Sentences with phrase «by old high»

This very good piece by my old high school friend (now at AEI) Josh Good echoes family - related arguments made by Finn's mentor a half century ago.

After Lester is taunted in the street by his old high - school bully, Malvo offers him a chance to claw back some respect.

Not exact matches

In the old days, for example, the government responded to high prices by legislating tax breaks for first - time home buyers.

Gravity was inundated with résumés — 4,500 in the first week alone — including one from a high - powered 52 - year - old Yahoo executive named Tammi Kroll, who was so inspired by Price that she quit her job and in September went to work for Gravity at what she insisted would be an 80 - 85 percent pay cut.

Three years before, as a 16 - year - old high school kid, Dan Price saw bar owners being gouged by big financial firms every time they swiped a patron's credit card.

Increasingly, that growth will be driven by millennials, the oldest of whom have lifted the annual birthrate for women 30 to 34 to the highest level since 1964, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Lease results benefited from fleet growth but were partially offset by higher maintenance costs on certain older model year vehicles and weather - related expenses.

Nikolas Cruz, a 19 - year - old who had been expelled from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where the shooting took place, was taken into custody by the police, the Broward County Sheriff's Office confirmed.

If you notice that, within a few months, your declining margins will push your break - even point too high to live with, you can take action now to fix the problem by adding a new, higher - margin product, getting rid of an old one, or beginning to stress marketing to a more profitable clientele.

As someone in their mid-50's, I am old enough to remember the start of oil - price gouging and the beginning of OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) holding our energy consumption hostage by controlling the supply of crude and keeping prices high.

By doing this, the 43 - year - old from Austria became the first person to break the speed of sound wearing only a high - pressure suit.

The UK also had Europe's highest prevalence of use among people 15 to 34 years old, at 4 %, followed by the Netherlands and Spain.

Currently at 62, it could rise as high as 67 as employers, facing a declining workforce, reach out to their older workers and make it more appealing for them to stay on the job, according to a 2012 commentary by the C. D. Howe Institute.

In other words, just because your startup has won customers with a high - tech breakthrough, that doesn't mean — by the book — that you've «disrupted» the old guard.

The old notion of leaders as the smartest guys in the room has been replaced by authentic leaders with high EQs.

The hotel was recently named the No. 1 hotel in New York City by U.S. News & World Report, no doubt due to the chic Old World design and the high - end food and cocktails served at chef Tom Colicchio's on - site restaurant, Temple Court.

In particular, she was captivated by the high - tech moguls, some not much older than herself, who had the ability to forge new types of electronic ties that left people better connected to one another and to the world.

When you think of innovative companies, high - tech startups founded by Ping - Pong - playing millennials spring to mind, not a 96 - year - old grocer.

The appeal is obvious — robot bosses can automatically and with a high degree of accuracy accomplish exponentially more than those of us constrained by fallible old meat brains.

Lori Alhadeff's 14 - year - old daughter, Alyssa, was among the 17 shot dead at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High by a former student on Valentine's...

The shooter, a 19 - year - old expelled former student of the high school, has been taken into custody by authorities.

Within program expenses, major transfers to persons were up $ 1.1 billion, primarily due to higher old age security payments, reflecting an increase in the number of recipients and higher inflation, as benefits are indexed to quarterly changes in the consumer price index, major transfers to other levels of government were up $ 0.6 billion, reflecting legislative increases; while direct program expenses declined by $ 0.2 billion, as lower «other transfer» payments more than offset increases in departmental / agency operating costs.

«The old adage is: «Bull markets don't die of old age, they are killed by higher interest rates.»

In their call for a higher rate, Quail says the union is joined by groups representing commercial electricity users, industry advocates, and old age pensioners.

Is the FOMC revisiting the bad old days of the 1970s, when it tried to explain away inflation that was too high by pointing to a seemingly endless stream of one - off factors?

Sarah and Matt also discuss a new white paper on the effects of redshirting in kindergarten (delaying a kid's start by a year), which suggest that being old for one's grade may result in higher test scores, increased college attendance, and reduced likelihood of incarceration for juvenile crime.

Microsoft has previously stumbled by pricing an older Xbox too high.

The letter comes after more than 9,500 people signed an online petition started by Shannon Fest, the mother of a 15 - year - old Douglas High student who struggles to make it through a full day of school.

Carmen Schentrup would have celebrated her 17th birthday yesterday had she not been gunned down in a hail of bullets from an AR - 15 semi-automatic assault weapon on February 14 at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida by an expelled student who had bought the gun legally when he was just 18 years old.

Although some price increases have been caused by shortages, others have resulted from a business strategy of buying old neglected drugs and turning them into high - priced «specialty drugs.»

