Sentences with phrase «far smaller gains»

Over the next 20 years, the gap grew to 45 percentage points primarily because the attainment of the wealthiest Americans raced ahead (up to 54 percent completing college), while Americans from more modest means made far smaller gains (increasing their chances to just 9 percent).

But while each of these MSAs have experienced payroll employment growth well into the double - digits since the end of the Great Recession, Florence and Sumter have seen far smaller gains, just 9.6 percent and 9.2 percent, respectively.

Any gain is good, but 31.3 % is a far smaller gain than 122 % â $» the S&P index's return in the past decade.»

Not exact matches

So far, domestic small - to - mid-cap companies that get most of their revenues at home have weathered prospects of higher trade costs the best, with the Russell 2000 index of smaller companies up 2.8 percent for the year, nearly double the 1.5 percent gain in the larger - cap and more internationally - exposed S&P 500 index over the same time.

«The idea of making stores smaller and more efficient is gaining traction and we are further down that road than our competitors,» says Mansell.

Bitcoin (BTC) saw small gains last night, but the weak move did little to further the bull case.

William Dudley, president of the Fed's New York regional bank, on Thursday called the stock market's decline so far «small potatoes» relative to the outsize gains of the past few years.

S. 1212, introduced by Senators Cardin and Roberts, contains several provisions to further encourage employee - ownership in S corporations, including extending the gain - deferral provisions of Code section 1042 to sales of employer stock to S - ESOPs, providing resources to small businesses contemplating making the transition to an ESOP, and ensuring that SBA - certified small businesses do not lose their status by becoming employee owned.

«While Alberta oil companies have a lot to gain, the small benefits to British Columbia are far outweighed by the enormous risk to our northern industries, fisheries, communities and ecology.»

The increase in the quarter reflected a further small rise in world commodity prices and other goods export prices, coupled with gains in the services terms of trade.

But maybe the gains further up you get the smaller they get, so the smaller teams can make bigger gains because they are further behind and we see what the other people are doing.»

While I was fortunate enough to have carried them to 37 weeks and they were both fully developed as far as brain, breathing and other organs were concerned, my son was alarmingly small and quickly sent to the NICU to gain weight.

If the mother's supply is abundant the baby often does well as far as weight gain is concerned, but the mother may pay a price — sore nipples, a «colicky» baby, a baby who is constantly on the breast (but feeding only a small part of the time).

Further epidemiological studies will provide only relatively small gains and some clarification of the risk factors.»

If the mother's supply is abundant the baby often does well as far as weight gain is concerned, but the mother may pay a price — such as, sore nipples, a «colicky» baby, and / or a baby who is constantly on the breast (but drinking only a small part of the time).

«The Nigerian Army Small Arms Competition will be conducted by 7 Division at Sambisa Forest to consolidate the gains achieved so far and further sharpen the skills of our troops.

Despite this, further small swings to the party in a number of Dail constituencies could see further seat gains being made by Labour, as the map above suggests.

In all, a small swing to Labour (of 2 %, or less) from other parties could see further seat gains fall into the party's hands in a number constituencies (highlighted by the yellow shaded constituencies on the map), with a particular cluster of these target constituencies being located in the Munster region.

Octopus and the companies it backs stand to gain from such changes, of course, and a further step forward would be if pension funds were encouraged to invest in high growth small businesses.

NPD's research shows that iPad purchase preference is higher among larger firms than smaller ones, which is an important indicator that Apple is gaining traction far outside its typical consumer space.»

In a book published in 1971, India's Green Revolution, Economic Gains and Political Costs, she reported that farmers with larger landholdings, such as the wheat farmers in the country's north, benefited far more than small - scale rice farmers in the south and east, or landless labourers.

In other words, the healthiest muscle strength gains might come with only small muscle size gains, because larger muscles take far more energy to carry and cool, along with requiring a greater amount of antioxidants for recovery.

While this is without question not a typical horror film, if you can notice the nuances of everything from the setting to the actors and even the smallest of story details you will gain an appreciation for one of the best films so far of 2016.

