Sentences with phrase «be a bad deal in»

The idea of paying more for privacy is unusual and would require a major shift to current thinking, but it might not be a bad deal in the grand scheme of things if it leads to keeping companies and governments out of our business.

In this case, the somnambulism was based on misplaced optimism that trade negotiators would be able to solve the NAFTA problems, blithely ignoring the significance of President Donald Trump's repeated declarations that the agreement was the worst deal in history and constantly threatening to walk out unless the U.S. got what it wanted in the renegotiating process.

In response to the OP's comment - you should look at this in the aggregate, if borrowing or not borrowing the money for the repairs is the difference between breaking even or losing money each month then the deal itself was a bad deal in the first place.

The Paris Climate Accord was the worst deal in history: $ 1.5 trillion (at a conservative estimate) to avert global warming by perhaps 1 / 20th of a degree C.

Not exact matches

The prosecutor said that, although Montano was perhaps «the worst businessman in the world,» his failures were due in part to deals that fell through.

In general, I think it's ethically fine to offer such warranties, even though they're generally a bad deal.

In these cases, eventually you get to a bad result - either because no deal gets done or - far worse - because the entrepreneur grudgingly and half - heartedly accepts a deal that he's unhappy with and angry about for what he thinks is the good of the business.

The banking system has been weak for years as most institutions have failed to deal with the high level of bad debt in the wake of the financial crisis.

In the study sample of 60 different inversion deals, approximately 15 - 20 percent of shareholders fell into this long - term investor category and were made worse off from the inversion.

«No deal for Britain is better than a bad deal for Britain,» she told an audience in London.

«A bad showing in due diligence can kill the deal entirely or reduce the price, so for the selling company, this is a vital test,» Witter says.

The Treasury report concluded that all types of Brexit — from membership of the European Economic Area to crashing out without a deal — would be worse for the economy than staying in the bloc.

Do not be quick to engage family and friends, as bad business deals often lead to bad situations in your personal life.

Plus, bad deals, real heroes and a comic recap of RIM's rotten year in our annual scorecard of the year that was.

«You know I think the way we deal with the tax bill is by being honest about it, saying across time the very significant tax reductions for groups and parts of our economy that really weren't needed will hurt the fiscal condition of the country and put us in a bad position as it relates to other priorities we have,» Delaney said.

The most telling part of the deal is that Google will retain many of Motorola's patents as well as its advanced research and development unit, which is too bad in a way because it probably means we won't be seeing innovative phones like the Moto X from the new Lenovo - owned entity.

«There are some improvements that can be made in this agreement, but understand that status quo is a far better deal than getting bad changes to this agreement.»

«NAFTA, which is under renegotiation right now, has been a bad deal for U.S.A. Massive relocation of companies & jobs,» the president said in a tweet Monday.

It has become reassuringly common to dismiss Trump's hyperbole as the hardball negotiating tactics dished out in his book The Art of the Deal — bluster that will eventually give way to some measure of compromise and an updated NAFTA — but the dire news trickling out from the talks is forcing a harsh rethink, and there's growing reason to fear the worst.

I sat in many tense meetings when the guys from Microsoft tried to give people amazing deals on Azure (which Microsoft eventually offered as a cloud alternative) and it was as if they were offering to give these people a bad case of acne.

Simply put, this Spruce Goose of a deal must be considered among the worst in the history of Manhattan real estate.

«With a A$ 10 handle in front, the offer doesn't look bad,» he said, adding that he was still evaluating the deal.

His company will now «stay away from» investing in new firms dealing with media and video because «this is a bad scene for innovation in those areas.»

You need to know if there are bad reviews to deal with, preferably before they have a long time to stew in the search results.

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.

In an unexpected move, the United States is upgrading Malaysia from the lowest tier on its list of worst human trafficking centers to the so - called «Tier 2 Watch list», a status that could smooth the way for an ambitious U.S. - led free - trade deal with Malaysia.

