Sentences with phrase «figures used as»

Walking around any city or small town in Latin America, you'll usually find at least one of these laying on the street somewhere: small religious metal figures used as offerings or tokens of gratitude to saints.

A figure used as a mutiplier of an income producing property's gross annual income to estimate its value.

That is the figure used as the base for temperature increases in all the Nordhaus RICE and DICE modelling.

Not exact matches

You're used to figuring it out as you go.

Net worth figures are compiled using publicly available census data as well as Environics Analytics market intelligence.

Airbnb, for its part, figured out early on that «really bad» photos of its listings in New York City were keeping guests away, as co-founder Joe Gebbia recalled to Fast Company in 2012: «People were using camera phones and taking Craigslist - quality pictures.

Then, figuring that Snowden was savvy enough to use encryption that couldn't be cracked by brute force, the government also demanded that Levison hand over Lavabit's private encryption key — something the Justice Department has threatened to demand of Apple (aapl) as well.

Vestager said figures used to calculate the amount of back taxes owed by Apple came from the company itself, as well as U.S. Senate hearings.

Kadlic and Anderson figured the firm was using the acquisition of Accurate as a way to market itself to potential investors.

Multiple news outlets have reported that Trump is trying to figure out what he could do to Amazon, such as changing its tax status or using antitrust laws against the company.

He says that figure has remained fairly constant for some time — suggesting there is a small hard core base of people who use bitcoin as everyday money, while the vast majority are using it to speculate and invest.

Cycorp charged itself with figuring out the tens of millions of pieces of data we rely on as humans — the knowledge that helps us understand the world — and to represent them in a formal way that machines can use to reason.

As a user, you should spend no more than a few moments to figure out how to use basic tools.

As Mullin notes, the incoming president's ability to avoid the mainstream press and get his message out via Twitter, Facebook and other social media makes the Obama administration look like an old man trying to figure out how to use Snapchat.

The goal of the DMM, who used to be known as the NYSE's specialists, is to figure out what is the best price to start trading Twitter's shares.

There, AT&T defines it as «information that directly identifies or reasonably can be used to figure out the identity of a customer or user,» like a name, address, phone number, or email address.

A new study puts the figure into stark numerical terms: while as many as 2,070 adults used e-cigs to quit in 2015, another 168,000 young people who used the devices went on to become smokers of conventional cigarettes.

The market for the iPad and similar devices and, consequently, their ability to reach consumers, seems set for exponential growth, especially as universities, large businesses and government agencies begin figuring out how to use the tablets in their daily routines.

The U.S. drugmaker Novum Pharma has raised the price of two of its skin care treatments that are commonly used to treat conditions such as eczema and acne to nearly $ 10,000, according to figures by the Financial Times.

In the sport of remanufacturing, the fundamentals include such things as using hand tools correctly, watching the labor utilization rate, figuring out better ways to make spare parts.

As a result, he and his managers could not figure out what should be used (as opposed to what was used), nor could they accurately gauge their progress in using resources more efficientlAs a result, he and his managers could not figure out what should be used (as opposed to what was used), nor could they accurately gauge their progress in using resources more efficientlas opposed to what was used), nor could they accurately gauge their progress in using resources more efficiently.

The revelations answer the question as to what the contents of the bottle he used to drink the liquid were full of, but authorities still haven't figured out how Praljak obtained the poison, or how he managed to smuggle it into the courtroom.

Generally, you can put as much cash into the fund as the beneficiary needs to meet college expenses, which will take careful calculations to figure out (use your school's tuition calculator as a gauge).

If those figures are lower than what you and your employees are paying, you can potentially use them as leverage to negotiate with your brokers.

The VTOS program and the Greyball tool used techniques like looking at a user's credit card information and seeing if it was tied to an institution, such as a police credit union, to identify authority figures, according to the report.

Just as jujitsu teaches practitioners to channel an opponent's energy to achieve their goals, running a business during the holidays requires accepting the fact that there will be a certain amount of shifted focus and figuring out how to use it for the good of the company.

Last year, the agency — which routinely confiscates questionable items that could be used as weapons — found a record 3,957 guns tucked away in carry - ons, according to the TSA's «Year in Review,» which has tracked the figure since 2005.

Some contractors use this ratio as a basis for determining price: They estimate their labor costs and then double that figure to arrive at a bid price.

