Sentences with phrase «at a worse level»

Business investment per worker in Canada is at its worst level compared to the United States in more than a quarter century, according to a new C.D. Howe Institute report.

Summary of U.S. Rail Freight Traffic for the Week Ending June 20,2009: Click to Enlarge Image Source: Weekly Railfax Rail Carloading Report, Railfax The number of autos carried by the railroads is still at worse levels.

Singapore's air pollution index is at the worst level since 2006, when Sumatra last experienced severe fires.

(a) reinforcement produced only temporary improvements in behavior and (b) its removal inevitably led to a return to the behavior problem, often at a worse level than originally existed.

Not exact matches

«The business community, by and large, has consistently communicated to lawmakers at every level that such laws are bad for our employees and bad for business.»

Kosovo was at the level of the worst - case scenarios for us.

And certainly sitting on a South Pacific beach isn't going to do your happiness levels any harm, but according to recent research we've posted on previously, people are actually pretty bad at guessing which recollections will bring them the most joy.

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.

At worst, members of Gamergate have been accused of misogyny, bullying, and leveling rape and death threats against feminist critic Anita Sarkeesian, video game developer Zoe Quinn, and game developer Brianna Wu.

As you can see in the graph below, from the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, pollen levels have been getting worse each year, for at least the last 20 years, as carbon dioxide levels rise:

While your staff may concede and capitulate, at the very least, you know they are not behind your idea, and at worst, you may have damaged their morale and engagement levels and undermined your authority.

And to make matters worse, traders weren't braced for a drop that stretched as deep as 6.3 % in the company's shares on Friday, a loss that has the stock at its lowest level in more than four years.

The bots tend to be good at low - level unit interactions but bad at high - level strategy, especially when it comes to adapting that strategy on the fly.

They knew that, in their company, bad news would not be well received at the upper levels if it was not accompanied by suggestions for positive action.

After 23 years selling Volkswagens at his dealership, Kalafer reckons he has never seen anything as bad as the German automaker's rigging of the emissions levels on its clean diesel vehicles.

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This is worse than the level observed at the 2007 market peak, or at any point in history outside of the late - 1990's market bubble.

In the end this shrinks the economy — and that means that more and more loans will go bad, until crisis levels are reached at the point where lenders realize that there is no more room to extract more, and stop lending.

The 2 % case would be worse for a given drop in NGDP as the price level gets further from the level consistent with output being at potential.

The timing could not have been worse, following charges of sexual harassment and gender discrimination at the company leveled by a former engineer.

China has only completed the first part of the rebalancing — interest rates, wages and the currency have all moved sharply closer to healthy levels, levels at which the imbalances are no longer getting worse, in other words, but Beijing has still not got its arms around credit growth because to do so would cause GDP growth to drop much more sharply than Beijing is willing to tolerate.

I would argue that the mechanism that forced up the savings rates in the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact economies seems to have been the scarcity of consumer goods: income levels among workers were generally not too bad, but these workers could only convert income into consumption with great difficulty, if they got in the right line at the right store early enough.

Any investor can do the same, and according to some very bright minds, buying into gold at current levels isn't a bad idea.

High - profile, successful, and gold - agnostic investment - world luminaries assess the macroeconomic risks of radical monetary policies and reach a similar conclusion: This will end badly: — Seth Klarman: «All the Trumans (reference: a 1998 movie [The Truman Show] in which the main character's entire life takes place on a TV set which he perceives as reality)-- the economists, fund managers, traders, market pundits — know at some level that the environment in which they operate is not what it seems on the surface....

The economy is going to get worse before it gets better, but I think it's very hard to make a bear case at these levels, with dividend yields well over stupidly expensive government bonds in the US and the UK.

(Surveys, lab experiments, and brain readings all show that, for better or worse, schadenfreude is a powerful psychological force: at any fixed level of income, people are happier when the income of others is reduced.)

Covering up the error did not look like too bad an option at the time because stocks were priced at one - half of their fair value and so it was hard for anyone to imagine that prices could ever again rise even to fair - value levels much less to overpriced levels.