«Back in the day,» he says, «retail banking was a little bit like drug - dealing in a bad neighbourhood.»

While the postponements are a necessity given the hand many teams have been dealt with bad weather, it will leave some teams in a tight spot when they are forced to make the games up later in the season.

At Tim Hortons, where the company is dealing with the fallout of bad publicity from its reaction to minimum wage increases in the country, comparable sales fell 0.3 percent in the quarter.

You are now dealing with the executor of Aunt Irma's estate, who may be 1) a greedy relative who sees the «gift» as an investment for which the estate is entitled to a substantial piece of your business, 2) a local estate lawyer whose main purpose in life is to squeeze as many assets out of the estate as possible so as to maximize their fees, or 3) someone even worse.

One, [in] Afghanistan, the British had never been successful there; the Russians had 10 years there and hadn't been successful... Iraq, I know, was a different deal, because there was a lot of intelligence that told us that bad things could happen there, and we're never sure how that ended up, whether it was pro or con.

Sales and marketing writer Preston Clark explored this notion in a great piece, «The Rise of the Silent Sales Floor,» in which he discussed how the «soundless» sales floor makes CEOs nervous because: «They aren't hearing the confrontation, the tension, the hard conversations that literally must happen in order to get the biggest, baddest deals across the finish line... The really big, complex, disruptive deals... those aren't closing on the silent floor.»

That's bad news for family members who have to deal with the entrepreneur in the family spoiling the festive cheer with constant tapping on a smartphone, and it's bad news for business owners themselves.

We will always deal with people that are in a bad mood, leaving us with two choices.

Olen: The first thing you have to understand is we're dealing with thirty years of a powerful ideology that regulation is bad in a free market.

If the worst thing that an airline has to deal with is a baggage worker falling asleep in an air - conditioned section of the cargo hold, then things are going well.

Public finances were now in far worse condition than when the rejected bailout deal was put together.

But is the daily deal industry really in such bad shape?

Why Goldman Sachs, which has had its own share of bad publicity over the years and always talks about being in the business of making sound judgments, would actively participate in a deal for a major gun retailer is baffling.

An economist at Oxford Economics recently told a Sydney audience that «Chinese authorities were understating the extent of bad loans on their banks» books and faced tough choices in dealing with the potential bank failure.»

Oâ $ ™ Leary was a failed and unethical businessman, who sold a sham of a company to Mattel, the toy manufacturer, in what Businessweek later called one of the worst deals of all time.

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President Trump has renewed his criticism of the new US embassy in London, describing it as being in a «lousy» location and a bad deal.

In a short and bad - tempered conference call on Tuesday, officials from the IMF, the European Central Bank and the European Commission complained that Greek officials aren't adhering to a bailout extension deal reached in February or cooperating with creditorIn a short and bad - tempered conference call on Tuesday, officials from the IMF, the European Central Bank and the European Commission complained that Greek officials aren't adhering to a bailout extension deal reached in February or cooperating with creditorin February or cooperating with creditors.

One of the biggest and most common mistakes entrepreneurs make, which I have been guilty of myself, is not taking fast corrective action in dealing with a bad hire.

«In fact, Iran has only behaved worse since the deal was approved,» he said.

Mr Trump... President Trump has renewed his criticism of the new US embassy in London, describing it as being in a «lousy» location and a bad deal.

According to Martin Zwilling in Business Insider, «This is the ultimate bad guy whose sole intention of getting involved in early - stage investing is to take advantage of what they believe is the entrepreneur's lack of financial and deal - making experience.

Up to 150 % in bonus money to start trading and learning or to practice a few trading strategies if you are a more seasoned trader, is not a bad deal!

Congressional Republicans are rushing this through before anyone has a chance to grasp all of the bad stuff in it and before special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation possibly ensnares bigger fish than former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty to a charge Friday as part of a plea deal.