Sentences with phrase «few small increases»

While many consumers feel that a few small increases won't affect them very much, the cumulative effect can be significant enough to destroy a budget.

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While the consumer spending report is only one small data point among a dozen factors, it could be a sign that we will see pay stabilization, and even show us a slight increase over the next few months.

However, it appears many small business owners are instead focusing on slow and steady growth, and driving up productivity to increase margins with the use of technology, fewer workers, and more hours.

A few small changes in your mindset and approach can help you decrease your anxiety and increase your chances of having a conversation you're proud of.

Although small charges on a few of your credit accounts are understandable, a significant increase in the majority of your credit balances is not something your lender wants to see.

For turnover in FX derivatives, several things stand out (Graph 4): (i) activity has generally risen over the past decade even when scaled by a measure of cross-border transactions; (ii) developed Asian markets stand out as having a high degree of turnover; (iii) there was a particularly strong increase in turnover in these markets between 2013 and 2016; and (iv) FX derivatives turnover in emerging Asian economies has also increased significantly in the past few years, but remains a small part of the global market.

With shoppers expected to visit fewer stores this holiday, sales are projected to advance 2.4 percent, the smallest increase since the year the recession ended, according to ShopperTrak, a Chicago - based researcher.

A healthy economy could leave customers feeling less strapped for cash overall, Hamilton said, adding that relatively small increases to their budget - such as a few dollars more a month for a Netflix subscription - might not stand out as reason to worry.

Creating more confusion around corporate tax increases, a PC press release from April 9 stated «Prentice pointed out that more than 95 % in Alberta are small businesses, employing fewer than 50 people, and questioned those who would put those jobs at risk with a corporate tax increase.»

Assuming they are hitting their deleveraging targets, I would expect a small increase (like CVX a few years ago) to keep the streak intact.

Other businesses, big and small, which object to wage increases, say higher pay will mean higher prices, and less work for fewer workers.

So, if the Bitcoin price keeps increasing by thousands of dollars (which it has been over the past few months) it's still possible to buy or use small fractions of Bitcoin.

The company had hypothesized that fewer desks and a smaller footprint would move people closer together, increasing the likelihood of interaction.

It does so by creating a society oriented to the increase of economic activity through the market, which tends to concentrate wealth among a few while destroying many small players.

From The Author: «One - pot pasta recipes have been making their way into our kitchens with increasing regularity over the past few years, and with good reason — it seems like such a small thing, but nixing that big pot...»

ilmette Harbor Association Board President Jim Dominik said Wilmette is a small harbor of 290 moorings with fewer amenities than other area marinas and isn't in a good position to increase rates.

These small feeds are given to your preemie and are increased slowly over the first few days while the NICU team keeps an eye on how your baby tolerates these feeds.

A few recent studies have concluded that under some circumstances there is a small increased risk to the baby if the mother plans a home birth [1, 2].

You don't have to be an economist to make the simple calculation that lower business confident plus fewer small and medium enterprises equals more unemployed, increases in benefits and a larger deficit.

He says a minimum wage increase will bring New York City to a $ 15 rate in three years, four years for small business with fewer than 10 employees.

Stefanik has been relentless on her criticism of the ACA, which she said led to double - digit premium increases, higher deductibles and fewer choices that have particularly kneecapped small businesses across the sprawling district — including her family's plywood operation in Albany County.

Assemblyman Anthony Palumbo (R - New Suffolk) agreed, saying he predicts farm stands and smaller businesses that require seasonal help will lose a majority of their revenue due to income tax increases, requiring them to either hire fewer employees or pay workers off the books.

Under the plan, the state would gradually increase the city's minimum wage to $ 15 per hour over the next few years — requiring businesses with at last 11 employees to comply by 2018, and requiring smaller businesses to comply by the end of 2019, Cuomo said.

The increase in water level was probably only a few centimeters — enough to make only a small difference compared with the magnitude of the tidal surge created by the storm.

They found that exposure to pollution from the fires in the last few months of gestation leads to earlier birth and smaller babies, and they found some evidence of increased fetal mortality.

But the accident is likely to cause small, but significant, increases in cancers in populations in a few hotspots exposed to higher radioactive doses.

It is possible that medical advances over the past few decades in the treatment of type 2 diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol levels have had a greater impact on people who are overweight — which increases the risk for these conditions — whereas the effect was much smaller in those of normal weight.

