Sentences with phrase «class point of»

The movie has been earning good reviews for its chops as an offbeat action movie and also for its working - class point of view.

Not exact matches

If you're traveling for business on one of Emirates or Etihad's A380 planes and you have some points to spare, consider redeeming them for a first - class ticket so you can try out their showers.

Third Point took a new stake of 700,000 Class A Alphabet shares, while Omega Advisors trimmed its stake by 151,000 Class A shares to about 277,000 Class A shares.

If you start by opening PowerPoint and haphazardly typing bullet points, you're off to a rough start, says Adam Sigel, a Boston - based product manager at New York City - based streaming TV startup Aereo, and teacher of Skillshare's Slide Chi: Advanced PowerPoint Design / Workshop Class.

Sure enough, with Leo's permission, McConlogue invited me and a film crew to come to a coding class this past Monday, which marked the halfway point of the eight - week period McConlogue allotted himself to teach Leo how to program.

Carney, who is also governor of the Bank of England, pointed to the small size relative of the asset class compared with the entire financial syste.

Different executives repeatedly stressed that Yum had a great first half of the year in China and pointed to China's growing consumer class as future potential customers.

Fortunately, thanks to the fact that there are tons of opportunities to earn points and miles with credit card sign - up bonuses, spending, and other methods, I'm already looking forward to my next first class and business class flights!

That meant that, after factoring in those taxes and fees, each Chase point we redeemed for the flight effectively got us 13.3 cents worth of first class value.

I searched all of the different ways to get to Japan in first or business class using various credit card points, and we decided to fly on Korean Air with a connection in Seoul.

His last open letter to shareholders makes the point clearly about investing in creating value — «Berkshire's gain in net worth during 2016 was $ 27.5 billion, which increased the per - share book value of both our Class A and Class B stock by 10.7 %.

(Disclosure: I wrote a book about West Point's class of 2002, in which Bush's speech plays an important role.)

With that cheeky introduction by host Carlos Watson, the PBS debate show Point Taken last night dove headlong into the fractious debate of salary transparency that has been gaining steam of late, especially as a way to bridge widening wage gaps based on gender, race, and social class.

Pay transparency will be the focus of tonight's PBS debate show, Point Taken, featuring a panel of guests who will clash over whether it could help narrow gaps in pay between genders, racial groups, and socio - economic classes.

The app lets you earn «Sweatcoins,» or points based on the number of steps you take in a day, which you can then use to buy a limited number of specific goods that Sweatcoin has made available — like a Fitbit tracker, fitness classes, or subscriptions to apps designed to help you eat healthier.

And critics are also quick to point out that the promised benefits to Main Street of Trump - style tax cuts — faster job growth, higher wages and a boost to the middle class — are very much in question.

The point is that diversification among asset classes really helped ameliorate the return an equity - only investor would have suffered this year: a loss of 2.7 % is better than a loss of greater than 10 %.

I simply pointed out that our kids learned a more important lesson than the downside consequence of their expecting to always sit in business class (which isn't going to happen!).

«My gift to this wonderful institution pales in comparison with the gift that Yale gave me — the fundamental understanding that leadership requires an expansive worldview and a deep appreciation of the many points of intersection between business and society,» the class of ’80 graduate said in a statement.

As Dan Lauer, founding executive director of UMSL Accelerate, points out, classes may even be taught by practicing entrepreneurs, as many in the UMSL Accelerate program are.

Similarly, she'll need to prove that she's attuned to the needs of the middle class — a feat sure to be difficult, as critics point to her ties to Wall Street and other big business interests.

Growing up middle - class, well - educated at this point in history is pretty much the golden card of all golden cards in the history of human life on this planet.

As Oyedele pointed out, they have «memories of traditional asset classes like stocks cratering and retirement savings being wiped out.»

During the election, Trump scored points with an array of working - class voters by saying he would renegotiate trade deals, such as the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, which the president has said favored other countries over the U.S.

Under her leadership, the average SAT scores of the entering freshman class increased by nearly 50 points, and participation in global semester study abroad rose from 25 percent to 75 percent.

So were the average GMAT scores of its entering classes, which tended to range near 600, more than 100 points below the best schools, which typically report scores in the 700 - plus range on an entrance test where the highest possible score is 800.

In court documents filed with the Northern California District Court on Thursday, Uber argued that the class - action part of the suit should be dropped because the 160,000 drivers, «have little or nothing in common, other than their use of the Uber App in California at some point over the past six years.»

Normand points out that different asset classes, sectors, and geographical regions outperform during different periods, and he highlights the plentiful opportunities available during times of transition.

FiveThirtyEight pointed out that the number of people who thought tax cuts enacted under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush would help the rich more than the middle class increased after those plans passed.

He points to China's fast - growing new middle class, a vast cohort of potential travelers who are eager to see the world beyond Beijing.

