Sentences with phrase «at the bad points»

At its worst point in 2009, GWW still earned an ROIC of 13 %.

At the worst point, the preference shares of the likes of Lloyds and RBS were priced in a panic.

Yes we lost the game (draw is a lost in my book) let us look at the bad points.

The change at the controls comes as on - time performance for the nation's largest commuter railroad is at its worst point since the 1990s.

I lost nearly 20 % of my body weight, dropping to just 94 lbs at the worst point.

For example, a detailed study of new teachers in New York state, published in December 2014 in Educational Researcher, found that at the worst point — in 1999 — almost 30 percent of new teachers came from the bottom third, as measured by SAT scores.

The inflows boosted assets among inverse ETFs by 30 per cent to about US$ 6 billion, with the group poised to close a deficit held versus long ETFs that at its worst point swelled to more than US$ 8 billion last year.

There's never an ideal time for your multi-billion dollar company to take center stage in one of the most high - profile privacy scandals ever seen, but for Mark Zuckerberg, the Cambridge Analytica fiasco couldn't have come at a worse point.

At the worst point, Microsoft even changed the function of the «x» button in the window.

Not exact matches

But Low points out that, in the type of negotiations she studies at least — ones where failing to reach a consensus means everyone goes home with nothing — more aggressive negotiating meant worse negotiating.

Greycroft co-founder Alan Patricof said Friday that Amazon is «not necessarily» a bad company, but urged that «as a society we have to think about the fact that, you know, at what point do we say we're destroying the fabric of America?»

The Tesla CEO tells Gayle King of «CBS This Morning» that while «production hell» was worse than he anticipated, «at this point I can say I have a clear understanding of the path out of hell.»

At best, your sales reps are going into their calls with gaps in the story; at worst, they're completely off point and exhausted before making a single calAt best, your sales reps are going into their calls with gaps in the story; at worst, they're completely off point and exhausted before making a single calat worst, they're completely off point and exhausted before making a single call.

At this point in a frankly exhausting election cycle, you likely know whether you think a President Trump would be good news or bad news.

«At this point I don't know who they think I am in the thread, who they think they've been texting, but I don't want that guy to look bad,» said Chalifoux.

Not only did he score just 11 points, including none in the fourth quarter, but things got worse after the game when he had a confrontation with a fan and took a shot at a Cleveland radio host for only asking questions after the Cavs lose.

Peter Falvey, a managing director at Morgan Keegan, gave a light tough of analysis: «People are getting really excited, but it could end badly at some point.»

«The price points are lower, the food quality happens to be better at a lot of these places, and people don't want to sit, wait, and get served and sometimes get bad service.»

The Dow Jones industrial average closed 14.25 points lower at 24,448.69 — notching its first four - day losing streak since March — with Goldman Sachs as the worst - performing stock in the index.

At that point in the run of «Breaking Bad,» Odenkirk wasn't even sure if the show or his character would make it to season three, given its low ratings and the fact that it wasn't yet at the top of pop culture conversationAt that point in the run of «Breaking Bad,» Odenkirk wasn't even sure if the show or his character would make it to season three, given its low ratings and the fact that it wasn't yet at the top of pop culture conversationat the top of pop culture conversations.

Seconds later, another email arrived from his wife, also saying the PM was trying to reach him — at which point the plane took off, leaving Oliver to ponder for the next five hours whether good or bad news awaited him when he reached his destination.

«You can also integrate the technology with a point of sale system to catch financial losses at the register, such as an employee making bad choices or a cashier working in cahoots with another thief,» says Garth Gasse, director of assets protection for the Retail Industry Leaders Association.

It's a threat the President has repeated on multiple occasions, having at various times called NAFTA the «worst trade deal in the history of the world» and «the greatest disaster trade deal in the history of the world» and all terrible points in between.

Still, the day had started off worse for Robbins, who had supported Jeb Bush's candidacy for president: At one point Glenview was down as much as $ 100 million, before the healthcare stocks recovered somewhat later in the day.

I quickly pointed at my colleagues, my boss, meetings — scheduled and impromptu — and email as the worst offenders, but Pons wasn't convinced the list was complete.

He admits that the economy would be in worse shape without it but, at this point, it won't boost growth.

At some point, all the training, tweaking, and coaching won't get your worst reps to start selling.

If anything similar is the case at the Samsung factories, this implies that stricter limits on overtime would indeed be a bad thing, at least from the workers» point of view.

The worst thing you can do at this point is to give the discount, because then you've told the prospect you can't be trusted to offer the best deal.

The first involves the «inverted U curve,» which models the inflection point at which the addition of units — of effort, of people, of money — stops making something better; and the further point at which adding units actually makes something worse.

Facebook also said that most of its 2 billion users probably had their data scraped by «bad actors» at some point.

«As such, stressed out sales reps will all too often try to sell and negotiate at the same time by layering questions with value points, or worse, answering their own question on behalf of the prospect.»

The split of Breaking Bad's fifth and final season allowed the show's producers to add three extra episodes, points out Robert Thompson, director of the Bleier Center for Television & Popular Culture at Syracuse University.

«Lloyds will be broadly doubling up its exposure to credit cards at a particularly benign point in the bad debt cycle and ahead of a potential slow - down... once the terms of the UK's exit from the EU are reached,» Gary Greenwood of Shore Capital said.

As Slashdot points out, the incident comes at a bad time for Microsoft, which has been recently focusing its attention on Azure in an effort to compete with the cloud platforms offered by Amazon, IBM, and Google.

The results revealed an asymmetry in the point at which they tipped: people required about four unethical actions to decide that Barbara had appreciably changed for the worse, but about six equivalently ethical actions to decide that Barbara appreciably changed for the better.

Many employees report having a bad boss at some point in their career, and poor managers take many different forms.

Worse, they were run by executives who were still viewed as know - it - all baseball outsiders — like the G.M., former management consultant Jeff Luhnow, and the so - called Director of Decision Sciences, the former NASA engineer Sig Mejdal — even though the men had at that point worked within the game for a decade.

The S&P closed Monday at 2,012, after falling 31 points, and the Dowwas at 17,148, after losing 276 points in its worst first trading day of any year since 2008.

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 worst drawdown in nominal percent terms was just -8.9 % in the 22nd year, but at that point you're talking about a $ 245,000 decline.

The 3D printing industry is at an interesting point, with both good and bad news coming out on a regular basis.

I am spread between UK, US, Europe, Japan, & Pacific and I always keep my ear to the ground just in case there's an impending disaster at which point I quickly buy a put option (6 months) just in case something bad happens.

Facebook organic reach is notoriously bad, so there really is no value in paying a Facebook influencer no matter how large her reach is — unless you can get permission to boost the content (at which point it's your own money anyways!)

Our list of the 5 Worst Cold Call Openers might have been useful telemarketing sales tools at some point in the past, but those tools have long since become worn out and need to be replaced.

The worst - case scenario is that it continues its current rally up to that resistance point around $ 11,200 and crashes at least 70 % again, back to around $ 3,400 or all the way to the late 2016 lows (where this bubble really started), between $ 800 and $ 1,000.

As an example of my bad timing, barely couple of days after we bought D, the company announced that 2017 would not be as good as projected due to lower import contract revenue at its Cove Point Terminal in Maryland and other near - term causes.

Do not keep the bad news to yourself, as it will come out at some point.

The disturbing reality is that at some point — perhaps as soon as this year — a large new injection of money will be seen as the solution, because bad theory still dominates.