Sentences with phrase «at at least a factor»

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A brief look at various facets of business shows that at least three uncontrollable factors can have a profound effect on your operations:

Plus, all three firms rely, at least in part, on self - reporting by individuals — making human error a factor.

At least then, a company can control the factor's dunning tactics, and possibly save a customer who could be lost forever if the factor pushes too hard.

They found that these «sprinters» did indeed report similar stories, and three factors in particular jumped out, starting with at least one instance of making a lateral or even «backward» move that became a defining opportunity:

In the survey, almost 75 percent of Caucasians, 82 percent of Asians and 92 percent of Indians had at least one risk factor for diabetes or heart disease.

SONDERS: The uncertainty factor lifted, and you just can't help but wonder whether that uncertainty was such a weight that regardless of who won, the fact that at least we knew who the ultimate victor was would have been enough to incite a rally.

For investors worried that the market is pinning too much on tax - reform prospects — especially as the GOP announced it had to delay by at least one day the release of its plan, which had been scheduled for Wednesday — sectors bets being placed by those with $ 1 million or more in brokerage accounts don't show an overreliance on any single factor.

Often, your choice of a distribution plan will be dictated — or at least strongly influenced — by various factors relating to your product, your customers and the way they'll use it.

Iceland's law stands out in a key way: Companies and organizations with at least 25 full - time employees must actually obtain government certification proving their pay policies are based on factors such as education, skills and performance, not gender.

While certain factors are out of our hands, such as an economic downturn, we do have the opportunity to make sure that we're at least investing in the right startup.

All those factors, he said, will make the NYSE, if not obsolete, at least substantially declining in relevance.

As of December 2016, a baseline Atlas 5 rocket launch was selling for about $ 109 million, though satellite operators can make up at least half that cost by getting more favorable insurance rates and other factors, including an on - time launch, ULA has said.

People with at least two risk factors for cancer, diabetes, or heart disease who are overweight could consider doing the FMD once a month, Longo says.

Tom Wynn, director of affluent research at Spectrem, provided several factors for the increased confidence: the steady improvement in job growth, the steady increase in the major stock market indices since the spring, and a decrease in political ambiguity with the election season over, which has an effect on at least some people's outlook.

The down payment check was the largest either of us had ever written, by a factor of at least 10.

Genetics and environmental factors aside, you and Susie are at a pretty low risk of developing colorectal or lower - stomach cancer as a strict result of your eating habits, at least according to these two reports.

According to the CDC, in 2012, 35 % of all U.S. adults and 18 % of those under 40 had at least three metabolic risk factors.

For now, these factors suggest that the Fed will remain on pause for the next few months at least, the pace of rate normalization will be slow and the central bank will probably be limited to one, or even no, hikes this year.

The closing process takes awhile (usually at least a month), and since mortgage rates fluctuate day to day depending on various factors, a mortgage rate lock allows you to ensure that you'll get your quoted rate regardless of how the market moves.

Combining this with poor sales growth results in a dismal outlook for earnings 3) the pressure on earnings will continue to hurt capital spending, which is usually just a magnified image of earnings, 4) the same factors will continue to raise default rates, causing earnings problems and debt downgrades among banks and financial companies, 5) earnings shortfalls will also lead to continued job cutbacks, with the unemployment rate rising to at least 5.5 % (indeed, once the unemployment rate has advanced by 0.5 % from its lows, it has never reversed until rising by least 1.5 % off those lows).

Even without these factors, experience teaches that recessions are almost never forecast or even rapidly recognised by the Fed or the professional consensus forecast, but there is at least a 20 per cent or so chance that if the economy is not in recession, it will be so within a year.

Moreover, Google's algorithm considers social signals as one of its most important ranking factors — socially shared content is a vote of approval, or at the very least importance, so it makes sense Google would consider it when deciding whether a post should rank well in organic search.

The average borrower has a credit score of at least 750, so creditworthiness plays a major factor in the approval process for these loans.

Although it's not one of the top factors in most scoring models it does make up roughly 15 % of your credit history, at least when it comes to FICO scores.

Once you've narrowed down a list of lenders to the few that offer the least expensive interest rates, it will require looking at other factors to make a final decision.

This partly reflected weaker growth, but increasing supply seems to have been the key factor, at least for oil.

