Sentences with phrase «bigger for less»

My daughter and I have been dreaming of owning two tiny house (one each) for over a year now but it seems that the prices just keep getting bigger for less space.

Not exact matches

Times editorial board member Elizabeth Williamson writes that wealthier tech employees seem to support Clinton; meanwhile, those living in «a less glamorous Silicon Valley, inhabited by brainy young people whose long hours power the big companies and whose college debt is so heavy that some of them can't even qualify for a credit card» are «feeling the Bern.»

Canada's Big Six banks themselves are less likely to feel the need to innovate, insulated as they are against the competitive agitation of fintech companies by their market position and regulatory balustrade, and cognizant that Canada's venture capitalism industry — usually the fuel for fintech — is far less fulsome than America's.

In July, the Bank of Canada estimated that 47 per cent of residential mortgages with the Big Six banks will be up for renewal in less than a year, with another 31 per cent due in the next one to three years.

Prepare for RFP responses to be a big distraction while they are happening; the better prepared you are, the less of a distraction they will be.

Though there's generally less competition for jobs in small towns, business owners need to be more careful about finding applicants who are truly qualified and most likely to stay in the position for longer than their counterparts in bigger locales.

Corporate culture is a big concern for many professionals who want to ensure they have an open, positive workplace that honors the less - structured work styles of millennials.

There were several reasons for the upgrade, but the two big ones were aggressive share repurchases and a continued diversification of revenues sources, meaning less focus on traditional advertising.

«Amazon's been signaling for about one or two years that they're going to make big bets, because they can, because they've got the cash flow to do it, so that makes this less of a surprise,» said Mahaney, an analyst at RBC Capital.

A minor celebrity in both Davos and Big Data circles, Goldman sold his first company for $ 225 million, back when less than a billion dollars was actually worth something.

But the biggest «breakthrough» came for Gates, he says, when he read Rosling's proposal for four levels of wealth around the world, with level one being extreme poverty — those surviving on $ 2 a day or less — and level four being those spending more than $ 32 a day.

And as Big Data grows inexorably bigger, we'll spend less time stumbling in the dark, searching for a connection, and more time actually connecting.

One of the big «Justin - fications» for this proposal is that it'll help parents deal with expensive and hard - to - find childcare, which is often cheaper and easier to find for toddlers (partly because staff - to - child ratios are looser after 18 months, so daycares are less inclined to hire additional staff to accommodate more infants).

These men are betting that fusion done on a small scale will be cheaper, less complex, and ready for market sooner than the big government projects.

If Jobs» biggest accomplishment over the past 10 years could be pinpointed, my vote would go to his convincing AT&T to offer unlimited data on the iPhone for less than $ 100.

Q: How do I compensate my salespeople when I can't afford to pay a big base salary, equity counts for less than it used to, and the reps aren't making their numbers?

As for Schlumberger, investors appear jittery about the stock, in part because the world's supplier of oilfield equipment has less exposure to the lucrative shale market ---- the biggest near - term driver for sales ---- than competitors.

As Yuval Bashar, LinkedIn principal engineer and president of Open19 told Fortune, the Open Compute Foundation may be great for the biggest of the big web companies like Google but is less applicable for the many smaller businesses that still run their own data centers.

VR has a bright future, to be sure, but if there's one thing that we've learned from the last five years of VR being «The Next Big Thing» each year, it's that VR's handicaps make fuller adoption limited and leave the door open for a much less invasive technology with a much brighter future: augmented reality, or AR.

The biggest demand for commercial loans, as far as U.S. Bank is concerned, is primarily for middle market firms looking for loans of up to $ 1 million or more, and on the lower end for $ 250,000 or less, says John Elmore, vice chairman of consumer banking for U.S. Bank.

The big car manufacturers are opting for far less ambitious plans.

The lack of VR media for headsets like the Facebook (fb) Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and Sony's yet - to - be release headset makes it less compelling for consumers to want to spend big bucks on cutting - edge gadgetry.

It is also restricted almost entirely to Africa, which, unfortunately for its victims, makes it a less attractive target for big drug companies than a host of non-fatal diseases (think erectile dysfunction) that are more common in rich countries.

In 2011, head coaches for all women's teams in the BIG 10 conference made less than a third of what the men's coaches pulled in, $ 149,000 compared with $ 490,000, according to research from Tucker.

The big benefit from planning for taxes is twofold: You're less likely to be surprised by a tax bill and also will know how much of your earnings actually are available to you.

