Sentences with phrase «called cost of»

The New York Times did a great study called The Cost of Mobile Ads on 50 News Websites that outlined both load times and data usage when accessing popular sites.

Your benefits are also impacted by what's called a Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA), an adjustment made to Social Security to account for the effects of inflation.

This rate does have some influence over a bank's so - called cost of funds, and changes in this cost of funds can translate into higher (or lower) interest rates on both deposits and loans.

Maynard Smith called this cost of sex the «two-fold cost of males.»

Call it the cost of political favors.

Not exact matches

The demographic data firm Sperling's BestPlaces based its predictions on factors including cost of living, access to transportation, infrastructure, and education, updating its analysis as the e-commerce giant continues to tease new information about the massive project called HQ2.

Some experts call this dollar - cost averaging, says Daniel Laverdière, senior manager of financial planning and advisory services with National Bank Financial, but it's really about making sure that some saving is occurring on a regular basis.

Voice roaming calls, said Monique Goyens, the director general of the Brussels - based group, typically cost three times what consumers pay domestically; data roaming charges can be up to 50 times what consumers pay in their home markets.

After the trip, Hsieh decided that Vegas was the perfect destination to grow the company: The city would be able to provide plenty of call - center talent trained in Vegas» entertainment and hospitality industries, and the lower cost of living could foster accelerated growth.

The president called for an evaluation of the agency's financial dealings, a move that may portend an increase in shipping costs for businesses.

The cost of live customer care averages at about $ 7.5 per call as against the cost of automated customer care systems that are pegged at just 35 cents per call.

A 2012 report by the Kaiser Family Foundation calls the PBM assertions of Medicare savings «overstated» and says the reduced cost probably stemmed from incorrectly high predictions of prices and from brand drugs going generic.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday suspended trading in the stock of a small business called The Crypto Company, citing concerns about the «accuracy and adequacy» of information it provided about marketing costs and insiders» plans to sell shares.

In the paper, called «Death by Pokemon Go: The Economic and Human Cost of Using Apps While Driving,» the scientists examined police accident reports in Tippecanoe County, Indiana in the 148 days after the game's release.

My first two weeks in Sierra Leone, I had to call a military medical evacuation that cost over $ 80,000 to take care of a volunteer who was very ill.

The new app is called Astropad Mini, and it's going to cost $ 4.99 as part of its launch promotion on Thursday while the full price will be $ 9.99.

Vancouver based General Fusion aims for a relatively low - cost, practical form of fusion called Magnetized Target Fusion.Photo: Courtesy of General Fusion

(The ACA has been in effect for larger employers — those with 100 or more employees — since the beginning of 2015) This is called the employer mandate, and generally speaking, such business owners must offer plans that cover a minimum of 60 percent of plan expenses, and must cost no more than 9.5 percent of an employee's annual household income.

«Leaders will increasingly be called to evaluate and implement new technologies they don't always understand and can't control, from the cost - benefits of data automation to balancing consumer concerns with data mining opportunities to gauging the commercial value of Bitcoin and other new concepts,» they write.

By virtually every measure, prohibition of cannabis with high THC commonly known as marijuana and the variant with no recreational drug potential commonly known as hemp has cost the U.S. economy billions of dollars in missed business opportunities and wasted resources spent unsuccessfully fighting the so - called war on drugs.

The Office 365 pricing plan, which includes all of the above features, costs $ 35 per user per month, plus another $ 24 per user for international and domestic calling plans, according to a Microsoft pricing sheet.

Vancouver based General Fusion aims for a relatively low - cost, practical form of fusion called Magnetized Target Fusion.

«We're moving basically from a federated system of purchasing to a unified system of purchasing, and we expect to see a lot of cost savings there,» Glenda Flanagan, a Whole Foods executive vice president, said on an earnings call in May.

Alliance Santé, as his company was called by the mid-1990s, expanded further into Europe until 1997, when Pessina, believing he could rationalize the costs of pharmacies with his wholesale business, merged with UniChem, one of Britain's largest pharmacy chains and a public company.

