Sentences with phrase «bad points on»

I'm going to try and come up with good / bad points on the various areas to balance things out against how I found things while learning.

Disputing valid bad points on the report might reset the clock for them and keep them even longer on your record.

Not exact matches

Dick's pointed to sales of hunting gear such as rifles, which chief financial officer Lee Belitsky called «much worse than our expectations» on a conference call, and athletic apparel is key culprits in the shortfall.

That's too bad, and is the point of this series: «The Best From the Brightest» focuses on one seminal concept from leading business thinkers.

That's not soon enough if the world wants to mitigate the worst effects of climate change while providing cheap, clean energy to the poor — a point not lost on a handful of American billionaires including Jeff Bezos, Paul Allen, and Peter Thiel.

But there is no escapting the fact the country's consumers are not happy campers: Market researcher Nielsen found that consumer confidence in Malaysia fell to 78 points over the July - September period, down 11 percentage points on the quarter, marking a record low since the survey began in 2005, as well as Southeast Asia's worst reading for the quarter.

As «Blue Collar Millionaires» points out, «While the average physician's office nets about 10 percent, Dr. Long can make four times that — on a bad day.»

In a recent Compas Inc. poll, Canadian CEOs said the crisis in Japan is bad news for new nuclear energy installations in the short term, until safety reviews are completed, and ranked the statement a 5.6 on a 7 - point scale, where 1 means strongly disagree and 7 means strongly agree.

The point is not to dwell on the negative — that will only make you feel worse.

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.

While not all gossip is bad — one can share secrets about wonderful things like a suspected pregnancy or job promotion — Epstein points out that «useful gossip is, in the minds of most people, not what gossip is really about,» and so the majority of the book focuses on the more naughty kind of tattling, the kind that makes your heart beat faster when the subject of ridicule comes around the corner.

The Dow suffered its worst daily point drop on record Monday, and briefly fell nearly 1,600 points intraday.

Scores of Wall Street investors bought into the worst - case scenario on Thursday, sending the Dow down more than 550 points intraday after Trump's announcement.

After devoting a solid 15 pages of his letter on how the U.S. should slash regulations, Dimon made a point to single out a single area of government oversight that has undeniable value: «Some regulations quite clearly create a common good (e.g., clean air and water),» Dimon noted, in a sentence that went on to catalog the ways regulation is otherwise bad for the economy — making it all the more striking that he chose to highlight environmental issues.

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 key insight I'd like to point out here is the difference between focusing on getting better vs. not getting worse.

«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.»

But as software engineering manager Michael Lopp pointed out on his blog Rands in Repose recently, that doesn't mean you don't sometimes feel a bit bad when you discover a great hack.

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.

«They [Wells Fargo] scored badly on some issues and did well on others,» Whittaker said, pointing out that bank pays their employees relatively well.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.08 % had tumbled 180 points by midday Monday, while the S&P 500 SPX, -0.29 % was down more than 20 points, putting both on track for their worst day in three and a half months.

I wrote an improvement of Alicia's email based on these concepts: — specificity of: target b2b and expected results — be educational with numbers and reference to a case study — do nt talk bad about outbound marketing, but tell him how to do it better — write even shorter to the point — social proof: drop big companies of other industries — scarcity: this email is sent to 10 competitors but we only work with the first per city

4 Sarao traded a ton of E-mini futures during the flash crash — «62,077 E-mini S&P contracts with a notional value of $ 3.5 billion» — and made «approximately $ 879,018 in net profits» that day, or a profit of about 2.5 basis points on the notional amount, which I guess isn't bad for one day's work.

As CNBC anchor Becky Quick pointed out this morning during their segment in which I joined, we may be entering that phase of the cycle where good news on Main St. is bad news on Wall St.. That is, accelerating wage growth may lead the Federal Reserve to tighten faster, slowing overall growth more than currently expected.

A few times during the session Kogan made a point of arguing that data audits are essentially useless for catching bad actors — claiming that anyone who wants to misuse data can simply put a copy on a hard drive and «store it under the mattress».

Uber's record on diversity is not brilliant — but as we have pointed out it's not the worst, either — and hiring Saint John speaks to how this continues to evolve.

