Sentences with phrase «compare gfes»

How local prices for typical consumer goods and services (excluding housing) compare with the national average

I sometimes compare customer service to a farm team in baseball — our new employees who start there have plenty of fresh talent and energy, but may need a little guidance to figure out how they can shine the brightest.

Using a dashboard, companies can compare results to other brands in their industry, or to the advertising world as a whole.

But it does absolutely no good to compare ourselves to others.

Just looking at jobs created is going to put Canada in a better light just by dint that we have much stronger population growth, so that's probably not the fairest way to compare ourselves to others.»

We stand in stores, use our smartphones to compare prices and product reviews.

«Does this really compare to what we have seen in other industries that have been digitally disrupted?

Compare the job losses in Alberta in the last 12 months to Ontario manufacturing's sustained years of decline

Cheaper — calculate your hourly rate by the amount of time it would take you to do this effectively, and compare it to the rateXefficiency or cost of having someone else do it.

You should compare statements from at least two years to see the direction in which the company is moving: Is it on an upswing or a downswing?

«If we compare the U.S. systems» costs to the more affordable costs in other industrialized nations, the glaring difference is price, not utilization (Uwe was right 15 years ago, «It's the Prices, Stupid»),» declares Laszewski.

While it's impossible to turn off your reactions to what others think of you, you don't have to compare yourself to others, and you can always take people's opinions with a grain of salt.

Some researchers also think it may be possible to compare the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and other chemicals in a plume to «default» levels seen in asteroids, which were formed at the dawn of the solar system — and ask if life is manipulating the chemistry there, or at least did so in the past.

Google has dramatically increased its lobbying activities in Washington in the past few years: it spent US$ 8.95 million on lobbying just in the first half of 2012 (compare that to the US$ 9.7 million it spent in all of 2011).

One of the ways the central bank assesses the mood of business owners and managers is to ask them how things such as current orders compare with a year earlier.

Use a tool such as RegSelect, which can help you compare prices and options of domain registration companies.

Compare how likely it is to achieve a zero crime rate in a town of 100,000 citizens.

After retiring in 2011, Buchanon had an idea for an app called Tappish, which allowed users to compare and share photos, audio and videos.

Compare this to a Wisconsin cow that produces well over 10,000, according to the USDA.

With the short list of 10 companies in hand, we scrutinized each company's website to compare and contrast the options offered.

Subbing almonds for doughnuts as your afternoon snack just doesn't compare.

IF you measure the value of a chief executive by the salary he or she takes and compare it to what heads of similar size companies receive, Andrew Forrest would come out on top in Western Australia year in, year out.

Compare that to the statistics for beer: Down 4 percent over the last five years, with Budweiser's domestic sales down 28 percent in the same time period, Marketwatch reports.

Home Depot said it was too early to compare the scale of this year's operation with earlier efforts or to estimate how much Harvey would cost it.

This leaves them without others with whom to compare experiences.

Compare that to a cheap blazer that costs $ 39.99.

Compare the question of selling indexed annuities or derivatives or other complex investments.

In light of the stock market's recent decline, investors seem increasingly to be giving the tech sector the cold shoulder, with stunning drops in value of once high - flying stocks, among them the micro-blogging site Twitter, whose stock is down more than 50 percent compared to September of 2014.

LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif. — The world is flat, make that flatter, compared to just a couple of decades ago.

It also has minimal traffic compared to the clogged Bay Area, and perhaps most importantly, it's relatively cheap.

The same CBS poll found that 78 % of Democrats support an assault weapons ban, compared to 45 % of Republicans.

At $ 383 million, EBITDA was up 7.9 % on the high first - quarter 2017 performance, with a significantly stronger euro particularly compared to the US dollar, which resulted in a $ 26 million negative currency effect (on translation only).

Regarding intensity, a study published in PLOS ONE found that workout intensity was not affected for individuals talking on the phone, compared to those not using a cell phone, but when it came to texting, workout intensity was significantly lower.

Boeing — Boeing shares may benefit after rival Airbus cut output of its A330 passenger jet and reported a drop in profits compared to a year earlier.

Alphabet — Alphabet reported adjusted quarterly profit of $ 9.93 per share, compared to the consensus estimate of $ 9.28 a share.

Almost half of developers are still devoting their energies toward consoles, but the input differences are huge — high - end games are requiring an average of $ 8.7 million, 65 people and 583 days to produce, compared to just $ 300,000, seven people and 156 days for mobile games.

When compared with previous industrial revolutions, the Fourth is evolving at an exponential rather than a linear pace.»

Apple claims the iPhone 7 will give you two additional hours of usage compared to previous models.

As a business owner, I find that there are few things more valuable than being compared to what other businesses are doing so that I can learn from and even copy their best practices.

Wall Street expects another huge jump in Amazon's revenue, but lower profits, compared with last year, when the company reports its first - quarter earnings on Thursday.

Netbacks, profit after subtracting transport and other expenses, averaged C$ 16.80 per barrel of oil equivalent in the first quarter, compared with C$ 21.25 a year earlier.

Apple's second - quarter earnings beat on Tuesday illustrated just how differently this company's stock behaves compared with the rest of the market, CNBC's Jim Cramer said.

Zulilly is also profitable, reporting in its October S1 Securities and Exchange Commission filing net income of $ 2.4 million for the first six months of 2013, compared to a net loss of $ 4 million for the same six months a year earlier.

The OECD data shows that 72.4 per cent of Canadians aged 15 - 64, what is normally considered the working age, were employed in the fourth quarter of 2013, compared to 73.7 per cent who had a job in the second quarter of 2008, for a differential of minus 1.3 percentage points.

I have not found a rush that compares to being an entrepreneur.

The average VC deal for among women - led companies last year was worth $ 4.5 million — compared to $ 6.1 million in 2015 and $ 5.1 million in 2014.

The company's total revenue for the most recent fiscal year (in millions of dollars) and the percentage change compared to the previous fiscal year.

• volume effect: the impact of changes in volumes is estimated by comparing the quantities delivered in the period under review with the quantities delivered in the prior period, multiplied, in both cases, by the weighted average net unit selling price in the prior period

Nanos Research, which conducts a weekly survey for Bloomberg, found that almost a quarter of respondents at the end of September said their personal financial situation had worsened over the past year, compared with about 20 per cent in early August.

Compared with the prescriptive, black - and - white world of compliance, Worker Well - Being was broadly defined and open - ended.