Sentences with phrase «cut point in»

'» Putting the cut point in the same place every time is challenging.

If one of these people (they're called cut points in the sociologists» study) used a condom and knocked out cross-clique infiltration, he could single - handedly short - circuit the epidemic.

Not exact matches

In the meantime, muni experts point out states can renegotiate contracts with servicers, raise fees on things like drivers license renewals, sell assets and privatize prisons and tolls roads to cut expenses and raise cash.

Yet, once a letter of intent is in hand, many business owners seek counsel to cut through these complexities and gain prescriptive, salient action points to guide them all the way to the closing and for a time afterward.

The slowdown in business inventories trimmed 1.5 percentage point from growth in the fourth quarter and the reductions in defence spending cut another 1.3 percentage point from growth.

The real turning point, though, came in 2016 when Micheli and Gagliese launched their own marketing shop as an extension of the agency, planning ad campaigns for corporations with their influencers, and taking a cut of the transaction.

And just in case traders missed the point, Wheeler said explicitly that the New Zealand dollar should be weaker and that another interest - rate cut was likely.

As Poloz indicated in Toronto, if something went terribly wrong tomorrow, he could cut the benchmark interest rate by a full percentage point before trying something else, such as creating money to purchase bonds.

Most of the homebuilders are U.S. - based, meaning they benefited from the tax cuts, are shielded from tariffs and could be helped by rising wages and higher labor participation, a largely overlooked data point in the Bureau of Labor Statistics» report.

«Many investors point to the rally in US equities since August as evidence that a tax cut is already priced in,» said Parker.

The SNB also cut interest rates deeper into negative territory, by 50 basis points to negative 0.75 percent, in an effort to help cushion the blow.

In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, CEO Tom Falk pointed to P&G's price - cutting to regain sales as part of the industry's challenge.

The Gateses point out that in a recent survey, only 1 % of respondents knew that global poverty has been cut in half since 1990.

Some women shy away from jobs in fields that require long workweeks, knowing they won't have the time: a 10 percent cut in free time for women reduces their share in high - hour occupations by about 14 percent relative to men, according to the researcher's model.In total, that difference in time spent on at - home labor results in an 11 percentage point gender wage gap, their analysis estimates.

In February, RBC cut the MER on a number of its funds between 10 and 15 basis points.

In effect, the BCA set caps mandating that discretionary outlays rise a couple of points a year from a low baseline established by the deep cuts between 2011 and 2013.

These cost - cutting strategies have now become the plus point for SpaceX to compete against the giants in the industry and for the first time, it is looking possible for the low - cost passenger flights in the space.

But in a letter to Kerry and other State Department officials, Kristin Delkus, TransCanada's general counsel, pointed to new policies on carbon emissions in Canada, specifically a federal rule issued in May to cut emissions down to 70 percent of their 2005 levels within 15 years.

Timmer: Yeah, so last August which was a key inflection point for the market — because at that point, nobody was expecting tax cuts anymore and the 10 - year Treasury had fallen to 2 %, and the bond market which of course is always pricing in the potential future, was pricing in only one more rate hike over the subsequent two years.

«There's a point that when you know that it's not working, and you either need to have that come - to - Jesus meeting or you need to make the cut in the organization.

The key sticking points remain with the owners wanting concessions on many issues, most notably an 18 - game regular season, a rookie salary cap, and a pay cut in the players» share of the overall revenue.

And although measuring innovation isn't exactly cut - and - dried, some metrics can point you in the right direction.

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 memo points out that, in the past, State Department - led «bureaucrats cut off U.S. military aid to the police in Colombia as the GOP Congress fought to save Colombia from the FARC terrorist threat, while simultaneously tacking the drug threat.»

A bigger problem for Trump and the GOP: Whatever reduced rate ends up in proposed legislation, critics are bound to point out that there's little evidence to support the idea that corporate tax cuts create jobs or raises wages.

Generally, 1,500 employees is the cut - off point for SBA consideration, but even establishments that have between 500 and 1,500 employees may not qualify as small businesses; in such instances the SBA bases its determination on a size standard for the specific industry in which the business under consideration operates.

The RBI is set to announce its monetary policy decision later Tuesday, with the market forecasting a 25 basis points cut in policy rates.