In hopes of offsetting the external environmental and health costs of meat, federal agencies and councils in Denmark, Germany, and Sweden ---- as well as a member of parliament in England ---- are calling for a meat tax.

«If they can't call in new employees to help service demand or send people home, they're going to have to err on the side of less employees in the interest of costs,» she said.

Specifically, she has called for shoring up spending for early childhood education and capping families» costs for it at no more than 10 percent of their income.

If the upcoming mission, called SES - 10, goes as planned, it could mark the beginning of an era where SpaceX can reliably offer the lowest cost per pound to get stuff to and from low - Earth orbit and beyond.

Full roaming with unlimited calls, texts, and 2 GB of data, he says, will cost around # 65.

The best predictor of the gains you'll reap over the next decade is what's called the «cost - of - capital.»

Early plans call for the standalone speaker to sell in the low $ 100 range, undercutting the competition, while the technologically more complex video chat device would cost a few hundred dollars, one of the people said.

Calling those costs «out of order,» Trump raised the prospect of nixing the deal.

Fresh pharmaceutical unit head Luke Miels is calling for 20 % in budget savings from managers, part of an expansive effort to cut costs in the unit and reinvest money into specific (and, likely, fewer) R&D efforts that may bring in more cash and higher returns.

The former protects consumers in electronic transactions, and the latter involves the so - called truth in lending laws, which govern terms and cost of loan products.

Although investor advocates have for decades been calling for a clear and simple expression of the cost of investing, the information very often remains obscure.

Macron has said he hopes to pool liability for various kinds of debt: a completed banking union would ensure bailout costs for individual financial institutions would be distributed across the continent rather than borne by individual countries, and the so - called Eurobonds would allow national governments to borrow money against a joint continental credit rating.

Businesses can save on communication costs as its a cheaper than using a traditional phone system and there is no issue of poor call quality.

Gold producer Northern Star Resources is calling the past six months a defining period for the company, with a combination of strong growth in production, lower costs and increased free cash flow.

Jack Raudenbush, vice president of the $ 4.6 million company, which is based in Middletown, Pennsylvania, estimates that the change costs a few thousand dollars per year but calls it money well spent: «This was the type of plan our competitors had, and we needed to offer competitive benefits.»

«The already challenged restaurant industry has been hit with slowing overall economic growth and the gap between the cost of dining at home compared to dining out,» Dine Equity CEO Julia Stewart said in a call with investors in November.

Gold producer Northern Star Resources is calling the past six months a defining period for the company, with a combination of strong growth in production, lower costs and increased free cashflow.

Acorns is part of a trendy and growing industry of so - called robo - advisors, online - only financial advisors that steer clients» money into low - cost investments.

«None of the schools really call it «scholarships,» they just say «full funding» — and that usually means that you get all of the tuition covered and then an additional stipend on top of that to cover housing and living costs,» Corinne said.

Cargill's product, called EverSweet, has been delayed because of production costs, but there's also the looming question of whether consumers will accept the product as natural if it doesn't come from a leaf — an issue that Cargill acknowledges.

Bill Sandiford, president of Oshawa - based Telnet Communications, says 35 % of the traffic that leaves his ISP's network goes through the Toronto exchange, which he says translates into a 35 % reduction in what are called «transit costs.»

Some may mock, but over the last couple of years, Google raked in so much so - called earned media that the invoice to cover an equivalent amount of ads would have been staggering in the cost it represented.

Donna Fluss, president of DMG Consulting, says that the best way to keep costs down in a people - heavy organization like a call centre is through effective use of workforce technology software, which can help quickly identify a customer's needs and deliver the call to the right agent.

The Facebook data breach scandal involving Cambridge Analytica has heightened the public's awareness of the potential costs of using so - called free online services.

Just like Kazaa, Skype was a disruptive rebel — it sought to use the power of the Internet to greatly lower the cost of something that people had typically been paying through the teeth for: long - distance calls.

Executives tearing their hair out at the cost of customer support and the apparent inability of the call center to upsell anything.