Sentences with phrase «get points based»

Schools get points based on how many students pass the English language arts and math portions of the assessment.

The site has a SugarShop where you can get points based on the activity.

You then get points based on how well they finish, if a driver beats their teammate, and how many places they make up throughout the race.

Not exact matches

«It offers reasonable fees (65 basis points), and you get foreign exposure.»

The company's board put a special provision in Papa's employment agreement that turbocharges his pay the way a videogame might when a player levels up into bonus points mode: If Valeant's stock price reaches a new high of at least $ 270 a share in the next three years, Papa gets double the allotment of performance - based stock.

Kitchener, Ontario - based Vidyard gets points for making a video that carries off a hat trick: It's funny; it's creative, marrying old - school»80s workout gear with Rocky - style training; and — most important — it's useful as a tool for those looking to up their video marketing game.

The MBA team ultimately recommended that Howard get a Square Register, an iPad - based point - of - sale system that will allow his customers to enter their products, calculate the cost and pay by credit or debit card — still checking out without the need for a human cashier.

The point is to get that contemplative time into your day on a regular basis, he says.

Apple is getting a 15 - basis - point payout from card issuers on average and this will be true through 2017.

The Fed is trying to raise interest rates 25 basis points, four times a year every March, June, September, and December through 2019 to get to 3.5 % or so and bring down the balance sheet.

Despite how busy he can get, Rosenblum makes a point of learning on an ongoing basis.

The cases got some attention from trendy gear blogs, but a high price point — $ 825 — meant a limited customer base.

16 - 17 points: You've made it to second base but need work to get home.

What happens when the 10 year and two year get to under 40 basis points.

«A big challenge in PR — and this doesn't happen in every case — is getting a client to understand the story from the audience's point of view,» Philadelphia - based PR agent Alexandra Golaszewska told CareerCast.com in an email.

«If worrying about 80 basis points in fees is going to get in the way» of participants saving for retirement, «that's an issue.»

However, point values are not fixed — they fluctuate based on several factors, so pick what flights to use them on to get the best value.

Now that we've gotten that out of the way, here are our top 5 ways to earn both base and bonus points with World of Hyatt:

Like the $ 95 - a-year Sapphire Preferred, you can transfer your points on a 1:1 basis or redeem for 1.5 cents each, but you get a few extra perks along the way:

Inflation is running a little bit low, but it is only 20 basis points before they get more comfortable with it, at least on a core basis.

However, living in India and having worked as analytics provider for a brick and mortar and ecommerce giant based in US, I can tell few points from my experience: 1: Ecommerce in India: There is a lot of potential but challenges are equally crippling: a: Flipkart recently got devalued from 15 to 11 billion and has failed to post profits in its entire history of existence.

CHARLIE MUNGER: Well, the truth of the matter is we don't pay much attention to trying to get an extra two basis points by being gamey on our short - term things and that credit default position is a weird, historical accident.

There are some analysts who believe that Chairman Powell and his colleagues on the FOMC may try to get ahead of the curve and increase rates by more than 25 basis points when the Fed next moves.

Assuming of course that the curve actually does get to completely flat before recession something not assured but based on the Fed's timid quarter point steps toward that Minsky moment is still likely.

I'd like to get to the point of updating the portfolio details on a monthly basis (besides the passive income details), but there isn't always a noticeable difference from month - to - month.

This is also when you get to ask about the potential to move forward based on what you have learned about your prospect up to this point.

With an ETF, you can get exposure to just about any asset class in the world, very cheaply — just basis points — and what do people use them for?

Based upon on his recent public comments, Dimon seems to be interested: ««And you know at one point we all have to get our act together [so that] we will do what we're supposed to do [for] the average Americans.»

At the same time, 2 - year notes were enticing with 58 basis points, which at the very least was more attractive than the 14 basis points you could have gotten in 2011.

When asked how we'll enact more change on this issue, Spark's Thau offered, «You have to get to the point where people truly believe that it's a strategic imperative and advantage to have a more diverse employee base.