The tax cut and excess federal spending may boost some areas of the economy, but thus far, it has not produced anything more than a modest boost in capital spending (most of it from capital intensive technology companies) but a surge in stock buybacks and dividend increases, Apple being a case in point.

So the Bank of Canada's quarter - point cuts in January and July have yet to work all of their magic.

Furthermore, the recent weakness in stocks is concerning, and OPEC's output cut compliance is a wild card at this point.

Even the Tax Foundation, which typically is aggressive in its growth assumptions for tax cuts, said that the final bill will boost GDP growth by just 0.35 percentage point in 2018 — and that the effect would diminish in later years.

Case in point: In April, Samsung Electronics, working with South Korea's Sungkyunkwan University, announced a graphene synthesis method that promises to speed the material's commercialization, touting its potential for use in flexible displays and other cutting - edge productin point: In April, Samsung Electronics, working with South Korea's Sungkyunkwan University, announced a graphene synthesis method that promises to speed the material's commercialization, touting its potential for use in flexible displays and other cutting - edge productIn April, Samsung Electronics, working with South Korea's Sungkyunkwan University, announced a graphene synthesis method that promises to speed the material's commercialization, touting its potential for use in flexible displays and other cutting - edge productin flexible displays and other cutting - edge products.

The slowdown in China cut around 0.5 percentage points from year - on - year world trade growth in the first half of this year, Slater said.

Ruth Porat, the search giant's chief financial officer, expresses faith in her former colleague, pointing out that Georgiadis ran one of Google's most important businesses, giving her the background she'll need for «applying cutting - edge tech into all parts of Mattel's business.»

The faster - than - anticipated closing of Canada's output gap in 2017 drove the BoC to raise rates twice this summer, fully reversing the 50 basis points of emergency cuts introduced in 2015.

Be it the Conservatives» call to cut $ 11 billion in government expenditures or the Liberals» plan to raise corporate taxes by 1.5 percentage points back to 2010 levels, these are issues of substance.

Williamson said the PMIs pointed to fourth - quarter GDP growth of 0.1 percent, weaker than the 0.2 percent predicted in a Reuters poll last week, but that very weak expansion is coming at a cost: firms cut prices for the 33rd month.

He pointed out that global economic activity is increasing, a tax cut could boost growth and the European Central Bank is implementing «absurd» stimulus policies in the euro zone.

In fact, direct access to Google's cutting - edge mobile services may be the Droid Pro's most persuasive selling point: As of late 2010, the Android Market application storefront was home to well over 80,000 apps, while rival BlackBerry App World mustered only about 10,000.

Jordan also points out that in 1998, New Belgium's workers voted to convert to 100 percent wind power, even though the move meant cutting into raises and bonuses.

In Asia, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cut its key repo rate by 25 basis points to 7.75 percent on January 15, more than two weeks before its scheduled meeting, catching markets by surprise.

According to Cameron, «Shortening the leg dramatically impacts the look and fit of the jean — the knee point is in the wrong place by the time you cut four inches off.»

However, we have been getting jerked around by the SBA for nearly 9 months now and we are at a point where we may have to cut our losses if we can not secure the remainder of necessary funding in the very near future.

Even if you believe the federal government will keep its promises and won't further shift costs to states (and they recently cut our match rate to its lowest point in 25 years), even advocates for Obamacare admit the federal subsidies are front - loaded and that expansion will eventually cost the states.

«We've been through a couple of cycles now where it seemed like central banks could not cut rates enough to generate a turnaround in the economy, because the starting point was relatively low,» he says.

Mixed findings in this field of research may relate to various operationalisations of long working hours, that is, in some studies the cut - point has been 40 [12] or 45 hours [14] or «more than one hour weekly overtime work» versus less [13] and possibly to the different work cultures in which these studies were carried out.

Toronto - Dominion is the latest major bank to declare a recession in Canada, saying the «balance of probabilities» has tipped in favour of another quarter - point rate cut next week.

But as the United Steelworkers Wood Council pointed out in an op - ed article, China is hungry for raw Canadian logs because Russia cut back on selling it unprocessed timber.

She noted that with the $ 15 minimum wage (a frequent point of comparison in the discussion) Safeway chose to absorb the cost of the minimum wage instead of cutting jobs or passing the costs on to consumers, but that made Seattle Safeway stores» profit margin half as much as stores in other locations.

As far as what that actually means in the short term, Reuters points out that the company plans to cut at least 425 jobs in Finland this year.