Sentences with phrase «by high and low»

Ball et al22 compared outcomes in 2 hostels, characterized by high and low EE.

Remission rates at 2 - year follow - up for participants with high and low self - esteem by high and low global Eating Disorder Examination (EDE) scores.

The developers explain how the forest is dominated by the ancient tree, surrounded by high and low humidity areas that are home to entirely different creatures.

The colored bands represent the range of warming outcomes spanned by high and low life - cycle estimates for the energy technologies illustrated: (A) natural gas, (B) coal with carbon capture and storage, (C) hydroelectric, (D) solar thermal, (E) nuclear, (F) solar photovoltaic and (G) wind.

Jered Sprecher's paintings seem to be in a constant state of flux, and his fragmented and conflicting imagery is influenced by both high and low culture: Sprecher's diverse sources of inspiration range from gemstones to naive children's drawings.

The exhibition presents Phillips's text - based art inspired by high and low culture.

He goes on to define what he means by high and low art and as an example he draws the contrast between a poem by T. S. Eliot and a Tin Pan Alley song; or a painting by Georges Braque and a Saturday Evening Post cover; all being examples of contemporaneous culture.

Tonight, they've got The Bad Sleep Well followed by High and Low, and Red Beard, and then on into the morning with I Live in Fear and Scandal.

«Flows are associated to density variations, pretty much as winds on Earth are caused by high and low pressure areas.

Jean Baptiste Marie Vianney (1786 - 1859), the Curé of Ars, wrought a moral transformation in the village where he was priest, was sought by high and low from far and wide for spiritual counsel, and was also canonized in 1925.

Maturing economies, even those with Chinese characteristics, are marked by highs and lows, positive events and negative events.

Beamer's final season was, like quite a few other recent Tech seasons, marked by highs and lows.

The range in estimates is again explained by the higher and lower statistical cutoff points we used to determine whether a classroom should be suspected of cheating.

Though baseball certainly provides a rich background for this story (whose heart isn't tugged by the highs and lows of an underdog team?)

While we are transfixed by highs and lows, they are not telling us much about climate.

Not exact matches

A bear market refers to when the major averages are down by more than 10 percent from their highs and seem like they could go lower.

Given the «very low barriers to entry» resulting in intense competition in the funeral services industry, Earp stressed the need for InvoCare to stay ahead by providing the highest levels of customer service and upgrading its facilities and product offerings.

The site may sell more even with lower conversion, but, moving forward, Bonobos should complement its PR strategy by going after more traffic from Google and Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) searches, which typically converts to sales at a higher rate than referring - site traffic.

LONDON, April 23 - Hamstrung by a renewed slump in volatility and lack of clear market direction, FX and bond speculators are making historically big bets on a lower dollar and higher yields.

We have built multiple companies, celebrated each other's weddings and children, traveled the world together, and dealt with the highs and lows of entrepreneurship side by side.

Those federal rules, which double down on restrictions adopted in 2014 and stern warnings to lenders issued by OSFI earlier this summer, require banks to qualify borrowers at higher interest rates, impose additional limits on mortgages for buyers with small down payments, and compel financial institutions to share the risk by taking out insurance policies on low - ratio mortgages.

In the above table, I have selected a few prior years with interim high and low readings, as well as the last 4 years, and further broken out 2015 by quarter.

Micra, a device which manufacturer and medical device giant Medtronic calls the world's smallest pacemaker (it's a one - inch long product that doesn't contain any leads), is being sent to the final frontier to examine how it's affected by high radiation and low temperatures during space flight.

Fortune ran numbers to calculate how much extra revenue the U.S. would need to raise, over the next decade, if it lowered the rate of growth in Social Security by one percentage point, reduced increases in Medicare, Medicaid, and other health care spending by a proportional amount, and held discretionary spending below growth in GDP (albeit from the higher base established by the new laws).

To avoid being surprised by criticism — and boost your ability to counter it — it's useful to track your work highs and lows through the year.

Corporate investment - banking fees were down 4 % from the year - ago quarter because of lower advisory and equity issuance fees but partly offset by higher debt - issuance fees, according to the firm.