According to the research, any value gained through smaller classes gets more than offset by the hit students take when many fewer of them have great teachers, and many more of them have ineffective teachers — ones who induce far less than a year's worth of student learning growth.

Nevertheless, recent studies have begun to question whether incidental instruction through book reading may be substantial enough to significantly boost children's oral vocabulary development.19 Several meta - analyses, for example, have reported only small to moderate effects of book reading on vocabulary development.20 One group of researchers examined the added benefits of dialogic reading, an interactive reading strategy, on children's vocabulary growth and reported only modest gains for 2 - to 3 - year - olds.21 Further, these effects were reduced to negligible levels when children were 4 to 5 years old or when they were at risk for language and literacy impairments.

Choice B: Young college grads with degrees in their desired career area — who complete 5 weeks of education training which includes teaching a class 1 hour daily and a small group 1 hour daily, pass the state required tests, continue basic education classes after they begin teaching, are hired with the district paying a minimum of $ 5,000 per teacher to a private organization, are paid salary and benefits negotiated by the district's union, are sought by big corporations, banks, and Wall Street because of their service and skills gained from 2 years of teaching, after 2 years get discounts and benefits from grad schools and employers, after 2 years receive $ 11,000 toward further degrees in education or that initial career choice, and after 2 years are now «experts» in education seeking positions in government to influence education policy.

Every controlled study of the California class size reduction program — and there have been at least six so far — have shown significant gains from smaller classes.

At the same time, the Carrera 4 and Targa 4 gain other advancements made to the range when the turbocharged flat - six engines were introduced, from small styling tweaks to further improvements in the chassis.

Again, as far as I can tell, independent authors gain little or nothing by looking at how book publishers large and small conduct their business.

I urge you to realize that your chances of success as a Forex trader are far greater if you will accept slower and smaller but more consistent gains each month, rather than trying to go «pro» without any training, fortitude, or money behind you.

He noted record year - over-year earnings growth for small - cap stocks, which have lost all of their gains for the year so far in the sell - off.

This lifetime exemption, however, isn't limited to one family member — a huge boon for small businesses that expect to incur far more than $ 800,000 in capital gains when they ultimately sell the shares.

She then practiced small animal medicine and surgery in Miami, Florida where she gained further experience in dermatologic conditions and utilized her fluent Spanish language skills.

The risk involved in vaccinating a cat is extremely small; the benefits gained far out weigh that tiny risk.

The Riddler's role in Arkham City feels far more fleshed out before, with his trophies now often having small but cunning puzzles to solve to gain access.

Although the range of parts may feel small at first, completing newly unlocked stages will earn you a vast array of new clothing, and these bonuses are further increased if you gain the highest rank possible in each level.

After coming half way or even further through the landscape painting, I was startled by the emotional intensity these works all of a sudden gained with accents of these small figures.

Tides follow an inverse cube law (to a first approximation for systems experiencing tides due to masses relatively far away compared to the system's size; for systems that are not small relative to the distance to the object producing the tidal acceleration, I think it's more complicated), and so the inner planets gain in importance relative to the outer planets, although mass is still important (and nonetheless, tides raised on the Sun by the planets are so tiny it's hard to imagine they could be of any such significance).

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This investment is normally quite small compared to what you've already spent so far and can be priceless in the knowledge you gain, the interviews you net, and ultimately the salary that you land.

Experts know that cases of abuse or neglect that are substantiated by a child protective agency represent only a small fraction of children who are maltreated.122 That being the case, it would be far more useful to gain a better understanding of child maltreatment so that it can be prevented (and strategies to prevent it can be assessed) before it becomes necessary for the state to intervene.

Future research may gain further by assessing even more specific aspects of visual function objectively (e.g., impairment in depth perception, extreme contrast or brightness sensitivity in addition to visual acuity as assessed in NSHAP) and subjectively (e.g., self - reported trouble with reading newspaper print and recognizing people at a small distance in addition to the global assessment of one's vision as assessed in NSHAP) in the study of the effects of vision on quality of life and the capacity of a good marriage to alter these effects.

Further, it's the smallest yearly gain since the third quarter of 2010.