Sentences with phrase «few bad marks»

Not exact matches

VCs like Mark Suster have long argued that the market's worst problem right now is not too little cash but too much cash chasing too few good ideas.

Following up on a blog post that Mark Zuckerberg posted a few weeks ago, the company now says it's testing and starting to roll out some changes focused on «the worst of the worst, on the clear hoaxes spread by spammers for their own gain.»

Some analysts say the worst is not over, warning that yellow metal could hit the $ 1,000 mark in just a few weeks.

Extremes in observable conditions that we associate with some of the worst moments in history to invest include: Aug 1929 (with the October crash within 10 weeks of that instance), Aug - Oct 1972 (with an immediate retreat of less than 4 %, followed a few months later by the start of a 50 % bear market collapse), Aug 1987 (with the October crash within 10 weeks), July 1999 (associated with a quick 10 % market plunge within 10 weeks), another signal in March 2000 (with a 10 % loss within 10 weeks, a recovery into September of that year, and then a 50 % market collapse), July - Oct 2007 (followed by an immediate plunge of about 10 % in July, a recovery into October, and another signal that marked the market peak and the beginning of a 55 % market loss), two earlier signals in the recent half - cycle, one in July - early Oct of 2013 and another in Nov 2013 - Mar 2014, both associated with sideways market consolidations, and the present extreme.

It usually starts 2 - 4 months after birth and becomes worse before switching to hypothyroidism for a few months, then evening out by the 1 year mark.

Clearly feeling shame, and afraid that it would mark her as a bad lot, she came clean one evening that a few years after that first divorced she had met and too - soon married a new man.

Mark Phillips goes behind the ivy and finds a few changes - including a new role for bad boy John McEnroe.

The plot is more or less preposterous, with passengers dying every few minutes and the villain sending Marks clues and taunts via text message, as the latter tries to puzzle out the identity of the bad guy.

Few bad movies are more aggravating than a sequel that betrays everything which made its predecessor entertaining.The B - movie, wild - ride brilliance of 2002's «The Transporter» stemmed from the filmmakers (producer - writer Luc Besson, co-writer Robert Mark Kamen...

Some were good, some were bad, but the guy has had perhaps the most indelible mark on the comedy landscape aside from Adam McKay in the last few years.

The Mark 6 GTI didn't achieve perfect marks — the iPod connector never worked properly, the check - engine light flickered toward the end of our test due to a bad flap inside the air intake (with no effect on drivability), and the interior developed a few rattles.

Beyond that, the best talent is often lost after a few bad years with no bonuses, and the high water mark is distant.

In conclusion, the researchers report that for most behaviors, spaying / neutering was associated with worse behavior, contrary to popular wisdom, although a few behaviors (energy level, urine marking) were reduced with spay / neuter.

Sometimes their systems miss the mark, like the way - ahead - of - its - time Virtual Boy or the quirky, badly - named Wii U. Sometimes, they just don't manage to get developers on their side, leading to systems like the Gamecube that have great first - party games but few third - party titles to back them up.

Her last few weeks after her return in September from Pietrasanta — where she went every summer to paint — were marked by a bad fall from which she made a recovery in record time.

Why did so few make the grade?According to ETBC, Dell, Samsung and Asus received the best marks, though Samsung got a scolding for a bad occupational health record at its Korean manufacturing plants where many of the young workers are diagnosed with blood cancers.

D.A. Confidential, a refreshingly candid, well - written and insightful blog by Travis County Assistant District Attorney Mark Pryor (that should cover me if I ever get a ticket for jaywalking, the worst offense I'd ever even consider committing here in my adopted hometown), has a good post this morning attempting to explain why so few cases, particularly misdemeanor cases, get to the «The people may call their first witness» stage.

Here at Legal Blog Watch we like to mark the passing into obscurity of certain trappings and technologies of the lawyer's life (for better or worse, there are always a few tradition - bound codgers who refuse to let things become completely obsolete).

It might have turned out OK if she hasn't endured a severe bluebottle sting a few weeks before starting school, choked on a squid leg at yum cha two weeks into term 1 (and required a rather terrifying Heimlich Maneuver when she couldn't breathe), then got bitten so badly by a boy in the playground the next day that she still had a full set of teeth marks in her arm when I picked her up at 3 pm.