The movement started with the Kin foundation announcing they were adding Stellar as a second platform, a fact that, on many levels let it clear that the Stellar network is simply a better blockchain; and this is not surprising at all, Ethereum appears to be dealing with lots of issues from long ago now — and what's worse, the solutions haven't been determined yet.

I think we can be confident that our system of bank supervision is at world best practice, and the ratio of bad debts to total loans, at 0.9 per cent, is at its lowest level since statistics have been collected (admittedly, the collection only dates back to 1991).

Cities are projected to require at least USD 1.7 trillion a year for climate change mitigation and adaptation above business as usual in order to align GHG levels with those that limit global warming to 2 °C and avoid the worst effects of climate change.

At the time, there were no official statistics comparing foreign debt levels in developed countries, and in their absence there was a tendency for people to assume the worst — that is, to assume that Australia was the highest on the list.

Yields moved lower as the yield - to - worst of the S&P / BGCantor Current 10 Year U.S. Treasury Bond Index is now at a 2.49 % which brings it back down to level Read more -LSB-...]

If we look at the Bloomberg Barclays Global Aggregate Financial Yield to Worst (below) we can see that in 2008 yields of global financials bonds spiked above 8 % and since then, they have gradually retreated to lower levels.

If it's a bad concept at the individual location level it'll be a bad company long - term, but if it's a good concept at the individual location level it'll be a good company.

The CEO is very confident the company can refinance at a property level, and I think this is true, but I think the company ought to get worse interest rates going forward, given multiple hikes at the Fed, and the levered nature of the company.

Much as I think the expansion has a good deal further to run, I suspect that a significant number of households have chosen a debt level which makes sense in good times, but does not take into account the fact that bad times inevitably will occur at some time or other.

I only recently learned what all the levels of hell were, and imagine my surprise to find that at the bottom Satan and the worst sinners trapped in a frozen lake!

Your are stating, in essence, that his is worse, and it needs to be corrected, so that it is at least at your level of condescension.

Wow.Mr.Limbaugh's belated «apology «aside, I find myself stunned at the level of vitriol, rudeness, and sheer hatred we seem determined to spew at each across the web nowadays; its advent has obviously unleashed some deeply - buried, long - simmering resevoirs of hate, scorn, and opprobium that has finally boiled over among many of us.If we spent even a third of that energy seeking solutions to righting the badly - listing ship - of - state called America... Well.The politicians aren't going to do it, fellow citizens.As clever as we think we are venting over folly and nonsense on these websites, we had better get busy getting our nation's affairs in order, or we'll become the laughingstock of the world, with tiny,no - name third world countries thumbing their noses at us and telling us to «Get lost, America, you silly, Hollywood has - been.

Any so - called «God» who allows the level of suffering that we've seen on this earth is, at best, impotent and, at worst, evil or indifferent.

Despite the apparent rout of foreign - policy Bushism, this dream is still alive and kicking, and the level of anger directed at our Iraq blunders is a measure most of all of just how badly the dream must be exploited for it to seem fearsome or ugly.

Even if she hadn't made clear that this was a religious decision (which she did) I believe she would have to prove it was at the level of abuse and that the decision wasn't religiously motivated as shown by the existence of no worse names among all those she had previously let pass.

Obama has the much tougher job of explaining why, at an equal level of funding, Ryan - Wyden - style premium support is so much worse than having a central board cut provider payments across - the - board.

At the level of international policy, it is desirable to fire up the arms race and to create nuclear confrontation with the Soviet Union, because that activity may make things worse and thereby hasten the end.

This abstract thinking applies at many levels — I am not singling out faith - based aspects, but I find myself agreeing with Nye that building a person up from a young age based on non-fact-based anything is a bad idea.

As he journeys deeper and deeper into the pits of hell, he comes, at the end of the book to the lowest, darkest and worst level of Hell.

The world and the church needs someone badly to show all other world leaders and leaders at all levels how to behave.

I see it at the state level, and it only gets worse at the federal level.

On a bad night, we were up dozens of times and I went an entire year of my life at a level of sleep deprivation that meant I probably shouldn't have been driving the mini-van or been responsible for other children.

And worse, Berry had to at some level know he was insulting legions of his fans, some of them we might even call his disciples.