We got to be the market leader because we've been working with knowledge - based companies for a decade and a half, through all points of the cycle.

It is not clear to me at all, even if we do get past the issues with mining centralization, segregated witness, lightning networks and hard forks, that Bitcoin (or Bitcoin - like) blockchain - based cryptocurrencies are the way to do it, but I'm open to informed debate on this point.

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The reality is that we all get our morals from our parents and our society, whether they have their ultimate base in a book or not doesn't really matter at this point.

I wonder when we will finally get to the point where we no longer base 21st Century social decisions on Iron Age myths from the Middle Ages that were cobbled together into a book during the Dark Ages.

(Psychologist Abraham Maslow points out that persons who have this inner sense of worth are able to have «being love» for others (unselfish love of a person's very being), as contrasted to «deficiency love» (self seeking love based on getting one's deficiencies met).

Granted, the believers are perfectly happy relying on scientists and science to — I don't know — talk to people around the world instantaneously via this comment board, and then get in their cars, and fly in planes, and use electricity, and watch TV — all of those things based on science, and yet, when someone points out that scientists have mapped the human genome and other primates and can show, irrefutably, where the different primate families branched off — well, no, no no!

It doesn't seem that there is any point of view that Muslims should be accepting of Americans (or maybe I just never get to see that media because I don't live in a nation that has a large Muslim base).

They create fear in the lower class by saying the conservatives will do away with welfare and then say they will keep it in place and make sure that the people continue to get what they are getting now.The Conservatives point to the 47 % who are taking some form of government handout and tell their base that this should not be so in its present state, but should be reformed.

The more you spout your nonsense, the more I get to point out that your entire religion, even life, is based on a belief in a creature that is no more likely to exist than the Tooth Fairy.

One should get to the point of realizing that life is full of mystery, and that all knowledge and conclusions are transitory and provisional based on incoming research.

My point was that studying the history of how one's belief system got to them can lead to that sort of revelation or perhaps a different acceptance of it based on the question of why did some core beliefs (that transcend many different religions) make it through.

You know, I could easily point my finger at a person who claims to be a salesman and I could justify lying to make a sale or justify getting out of sales because all salesmen lie based upon a few who claim to be a salesman.

Yes, lets do... because emotionally pretentious and image based propaganda packed with self defeating argument and unreferenced, scholarly weak conjecture is a productive way to get one's point across.

so we had some hazelnuts we blended in the vitamix with filtered water to the point the vitamix got warm and filtered out the fiber with a clean handkerchief (in hindsight i could of not filtered it but i like the filtered nut milk with coffee) and mixed together, but it all lacked fiber, so we used muesli (the perfect ingredient) to bulk up the mixture and used brown sugar to sweeten with all the other ingredients (i know the s word but i'm eating with a non-plant based eater).

Granted, corn is the base for this salsa, so it will have some calories and carbs, but for just 4 Points, you get a HUGE, heaping, full cup serving!

I'd have to say that the lemon ginger is my favourite, but it really depends on what I'm in the mood for — I love them all And the microwave definitely still freaks me out... I don't think I'll ever get to a point where I'm comfortable using it on a regular basis, and I like my leftovers cold anyways

As for placing the mix in the freezer, this is supposed to chill the mix to a point where it can be handled without getting sloppy — I found that an hour worked for me, but the timing may differ based on your freezer settings.

I'm having trouble figuring out when I'll be able to do it based on timing, though... is there any point at which the dough can sit longer than it is supposed to (e.g., could I wait significantly longer than 10 minutes before mixing up the dough after getting the yeast / water ready?

Catherine King: Well, he certainly made a recommendation based on the submissions that he had, but we've looked across internationally and the country, I've even visited and the UK and the European Union myself to look at what's happening over there and had a chat to them, and on the basis of what we've decided — and this is one position in terms of the Food Regulatory Ministerial Council, we've got one vote on that council — we don't wish to pursue traffic light labelling at this point.