Sentences with phrase «highest group said»

In our recent poll, the majority of readers said they'll actually grab the Vita the minute it hits store shelves, while the second - highest group said they'd likely purchase it at some point.

Not exact matches

«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.

«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.

The group has used the money to proactively scout out high - tech energy entrepreneurs, help those entrepreneurs get business and network with other clusters outside the region, Laingen says.

It's inequitable and it's a concern,» says Elise Torres, staff attorney at TURN, The Utility Reform Network, an advocacy group that works to protect low - income homeowners from high electricity bills.»

«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.

He says the group, on average, paid higher taxes before the cuts and would therefore see a bigger profitability boost.

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

The New Jersey native, who says she scored straight Ds in high school and college, and had 20 jobs by the time she was 23, used a modest $ 1,000 business loan to launch The Corcoran Group.

«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.

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.

While NABUCO, the trade group representing college and university business officers, is making the case that these tax reforms will hit students and employees of higher education, Skorina said it is going to be a tough fight.

«It was awesome, a high - impact, high - energy, hackathon kind of environment,» says working group participant Mike Green, director of the ScaleUp Campaign, a nonprofit partnership to encourage local innovation based in Portland, Ore. «Since you were pitching multiple times, you had to have your game on.»

said Murray Brown, marketing manager at Alliance Group, which processes around 30 percent of the country's lamb production and aims to market more prime lamb into China's high - end hotels and food shops.

«The high investment risk climate and upfront capital cost of energy investments, particularly renewables, are critical barriers to the development of energy markets,» said Aliko Dangote, founder of Nigeria's Dangote Group and member of the partnership.

High - grade military explosives used to build the bomb were sent by air cargo from Turkey as part of a plot inspired and directed by the militant Islamic State group, police Deputy Commissioner National Security Michael Phelan said in August.

And the association has been joining hands with groups like Silicon Valley Leadership Group to show members of Congress how the economies of states like California are almost entirely dependent on foreign workers, from the people who grow and produce food there to the people who are creating high - tech jobs at startups in Silicon Valley, Regelbrugge says

«The record levels of households reflect the significantly higher values of all asset classes post-recession,» Spectrem Group president George Walper, Jr., said in a press release, «and the recent record level of the United States markets following the presidential election has added demonstrably to the asset level of most affluent investors.»

OurMine, a hacking group that made a name for itself attacking high - profile celebrities and business people, said that it hacked WikiLeaks on Thursday and redirected it to a page it had created.

It said the commodities group charged the venture interest rates on loans that were too high.

Moreover, the proportion of black women enrolled in college is the highest share of any group, she says, citing the 2011 U.S. Census data.

Let's say you own an income - producing property, like a group of apartments, in a high - tax state like New York.

Today the foreign spy service is recruiting in an increasingly open and competitive marketplace where it has to vie with big industrial groups, start - ups and other top - end recruiters to attract high - fliers, says Moreau, whose remit covers oversight of hiring.

«We know that unemployment is higher than reported and that wages are lower partly due to illegal immigration» said Ira Mehlman, media director for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, a group that opposes the executive orders.

«After two years on the market, combined PS4 and Xbox One sales are 38 % higher than the combined two year totals for PS3 and 360,» says Liam Callahan, analyst for The NPD Group.

Percentage rent clause Herb Weitzman, CEO of Weitzman Group and Cencor Realty Services in Dallas, says tenants agree to pay higher rent when their sales exceed a certain threshold.

April 6 (Reuters)- French luxury group Kering said on Friday it had taken steps to sell skatewear label Volcom, its last remaining non luxury brand, as it focuses on its high - margin, high - end labels.

Ablynx had already rejected an offer by the Danish group on Dec. 14 and Novo Nordisk said the new bid, made on Dec. 22, was some 14 percent higher.

Vertical Group's Dick Bove says Wells Fargo's sell - off is «incorrect» and believes the stock will go sharply higher when the market rebounds.

«Casual dining, especially with friends, is a high priority for this group of people after work or on weekends,» she says.

Neither attack was particularly sophisticated, but South Korean authorities said North Korea was to blame, even though «hacktivist» groups - online activists who hack high - profile targets in order to spread political messages - first appeared to claim responsibility.

«We believe Southwest is the highest quality airline in the group with a very conservative balance sheet and low earnings volatility,» he said.

Now Businessweek reports that Shkreli paid $ 2 million for a single, deluxe copy of the Wu - Tang Clan album Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, which the group said it would sell to the highest bidder.

This growth, while far slower than last year's 5.2 percent gain, is slightly higher than the 10 - year average holiday sales gain of 2.6 percent, the group said.

Researchers studied disagreements by teaching two groups of students a card game that contained largely similar rules, except for one key difference — one group was taught aces were the highest card in the game, while the other was taught aces were the lowest, Greer says.

«Our research indicates they can end up having a similar effect to an in - group in high school that others aspire to join,» Dahl says.

«Trust in West Coast ports is at an all - time low, and the perception of supply chain risk is at an all - time high,» said Peter Tirschwell, chief maritime analyst at the JOC Group, a supplier of U.S. sea - borne trade data.

Investment in Canada's oil and gas industry is expected to fall again this year as higher taxes and regulatory uncertainty persuade investors to spend elsewhere, says the head of a group that represents Canada's oil and gas industry.

Turnas says that he's looked to fine dining restaurateurs, who have opened up fast casual concepts — like Danny Meyer's Union Square Hospitality Group, which expanded from high - end restaurants like Gramercy Tavern and the Modern into the Shake Shack chain.

«A lot of companies are going to have a harder time navigating these rules, tariffs are clearly going to be higher, and E.U. countries at the end of the day are the most important partners in trade that the U.K. has,» notes Ian Bremmer, the founder and president of consulting firm Eurasia Group, in a previous interview with Inc. «In the near - term, this is going to hurt,» he said.

Pharmaceutical companies have the highest percentage of unrepatriated profit by industry group at roughly more than 15 percent, UBS said in a May 3 report.

«What we thought and we had envisioned is the cost of the newly enrolled would end up approaching that of the [employer - insured] group market, but we're seeing in the data we have today it is actually about 20 percent higher than in the group market,» said Alissa Fox, senior vice president for policy and representation at BCBSA, in an interview with Morning Consult.

Research firm NPD Group earlier this month warned much of the same would continue in 2017: it sees stalled growth and says those cutting back on restaurant visits are doing so because they think prices are too high.

«There's a vast emerging consumer group below the existing middle class that is going to constitute a high proportion of the world's purchasing power, but as yet is massively untapped,» Kuper says.

AIRLINE access to Broome from Singapore will open the town up to corporate meetings and high yield incentive travel groups from Asia and Europe, says Perth Convention Bureau managing director Anne - Maree Ferguson.

Mining, a process by which individuals or groups get paid in new Bitcoins to run complex mathematical equations on high - powered computers in order to confirm the validity of transactions, has drawn scrutiny from environmentalists who say it's sucking up too much electricity.

He said a small and slow - growing population, low median after - tax household income and a tiny group of high - income earners made it a less desirable place for the NHL to relocate than, say, Hamilton or London, Ont.

Some green groups say the 20 - year old research shows that California's heavy crude, which is in many ways similar to dilbit, is likely to cause pipeline ruptures when flowing at higher temperatures.

It's stating the obvious to say that great teams matter and that cultivating them will drive higher company performance vs. a group of individual contributors.

But valuations remain high and boards have recently become more cautious on large acquisitions, as it is more difficult to convince their investors of the potential for value creation at such price levels,» said Gilberto Pozzi, co-head of global M&A at Goldman Sachs Group Inc.