Fourteen of the 58 donor service areas offered 129 or fewer kidneys in 2009, so if some organs are shared more broadly, then the expected increase in transplants could represent the addition of a small - to medium - sized donor service area.

General practices prescribing fewer antibiotics may have slightly higher rates of pneumonia and peritonsillar abscess but even a substantial reduction in antibiotic prescribing may be associated with only a small increase in the numbers of cases observed.

Being small increases their risk of desiccation, and there are few options to deal with the constant hot and dry weather.

«This study, one of only a few large studies to have follow - up beyond five years, demonstrates that patients who have head and neck cancers and who are being treated with radiation therapy alone have improved local - regional control and no increase in late toxicity when radiation therapy is delivered twice a day in two smaller doses which we call hyperfractionation,» said Jonathan J. Beitler, MD, MBA, FASTRO, lead author of the study and professor of radiation oncology, otolaryngology and hematology / medical oncology at the Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta.

But customers view stores with small sections negatively, so a better alternative would be to present only a few of each product the store offers, thereby increasing desire for the most - popular item.

Evolution Small peptides known as selective androgen receptor modulators, or SARMs, increase the sensitivity of muscle cells to natural steroid hormones — with fewer undesirable side effects than traditional steroids.

This cascading effect can result in either favoring an increase in the size and number of additional cusps or constraining their development to produce smaller, fewer cusps.

Because brown dwarfs persist for so long — a few times the age of the universe — in the absence of catastrophic collisions these smaller bodies can only increase in number.

Most scientists expect the increase in the number of strong hurricanes as the climate warms to be at the expense of smaller ones, meaning fewer overall.

If you haven't used this product before, start with a small dose increase it slowly over the next few days.

Some experts suggest taking small diet breaks that last a few days, so you can allow the hormone called leptin to increase and bring your metabolism back on track.

Start small with a few workouts per week at a low intensity, and increase it gradually from there.

For a woman, it's true that lifting heavier weights for fewer repetitions will increase your muscle size, but the increase will happen very slowly, and the gains in size will be very small.

In addition, small bursts of cortisol, epinephrine and norepinephrine, are healthy, normal, and adaptive if you have a bit of increased stress in your life occasionally — a few times per month, or even per year.

Research from the University of Limburg, published in the «European Journal of Clinical Nutrition,» showed that eating fewer, larger meals may increase weight due to increased storage of energy after eating compared to consuming more frequent, smaller meals over the course of the day.

If weight gain stops again for a few weeks straight at some later point, make another small increase.

This is because while your brain needs to drive a few muscles (in the hand and forearm) to a very high percentage of their maximum power output, it doesn't really need to increase your metabolic rate to do so: it's just a few muscles, and they're quite small.

Yes, there are a small handful of research - backed supplements available that ARE worth using and that can deliver a slight increase in the overall effectiveness and convenience of your program... and yes, I personally use a few myself and recommend them to my clients and readers where it's applicable.

A primal approach can help achieve quality sleep as proper nutrition (reduced sugar, reduced chemical additives, reduced fillers, and increased nutrient density), outside play (small natural doses of vitamin D, exercise, imaginative play and reduced time with electronics), clean air (less household toxins and fewer chemicals to breathe in), and love and support all positively influence your child's ability to sleep well.

Altered sperm, a change in testicular color, a dramatic increase in the number of miscarriages, and fewer and smaller babies born to animals have scientists and doctors concerned about the presence of GE foods in most American's diets.

There's a few studies like a few small studies that have found that compression garments increase performance when you wear them during exercise but they're typically with not a lot of subjects and they're really not the best studies on the face of the planet when it comes to for example the fact that none of the studies used the placebo group or a control group so it was hard to tell if the increases were really from sale like compression gear or from the athletes say like perception of the compression gear like the fact the athlete knew that they were wearing the gear vs. a control group that wasn't wearing the gear at all.

The reality is that despite the few legal income earning opportunities, the projects have real benefits for building skills, increasing psychosocial health, and positively affecting the sense of self - control, confidence, and leadership abilities in the small number of participants.

Research has shown that beyond very small schools and school districts, there are few opportunities for economies of scale in education because most of the costs increase with enrollments and are not fixed costs that decline with additional clients.