Sentences with phrase «by less we mean»

Not exact matches

The double - tracking has helped raise the average length of Union Pacific's intermodal trains — which are now less limited by the need to fit on sidings — from 158 cars in 2007 to 170 today, meaning that UP is handling far bigger volumes.

That means superseding physical constraints like having an actual hospital by harnessing the power of mobile technology, making the act of taking your medicine less of a hassle, and peering into our very biological building blocks to wage war on the most intractable maladies.

It's less common, Brookes said, but if left in, it might mean the only way you can break your mortgage is by selling your home.

Lower revenues mean less money for expansion and hiring, and forecasts suggest will be less than one open position per job seeker by 2022.

In the post-recession business landscape where good jobs continue to be hard to come by, more and more employees across all industries are working harder than ever, even if it means sleeping a lot less.

Less spending by consumers means less business on Main StrLess spending by consumers means less business on Main Strless business on Main Street.

As it turns out, people with higher income levels are more likely than those of modest means to opt for HSA - qualified health plans, because they are less concerned by the potential out - of - pocket medical costs and more interested in the tax savings, according to Fronstin at EBRI.

So happy, they may even be willing to take a pay cut to work for a dog - friendly company: a survey conducted by Modern Dog magazine revealed that 65 % of readers would take a job for less money if it meant they could bring their dog to work.

By examining the link between the subjects» dispositions and how much they earned, the researchers found that men who were slightly more agreeable than the mean earned 18 % less on average — that's US$ 9,772 less than their more disagreeable peers.

The sportswear brand has shown what it means by differentiated retail with its concept store in New York's SoHo neighborhood and the nearby 45 Grand, Nike's exclusive showroom and design studio where guests can get custom Presto X's in less than 90 minutes.

It must be produced entirely by mechanical means without the use of any solvents, and under temperatures that will not degrade the oil (less than 86 °F, 30 °C).

That's by comparison to more than 15 million who watched the games on traditional television, which means that for the NFL, the Twitter deal was more or less a rounding error.

Going mobile means less chance of getting caught by your spouse.

Worst of all, Luhnow and his execs were openly violating the baseball compact by which rebuilding teams were supposed to obscure their long - term plan by maintaining the illusion that they were genuinely trying to win each and every year, even if it meant losing just a little less.

That means if prices go down by only 3 %, the house will be in negative equity and it would pay the homeowner just to walk away and say, «The house now is worth less than the mortgage I owe.

* «Net Capital» means the amount by which current assets exceed liabilities, less such other items as may be specified in any Guidance Note issued by the Exchange, and in determining Net Capital:

That means some financial advisors — basically, brokers and insurance agents - will once again be able to give conflicted investment advice by recommending high - priced 401 (k) investments that pay them rich commissions over less expensive - but comparable - alternatives on May 7, 2018.

By negative equity, I mean that the price of their home may fall to less than they owe on the mortgage.

«If you assume that for many years China has been misallocating investment (by which I simply mean that the resulting increase in productivity generated by the investment was less than the correctly calculated debt - servicing cost)...» How about not «assuming» and offer proof?

(by «all income» i mean less than the $ 18,000 max) Also when you have a solo 401k for a side business, if you are a sole proprietor does the business have to be one specific thing?

That said, the oldest Boomers are past their «peak consumption years», meaning less spending on key categories like transportation, housing and apparel, with the windfall more than picked up by their children, netting out to about an average 0.77 % demographic driven annual growth rate across sectors through 2060.12

The latter now go by... Tronc X. Given that both expenses and revenues are interwoven between print and digital these days — and subject to all manner of highly subjective «allocations» — those two divisions mean less than the whole company numbers.

Second, assume that the bad debt generated by the system (by which I mean the excess portion of any debt used to fund projects that add less value to the economy than the cost of the project) is not written down within the reporting period in which it was extended.

If the final rule «is not dealt with» either by statute or other means, «then what we'll see over a period of time is a self - fulfilling prophecy: What happens with less advice is more diminished returns and over a period of time what happens is a wider and wider [savings] gap,» Roskam said.

Collaboration may look less productive by traditional measures — which may mean we have to discover new ways of proving the business value of collaborative environments.

