Sentences with phrase «explain higher spending»

Any of these factors could potentially explain higher spending on appliances, furnishings and remodeling by home buyers.

What does explain higher spending in the U.S. is administrative complexity and high prices across a wide range of healthcare services.

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Hastings tried to ease investor concerns by explaining that the high spending is a result of Netflix's success.

Notably, families in the Northeast spend about 70 % more on college than those in the West, Midwest, and South, which might explain why the average debt per graduate is higher in that part of the country.

He went to the University of Miami, but dropped out, explaining that he spent most of his time getting high and going to the beach.

This suggests that majority of retirees had limited their spending to their regular flow of income and had avoided drawing down assets, which explains why pensioners, who had higher levels of regular income, were able to avoid asset drawdowns better than others.

Not only does it have one of the highest markups of products on the supermarket shelves, parents who use formula are paying premiums for the fortunes companies spend on promoting their products, as has already been explained above.

SERAP letter reads in part «Given the relative newness of the Buhari government, the effective enforcement and implementation of the judgment will invariably involve setting up a mechanism by the government to invite the leadership and high - ranking officials of the governments of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, former President Umaru Musa Yar» Adua, and former President Goodluck Jonathan to explain, clarify and provide evidence on the amounts of stolen funds recovered by their respective governments (from abroad and within Nigeria), and the projects (including their locations) on which the funds were spent.»

Behind it must be a plan that focuses on growth, that has the answers on debt interest (higher as a proportion of GDP under Thatcher), that explains as John Denham did last night why we spent money — that we spent to protect jobs, houses and families.

Birtwistle is certainly taking notes as California raised Ray explains how he returned to the UK to care for his ill father, spending 18 months unemployed partly because «nobody really knew what a high school diploma was.»

«This is in part explained by the positive effects of higher wages for businesses, which benefit from reduced levels of turnover, savings from reduced spending in recruiting and training new workers as a result of the lower turnover, higher morale and productivity, and improved customer service.»

Asked at a 9 February budget briefing to explain how agencies decided which programs would be funded with discretionary spending and which with mandatory spending, presidential science adviser John Holdren said that «the mandatory items were those that were both high priority and for which pay - fors could be readily identified.»

Dr. Agatston spends much time explaining the glycemic index, a measure of how rapid and high a spike in blood sugar is seen after ingestion of particular foods.

Using a statistical model to track changes within states over time, Webber finds that increased public - welfare spending explains more than half of the decline in higher - education appropriations.

The results of my preferred analysis indicate that public - welfare spending in fact explains roughly half of the post-1987 decline in higher - education appropriations, with health accounting for another 23 percent (see Figure 3).

I find that state and local public - welfare spending is easily the dominant factor driving budget decisions, with a $ 1 increase per capita associated with a $ 2.44 decrease in per - student higher - education funding — enough to explain the entire average national decline.

We find no evidence that enrollment declines are due to budget cuts being passed through as higher prices - rather, all of the impact is explained by spending cuts.

This perhaps explains why, in another OECD report («Education at a Glance, 2010»), the countries and regions that top the international league table of reading standards are those that are both high - spending and have more affluent populations.

This year, she wrote that Gates has «gotten bad advice,» explaining, «About a decade ago, he decided that the biggest problem in U.S. education was the size of high schools, and he proceeded to spend $ 2 billion to persuade school districts to downsize their high schools.»

So without a lecture to listen to, he and his classmates at Segerstrom Fundamental High School spend class time doing practice problems in small groups, taking quizzes, explaining the concept to other students, reciting equation formulas in a loud chorus, and making their own videos while teacher Crystal Kirch buzzes from desk to desk to help pupils who are having trouble.

Like the Education Next survey, the Friedman survey asked respondents whether they thought public school spending was too high, about right, or too low, after first randomly assigning the respondents into two groups: one that first heard a prompt explaining that the average U.S. public school spends $ 10,658 per pupil (this is average operating expenditure per pupil), while the other group was not given any prompt.

«Although Le Mans is a big, high - speed track, a significant percentage of the lap is spent cornering and braking,» Pratt explained.

