Sentences with phrase «by other measures of»

Judged by other measures of the exchange rate designed to capture competition with imports or against export competitors, it has shown a small increase in competitiveness.

All in all, while there's no raid here, by every other measure of quality, the effort put into House of Wolves clearly surpasses The Dark Below.

Not exact matches

Physicists could look for evidence of other universes using tools designed to measure ripples in spacetime — also known as primordial gravitational waves — that would have been generated by the universe's initial expansion from the Big Bang.

The Company considers EBITDA to be an important measure used to evaluate operating performance, and the measure is frequently used by securities analysts, investors and other interested parties in the evaluation of companies in the industry, but this figure should not be considered in isolation.

But once Bannister did it, all of a sudden other runners started repeating the feat, and today the four - minute mile is considered a yardstick by which all distance runners are measured.

It is the high - water mark of 2018 thus far — the game by which all others will be measured.

Some of these measures exclude net realized investment gains (losses), net of tax, and / or net unrealized investment gains (losses), net of tax, included in shareholders» equity, which can be significantly impacted by both discretionary and other economic factors and are not necessarily indicative of operating trends.

Harris is an outspoken critic of using engagement — as measured by screen time, click - throughs, likes, and other actions — as a metric of success.

That estimate comes from the Economic Policy Institute's (EPI) 2015 Family Budget Calculator, which measures the annual cost of necessities for one adult to live a secure, yet modest, lifestyle by estimating the costs of housing, food, transportation, health care, other necessities, and taxes.

Management believes analysts and investors use Adjusted EBITDA as a supplemental measure to evaluate overall operating performance and facilitate comparisons with other wireless communications companies because it is indicative of T - Mobile's ongoing operating performance and trends by excluding the impact of interest expense from financing, non-cash depreciation and amortization from capital investments, non-cash stock - based compensation, network decommissioning costs as they are not indicative of T - Mobile's ongoing operating performance and certain other nonrecurring income and expenses.

Increased supervision of insurance companies and other tightening measures by Chinese authorities have contributed to the Shanghai stocks» muted performance this year.

And he said Comcast wouldn't sacrifice the profitability of its other businesses to build the wireless unit, promising wireless would be profitable on its own by some measures after reaching only «limited scale.»

It said a surge of strong numbers in late 2017 was followed by softer figures early this year, suggesting «some pulling forward of demand ahead of new mortgage guidelines and other policy measures.»

Comparison of our presentation of NAREIT FFO to similarly titled measures for other REITs may not necessarily be meaningful due to possible differences in the application of the NAREIT definition used by such REITs.

According to a January tally by Green Street Advisors, only 40 % of Macy's stores are in «strong» malls as measured by sales per square foot; the other 60 % are in the sorts of uninviting shopping centers where foot traffic is dwindling and department stores can feel especially vacant and gloomy.

The company considers NAREIT FFO an important supplemental measure of our operating performance and believes it is frequently used by securities analysts, investors and other interested parties in the evaluation of REITs, many of which present NAREIT FFO when reporting results.

Cree considers free cash flow to be an operating performance and a liquidity measure that provides useful information to management and investors about the amount of cash generated by the business after the purchases of property and equipment, a portion of which can then be used to, among other things, invest in Cree's business, make strategic acquisitions, strengthen the balance sheet and repurchase stock.

By that measure, the legal cannabis business is rapidly accelerating into stage three, as an ecosystem of financial and other services quickly grows up.

But they are separated by nearly 800 miles of blacktop, and by one other very important measure: McAllen is the second-most expensive city for medicine in the United States, trailing only Miami in costs.

House and Senate Democrats have introduced legislation aimed at lowering drug prices through a series of aggressive measures, including by requiring biopharma companies to reveal far more information about their R&D, manufacturing, and other costs.

And doing so makes our GDP figure more comparable to those published by other nations, many of which are also struggling to measure what goes on in the shadows.

The determination of this item may not be comparable to similarly titled measures used by other companies.

Adjusted EBITDA is used by management to measure operating performance of the business, excluding these non-cash and other specifically identified items that management believes are not relevant to management's assessment of operating performance or the performance of an acquired business.

Adjusted EBITDA is not calculated identically by all companies, and therefore the Company's measurements of Adjusted EBITDA may not be comparable to similarly titled measures reported by other companies.