Recent Millennial Branding reports show that 45 % of companies experience high turnover with those employees identified as «millennials» — by a 2:1 margin versus older generations.

An Analysis of the Economic Circumstances of Canadian Seniors, authored by statistician Richard Shillington of Tristat Resources and released by the Broadbent Institute, also shows the Old Age Security (OAS) and Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS) guarantee levels are falling behind and trends in income sources for seniors suggest that high poverty rates among seniors will further increase.

The results of another clinical trial published in the journal found that high - dose vitamins and minerals did not protect heart attack patients 50 and older from experiencing additional cardiovascular events, though the research was marred by a high dropout rate.

Canadian retirees can receive government support through the Old Age Security (OAS) pensions as well as through the Canada Pension Plan (CPP), yet 48 % of those surveyed did not know with a high degree of confidence how much of their current income will be replaced by their CPP or OAS benefits.

When sentiment is low (high), the youngest stocks outperform (underperform) the oldest by an average 0.38 % (0.55 %) per month.

Less than a year old, and currently the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by trade volume Binance has to date posted quarterly profits higher than that of Deutsche Bank.

Since 2002, almost 250,000 manufacturing workers have lost their jobs because of the high dollar and our huge and growing trade deficit with developing Asian countries. Many are older workers who will typically face a long stretch of unemployment, followed by employment in a new job at much lower wages.

In this 53 year old historical piece, he points out that through history citizens have been led to believe that they should trade their freedom for security, something that inevitably will always link itself to higher taxation by the state.

Netflix Q2 International Net Additions 1.52 mln vs 2.00 mln guidance; For Q3 NFLX expects addition of 2 mln, expectations were in the range of 2.70 - 2.85 mln; Q1 Adds was 4.51 — US Net additions only 160k — Churn due to higher rate on older subs that got rate hike — International lower than expected — Company beat on EPS by $ 0.07 (expectations of $ 0.02)-- guided lower than expectations — Company commentary about why they fell short was focused on the churn (they don't expect that to continue) and also spent a lot of time trying to show that it was not competition — STOCK DOWN 14 %

old, and for many of the price to be paid by us and our children was just too high for us to dare to allow anyone to know that we didn't believe, in spite of that I actually have always felt that many people who just went along with «it» to avoid unpleasantness, never believed, as I never have.

Although she never reveals her real name (effaced now under the patronymic «Offred»), the Handmaid begins her tale in the old high school gymnasium by recalling youthful «expectation, of something without a shape or name» (p. 3), preserving, like Israel in exile, the time of hope, and returning in memory to the sources of existence as the only way forward.

Kids as young as 8 years old, swing machetes high over their heads to hack off cocoa pods, spray lethal pesticide without any protective gear, spend hours splicing open the pods with knives, with little clue that the end result of their labor is candy that will go on clearance by February 15th.

In this way, Hays challenges the old critical view (which has also been challenged in recent years by Larry Hurtado, Richard Bauckham, and others) that high Christologies are late developments, entering Christian history as secondary, Hellenistic theological innovations.

Actually was enjoying the show until the heartless act of giving up a 15 year old well behaved devoted dog and left to people that had so many dogs and vet bills (or should have high vet bills by the amount of dogs and their conditions) that the dog will hardly have a quality final years left.

Precious Metals the Result of Meteorite Bombardment, Rock Analysis Finds Sep. 9, 2011 — Ultra high precision analyses of some of the oldest rock samples on Earth by researchers at the University of Bristol provides clear evidence that the planet's accessible reserves of precious metals are the result of a bombardment of meteorites more than 200 million years after Earth was formed.

Baseball is also spatially eschatological or infinite: in theory, a baseball field could extend forever — as center field in New York's old Polo Grounds seemed to do, except when patrolled by a higher spirit in human form who made space (and Vic Wertz's home run in the 1954 World Series) disappear: Willie Mays.

The most rapidly aging nation in the world, and the one with the highest life expectancy, Japan by the year 2,000, according to government statistics, will have a population with 21 per cent of its members 65 or older — and the nation generally considers old age to begin at 55, when mandatory retirement usually occurs.

Since the Syriac fathers see the old order of sacrifices as having lost its former value, it is curious how firmly both Aphrahat and Ephrem held a tradition which is strange to the New Testament, namely, that Christ as High Priest «according to the order of Melchizedek», actually received the Aaronic priesthood by unbroken succession of imposition of hands through John the Baptist, who was of priestly family; when the former priesthood was repudiated, the power continued in Christ and he passed it on to the Apostles.

Moreover, not only is the problem in itself difficult, it is needlessly and cruelly complicated by untoward social conditions which make almost impossible the reorganization of old instincts around high purposes.

Higher and earlier than the angels, this true Adam is as old as God, older than the Bible, and is free of time, unstained by mortality.»