2006 Cadillac XLR - V: General Motors executives spent a lot of time in New York trying to explain GM's recent dismal sales figures, but there was some more cheerful news too: Although it didn't unveil any all - new vehicles, GM did debut some high - performance versions of current products.

«If publishers make the mistake of pricing their books too high, the marketplace will punish them for it,» Coker explained when answering to how preventing a retailer from discounting a book won't come back on the consumer who has limited funds to spend on a book.

In this article, the author spent significant to explain how moving average is derived, as well as the really useful ways in which moving average can help a trader analyze the market and make high probability trading decision.

But if your windows are losing their insulating value and are due for replacement anyway, it's worth spending the extra money for higher quality ones, explains Pressnail.

Yet recent academic research suggests that the poor returns of growth stocks (ie, firms with high valuations) and the excess returns of value stocks (ie, companies with low valuations) can largely be explained by differences in capital spending and asset growth.

We practice the highest quality medicine at a reasonable cost to the client; we tailor our services to the personal needs of each animal and owner; and we spend the time necessary to explain to and educate our clients so that they fully understand any recommended tests and procedures, enabling them to become full partners with the veterinarian in maintaining the good health and well - being of their animal companions.

We found that moderate activity on gastrointestinal motility could potentially explain the observed protective effect in GDV dogs that spent equal time indoors and outdoors (versus primarily indoors or primarily outdoors) and the likely higher levels of physical activity.

They want you to spend time explaining their pet's health problems rather than talking about the high - tech instruments that led to your diagnosis.

They are diurnal (day - active), spending their time on trees and high shrubbery hunting insects, thus explaining their beautiful, bright green sheen.

I used to spend a lot of time downplaying our computer model's accuracy, and the risks involved, when explaining choices to my higher ups.

Punta Arenas, Chile, Feb. 28, 2008 — Scientists from over a dozen institutions will embark today from this port on the tip of South America to spend 42 days amid the high winds and big waves of the Southern Ocean, where they will make groundbreaking measurements to explain how large amounts of climate - affecting gases move between atmosphere and sea, and vice-versa.

Everything from its Infinity Display and support for gigabit - LTE speeds to Bluetooth 5.0 compatibility and a large amount of internal storage that's twice the size of any other Android flagship's base model contributes to the fact that Samsung is spending a lot of money on manufacturing the Galaxy S8, which also explains its relatively high price tag.

Joint Center research has shown that home prices in neighborhoods with higher levels of improvement spending appreciate more rapidly, explaining why investing in blighted neighborhoods has been a national priority in dealing with the foreclosure crisis,» said the report.

Ryan discusses the death of Osama Bin Laden; Ryan reviews the economic news of the week; Ryan notices the correlation between increased home sales and interest rate drops; Louis notes we can't expect the housing market to be supported by further decreases in rates as they are already near historic lows; Ryan explains that interest rates change once every four hours; Ryan notes the difference between getting a quote and being locked in to an interest rate; Ryan advises the importance of keeping in touch with your mortgage lender; Louis notes that interest rates change a lot faster than home prices; Ryan notes that the consumer confidence was up, Ryan and Louis discuss the Fed's decision to keep interest rates where they are and to continue the $ 600 billion QE2 program; Ryan and Louis discuss the Fed's view that inflation is nascent; Louis notes that not only does the Fed not see inflation that exists but disclaims any responsibility for it; Louis asserts that there is a correlation between oil prices and Fed policy; Louis discusses Ben Bernanke's assertion that the Fed can't control oil prices but that they somehow can control the impact of higher oil prices on the rest of the economy; Louis also remarks on Bernanke's view of the dollar - the claim that a strong dollar can be achieved through the Fed's current policy as it is their belief that they are creating a sound economy and therefore a sound dollar; Louis notes the irony of the Fed chastising Congress» spendthrift ways — if the Fed did not monetize the debt, Congress could» nt spend; Louis noted that as Bernanke spoke the prices of gold and silver rose as it seemed that the Fed has no interest in cutting off the easy money; the current Fed policy will keep interest rates low; Ryan notes that the Fed knows that they can't let interest rates rise because of the housing mess; Louis notes that the Fed has a Hobson's Choice - either keep rates low or let interest rates rise and cut off the recovery.