And the challenges created by policing individuals from converting higher - taxed wages into lower - taxed business profits, both from a legislative language perspective and an enforcement perspective with the limited resources of the IRS, would be near impossibAnd the challenges created by policing individuals from converting higher - taxed wages into lower - taxed business profits, both from a legislative language perspective and an enforcement perspective with the limited resources of the IRS, would be near impossiband an enforcement perspective with the limited resources of the IRS, would be near impossible.

By overreacting to rumours of higher taxes, Canada's millionaires and billionaires are blowing political capital they might have used to make the case for lower ones.

But Foote believes Target can help offset lower prices on high - frequency purchases by boosting prices on those exclusive designer dresses, on - trend bed sheets and specialty candies that set it apart from market competitors.

Much the year - end maneuvering noted by the Rockefeller Institute involved the country's millionaires and billionaires rearranging their finances to maximize the portion of their income that would be taxed in 2012, at lower rates, rather than in 2013, at potentially higher rates.

Likewise, apartment owners are encouraged by lower vacancies and higher rents.

«The fact is that if your employer 401 (k) match is low enough and your combined tax savings on HSA contributions is high enough, you'd amass more wealth by making HSA contributions first.»

To be considered a success, the Fed needs its rate hike to be followed next year by continued U.S. growth, continued low unemployment, and, perhaps most in doubt, a turn higher in inflation.

«The fact is that if your employer 401 (k) match is low enough and your combined tax savings on HSA contributions is high enough, you'd amass more wealth by making HSA contributions first,» he said.

The burden of comparatively high corporation tax is carried by investors through lower returns, workers through reduced wages and / or consumers through higher prices.

For all the talk of abnormal times and changes in underlying economic fundamentals, the Fed is pinning its hopes on a very conventional premise — that the U.S. consumer will keep spending at recent strong rates, encouraged by low unemployment and the apparent beginnings of higher wages.

In the U.S., Walmart's «stack»em high and watch»em fly» strategy is aimed at middle to lower - income consumers who are watching every penny, while Target has differentiated itself by investing more in the slick look and feel of its stores.

The high court's action was a blow to Vivendi SA's Capitol Records (vivef) and units of Sony (sne), which warned of rampant online copyright abuse if a ruling by a lower court shielding Vimeo from liability remained in place.

Western Australia's only onshore oil producer has suspended production after being hit by the low oil price and the high cost of trucking its output to Wyndham rather than the much closer port at Broome.

Its authors declare that there is «no correlation between federal minimum - wage increases and lower employment levels, even in the industries that are most impacted by higher minimum wages.

Heineken is trying to change that by marketing its low and no beers in the same way they market their higher - ABV counterparts.

For example, entrepreneurs have been able to profit by buying low when the bitcoin first came out and selling high when its price rose.

April 23 (Reuters)- Barrick Gold Corp, the world's largest gold miner by output, reported a 5 percent rise in first - quarter adjusted profit on Monday, primarily reflecting higher gold prices and lower depreciation.

I noted a week ago that Bernanke had essentially eased monetary policy by spurring a loosening of financial conditions via higher stock prices, lower bond yields, tighter credit spreads, and a weakening of the U.S. dollar.

Higher gold sales and lower exploration spending have boosted diversified miner Independence Group's full - year net profit by 58 per cent to $ 77 million.

The study, conducted by Sameer B. Srivastava, Ph.D. and doctoral student Eliot Sherman at the University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business, found that low - performing women who switched from a male supervisor to a high - performing female supervisor earned substantially less than men who made a similar shift.

Fueled by low prices, and an improving job market, consumption of gasoline in the U.S. rose by 2.6 per cent last year to 9.2 million barrels a day, the highest level since 2007, the government said.

(Reuters)- Lowe's Cos Inc reported higher - than - expected comp sales and profit on Tuesday, helped by lower costs as well as higher demand for emergency supplies and rebuilding material due to hurricanes battering several regions in the United States.

Some see higher rates as a vote of confidence on the strength of the economy, while others consider increased borrowing costs a threat to the bull market that began amid — and was fueled by — historically low rates and extraordinary Fed stimulus.

The researchers can't say exactly why that happened, but one possible reason is that high - performing female bosses may feel threatened by their low - performing female subordinates and worry that they themselves will be evaluated negatively through association with the struggling employees.