However, the United award chart shows that business class saver tickets only cost 60,000 each way, or 120,000 round - trip for the same exact flight, a quarter of how many miles or points you would have needed with cash back or a statement credit.

Pam Locke, who serves as Askew's mentor, was one of two African - American women to graduate from West Point's first class of women in 1980.

Class of 2014 Cadet Mackenzie Vaughn, a civil engineering major, runs solo while her teammates conserve their energy for their shifts in the 150 - mile journey from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., to Philadelphia.

Many of our friends and neighbors of all socioeconomic classes have not been exposed enough to fundamental financial principles and to that end we invite you to share this guide with others in your immediate circle and wider communities who may benefit from a refresher on these basic finance points.

Are we past the point, culturally speaking, of undermining a new class of digital celebrities who have risen to fame amid wholly novel content formats?

To achieve this, the panels pointed to the importance of increasing dialogue between academia and business on the development of curricula to have business people teach classes but also to give students chances to experience business life through internships.

We call it GoECart 360, the unified commerce suite that combines an advanced ecommerce platform with multi-channel order management, point of sale (POS), enterprise - class inventory and warehouse management, marketplaces, fulfillment, CRM, and so much more.

The financial sector wins at the point where you don't see that the prices that the banks are inflating are asset prices — real estate prices, bond and stock prices — and that the role of commercial banks is to increase the power of wealth over the rest of society, over labour, over industry, to create a new ruling - class of bankers that are even more heavy than the landlords that were criticised in the last part of the 19th century.

In each class, we target specific muscle groups working them to the point of fatigue and then follow each strengthening section of class with a lengthening stretch.

Each class gives me an endorphin - producing workout that takes each muscle group up to the point of failure.

To that point, 51 percent of graduates from the classes of 2014 and 2015 said they are working in jobs that do not require their college degree, up from 41 percent of graduates who reported the same the year before that.

«[T] his class of information now includes significant and personal data points that should be kept private unless the user chooses to share them,» the senators warn

We target specific muscle groups working them to the point of fatigue, and follow each strengthening section of class with a lengthening stretch.

Obama cited statistics released the same day in the White House's new report from his Council of Economic Advisers which show that conflicts likely lead, on average, to 1 percentage point lower annual returns on retirement savings as well as $ 17 billion of losses every year for working and middle - class families.

in the case of our directors, officers, and security holders, (i) the receipt by the locked - up party from us of shares of Class A common stock or Class B common stock upon (A) the exercise or settlement of stock options or RSUs granted under a stock incentive plan or other equity award plan described in this prospectus or (B) the exercise of warrants outstanding and which are described in this prospectus, or (ii) the transfer of shares of Class A common stock, Class B common stock, or any securities convertible into Class A common stock or Class B common stock upon a vesting or settlement event of our securities or upon the exercise of options or warrants to purchase our securities on a «cashless» or «net exercise» basis to the extent permitted by the instruments representing such options or warrants (and any transfer to us necessary to generate such amount of cash needed for the payment of taxes, including estimated taxes, due as a result of such vesting or exercise whether by means of a «net settlement» or otherwise) so long as such «cashless exercise» or «net exercise» is effected solely by the surrender of outstanding stock options or warrants (or the Class A common stock or Class B common stock issuable upon the exercise thereof) to us and our cancellation of all or a portion thereof to pay the exercise price or withholding tax and remittance obligations, provided that in the case of (i), the shares received upon such exercise or settlement are subject to the restrictions set forth above, and provided further that in the case of (ii), any filings under Section 16 (a) of the Exchange Act, or any other public filing or disclosure of such transfer by or on behalf of the locked - up party, shall clearly indicate in the footnotes thereto that such transfer of shares or securities was solely to us pursuant to the circumstances described in this bullet point;

Analysts point to the growth of an urban «middle class,» composed of favoured members of the Workers» Party and military, official, entrepreneurial, and technical elites.

Which is better if you are going to put a ton of money on a card in a short amount of time and want to use the points in the next 2 years for international travel first class at luxury resorts?

He pointed to a sentence later in the same paragraph that says, «if a broadband provider degraded the delivery of a particular application (e.g., a disfavored VoIP service) or class of application (e.g., all VoIP applications), it would violate the bright - line no - throttling rule.»

You will also be able to maximize the value of your points significantly by transferring your Ultimate Rewards points to select travel partners, and try some of the most exclusive travel rewards out there including International Business and First Class experiences.

The main points here are that QE has encouraged the dramatic overvaluation of virtually every class of investments; that these elevated valuations don't represent «wealth» (which is embodied in the future stream of deliverable cash flows, not in the current price); that extreme valuations promise dismal future outcomes for investors over a 10 - 12 year horizon; and that until a clear improvement in market internals conveys a resumption of speculative risk - seeking by investors, the current combination of extreme valuations and increasing risk - aversion, coming off of an extended top formation after persistent «overvalued, overbought, overbullish» extremes, represents the singularly most negative return / risk classification we identify.