And The New York Times yesterday pointed out that all of the $ 31.5 billion in new aid is not going to be spent on the Greek people any more than the American QE3 is spent here; it's going to be given to the Greek banks to help pull them out of their negative equity and all of their bad real estate mortgages.

And so every time the market went up, people piled into that fund, when market went down, they pile out, when the fund outperformed, they piled in, when the fund underperformed they piled out and they took that 18 percent annual gain when the market was flat so that's great on an annualized basis over 10 year period to beat the market by 18 points, but for outside investors, they went in and out so badly that the average investor on a dollar weighted basis lost 11 percent a year and --

@Charlie — good point on Google filtering what is a good link and a bad link.

We've written earlier about how that is generally a bad idea (more on that later), but to illustrate our point and in light of the current retail climate, we thought it'd be a good idea to show you what happens to a store - branded credit card when the company shuts its doors.

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

U.S. stock futures point to sharp gains for Wall Street on Monday, as global shares rebound from their worst week in two years.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average saw its biggest one - day point drop in history on Monday, and the S&P 500 had its worst day since 2011.

But while the Liberal government has acknowledged that fares are beyond a breaking point, they are still neglecting this escalating problem, sitting on their hands while this situation gets worse,» said New Democrat ferries critic Claire Trevena.

The point will be this: The economy is on the mend and yields are grinding higher, but the recovery from the worst global economic crisis since the Great Depression isn't over yet.

The point is that after decades of touting his business acumen, his ability to negotiate tough deals and spot good investments, and after spending this entire campaign season arguing that he's qualified for the presidency based on his skills in the market, Trump nonetheless has an investment record that at best roughly matches and at worst underperforms the market.

Still, both Beer Business Daily and Beer Marketers Insights point out: Bud Light continues to flounder in what is on track to be its worst year ever, according to BMI.

The crash came a day after Wall Street got its own long - overdue correction: The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by 4.6 percent on Monday, the worst point drop for the index ever.

After immense preparation and xpense, the ultimate point of human frustration and mortal decision making for climbers on Everest is being several hundred feet from the summit and having the weather turn bad.

As for the airline miles, transferring points will be a good or bad value, depending on how you choose to redeem your flights.

I am fairly sure that you based your statement on what I said: «Bob, thinking me the meanest Christian you have ever encountered, well I can point to one that may be worse, bob: Fred Phelps.»

Okay, I can kind of see your point on that... moderation is definitely a key in most things, and almost anything can be done to excess (good or bad).

And considering the impact of religion on society (good or bad) I would argue it is not a moot point for discussion period.

It's missing the point on a scale that is arguably worse than someone reading the Book of Genesis and concluding that the earth is less than 10,000 years old...

Through memory, Augustine explains at various points in Book X of the Confessions, we are able to review our past actions and discern a variety of important themes: we can see when we were moving towards God and (conversely) when we were moving away from Him; when we discerned the good rightly and sought it properly and (conversely) when we misidentified the good and sought experiences or possessions that were bad for us; when God was calling us towards Himself, whether we heard His voice or not; and so on.

Whiteheadians seem able to imagine such ecstatically spanned unities - across - time on the so - called «microscopic» scale of the «specious present,» but give up on the idea as the scope of the temporal disclosure space is widened to the scale of human lifetime and of generations.7 But worse than this from the point of view of Heidegger's temporal problematic, by submitting the ecstatic unities of their «specious presents» to the before / after ordering and metric properties of linear time, at least in terms of their mutually external relations and arrangements, they give back ontologically every advantage they gained from the use of an cc - static - temporal disclosure horizon in the first place, even though it was only the single horizon of presence.

Should we point out all the really bad straight parents too based on your poor logic.

So, you're POINT is that progress is bad apparently, and only things that were «on the radar» 50 years ago are good?

[I disagree with the assertion that Mars Hill is a cult, but I think Fred's point about our tendency to see sexual betrayal as bad «because it involves sex rather than because it involves betrayal» is spot - on, and his concerns about Driscoll's preoccupation with sex and power are, of course, warranted.]

«At one point in my life I became so self - reliant and secretly angry with men, I let myself believe men never hurt as bad as women,» says Tracy Keen on the rickthomas.net blog.