Additionally, McDonald's measures their other goals such as increasing revenue and creating better customer service, by analyzing the amount of sales generated, their overall cost savings, the type of customer feedback the campaign received, and their response time when replying to customers.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

The children who were willing to delay gratification and waited to receive the second marshmallow ended up having higher SAT scores, lower levels of substance abuse, lower likelihood of obesity, better responses to stress, better social skills as reported by their parents, and generally better scores in a range of other life measures.

Depending on a variety of metrics that measure a company's growth and development — for example, how it is acquiring and retaining customers, its revenue streams, and the amount of money it spends each month — the seed round may be followed by others.

In the face of this escalation in market instability, recent measures by the European Union and its member states, the IMF, and the ECB and other central banks have provided investors with some confidence that the underlying issues are being addressed, and that support mechanisms are in place.

According to the government's own calculations, the elimination of duties on sports and baby clothes will cost $ 76 million a year, but it will gain $ 333 million annually by its other measure.

The measure of any credit card's value can only be obtained by comparing it to other available options.

In evaluating the opinions that you hear to the contrary, keep in mind that the consensus of economists, as measured by the Blue Chip Economic Survey and others, has never forecast an oncoming recession, and usually remained rosy even several months after the actual recession was eventually determined to have started.

Though we don't use the Coppock indicator in its popular form, the 29 signals in this measure since 1900 have been associated, on average, with market returns of 19.6 % over the following year, and only 3 yearly losses among those signals (one because of the entry into World War II, and the others because the signals were driven by the reversal of a very weakly negative reading, as was the case for the latest signal).

Your amount realized will be measured by the sum of the cash or the fair market value of other property received plus your share under the partnership tax rules of our liabilities, if any.

This measure, part of the new fiduciary standard's best interest contract exemption (or BICE), means advisors and others have to figure out how to best define reasonable compensation by April 10, 2017.

«Rather than remedy its misconduct, China has chosen to harm our farmers and manufacturers,» Trump said in the statement, and he added that he's instructing the secretary of agriculture to take measures to protect farmers and other agricultural interests who might be ensnared by the Chinese tariffs.

The first trading day of the second quarter began with a broad selloff concentrated in the technology and consumer discretionary sectors, as losses by Amazon.com (AMZN.O), Tesla (TSLA.O) and Microsoft (MSFT.O), among others, took center stage from retaliatory trade measures China unveiled on Sunday.

Had Trump taken the measures suggested repeatedly by ethics experts on both sides of the political aisle, he would by now have put his assets in what's called a blind trust, which would entail turning over his empire to a third party with whom he will have no contact, who would sell off the properties and reinvest the resulting money in other assets without providing the president any information about the sales or the purchases.

All other departmental and agency expenses declined by $ 0.2 billion in part, reflecting the impact of the restraint measures introduced in the2010 Budget.

In other words, headline measures are being distorted lower by declining energy and food prices, declines that aren't reflective of any economic shortfall.

The new research paper follows on a report last year co-authored by Prof. Wolfson and two other researchers, who concluded many of Canada's wealthiest people are funnelling a large portion of their income through CCPCs that are not reflected in standard measures of individual earnings.

Moreover, the ability of US firms to compete in international markets is also affected by external factors such as exchange rates and the trade measures of other countries, including those determined by international trade agreements and global trade rules.

But closing down unnecessary capacity can pay for itself, even if unemployed workers are temporarily put on the government payroll (causing debt to rise, but usually by less than it had before), but only temporarily as Beijing takes other measures to boost household income through wealth transfers from the state and so to boost consumption, a form of demand which is likely to be more labor intensive than the demand created in the process of over-capacity.

We believe the corporate governance measures noted above demonstrate that our Board has embraced independence, and our shareholders have recognized the effectiveness of our current Board leadership structure by re-electing our Chairman, the Lead Independent Director, and other Board members each year.

In other words, it's not just about the number of sites that link to a given page, but also the importance of those sites (measured by the links to each of them).

That still leaves one - fifth of the systemic risk score accounted for by other measures, but perhaps the answer is not quite so simple.

The response plan should definitely include the following: manage the cybersecurity incident in order to limit damages, make sure you collaborate well with the rest of your company and with other organizations, create metrics for measuring the incident response efficiency, prevent more by minimizing human errors, create incident response protocols that will improve your team's effectiveness.

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If the authorities are willing to engage in loss - making activities to achieve the GDP growth target, there are two relevant characteristics of an economy like China's that change the nature of the GDP measure: first, economic activity is much less affected by hard - budget constraints than it is in most other economies; and second, bad debt is much less likely to be written down.

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