Sentences with phrase «cut the points at»

First, we need to cut the points at the ends of the pasta.

Not exact matches

At one brief point during a commercial break, the office's TVs cut to black, causing a few seconds of panic and yelling.

The question that remains unanswered is at which point Trump policies become an embarrassment for those who have lined up behind Trump's promise to cut taxes and regulation, or indeed the Wall Streeters who have joined the administration.

At this point it is unclear if Samsung will get the same cut from the banks as Apple gets from Apple Pay — or whether it will get any payout at alAt this point it is unclear if Samsung will get the same cut from the banks as Apple gets from Apple Pay — or whether it will get any payout at alat all.

Ikawa pointed to BOJ member Koji Ishida's proposal to either cut or eliminate the deposit rate, first suggested at the December meeting, but notably absent from the January meeting.

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.

«If there's going to be at any point the smallest temptation [to resume spending], you cut up the card,» he said.

Allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire at this point is an understandable reaction to a growing deficit.

Users of Cumberland Farms SmartPay save 10 cents per gallon at the chain's stations, for example, while Exxon customers using its SpeedPass + app can redeem Plenti reward points to cut the total price of their fill - up.

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.

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

Both strategies have their strong points: Weekly releases increase return rates at the expense of initial viewership, while all - at - once releases foster binge - watching but cut into these series» shelf life.

«And we are now at a decision point: sustained global commitments and recent funding cuts affect capacity and capability for a full - spectrum fight against a near - peer adversary.»

At that point Pocketalk hit a market fiercely contested by cell - phone companies that had cut prices by two - thirds since 1995 and offered services that included voice messaging, caller ID, and E-mail access.

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.

Oliver eventually pointed out that The Oregonian «s publisher, Advance Publications, later put the newspaper through a major reorganization aimed at making it «a digital - first» publication, while cutting roughly 22 % of the newsroom staff, including Esteve.

UBS bank analyst Brennan Hawken estimated at the time that a 25 % FICC cut could boost ROE by 125 basis points or more, if reinvested into other divisions of the firm.

Working at Apple on Steve Jobs» revolutionary Macintosh computer, Kare picked a rendition of scissors for the «cut» command and a pointing finger for «paste.»

If you cut them off at this point, the situation will escalate as they will feel that they are not being heard.

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.

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.

At this point, across - the - board rate cuts will be in effect, as well as a doubled child tax credit and a nearly doubled standard deduction (the latter two provisions offsetting the elimination of personal exemptions from the individual income tax).

If you've saved $ 500,000 at the time you retire, cutting your investment expenses by just half a percentage point could mean an extra $ 1,500 to spend every year in retirement.

«Many retailers are at the tipping point of cutting too much labor,» said Craig Rowley, a senior partner in the retail division of Korn Ferry International, an executive search firm.

More broadly, he says that while corporate credit may benefit from aspects of tax reform (i.e., better earnings growth from the corporate tax cuts, modestly lower investment grade supply as repatriation becomes reality), he does not see tax cuts at this point in the cycle as a bullish driver of credit spreads.

We expect a 25 - basis - point cut at the October 30 / 31st FOMC meeting, and another 25 - basis - point cut on December 11th.

At this point SP18 - 017 is thought to have cut a previously unknown structure, which may be a significant host for mineralization to the west of the known deposit.

The meeting of temporary profitability targets may earn execs their bonuses and make for good headlines, but at some point, you aren't aren't just cutting fat — you're chopping into the muscle itself that you need to walk the next mile.

To alleviate the slowdown and offset the liquidity drain due to continuing capital outflows the People's Bank of China, the central bank, undertook further easing measures, cutting the reserve requirement ratio by a further 50 basis points to 17 % and 15 % for large and small banks respectively at the beginning of March.

Between 2007 and 2009, approximately 34 % of American stocks that pay dividends quarterly cut their payout at some point during the recession...

Miranda knows her healthcare costs will likely increase during retirement, and that she'd have to cut back on her writing work at some point.

Banks for their part (and indeed, bank regulators and the Federal Reserve) need to decide at what point to cut back their mortgage lending so as not to fuel an overpriced market and have to deal with debt defaults.

The fiscal outlook today is a lot better than that in 2007 - 2008 after the Harper government cut the GST by two points at the cost of $ 14 billion annually.

In the US, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) cut the Fed funds target by 25 basis points to 1 per cent at its meeting in late June.

After two dividend cuts, is Crescent Point Energy (TSX: CPG)(NYSE: CPG) firmly into deep value territory, or is it still an avoid at all costs stock?

I must admit I rarely think about tax when I'm looking at cutting expenses, but it's definitely the most significant (although mortgage has probably taken it over at this point!).

I'll keep adding to this position until the yield breaches its 2016 low, at which point I would cut my losses.

Our 2011 review was done after the government had cut two points off the GST at a cost of $ 14 billion annually and after the so - called «great recession», during which Prime Minister Harper tossed aside his Conservative credentials and became a temporary Keynesian as part of a G - 20 initiative to «save» the global economy.

At his press conference, Draghi confirmed a cut of 10 basis points (0.10 %) to the already negative deposit rate, taking it to -0.30 %, which is a move that I don't consider material, but merely keeping up the pressure on banks to lend more.

He expects a half - percentage point cut, the fifth such reduction this year [at the Federal Reserve meeting Tuesday].

Daniel Gropper, dean of the business college at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, said the bonuses and other corporate announcements «prove the point that when there are tax cuts for corporations, they have an effect.»

And just let me point out that if religious groups hadn't cut education funding in the first place, the schools wouldn't need any money at all.

After all, if one stands in line for hours to purchase a ticket for a broadway show, and then someone shows up at the last minute, cuts in line and gets a ticket ahead of you — what's the point of following the rules and standing in line.

You cut through the modern politics and hand waving and what you have is that for at LEAST 200 years and probably more (longer than we've been around as a country) Christians were «held in contempt» to the point that for about 10 of those years several emperors pursued active policies of extermination (that's what the «actually persecuting» statement refers to - think holocaust type policies) that included some of the worst type of tortures known to humanity.

But all varieties of horror flick are easily identifiable at this point, whether they're spooky, low - budget films (numerous); viscera - stained slasher movies (more numerous); quick - cut zombie flicks (even more numerous); macabre sci - fi, floating - in - space efforts (somewhat less numerous than they should be); sexualized vampiric tales (I trip over one of these whenever I get the newspaper); films of the more critically favored retro - mashup variety (Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's Death Proof plus Planet Terror feature Grindhouse); or foreign entries of the psychological horror variety (the works of Dario Argento, of course; Alexandre Aja's films, which have their defenders; and Juan Antonio Bayona's El Orfanato, which only someone who truly dislikes cinema can dismiss).

Thanks Ron, but that doesn't point a finger at the NIV, nearly every translation says either «cut off» or «takes away» in John 15:2 (I can't find any that say «raise up»)

The important thing is that at some point in all potentially playful experiences, the string between the player and his or her life - context must be cut.

He suddenly shifts the point of view, and we find ourselves looking at the scene through the eyes of lowly shad seeking a way up the river to spawn; through the eyes of elderly citizens who remember their own childhood when the fish swam free; through the eyes of farmers with their oxen, barred from cutting hay.

The problem is that the cut, being arbitrary, could be put at various points.

The one point at which totalitarianism made this evident was in cutting the freedom of religion.