Sentences with phrase «at smaller household»

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The household survey, favored by some small business groups because it includes self - employed individuals, was unchanged in July with the unemployment rate holding steady at 5 %.

Ted Mallett, VP and chief economist at the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, says the difference for common household goods like detergent and diapers is largely due to the fact that retailers need higher margins in the smaller Canadian market; there are no tariffs on most items like these.

The report aims to help community groups, small businesses, state and local governments and the public to better understand, monitor and respond to trends in borrowing and indebtedness at the household level.

Among them: more modest growth, low - for - long interest rates and a household sector that comprises a relatively smaller percentage of the economy than it did at the peak in 2007.

According to this model, a small amount of deceleration in credit growth can occur as additional credit efficiency is squeezed out of the system, but without a sharp decline in GDP growth, substantial and sustainable credit growth deceleration can not occur except after a major transformation of China's growth model, one condition of which is net wealth transfers from local governments to median households of at least one to two percentage points of GDP annually.

The level of intermediaries» interest rates for households and small businesses remains historically low — in particular, notwithstanding the fact that the cash rate exceeds by 1.5 percentage points its level at the previous cyclical trough in 1993/94, rates paid by borrowers, especially for housing, typically remain below their level at that time.

This is at the lowest level for a year and offers a small respite for hard - pressed household budgets.

Available in a small 125g (# 1.25 / $ 1.74) for specialist and smaller outlets, it is designed for smaller households and aimed at reducing food waste.

BG EAT will host the Buffalo Grove Green Fair on June 30 and feature 20 exhibitors at Mike Rylko Community Park, 951 McHenry Road, Buffalo Grove, and a number of activities to teach visitors about water conservation, reducing greenhouse emissions and recycling along with a recycle collection of small electronics, eyeglasses, hearing aids, keys, gently used books, household batteries and light bulbs, said Debi Moritz, also a member of the BG EAT.

our babysitters help us with small errands and baby - related household chores, like washing bottles and tidying up the nursery (I LOVE THEM FOR THIS), and we drop our laundry off at a laundromat because we don't have a washing machine.

To prevent exposing your baby to smoke and particles small enough to inhale, any smoker in your household should smoke outside (or at least in another room if the house is large) away from the baby.

But again, just like at the office, it is time usually spent wolfing down food, taking care of mundane tasks that are necessary for your household to function, and worrying about all the things you couldn't get done in that small window of time.

The Centre has offices in Abuja and Kaduna, and treats political leadership as a collaborative exercise that requires multiple governance structures at various levels — individuals, households, small businesses, the organized private sector, NGOs and government.

Influenza remains a major health problem in the United States, resulting each year in an estimated 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations.4 Those who have been shown to be at high risk for the complications of influenza infection are children 6 to 23 months of age; healthy persons 65 years of age or older; adults and children with chronic diseases, including asthma, heart and lung disease, and diabetes; residents of nursing homes and other long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implications.

These efforts have already led to the successful treatment of municipal wastewater and sewage sludge at the 100 - gallon per - day scale, enough to support a small household.

While overall divorce rates remain low at 16 %, separations are on the increase and there is a fundamental shift towards smaller family sizes and one parent households.»

Instead, the senator proposes to change adolescence one family at a time by extolling America as it was in many rural and small - town households at the midpoint of the 20th century.

This small city of about 25,000 residents has a median household income approaching six figures, but the average home is values at $ 442,000.

If you're looking for ways to reduce how much water, electricity or gas your household uses, you might be surprised at the difference just a few small changes can make.

Heavy overdrafters generally have below - average incomes relative to the U.S. population, and overdraft fees consumed nearly a full week's worth of their household incomes on average during the past year.17 This formula — a small share of consumers overdrawing most frequently and assuming disproportionate fees on small transactions — means that overdrafts cause some of the most financially at - risk consumers to leave the banking system.

If you're looking for ways to reduce how much water or electricity your household uses, you might be surprised at the difference just a few small changes can make.

In every objective sense, the dogs and puppies that Bell «enjoyed» at her kennel were small - breed, household dogs raised to be and treated as domesticated pets, and Bell sold many of them as pets.

For this reason, they may not make the best companion for households with small children, as kids can be a little rough at times.

When the cat is back in the box consistently, it can be moved a small distance at a time to a more convenient location for the household.

At first, the Yorkies were working dogs but soon their small frames and beautiful coats were noticed and they became desired pets and awesome household dogs.

According to Christensen, many of the issues occur between pigs and dogs living in the same household; however, in high - density cities like San Francisco, where pig ownership is completely legal and backyards are small or nonexistent, pigs and dogs end up crossing paths along the sidewalk or out running free at parks.

When an animal comes to us with a behavioral concern that can be addressed in the right household, our Behavior & Training staff identifies certain requirements — small dog experience, adults only household, etc. — that adopters should meet in order to help the animal be at their very best.

In line with the growing popularity of small mammals and pocket pets, the industry continues to showcase a large variety of fun, new accessories designed to appeal to the critters and to the 5 million U.S. households caring for at least one small animal.

Further, we strongly oppose subjecting small, in - home breeders with as few as 5 breeding females to federal regulations, forcing them to give up their privacy and requiring them to replace living and care standards that are appropriate for household pets with ones designed for large commercial settings, especially when oversight from state and local authorities and the AKC is available in many cases at no additional cost to the taxpayer.

