Sentences with phrase «badly pointing out»

He disclosed that during the era of military rule, the growth of the Nigerian Police was stunted which affected the force badly pointing out that the idea of building barracks for policemen apart of huge cost of maintenance, kept the police far from the citizenry.

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.

The researchers pointed out that the methodology isn't perfect because people who remembered a time when they were self - promoting probably thought they managed to do it in a non-annoying way; while those who had to recall a time when they listened to someone shamelessly bragging, probably remembered a particularly bad incident.

Zacks» Mishra pointed pointed out that this is not about an ETF inherently performing worse than a traditional index fund.

It might sound rare or unlikely, but as Hello Giggles pointed out, «it's pretty likely that you know someone who fits the description» of an empath, which means that it's worth understanding how to tell as well as the good and the bad of dating an empath.

«You've got people forecasting that things are looking even worse in the future,» he points out.

The disintegration of investment in nonresidential structures and machinery and equipment subtracted almost a full percentage point from GDP; only 2009 and 1982 were worse in that regard, and neither of those years stand out as high points in Canada's economic history.

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.»

Feldstein especially liked to point out the trucks belonging to ServiceMaster Restore, a multinational company that received bad press after workers with one of its subcontractors in Fort Mac went to the news media with health and safety concerns.

As some other, savvier Twitter users are pointing out, this is a bad idea that can have real - world consequences for your career.

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.»

Almost everyone else hated the name, pointing out that slacking is the opposite of working — bad advertising for productivity software.

As Eric Reis and Steve Blank of the Lean Start - up movement have pointed out, and as Cindy Padnos of Illuminate Ventures echoes in her column and Bo Burlingham in his, easy access to capital can sometimes be a start - up's worst enemy.

Yet the movie used every opportunity to point out what racism is, that it is bad, and that this is a movie about racism.

Another reader points out this should be «when worse comes to worst,» which indicates something has degraded from one negative plane to the lowest possible.

Overall score: 1,568 out of 2,500 points Best categories: Technology & Innovation (No. 6), Workforce (No. 7) Worst categories: Quality of Life (No. 28), Education (No. 32) 2016 rank: No. 5

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.

Overall score: 1,602 out of 2,500 points Best categories: Workforce (No. 1), Infrastructure (No. 1) Worst categories: Quality of Life (No. 37), Education (No. 34) 2016 rank: No. 2

Overall score: 1,615 out of 2,500 points Best categories: Education (No. 2), Quality of Life (No. 3) Worst categories: Cost of Doing Business (No. 36), Business Friendliness (No. 33) 2016 rank: No. 4

Overall score: 1,616 out of 2,500 points Best categories: Economy (No. 1), Workforce (No. 3) Worst categories: Education (No. 33), Quality of Life (No. 28) 2016 rank: No. 8

Overall score: 1,562 out of 2,500 points Best categories: Workforce (No. 4), Technology & Innovation (No. 7) Worst categories: Cost of Doing Business (No. 38), Cost of Living (No. 32) 2016 rank: No. 3

The numbers are staggering — and as the New York Times points out, ownership (that's you and me now) isn't happy — but the fireworks raise another question: How should companies retain employees during bad times.

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.

But it's much easier to point out what is a «correct» practice than the 100s of bad pieces of advice out there.

As the Reuters article points out, frequent patent battles are bad for innovation because they can hold companies back from developing or launching products.

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

Bhide also points out that Solomon CEO John Gutfreund was «fired just for delays in reporting bad behavior» to the Fed — and that «Skilling is behind bars» for «puffery» and a failure to be forthcoming.

«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.

More bad news for seniors: Medicare Part B premiums, which are usually deducted from Social Security payments, are expected to increase next year to the point in which they will probably wipe out the entire COLA.

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.

He points out «we are taught from a very young age to feel badly when we fail.»

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.

Robin Beinenstock, an analyst with Bernstein Research, points out that BT Group has had major issues around pension funding, but the worst is behind it.

Lemonis says that Twitter can be a powerful tool for leaders, and the president should get in the habit of consistently delivering both good news and bad news over the platform, instead of using it to vent his frustrations or point out other people's mistakes or faults.

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

In fact, eMarketer points out that online ads are often the worst medium for reaching out to millennials simply because they do not trust such ads and will even ignore them.

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.

She points out that your worst option is to do nothing, as a lack of action can lead to serious consequences for your financial situation.

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 --

And as a few of your readers pointed out, odds are there will still be something left from my investable assets as well, as they would only be exhausted, under the 3 % rule, if my future is as bad as the worst 50 - year period in history.

«This is why people didn't figure out that it was the Great Depression until two years after the worst point in the crisis in the 1930s; and why it took decades, not months, quarters or even years, for the complete transition to the next sustainable economic expansion and bull market.

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

As I pointed out in my first blog, the percentage of women in corporate leadership positions today is abysmal, and it's even worse in the venture capital world.

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.

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

As I pointed out a couple of months ago, that isn't necessarily bad.

A recent guest editorial in Learn Bond's pointed out laddering is bad strategy in a stable and declining interest rate environment?