The GNC reviews the individual components and total amount of director compensation at least annually and may recommend changes in director compensation to the Board for its approval more or less frequently based on, among other factors, competitive pay data for non-employee directors of the financial services companies in the Company's Labor Market Peer Group.

Stronger security on customer accounts and two - factor authentication for all employees might have made a difference, or at least would have made the attack more difficult to carry out.

Enabling 2 - factor authentication and ensuring that withdrawal addresses have been locked for at least 5 days can ensure that your withdrawals are processed faster.

Its low rank is influenced by factors like delays in preparing documents with exporters, requiring at least a week for processing the documentation.

Management has taken the opportunity to exit a highly competitive market at a price that factors in at least some improvement.

There are at least four factors that can be identified: reset shock, poor assessment of the risks by the lending institution, a decline in underwriting standards and, more recently, the decline in house prices (although this is somewhat endogenous).

Specifically, a recent analysis by Graham Secker, MS & Co.'s European equity strategist, found that recent disappointments in European corporate profits are a function of at least three important factors that may be reversing: idiosyncratic issues related to heavily skewed index exposure to financials and commodity - linked industries; weak operating profit leverage linked to declining emerging market sales; and less aggressive use of buybacks, tax optimization and non-operating cost reductions versus U.S. peers.

and then cite the AdWords competition as an organic ranking factor — At least now there's SerpIQ

If a country scores a very low mark on all of these factors, or at least most of these factors, there is a good chance that it would be subject to an international loss of confidence and ensuing economic problems.

They are fiat paper liabilities issued by a Federal Reserve that is technically insolvent by at least $ 360 billion and likely multiples of that when off - balance - sheet considerations are factored in to the equation.

Still, the rare extremes of current overvalued, overbought, overbullish conditions here, coupled with the absence (at least at present) of the factors that deferred their consequences between late - 2011 to mid-2014, suggest that we may be observing the best opportunity to exit the U.S. stock market that investors will see in a generation.

But at least 10 of the 12 residents of the Hollywood nursing home who died after Hurricane Irma had another factor in common — they lived on the building's top floor, where the heat was the worst and most windows were left unopened.

She was concerned with Snap suffering with its stock through at least 2019, with the company bogged by several factors, such as daily active users on a decline, and losses that could latch down on its fair value even if sales increase.

• A proxy for the resistance level is used (i.e. the percentage difference from the closest peak in the past) because, at least psychologically, it can be an important factor for traders.

The Price Support Breach Count — A Very Handy Indicator For the record, I'm not a technical analyst, at least not by this measure: About 65 % of my research is based on fundamental factors, 20 % is based on investor behavior patterns, and 15 % is based on technical indicators like my price support breach counter.

At least two important factors should be noted with exchange traded funds dedicated to value funds.

«A study in the United States, published in the Social Forces journal and conducted by Sociology researcher Lisa A. Keister while she was at the Ohio State University, found that adherents of Judaism attained the most wealth, believers of Catholicism and mainline Protestants were in the middle, while conservative Protestants accu - mulated the least wealth, while in general people who attend religious services achieved more wealth than those who do not (taking into account variations of education and other factors).

In other words, Bloomington's conservative Christians came to realize that there are at least three sides to the subject of homosexuality: the civil rights factor, the human factor, and the theological factor.

The major factors that caused the break - up of this original solidarity and the emergence of the individual into personal worthfulness and meaning can be, at least in outline, seen and described.

For all we know, there lie ahead of us activities and responsibilities far beyond our present dreams, but at least it is clear that what we do in this present life is a significant factor in determining our status in the next.

Actually, there are traditional societies in which it is not apparent, at least as a significant factor in human affairs.

So all in all you're going to want to multiply the number of abuse cases by priests by a factor of at least a few hundred to represent the actual risk ratio for spending time with an individual priest vs. a teacher.

In my view, there are at least six key factors which have caused and continue to affect a global transformation of consciousness: the revolution in communications, globalization of the economy, a growing awareness of the degradation of the environment, demographic shifts, the threat of nuclear destruction and the advent of the new science.

Within this larger spectrum of the general human situation there appears to be at least two elemental factors with which the practice of relational power must wrestle in its struggle to create individuals and groups of larger size.