Sentences with phrase «get economic numbers»

«It is good to get economic numbers on the likely effect of urban heat island mitigation,» said Rohinton Emmanuel, a professor of sustainable design at Glasgow Caledonian University who works on the impacts of urban heat islands.

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The most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics numbers show that the fraction of the civilian, non-institutionalized population that is self - employed and running a corporation (incorporated self - employment) was 5.1 percent below its level five years ago, when the current economic recovery was getting underway.

According to 2009 numbers from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, Canada was one of three member countries — Australia and New Zealand being the others — where unlimited Internet plans were practically impossible to get.

Even with increasing employment numbers, not enough people are getting back into the job market to spur economic growth.

For a time we started to look at numbers like electric - power production and freight traffic to get a line on actual economic growth because no one believed the gross - domestic - product figures.

That is a bigger number than you would get from just his very conservative, economic issues - first base.

[The] report served the time - tested purpose: Whenever the system is in crisis (or shows signs of becoming transformed); whenever blacks get restless (or show strength); whenever whites in significant numbers show signs of coming together with blacks to confront their mutual problems (or enemies), the trick is to shift the focus from the real struggle for political and economic empowerment to black «crime,» degeneracy, pathology, and — in Moynihan's innovative twist — the «deterioration» of the black family.

Maybe, if you pad your numbers with all the Christians killed by other Christians in the name of ridding the faith of «heretics», or «witches»; or the Christian soldiers who were killed for mostly political and economic motives during the Crusades, then you might be getting close.

This step would reduce the number of insane and wasteful program such as Cash For Clunkers and get the political class focused on fewer but more impactful economic policies and programs.

I think that the polls may continue to swing wildly around for a few months, as we see how the economic situation pans out, I certainly get the impression in Chesterfield that an unusually high number of people are undecided at the moment, though there has certainly been an improvement in the likelihood to vote of Labour supporters in the last two or three months.

the sheer number of small and midsize businesses combine to overwhelm them in terms of economic activity and most of it get taxed through personal income.

Veritas is finished and was really pretty much from the beginning, it never had any real raison d'etre other than as the Robert Kilroy Silk Fanclub and now that he has abandoned them what is there left for them, The English Democrats are somewhat lightweight policy wise, UKIP actually despite the Kilroy Fiasco got the second biggest gain in total number of votes for any party after the Liberal Democrats and at 2.5 % are now up to where the Liberal Party was in the 1950's, on the other hand the Liberal Democrats have a lacklustre leadership campaign with a lot of scandals, are divided on economic policy and show every sign of being ready to implode.

«OGS — as it made clear in the addendum — is in the process of determining the economic viability of a PLA that includes the ability to get a number of projects done in time for next year's State Fair.»

Looking through the rest of the poll, the Conservatives & Theresa May have a lead over Labour & Jeremy Corbyn on almost every economic measure YouGov asked about (36 on cutting the deficit, 32 points on managing the economy, 15 on providing jobs, 11 on keeping prices down, 11 on improving living standards, 6 on getting people on the housing ladder), the only exception was reducing the number of people in poverty, where Corbyn & Labour had a 7 point lead.

He says the city makes a huge contribution and economic and social imperatives mean it should get more power over a number of issues.

Of course you have to look at these in great detail, but what that means for 2050, when I worked out the numbers, assuming our world population of 8 or 9 billion in the year 2050, is that if this world economic growth rate continues to 2050 the way it has been in the past 30 years, you get an average person in the world in 2050 being like today's average European or Japanese.

It's administered to a random sample of students with each student assigned only a small number of the questions, because the goal is to get a snapshot of student progress based on where they live and their racial and socio - economic backgrounds.

Even considering the pent up demand for new cars after the economic downturn, that's an amazing sales number for a vehicle getting awfully close to its expiration date.

By this point in the article you've got to be saying that all these numbers are nice and all but how can going to college not be a smart economic move.

We got our cost of living data from the consumer price index compiled by the Council for Community and Economic Research, which puts the average index number for the cities we considered at 108 (lower is better).

Mortgage rates are moving sideways right now but that could certainly change over the next few days as we get a number of economic reports and hear from some Fed officials.

They both have the same economic interest, will both get the same number of Liberty Broadband shares and rights... so why the premium for the A shares??? Guess I'll just have to wait and see...

Sadly, I don't think the town got the number of visitors and economic benefit they anticipated.

If we keep doing what we are doing now — as we relentlessly grow global economic production capabilities, adamantly condone skyrocketing absolute global human population numbers, and foolishly raise the level of per capita consumption of limited resources — are we not likely to keep getting what we are getting now?

Whilst economic growth is projected to significantly reduce childhood stunting, climate change is projected to reverse these gains in a number of regions: substantial increases in stunting due to malnutrition are projected to occur with warming of 2 °C to 2.5 °C, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, and this is likely to get worse at 4 °C.

For a country with such poor food security (40 % self sufficient) and nearly totally dependent on energy imports, you got ta wonder if any number of green sky sky scrapers are much more than window dressing the approaching economic / energetic / ecological melt down we all face....

Unfortunately, its release could not have come at a worst time; with California one of the worst sufferers from the economic crisis (and home to a staggering number of home foreclosures), it will be tough going trying to get the legislature to act on the findings.

(The US promotes a number of government policies by the economic incentive of requiring compliance in order to get government work.

Experts tells us that uninsured numbers tend to swell during tough economic times, and that they go up faster than they eventually do back down when things get better financially for the average citizen.

There's also the increasing number of fraud claims from desperate people trying to get money due to the recent economic crisis.

Driven by a number of economic, demographic, and firmographic trends the contingent workforce is growing in both size and importance for organizations that need to get work done.

Spouses elect to get a legal separation instead of a divorce for a number of reasons including religious beliefs or economic advantages (taxes and medical insurance) or one or both spouses opposition to divorce.

The demographics, household income and spending in Allen County combine to create an attractive customer profile, and now the Economic Development Group is focusing on getting those numbers out to retailers.

«For a number of years, we were in a situation where the rising economic tide coming out of the recession was really floating all boats, but now we've got different stories for each property type,» noted Woodwell.