Sentences with phrase «for less than that of»

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Though the Harper government has been maligned for paring the CTC's budget to $ 58 million a year — less than that of New York City — it did negotiate Approved Destination Status with China prior to the 2010 Olympics.

It manages to turn a less - than - scintillating - sounding subject — our aging electricity grid — into compelling reading, he claims, writing that even those who have never spent a minute pondering how the lights come on will leave this one understanding «that the electrical grid is one of the greatest engineering wonders of the modern world» and «why modernizing the grid is so complex and so critical for building our clean - energy future.»

A pro tip for public policy advocacy groups: If you're looking for attention, it helps if your problem appears massively huge and your solution impossibly cheap — preferably less than a cup of coffee a week.

My goal here is to amass as much bitcoin as possible for less than I can buy it at market price — within my means, of course.

Both groups then rated how competent they thought their co-worker would view them, and those who were told they asked for guidance expected their colleague to think less of them than those who were told they worked on the problem alone.

The so - called kids» table is for the lower polling candidates, those with support from less than 3 percent of likely Republican voters.

Driving more than half the growth in drug spending in 2015 were sales of new branded medications that have been available for less than two years.

Likewise, instead of installing plaster walls for a conference room, O+A designed a yurtlike circular meeting space with walls made of industrial - grade freezer curtains — at a cost of less than $ 2,000.

The median earning for Uber drivers is just $ 155 a month, meaning that half of Uber drivers make more than that amount and half make less.

For a list of all the cities with a current unemployment rate of less than 4 % unemployment, here's an interactive map.

If a Desjardins customer's driving data shows they are a less risky driver than most (driving less than 15,000 km per year, for example, or driving primarily between 5 a.m. and 10 p.m.) they can qualify for a discount on their insurance policy of up to 25 %.

Since many of us would have given up under lesser challenges than his, I asked him for advice for others facing adverse conditions.

Hulu — which is owned jointly by CBS rivals Walt Disney, 21st Century Fox, Comcast, and Time Warner — made a similar move less than a year ago, when the service offered subscribers the option of paying a few dollars more per month for an ad - free experience.

Trump's name shows up in filings of less than 14 % of all companies, but the stakes are much higher for firms that have bet on the federal government taking a hands - off approach to marijuana policy.

For the quarter ended July 20, Dick's adjusted earnings were 96 cents a share, up from 82 cents a year ago, but less than the $ 1.00 expected by Wall Street and even its own forecast of $ 1.02 a share to $ 1.07 a share.

The device, which is mostly available for less than $ 100, has doubled its sales every year since 2011 and has spawned a legion of devoted fans.

For Candace, it's less about going out and getting joy than it is about figuring out where moments of joy already exist in our daily lives.

Troops bringing the American flag back to Iraq in 2003 or deploying to Afghanistan in the same time period received just a little more than their Persian Gulf War predecessors, with $ 1,064.70 for soldiers with less than four months of service and $ 1,150.80 for the seasoned veterans with four months or more under their belts.

Since 1949, the only first - term Secretary of State who lasted less than three years was Alexander Haig, who held the role for 18 months under President Ronald Reagan.

Here's one from Getting Things Done: when a task takes less than two minutes, don't schedule it, don't set it aside for later, don't set a reminder — just take care of it.

Solar power has grown at a whopping 68 % average rate over the past 10 years, but still accounts for less than 2 % of total U.S. electricity generation.

The existence of sick and personal days also leaves the door wide open for them to be abused by employees who are less than honest about their health or personal lives.

If you want to reach local customers and keep them coming back to your business, text - message marketing is one of the most effective strategies for doing so: While email marketing messages are opened by less than 20 percent of recipients, text message ads are typically viewed by at least 95 percent of recipients, according to Mashable.

Canada's Big Six banks themselves are less likely to feel the need to innovate, insulated as they are against the competitive agitation of fintech companies by their market position and regulatory balustrade, and cognizant that Canada's venture capitalism industry — usually the fuel for fintech — is far less fulsome than America's.

