Sentences with phrase «for less level»

Persona 4 «s graphical style and gameplay engine are carry - overs from its predecessor, but the designers have made a number of tweaks and balance changes allowing for less level grinding, better battles, and an enjoyable experience overall that even surpasses Persona 3.

Not exact matches

For small businesses that rely on a certain level of aesthetic elegance, less cluttering cable handrails are recommended.

Living a healthy lifestyle can eliminate all of this and create less stress levels for you to deal with later on in your work day.

Skipping meals lowers your energy and concentration levels, so that you get less work done for each hour you put in.

But the biggest «breakthrough» came for Gates, he says, when he read Rosling's proposal for four levels of wealth around the world, with level one being extreme poverty — those surviving on $ 2 a day or less — and level four being those spending more than $ 32 a day.

Now it's nosediving, and Explorer, at least since May, has more or less leveled out, which is good news for Microsoft.

As it turns out, people with higher income levels are more likely than those of modest means to opt for HSA - qualified health plans, because they are less concerned by the potential out - of - pocket medical costs and more interested in the tax savings, according to Fronstin at EBRI.

«Since then, though, demand for less expensive, entry - level homes has built steadily, causing prices to grow rapidly.

He says the actions of central banks «attempting to spark economic growth» are «severely punishing the world's savers and creating incentives to reach for yield, pushing investors into less liquid asset classes and increased levels of risk, with potentially dangerous financial and economic consequences.»

The minimum requirements for an employee to reach the bronze level (for a 22 % discount) are a cholesterol count less than 195, a blood pressure of 140/90, and a BMI of less than 30.

In addition, the median overall debt level for that age group neared $ 25,000 in 2012, up from less than $ 15,000 in 1998.

To be eligible for Lifeline, participants must have an income less than 135 % of the federal poverty level or qualify for one of several other programs for the poor, such as Medicaid or food stamps.

And just how meaningful is the cortisol result when the participants didn't report feeling any less stressed, and considering that the cortisol levels for both groups were in the «normal range» at the start of the study?

The low liquidity levels are caused by a combination of regulations, which make it less attractive for big banks to hold inventories of bonds for dealing, and new forms of quick, computerised trading, which have the potential to move markets in times of stress.

The service level agreement for Amazon's Simple Storage Service offers credits to users when uptime is less than 99.99 percent.

Shaikh had to scale down the comfort level for his employees on the road by choosing less expensive hotels and only subsidizing breakfast, instead of three daily meals, but he says employees understand the cut backs.

The average contract interest rate for 30 - year fixed - rate mortgages with conforming loan balances ($ 453,100 or less) increased to its highest level since April 2014, 4.50 percent, from 4.41 percent, with points increasing to 0.57 from 0.56 (including the origination fee) for 80 percent loan - to - value ratio loans.

«For the vast majority of people, regularly getting less than about seven hours of sleep leads to concentration problems, lower energy levels, accidents, and, in the long - term, raises the risk of depression,» PsyBlog stresses.

Since CEO tenure is decreasing and the pool of available CEOs is small, directors need to be certain that their companies have real succession plans in place and that they take care to groom less senior executives for higher - level jobs, Larcker says.

Higher employment levels since the recession have stimulated demand for convenience; working people say they have less time to cook.

In another experiment, rather than prime participants for particular roles, testosterone levels were used as a marker of which study subjects were inclined towards dominating power structures and which less interested in leading.

Women still earn far less for every dollar that men earn, but two professors say their research shows no significant difference at the chief executive level.

With the potential for additional volatility and rate rises on the horizon, credit assets are less attractive at these levels.

Yahoo's share price quickly fell to less than half of Microsoft's rejected offer of $ 31 and didn't retain that level for more than five years.

A recent survey conducted by DiscoverOrg of C - Level executives who had been in their new position for less than six months showed overwhelmingly that big changes happen within those first months of tenure.

Men in marriages where the responsibility for domestic chores and financial support are more evenly shared report higher levels of happiness and less depression.

Osborn says another thing employers should do now to plan for the future is to determine which currently exempt employees earn less than the new salary level ($ 50,440 per year).