When she isn't running the day to day operations here at Orange Grove, Carrie runs a busy household of two school aged girls, two dogs, Emily and Pixie, three rats, Butterscotch, Lily and Dandelion, and her husband who is also a small business owner.

In her solo show at Luhring Augustine in New York, Janine Antoni cast body parts and household furniture in wax, forming ethereal, surrealist combinations inspired by milagros, small devotional items left by Latin American worshippers at church altars.

Among the works that did well were Lot 16, a charming small sculpture, one of three examples down in 1945 - 6, by David Smith, shown above, that sold for $ 220,000 (not including the buyer's premium) and had had a high estimate of $ 150,000; Lot 5, «Atantolone,» a gloss household paint on canvas of colored dots on a white field that sold for $ 170,000 (not including the buyer's premium), well over its high estimate of $ 120,000; Lot 14, a large 1943 painted wood and wire sculpture, «Constellation,» by Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976) that sold for $ 1,982,500 (including the buyer's premium), more than double its high estimate, and Lot 24, a larger Calder sculpture, «Trepied,» that sold near its low estimate for $ 1,542,500 (including the buyer's premium); Lot 20, a large and very interesting and abstract but not very colorful 1953 Francis Bacon (1909 - 1992), «Two Figures at a Window,» that sold above its $ 1.2 million high estimate for $ 1,542,500 (including the buyer's premium); Lot 27, «Tour III» by Brice Marden (b. 1938) that sold within its estimates for $ 1,487,500 (including the buyer's premium), tying the artist's record; Lot 41, «Grillo,» by Jean - Michel Basquiat (1960 - 1988) that sold for $ 1,102,500 (including the buyer's premium), also within its pre-sale estimates; and Lot 31, «Vierwaldstätte See,» a large black and white 1969 landscape by Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) that sold for $ 1,047,500 near its low estimate of $ 1 million.

A solo show by Gianni Politi organised by Galleria Lorcan O'Neill (Rome), a re-presentation of the works the artist produced for his first solo show at the gallery, which included three types of work: abstract paintings made using scraps of canvas with acrylic, oil and household paint; small portraits on canvas; and bronze stretchers of varying sizes realized with multi-coloured patinas, marble and painted wood inserts.

If you'd rather not «recycle» your phone using any of the above, you can dispose of it at most household waste and recycling centres in the containers marked «small electricals».

Some councils are now starting to collect small electrical items as part of your household recycling collection (usually the item needs to be bagged and kept separate from the rest of your recycling); otherwise you can recycle them at household waste recycling centres with electrical items.

She says the method is not particularly expensive or difficult, and could be adapter to smaller scales, such as households, as well as for use at existing sewage treatment plants.

It adds that job losses would be minimal; the new carbon market would create new jobs; that the manufacturing sector will lose a few jobs; that household consumption will fall by only one percent at worst; that increases in energy costs would be modest; and that overall costs would be small enough to permit expansion of programs to offset the burden for low - income households.

Thermal energy storage, EASE argues in its position paper, has the versatility to scale up — perhaps making use of Europe's 7,000 or so District Heating Networks (DHN), or large industrial facilities - or could be used at small, even household scale.

It also explores the climate change scenario, considers viable applications of Renewable Energy Technologies (RETs) addressed for small - scale farmers and livestock keepers at different levels of the value chain and examines how this can provide multifunctional benefits for households, community and the environment.

The biggest Germany FiT at the moment for the smallest roof PV is 14 eurocents / kWh compared to 25 - 29 eurocents / kWh household electricity prices so logically most of the new roof PV is primary for self - consumption.

«This approach targets reductions achieved at a sectoral level — for example in renewable energy, energy efficiency, fuel switching and other areas — and is a key complement to more traditional CDM projects as a way to mobilize capital, scale up reductions and deliver benefits to households and small and medium enterprises.»

Rather than insisting that entire categories of household items need to be organized at the same time, a main tenet of her philosophy, i.e. all clothes in a closet, Kondo now sees the sense in doing smaller groups of items at a time, such as just T - shirts.

This small city of about 25,000 residents has a median household income approaching six figures, but the average home is values at $ 442,000.

Children from low - income households lag behind their peers in language skills from early on, 2,12 and have been shown to develop vocabularies at slower rates than their peers from more economically advantaged households.7 Smaller receptive and productive vocabularies, in turn, predict children's later reading and spelling difficulties in school.8, 13

Barbara Mitchell, professor of Sociology & Gerontology at the Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, B.C., says, «The norm in Canada has historically been small nuclear households, but we're seeing a rise in multi-generational families across cultural backgrounds and people are living long enough that we're seeing more four - generation households.»

Hiring a handyman is the easiest way to handle multiple small household repairs at once, and give you time to tackle other home organizing projects.

We understand not all of the CSP ™ Eco Staging ™ checklist will apply to every household; our work will help save energy, one household at a time and every small effort, moves us in the right direction.

Then there are some of the things others have already mentioned... not great for households with small kids — crawling on brick is murder on the knees, bumps on the heads from falls end up hurting way more than on hardwoods (this coming from someone who raised 2 kids that spent a lot of time at their Nanny's house when they were little) and then even sealed brick can sometimes be a nightmare to keep clean.