Sentences with phrase «big points at»

«The biggest advantage of the new card is the ability to earn big points at Shoppers and Beauty Boutique and spend them at Loblaw and affiliated stores,» says Sojka.

Further, Dame had some big point at the end of the season about how he's seen every defense and knows how to attack.

Not exact matches

Apple has always touted Apple Pay as one of the big selling points of Apple Watch, unfortunately for Canadians it's a feature that will be absent at launch.

That's a big step for a relatively small — at least at this point — race team.

And at some point, their management realizes that they can become the Big Kahuna, in a way.

In the other 8 cases, the incumbent party lost, including at least 3 of the biggest political turning points in US history (1860, 1932, 1980).

Shilling does not say when the stock market will crash, or how big such a crash will be, but he does emphasize the importance of shifting wealth into cash at such times — a point he's been making for much of his career.

It will still be niche at that point, but there's no reason why we wouldn't become bigger.

It is pretty late at this point and we still have a big group of people so the airport assigns us an empty conference room to nap.

A small difference can mean a big difference in the long run, but getting to that point can be arduous at best.

Over at AllThingsD, in outlining her three big takeaways from Nintendo's announcement, Tricia Duryee makes a great point that the new portable screen will almost certainly compete with Apple's iPad for face time, given its forward - facing camera, ability to browse the Internet, draw on the screen with a stylus, play standalone games like Othello, view photos and video chat.

«When you look at why people are still getting hacked or breached, I think a big contributor to that is either not knowing if you were patched or if you were patched and you were secure at one point, but something happened in operations that caused you not to be patched again,» Mong said.

So I would expect at some point investors to come back to property, but in the interim period the biggest move we've seen since Brexit has been a reduction in property allocation.»

Only one thing is really standing in the way at this point: «The biggest challenge to adopting that is really for [wireless] operators to come up with a good way to manage your plan, because clearly you don't want to pay another $ 50 a month just to get a SIM card.»

At this point, Under Armour's largest New York City location is downtown in SoHo, near competitor Adidas» biggest retail store in the city.

This benefits of being big may reverse at some point, Chesky acknowledges, but «for now, you want to be robust.»

I realized I could never work for a big company again at that point.»

The problem was that at some point past employee 1000, the big payoffs ended from pre-public stock and the stock's subsequent run - up from their IPO.

It's this last point that has the biggest effect on private versus public company returns, says Tim McPeak, director of financial institutions at Sageworks, a company that studies financial information of privately held companies.

Winnebago, known for its premium, big - ticket motor homes (selling for well over $ 100,000), has been introducing new products at lower price points, better suited to the post-recession marketplace.

Using splashy big numbers of capital market debt deals is foolish when those deals are refinancing previous ones at rates hundreds of basis points cheaper.

Having a place to go when you experience computer problems is another big selling point for the Mac, and one I appreciate even as someone who prefers to troubleshoot problems myself if at all possible.

At its core, the market sell - off, which shoved the Dow Jones industrial average nearly 1,600 points lower Monday in the biggest intraday point drop in history, showed traders adjusting to signs of firmer economic growth and, potentially, a resurgence of long - dormant inflation.

Most pipeline - management training revolves around technical training on using a CRM system, but what managers really need is training on making better pipeline management decisions — for instance how to determine the ideal pipeline size for each rep. Managers need to know at what point in the sales process their actions have the biggest impact.

Bolstering her point: Lamborghini, Porsche, and Bentley's SUVs will be built at home in European factories — which, for Chinese consumers, is a big part of the prestige of buying one.

Alan Middleton, a professor of marketing at the Schulich School of Business, points out that the big banks now train tellers to upsell whenever they've got a customer standing at the wicket or asking a question on the phone.

«At some point, big wireless companies made a decision for you that you should have to wait two years to get a new phone for a fair price,» said John Legere, moved attribution up president and CEO of T - Mobile U.S., in a statement.

«My big issue with money belts or taping it to yourself is that at some point you're going to be needing that money,» said Frommer.

Far better, at least from the bank's point of view, is to have the government step in and re-level the playing field for everyone — providing, of course, the changes don't take too big a bite out of profits.

That would be the biggest one - day slump in stock market history, by more than double, besting the 777 point plunge that happened on October 29, 2008, at the high of the panic surrounding the financial crisis.

«Even for the patriotic, diehard Canadian who insists on their startup being in Canada, in many cases the company gets to a point where it's forced to sell to a U.S. big tech firm,» said Pashootan, portfolio manager at First Avenue Advisory in Ottawa, a Raymond James company.

The younger Ertz is indicative of perhaps the biggest hurdle facing Vicis at this point: NFL players are free to choose their own helmet brands and, like a lot of top athletes, are also creatures of habit.

While the number one slot on this list will shock absolutely no one and the rest of the top ten contain plenty of big name schools, PitchBook is at pains to point out that, while the most famous schools might produce the most successful founders, the vast majority of entrepreneurs bagging VC funding have more down - to - earth names on their degrees.

Decades ago, those statements would've been big news: a 200 point move when the index was at 1,000 would be 20 per cent.

Given the tendency of bigger cities to be pro-EU, these could be the last hopes of the Remain camp if it's trailing at this point.

They look at the big picture without ever considering the steps one would need to take to get from Point A to Point B.

«I'm a big proponent of simplicity and efficiency, so rather than own a car and use it infrequently, I've opted to use car sharing services that provide wheels when I need them and take the hassle and expense out of car ownership,» she notes, pointing out that «we're focused on something similar at Sunrun.»

The Dow Jones industrial average closed 19.42 points lower at 24,893.35, notching its biggest reversal since August 2015.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier, this year's top - grossing film so far, came out in early - April and the scattering of big movies around the calendar is one reason why all 2014 films have only grossed about 5.4 % less than all films had last year at this point.

Several observers, including CARTT.ca editor Greg O'Brien, have also pointed out that Verizon will still be at a disadvantage to the Big Three because it will be a wireless - only player, unable to offer bundles of TV, home Internet and landlines.

His big takeaway: They would have had those questions at some point, and because they talked earlier, they were able to handle more on the front side.

& # 9650 ExxonMobil Every time the laundry list of operational lapses at BP got trotted out this year, the obvious point of contrast was rival ExxonMobil, the biggest of Big Oil companies.

But actually, Evans» point of clarification on this issue is soooo important, since it gets at one of the biggest confusions about monetary policy and interest rates today.

It's at this point, management experts say, that leaders should shift from the skills - based, reactive approach of «horizontal» leadership to big - picture strategies, known as «vertical» leadership.

At the same time, Elliott's assets have nearly doubled to roughly $ 39 billion, including $ 5 billion it raised in a 23 - hour span in May, making it more than twice the size of the second - biggest activist hedge fund, Dan Loeb's Third Point.

When seated he leans forward when he gets to a big point the way we do when we are fired up, and he is great at breaking complex information into the magical 3s: Three points provide a verbal agenda, making it easy for everyone to follow and remember.

North American investors arrived at work Monday morning and were greeted by a 1,000 - point sell - off in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, marking the blue chip index's biggest intra-day decline ever.

During Virgin's early years, one difficult decision we had to make involved Virgin Records, which at one point was in desperate need of cash to sign bigger artists.

The Dow Jones industrial average rose 440.53 points to close at 25,335.74, with Goldman Sachs among the biggest contributors of gains to the index.

«That's the big fear (for businesses) at that point,» said Aguilar.