Sentences with phrase «highest group of»

Cockatoos in particular seem to be among the highest group of hand fed birds that are diagnosed with fatty liver disease.

I designed this as HW for a GCSE higher group of fairly mixed ability.

I think airlines have become a lot more effective at segmenting their customer base (and) differentiating across a high group of super premium customers.

Nielsen Gaming estimates the core group to be 69 % male overall with the hardcore group being 82 % male, hardcore being the higher group of time / money spent.

After all, it wasn't so long ago that fees were so high a group of prominent investors and miners created a whole new version of bitcoin mostly to keep fees lower.

Not exact matches

ISIS first came to South Asia in 2014, using the group's substantial funds and weak local governments to co-opt high - ranking members of the Pakistani Taliban and disaffected members of the Afghan Taliban.

Tensions were high Wednesday at New York University's Stern School of Business, as a group of academics, venture capitalists, and entrepreneurs faced off during a panel discussion on the future of higher education.

He provides mentoring and finance sessions for a select group of high - growth companies.

«An excise tax on the endowments of some private colleges and universities, regardless of how many or how few institutions it affects, is a remarkably bad idea that takes money that would otherwise be used for student aid, research, and faculty salaries and sends it to the Department of the Treasury to finance corporate tax cuts,» said Ted Mitchell, president of the American Council on Education, a higher education trade group.

By contrast, traders (hedge funds) and small investors are expressing historically high levels of bearish sentiment (both groups are known for following trends and being wrong at turning points).

Soaring U.S. shale production has been a nagging concern for OPEC and its allies, but the group's key players appear to be more fixated on the immediate benefits of high crude prices.

A number of high - profile attacks in Afghanistan towards the end of January were claimed by competing terrorist groups ISIS and the Taliban — putting the spotlight back on a country that has been at war for over a decade.

But if people can't act on their values when the stakes aren't high, then how can they expect to act on them when the consequences of their inaction affect not only themselves, but an entire group of people?

I have a particular passion for understanding how to transform a group of individuals into a high - performing team, as a great team does more for a company's results than anything else.

«For most of the last 80 years, venture as an asset class has been really difficult for the average investor to get in, unless you are a high net worth individual, unless you get the deal flow, you are part of an angel group or you invest into VCs, you just didn't have access into this asset class,» Wang says.

Running speed was reduced for both groups of phone users in comparison to non-users, while subjects who used their phones for solely music performed at a higher speed and intensity than any of the other groups.

The U.S. Small Business Administration, widely considered near useless to high - tech startups, has made two efforts in as many weeks to woo this innovative group of entrepreneurs.

Sony's problems were many: brutal competition for its once - dominant television group; being bested by Apple's (aapl) iPod, a humiliation for the Walkman pioneer; high - cost manufacturing in Japan; a failure to seize the music - streaming initiative despite years of trying.

While the project is massive, it's just one of the Aquilinis» many high - profile, highly profitable ventures: Through Aquilini Investment Group, now more than 50 years old, the family controls one of British Columbia's biggest development conglomerates, as well as its NHL team, the Rogers Arena, blueberry and cranberry farms, restaurants and some $ 80 - million worth of vineyard properties in Washington state.

«The problem is YouTube is trying to price itself at the higher end of the market,» says Brian Wieser, an analyst who covers Google for Pivotal Research Group in New York.

In sum, in 2008, tax rates for the highest income group were about double what they were for the lowest income group, with the highest income group paying about one - third of their total income in tax.

Netflix description: «Two groups of high school misfits — the AV club and the drama club — collide in this quirky coming - of - age story set in 1996 Oregon.»

Speaking at last week's CRU aluminum conference in London, Anthony Everiss, head of the group's alumina and bauxite research, conceded that the record highs seen in the CRU index were based on just three or four cargoes, each around 30,000 - 35,000 tonnes in size.

«Aequitas clearly is looking to have a high - impact campaign,» says Kevan Cowan, president of TMX Markets and group head of equities.