Lower consumer spending means less sales by U.S. and foreign manufacturers — especially those in countries whose currency is rising against the dollar (e.g., Japan).

Because banks held few excess reserves, it took only modest adjustments to the size of the Fed's balance sheet, achieved by means of open - market purchases or sales of short - term Treasury securities, to make credit more or less scarce, and thereby achieve the Fed's immediate policy objectives.

Favourable attributes associated with boutiques include: 1: Managers who think independently 2: A lack of benchmark - hugging 3: A reasonable, incentive - based remuneration 4: Less run by committee, meaning decisions can be made quickly 5: Less bureaucracy and company politics to deal with than at big firms 6: Higher level of employee ownership and investment in own funds, aligning employee and client interests 7: Lower staff turnover

The weighted average of the MERs charged by the component ETFs works out to about 21 basis points per year, which means the Sleepy Portfolio costs about $ 275 every year or about 75 cents a day — less than half the cost of a large double - double these days.

This means that measures that increase potential supply by promoting flexibility are therefore less important than measures that offer the potential to increase demand, such as regulatory reform and business tax reform.

The move comes after Disney raised prices early last summer, as has become the usual tradition, meaning that the theme park giant increased single - day prices by $ 10 in less than a year.

This means you'll have to work longer — or get by with less — if you retire early.

By this, I mean, if inflation kicks in, interest rates should rise, and homes will effectively be worth less because of the decreased purchasing power.

Although this will partially be compensated by working less for Tribal, this will also mean that I have less time to blog.

Moving back to the irritation factor, the fact that you can get a closer shave with lesser passes when using a safety razor means that really, you're likely to reduce the amount of irritation by a factor of 10.

By the New York Fed's calculation, this means there is less than a 5 % chance of a recession in the United States in the next 12 months.

«If by a fiscal conservative, one means a person who wants to reduce the size of government through less government spending, lower taxes, balanced budgets and lower debt burdens, then Harper is clearly not a fiscal conservative.»

Regional banks also tend to be more domestically - focused, meaning their bottom lines may be less impacted by a strong U.S. dollar, which could potentially erode non-dollar revenue earned abroad.

If an investor or fellow entrepreneur tells you that you will save legal fees by doing your seed round with notes instead of stock, what she really means is that the kind of investment that can be done with a note or notes will be less formal, will involve less scrutiny and due diligence, than a round that is priced.

(For instance I'm fairly confident that promiscuity is sinful, especially when it comes from a place of lust, but I'm less convinced that my committed same - sex friends are sinning by expressing their love physically any more than I am sinning when my wife and I express our love physically — even though I think we can be if we are acting out of lust or as a means of asserting power over one another, but that is another story).

A lower neutral rate also makes it more likely that interest rates will be constrained by the effective lower bound, meaning monetary policy will have less scope to support income growth during periods of economic weakness.

Maybe if you «quoted» others a little less and yourself paid a little more attention, you would have noticed, all by yourself, that nothing that happens has any inherent meaning, other than the one we give it.

It's also great that the New York Yankees have millions of fans, but I'm not really a sports guy, so their fanhood means nothing to me, or to them, and not only do I get by just fine not following sports, but I know that being a sports fan would actually make me less happy.

The best evidence suggests that 1 to 3 percent of males are exclusively homosexual in their orientation (the number of females is probably less than half that), and by no means are all of those out of the closet «gays.»

Central to this Court - led revolution is the idea that the Constitution is in a state of more or less perpetual evolution, whence it follows that judges need not be bound by the precise words of the document, or by prior precedent, or by settled historical meaning.

Furthermore, any child entering your home, either by adoptive or biological means, is never anything less than a miracle in the first place — 25 or 35, it's all God.

Both are technological means of communication, distinguished only by their respective abilities to reach smaller or larger audiences over lesser or greater distances.

We have an apparatus for discovery unrivaled by the ages, yet every new fact means less than the previously discovered one, for we lack what turns facts to knowledge: the information of what the facts are for.

There are things that warrant disengagement, accountability and justice, but just because you've had your personal feelings hurt by less egregious (unintentional) acts, doesn't mean you should be cynical.

Calvin was sensitive to the pressures upon capital in a more or less free market, and believed that the ethical aims of the usury prohibition could be safeguarded by other means.