As is usual with time - management manuals, the first step is to figure out where all your time is going using a spreadsheet or time diary, such as those Vanderkam's made available at her 168hours.com websitAs is usual with time - management manuals, the first step is to figure out where all your time is going using a spreadsheet or time diary, such as those Vanderkam's made available at her 168hours.com websitas those Vanderkam's made available at her 168hours.com website.

As for Frind, the hyper - efficient entrepreneur plans to use part of his wealth to invest in startups to bolster the country's tech scene, which he figures is about an hour - a-day job.

Using figures from official European and Catalonian organizations, Business Insider claimed earlier this year that the region would quickly gain about 16 billion euros yearly in the case of a split, as they would no longer have to pay taxes to Spain.

This 139,025 figure should not be used directly as an estimate of people making less than $ 15 hour, as it does not cover all federally regulated workers and many of the part - time workers in this category made more than $ 15 an hour.

It has figured out numerous uses for potatoes over the years (shaping them into smiley faces, for example) and branched into categories beyond French fries, such as the Harvest Splendour line of frozen vegetable side dishes.

So researchers are trying to figure out exactly how we'll interact with these systems, and Yuta Sugiura, a designer and developer at Japan's Keio University, has a proposal: we'll use our own cheeks as touchpads.

But missing from the details were BlackBerry subscriber numbers, a figure that analysts have come to rely on as a barometer of how many people still use the company's devices.

As can be seen in Figure 1, on earnings up to one - half average wages and salaries, the benefits from Canada's publicly administered programs meet the commonly used replacement rate target of 70 per cent of pre-retirement earnings.

Bitcoins were created in 2009 by a mysterious figure or group known as Satoshi Nakamoto and are used for transactions across borders without third parties such as banks.

Also, you can take the 401K figures and use them as your total savings if you wish.

The young hackers used SSNDOB to collect data for exposed.su, a Web site that listed the SSNs, birthdays, phone numbers, current and previous addresses for dozens of top celebrities — such as performers Beyonce, Kanye West and Jay Z — as well as prominent public figures, including First Lady Michelle Obama, CIA Director John Brennan, and then - FBI Director Robert Mueller.

Analysis using Valeant's reported «Cash Earnings» weren't getting a true picture of the company, as can be seen in Figure 1.

The thick solid blue line in Figure 3 shows the median estimate using all the data available as of the third quarter of 2015.

Not only have you missed your 2 % inflation target every quarter since 2012q2, but as the figure shows (using revised data on yr / yr PCE core inflation) you're missing it on the downside by a greater margin over time.

Many lenders in the federal funds and Eurodollar markets with access to the ON RRP facility responded to these low rates by increasing their use of the facility, as shown in Figure 10.

Using that figure as your guide, plan on having double the amount of money you have today to maintain the same standard of living in 20 years.

In 2016, the Far East Federal District's trade with China amounted to $ 6 billion, accounting for 25 percent of its foreign trade volumes.47 In a meeting with the vice premier of China's State Council, Putin stated that Chinese investment in the Russian Far East has exceeded $ 3 billion since 2015.48 According to Minister for the Development of the Russian Far East Alexander Galushka, as of November 2017, the number of projects in the PDAs and the Free Port of Vladivostok involving Chinese capital tripled in the past year to twenty - eight projects worth $ 4 billion that account for 85 percent of foreign investment attracted to the Russian Far East since 2015.49 At the Third Eastern Economic Forum in September 2017 — an annual conference to attract foreign investment to the Russian Far East — Putin even used these investment figures in jest to encourage Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to increase Japanese investments in the Russian Far East.50

The problem is the company used to have over $ 1 billion in cash after the IPO as it burns money to figure out how to finally make money.

On the demand side, use of crude oil by Midwest refineries has been decreasing since the year 2000, as shown in the figure below:

-- You can convince your VCs of reviewing on a monthly base only those metrics that will measure progress more accurately at this stage, instead of all the financial data which is not relevant — You can set up the right financial systems / software to help measure basic financial information, and allow your VC access to additional financial figures every quarter or by request If none of these work: — You can try convincing your VC of using the right metrics as well as the financial ones, and to be measured by a mix of both — You can hire a seasoned part - time CFO who can at least free you of the hurdle of putting the numbers together

Using figures from the RFP, we assume the 50,000 new workers would earn $ 100,000 on average, and that supplementary workers would earn a fraction thereof, as per Amazon's estimates.

(Update: Many hours later, Twitter's investor relations account tweeted that these historical figures shouldn't be used as the basis for estimates of its current daily user numbers.