For our part, we don't follow the Coppock indicator per se, but the broad range of technical measures we follow include our own variant that is associated with stronger and more reliable subsequent returns (this variant has not even gone to negative levels yet, much less turned favorable).

Increased levels of anonymity, faster and less expensive transactions, integrations with secure hardware wallets, and less accessible attack vectors for black - hat hackers are all part of the advantages that can come from decentralized exchanges.

We would like to put forward other explanations that would not be entirely negative, including the growth of the services sector, which requires less investment for the same level of potential growth.

Less than three months after filing its lawsuit on the ABACUS deal, the SEC settled with Goldman Sachs for $ 550 million, bringing charges solely against a low level trader, Fabrice Tourre.

As plans for the Ethereum blockchain to transition from proof - of - work to proof - of - stake advance, future block times could reach a level known as «near - instant - finality» (less than one second).

There are also less well documented levels of organisational peer to peer lending, for example from well established co-ops to new ones: the new co-op gets access to start up capital while the established one gets a better return than they would from leaving their spare money in the bank.

For example, insurance losses in the Houston area may be substantially less than anticipated, as the area has a very low level of residential flood insurance coverage.

Historical norms for the most reliable measures are less than half of present levels.

As a result, even though a tightening labor market and recently supportive levels of business, consumer, and investor confidence may bode well for the near - term outlook, the hard data currently seems considerably less encouraging than the soft data.

Index futures, like the S&P 500 Index (NYSE: SPY), have become very popular as broader economic bets for day traders given their high level of liquidity and less stock - specific risk.

Monero is still one of the less bearish majors, holding up above last week's low together with Bitcoin, not far off the key $ 200 level that has been in focus for two weeks now.

Women hold less than 17 percent of board seats on Fortune 500 companies, a level that has stayed flat for seven years.

Still, we see less risk of a renewed oil price plunge and the potential for a gradual rise toward long - term equilibrium levels around $ 60 a barrel, where supply and demand are likely to find a better balance.

I think it's more likely that income will stay more or less level because the $ base for the higher rates is lower.

In a report the bank assigned a 25 % probability to a near - term (less than six months) currency devaluation change, increasing to 40 % if oil stays at current levels throughout 2016, rising to 60 % if oil stays sub - $ 50 per barrel for the next two years.

World oil demand will rise less than previously thought in 2014, due to a lower outlook for the global economy and demand growth in the second quarter falling to its lowest level in more than two years, the West's energy watchdog said Tuesday.

Global shares tumbled for a sixth day on Thursday and oil prices slid to levels not seen since the early 2000s, after China guided the yuan lower and Shanghai shares tumbled 7 % in less than half an hour.

Small caps (Russell 2000) and to a lesser extent Nikkei and EM equities in stocks all have below - average vol and correlations today to S&P 500; makes index hedges cheaper, although the lower level of realized volatility means consensus is looking for an even better entry point to buy equity vol.»

Dow reaches new milestone One thousand points isn't what it used to be, accounting for a move of less than 5 % at present levels, but markets took note of this week's milestone nonetheless as the venerable Dow Jones Industrial Average broke and closed above the 22,000 mark for the first time.

A: When a company receives low support for its say - on - pay proposal (generally less than 75 %), we believe at a minimum the company should provide some level of disclosure regarding the company's response to shareholder opposition; such disclosure, which often includes a discussion of engagement meetings and feedback received, should be accompanied by relevant changes and / or rationale intended to address outstanding concerns.

Even though the S&P 500 is less than 3 points above its March peak, and the index remains lower than its level of 5 years ago, and has underperformed T - bills for the past 7 years, I realize that the chatter about «4 year highs» can make it seem frustrating that the Strategic Growth Fund is well hedged here.

If you're considering setting up a for - profit social venture, you likely expect that your organization will have a broad range of profit - making activities that will generate levels of profit similar to traditional businesses or slightly less, due to your social or environmental commitments.

Covering up the error did not look like too bad an option at the time because stocks were priced at one - half of their fair value and so it was hard for anyone to imagine that prices could ever again rise even to fair - value levels much less to overpriced levels.