Don't settle for less than you want out of life.

The Independent was created in 1986 as an alternative to the existing British daily press, and for a time it was a successful business, but as the pressure of a declining print market continued to grow it faded rapidly from a readership of about 400,000 to less than 50,000.

All for less than the cost of building a hull and onboard equipment.»

Investigators believed the company's reviews over whether to supply customers more controlled substances were not meaningful and were used as a sales tool; customers were granted threshold increases for reasons, like the 4th of July, or the closure of an area pharmacy years earlier, that the government considered less than compelling.

According to a third party site that monitors their sales the most expensive kitten so far was bought Sunday for $ 117,712; the mean price of a virtual kitten is currently a little less than $ 90.

The early target for 5G is latency of less than one millisecond — or 10 times better than current LTE.

Add those reasons to the long, frequently cited list of why women lose confidence in their careers: They make, on average, $ 8,000 less per year than their male counterparts; they aren't afforded the same opportunities for advancement; they're penalized for having kids.

Daniel Miessler, advisory services director at the cybersecurity firm IOActive, has a recommendation that «would cost infinitely less than the dumpster fire of products we constantly purchase and deploy for millions of dollars a year,» as he writes on his personal blog: simply hire a couple of people to maintain a catalog.

The drug at the heart of four lawsuits in New Jersey is insulin — «a century - old medicine that for most of its history cost $ 15 or less,» write Barrett and Langreth, but «whose list price has risen more than 270 percent over the past decade.»

But for many investors, the benefits of tax - loss harvesting could turn out to be a lot less than expected.

In July, the Bank of Canada estimated that 47 per cent of residential mortgages with the Big Six banks will be up for renewal in less than a year, with another 31 per cent due in the next one to three years.

Some may bill for minimum increments of 10 minutes, while others might not bill for less than an hour.

«In a study of health care providers, we found that those who used WOOP were significantly more engaged with their work and less stressed than members of a control group,» Oettingen writes for HBR.org.

Of those who currently pay for their news, close to 60 % describe themselves as primarily print subscribers, compared with less than 30 % who are digital.

Food, transport, accommodation and clothes cost much less than in the U.S. Retirees looking for a high quality of life at a low cost will not be disappointed.

In less than a year, Weiss went from hashing out the formulas for each product with a team of 15 to banking revenue in the multiple millions (she declined to be more specific) and managing a staff of 30.

For those who export, two - thirds said they did so to increase company sales and profits, and roughly 70 percent said they devote less than 5 percent of annual operating revenue preparing to export.

Regular medications including original name brands and generics can be found at modern pharmacy chains like U-Care for less than 10 % of the prices charged in the States.

It's not surprising that CNRL's Horizon kept operating through the evacuation — it relies on local labour for less than a quarter of its workforce.

Parents, for their part, would readily comply with kids» expectations: Less than 5 percent of those surveyed said that they wouldn't let their child move back in after graduating from college, although nearly 25 percent said that they would charge them rent.

Apple shareholder Ross Gerber said on Thursday that Apple sold a «perfectly fine» number of phones during the quarter, but earnings were a bit less than he was hoping for.

In fact, in Andorra's capital city of Andorra la Vella, a three - star hotel (# 43, or $ 59) is not only just half the cost of the average Airbnb (# 79, or $ 108), but you can book yourself into a five - star hotel for less than the average listing on Airbnb's website too (# 77, or $ 105).

Initially, aim for an audience size of less than a million people (otherwise, the audience might be too broad and that ad won't be as effective.

With 22 percent of boomers having less than $ 100,000 of retirement savings, many will opening their own business for financial security and a purposeful later stage of life.

When you see a whole bunch of bananas on sale for less than half the regular price, you grab them.

Local beers cost less than $ 1 but you will pay around $ 5 per pint for one of the dozens of Peruvian craft beers that are becoming popular throughout the country.