For Dell, a giant business technology company is better suited to thrive in a rapidly changing technology landscape where businesses are increasingly buying less data center hardware and instead renting computing capacity from big cloud computing providers, like Amazon Web Services (amzn) and Microsoft (msft).

Baby Jogger's woes had been brought about, in part, by fierce competition from lower - priced rivals selling strollers through big - box stores and discount websites for as little as $ 99, less than half the price of a Baby Jogger.

But by removing all human contact, they're making their app less valuable, so that they'll never get big enough for «how does it scale?»

The proposed repeal of the current Obama - era protections would be a big win for ISPs including Comcast and Verizon, but has been strongly opposed by tech firms like Google and Facebook — though those giants are less likely to be hurt than smaller content providers.

Big Bang's sunglasses, for example, have pivoting temples that fold in front of the lenses; that makes them easier to slip into a front pocket and less likely to get scratched.

They may have big dreams for their stake in the company, but they are less likely to demand growth on a quarterly basis the way shareholders in a widely - held company are likely to do.

In addition, mortgage lending, which is tied to long - term Treasury rates, is less important for the big banks than it used to be.

But the paper's editors were unimpressed when, after they had handed her the Big Apple and facilitated her move there, she bolted for television less than two years later.

As for the notion that the big payment processors may fear cryptocurrencies as potential competitors, this could become an issue if and when cryptocurrencies recover from their current crash and settle into a less volatile pattern that encourages their use as virtual currency rather than as speculative assets.

But it turns out that in aggregate, small firms pay about the same premiums as big firms — in fact, for family coverage, companies with under 200 employees pay less ($ 11,835) than firms with 200 or more workers ($ 12,233).

Government figures cited by the Associated Press indicate that just 1.7 million people — out of a total non-farm labor force of some 136 million workers — earned the minimum wage or less in 2006; still the increase was a big political victory for the Democrats, one that came at the expense of lobbyists from the National Federation of Independent Businesses and the Chamber of Commerce, among others.

The deal announced late Wednesday comes less than two years after Google bought Motorola Mobility for $ 12.4 billion in the biggest acquisition of Google's 15 - year history.

So - called bonus depreciation is set to expire this year, and rules (in Section 179 of the tax code) that allow small companies to take big deductions for many expenses are set to become much less generous.

It's been a scary day for airline passengers, after three of the biggest U.S. carriers — Southwest Airlines, United Airlines, and Delta Airlines — all had emergency landings within less than 18 hours.

The stocks that hedge funds have largely ignored tend to be much larger than the hotels, have less debt, grow earnings more slowly but consistently, and pay bigger dividends (an average yield of nearly 3 % for the S&P 500 constituents, compared with 2 % for the index overall).

The low liquidity levels are caused by a combination of regulations, which make it less attractive for big banks to hold inventories of bonds for dealing, and new forms of quick, computerised trading, which have the potential to move markets in times of stress.

For that reason, Northrop shares edged up only 0.3 % in early trading Monday, suggesting that, while the deal made lots of sense over the long term, the price is pretty full and the buyer has less practice than some at integrating new businesses, especially big ones.

While quarterbacks often get blamed for a poor offense — and there are some mediocre quarterbacks starting around the league — poor offensive lines can create a domino effect on offense: less protection for the quarterback, shorter passes, shorter runs, fewer exciting big plays.

Ultimately, the biggest question mark for the gigafactory's long - term viability are less technological than strategic.

According to rate - tracking website Ratehub.ca, youth accounts at Tangerine, the online bank owned by Scotiabank, pays the highest interest rate for young savers at 1.2 per cent compared with typically less than one per cent at the country's big banks.

If you need to print brochures, giant spreadsheets or other presentations that are too big for your standard printer to handle, the HP Officejet 7000 offers big, low - cost prints — up to 13 by 19 inches — for less than the cost of an all - in - one printer.

With Demo Day less than a week away, LaHive was hoping I'd share some insights for the founders on how to prepare for that big presentation.

The stock picker doesn't matter if you opt for an index fund, of course; and it matters less at big, process - oriented companies like Fidelity or American Funds.

Taylor Swift has been paid less than $ 500,000 in the past 12 months for domestic streaming of her songs, Scott Borchetta, the CEO of Taylor Swift's record label, the independent Nashville - based Big Machine, told TIME Wednesday.

Although there are many lists that rank the top big U.S. cities to start a business, less attention has been paid to the best small cities for entrepreneurs.