mart has scaled back on new store openings and is instead investing in improvements such as grocery pick - up kiosks, which are now available at 1,000 stores.

The portable products to date are mostly improvements on the classic Life Alert «I've Fallen And I Can't Get Up» button, but services to remind taking of medications at precise times, direct doctor - to - device monitoring (as with embedded pacemakers), permitting adult children to easily monitor parents» activity in their homes at a distance, etc. are fast emerging and gaining traction in the marketplace.

Maintaining a course of constant improvement will keep you at your best for as long as possible.

As Lowe's chief development officer Richard Maltsbarger told Fortune at the time of the partnership, «The great part about our proposition and partnership with Matt and Porch is that between our knowledge of home improvement, and the Porch team's knowledge of technology, the Internet, and big data, we have total expertise.»

Dunkin' did point out, though, that it saw an improvement in traffic in the afternoon as it began offering some new deals at that time of day.

Whatever the optimists say, there is nothing right now that even hints at a possible improvement in oil prices — which Shell relies on as their income comes mainly from E&P.

And with the federal carbon pricing requirement coming into effect next year, Ontario's commitment to cap and trade takes necessary action to cut carbon pollution — leaving room for improvements as needed, and at the least possible cost.

Take some baseline measurements to identify where your team is currently at, and use them as the basis for extrapolating toward realistic improvements.

At the same time, we view the improvement in global conditions as contributing to investor complacency, which has been reflected in subdued volatility index readings in Europe and the United States during 2017.

It is difficult to model the many ways credit intensivity of growth can change, but if we simply assume that there is no improvement except as growth slows, so that the ratio between credit growth and GDP growth stays constant, the table below shows debt levels at the end of ten years at different GDP growth rates:

Certainly, the monthly financial results, as reported in the Fiscal Monitor, do not suggest any significant improvement, if any improvement at all, in the deficit outlook for 2013 - 14, that might lead to a lower deficit in 2014 - 15 and a larger surplus in 2015 - 16.

Apple, as part of its response, on Tuesday announced improvements in its iWork suite at an event in Chicago, where school bells and announcements over a public address system directed press and more than 300 teachers into an auditorium at Lane Tech College Prep High School.

At Origin, we look to invest as a direct buyer of properties valued between $ 10 million and $ 30 million and then hire third - party leasing and management firms to execute our improvement plans.

Accessories and iPod — as part of Apple's move into television, we expect the introduction of an updated Apple TV microconsole (which will continue to service the massive install base of televisions offered by other OEMs), along with improvements to Beats headphones to drive growth far in excess of the decline in iPod which at our forecast $ 1.1 billion of revenues in FY2015 is largely irrelevant to Apple financially

Hey, Will, I think as you look at our long - term guidance, our P&L gets a lot less dependent on same - restaurant sales growth, and a lot more dependent on a lot of these other elements that I hit on, on what's driving us towards that 38 % to 40 % margin improvement.

The book does not discuss at length issues such as widespread poverty and income inequality, which, despite improvements in recent years, continue to top the list of problems in Latin America.

However, we at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management think there is more upside potential as investors begin to appreciate the rate of change improvement in the economy, and importantly, corporate earnings.

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Improvements to the port's automobile - handling operation will include the addition of 155 paved and fenced acres above the flood plain at the port's Southport site; the conversion of the former seaplane hangar at Southport into a second auto - processing site; enhancements at the main auto - processing site at Pier 98 Annex; and the establishment of a framework that provides flexibility for use of the land the Port needs for containers and automobiles, as determined by market demands.

Most revolutions have occurred at a time of steady improvement in political freedoms and living standards, as the recent Arab Spring has further proved.»»

This strong growth - driven by both occupancy and rate improvement and which was even stronger at upper upscale, urban, and luxury properties - comes at a time when economic data points have called into question the near - term sustainability of the U.S. economic recovery and would appear to demonstrate that as yet no reigns have been placed on corporate travel.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture will assess a two percent mortgage insurance fee to all loans, and the cost may be added to the loan size at the time of closing, as can the costs of eligible home repairs and improvements.

Payroll employment growth has not exactly been gangbusters as of late and neither has headline GDP growth — both perceptual Fed targets for improvement at the outset of QE3.

We were not thrilled with that aspect of their customer service at all; as a matter of fact the average response time to the questions we submitted was three to four days and improvement is certainly needed in that area..

As Draghi pledged that a decision on policy changes will be announced next month, Jaisal Pastakia, Investment Manager at Heartwood Investment Management comments: «In many ways, the ECB can afford to leave investors «hanging», a situation that would not have been palatable a couple of years ago and an indication of the significant improvement in the fundamental backdrop.

Marketing Audit — The process of evaluating a company's marketing assets, strategies, and opportunities for improvement; conducted periodically as well as at the outset and conclusion of any marketing initiative.

And as I said, I would just say at a high level, that we've seen an improvement and we expect to continue to see that.

It comes as a new study shows nearly 80 per cent of the British public see no signs of improvement for hundreds of thousands of vulnerable children who are at risk of serious issues such as neglect, poverty, bad health or homelessness.

It's easy to forget in an age when screaming protestors claim that the President is from Kenya while the Speaker of the House dismisses half the country as «un-American» for daring to disagree with her, but at the core of the healthcare debate there is broad agreement about what would constitute improvement of the system.

Mysticism as an effort at self - improvement was doomed to failure.

The story is one of mounting personal agony for the two fathers, Kumalo and the elder Jarvis, as in different ways they search for their sons, Kumalo for the release of Absalom from the murder charge or at least the boy's repentance for his act, and Jarvis for the significance of his son's life which was devoted to the improvement of the lot of the blacks in South Africa.

There were real powers at work on men as they contemplated the majesty of nature or felt the impulse towards tribal unity or responded to the demand for moral improvement.