Medians are often more useful than averages for looking at the distribution of incomes in a group, since averages can be skewed by extremely high - value outliers.

To connect these two groups, a new wave of nimble web - based employment services firms is arising, promising a higher standard of recruitment than traditional temp agencies provide.

BTIG's Walter Piecyk has the low estimate (50 million), independent Faizai Kara of the Braeburn Group the high (64 million).

Its positions in Southern California, the Chicago region, the Northeast, as well as Florida place it within large population centers, which, according to the DEA, gives it access to «potential high density drug markets that TCOs will look to exploit through the street - level drug distribution activities of urban organized crime groups / street gangs.»

Based on a comparison of the change in subjective well - being of these people and of people from the control group who had no change in their volunteer status, the hypothesis is supported that volunteering is rewarding in terms of higher life satisfaction.

Looking at individual stocks, shares of French food group Danone were over 1.5 percent higher on Monday after the New York Post reported that the firm could be a takeover target.

According to a study published this week by the Pittsburgh - based market research group CivicScience, digital device addiction is at an all - time high: 59 percent of U.S. online consumers over the age of 13 consider themselves at least «somewhat» addicted to their digital devices.

Below are some of the highest rated charities helping veterans groups and their families, according the Charity Navigator.

He was one of several high - profile names chosen for the 16 - member group, including Indra Nooyi, the CEO of PepsiCo, and Elon Musk.

«In addition, the group bought back a further $ 300 million of shares to return to shareholders part of the benefit realized from higher oil prices,» Pouyanne said.

The high level of service you've come to expect should not change, and the same group of experts should continue to serve you for all of your wealth management and financial planning needs.

The prosecutors» decision Wednesday comes after a judge had already acquitted three of the six officers charged in the case, including the van driver and another officer who was the highest - ranking of the group.

Benjamin Schachter of Macquarie Securities Group discusses Amazon's new all - time high following earnings.

Liu Yonghao of the New Hope Group discusses how his company could adapt if the price of U.S. soybeans becomes too high as a result of trade tariffs.

I've seen pretty high rates of mental health issues among this group of workers.

Former Kogi Iron and Galaxy Resources boss Iggy Tan has been appointed managing director of Australia Minerals and Mining Group, as the company moves to commercialise its High Purity Alumina project in the south - west.

An Aberdeen Group study revealed organizations using democratized methods had 30 percent higher levels of customer retention and revenue increases as large as 55 percent.

Signs are emerging that companies and investors are starting to push back against the gun industry and its main lobbying group, the National Rifle Association (NRA), in the wake of last week's Florida high school shooting.

Specifically, it comes against a backdrop of groups such as Fight for $ 15, which has been organizing fast food workers to demand higher wages.

From 1992 to 1996, Ferro gained extensive experience in Planning and Control, Corporate Finance and M&A at Finmeccanica, the leading Italian high - tech engineering and manufacturing group and a former shareholder of STMicroelectronics.

It turns out, the high - income group spends a lot more on wine: 40 % of their overall alcohol expenditure vs. 22 % for the low - income group.

This year's high - growth entrepreneurship working group counts Scott Case, chief executive of Startup America, among its advisors and will cover topics such as crowdfunding, entrepreneurial ecosystems and universities.

Contact with women and ethnic minorities lessens unconscious bias, but since neither group is represented much in the upper echelons of business, it can be hard for executives to get that exposure — something not helped by the fact that many white, male higher - ups feel they don't know how to talk to younger women or minorities.

But it will likely climb even higher, depending on what Maple pays for alternative trading system Alpha Group and Clearing and Depository Services, both of which Maple wants to acquire.

But after five straight years of positive returns, sentiment among equity analysts neared an all - time high, with the Wall Street consensus calling for an 11.1 % gain, according to a recent study by Bespoke Investment Group.

For example, Crain said, take a household in the highest - income group with multiple people working jobs, several children to support, no assets, and live in an area with a high cost of living.