Sentences with phrase «home the point as»

It drives home the point as to why every interview is important, and also gives an example of what a clever pitch can do.

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The Dow Jones industrials fell 66.79 points to 15,334.59 as the Standard & Poor's / Case - Shiller 20 - city home price index rose 12.4 per cent in July compared with a year ago, the most since February 2006.

The two opponents took it as an opportunity to drive home points about who has the strongest conservative credentials.

That last point is something I'm very familiar with, as the St. Louis area (where I call home) has become home to three fast - growing startup competitions: placeholderArch Grants, the Ameren Accelerator Demo Day, and the St. Charles County Demo Day.

What not to miss: As the home of the state government, Austin boasts the Texas Capitol, a towering 19th - century building that sits atop one of the city's highest points.

Virtual office space is no longer just for cool tech professionals — it's for many American employees who work for companies that don't see the point in footing the bill for rent when their workers can just as easily work from home.

As an example, she points to onefinestay, an Airbnb for upscale homes that vets listings and offers concierge services.

One commenter on one of the Houzz polls described how she'd set up a really nice home office that she described as her «hub,» and made a point to work there for at least part of each day.

As well, points out Jurock, the recreational and retirement property boom of a few years ago was «driven by Dad,» whose investing prowess during the stock market run - up put him in a position not only to buy that retirement dream home but to front the kids a down payment for their own place.

The show cast six supporting «citizen journalists» who reflect the broad swath of personalities on the right, with a gun - rights activist in the vein of bombastic NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch, provocateurs in the vein of Milo Yiannopoulos, what Miller described as a «pseudo-intellectual with no real credentials,» and a stay - at - home livestreamer rambling without much of a point.

A report showing Toronto home prices surged 33 % year - over-year in March served as an expensive exclamation point.

The youngest marketing professor to be hired by a North American B - school, Giesler is known as a dynamic instructor willing to go to extreme lengths to drive a point home, even setting his PhD dissertation on fire as part of one demonstration.

And as Kareem Adbul - Jabbar pointed out in a July piece in Time, «In our disillusioned mind, «home» becomes a romanticized symbol of our innocence, in which we dreamed limitlessly and were loved unconditionally.

But he added that thinking in terms of incremental changes may miss a larger point: As wearables and home devices become more important to the way we use our phones, the design of the phone itself may become less critical.

He points out that while the 12 - month home sales chart looks impressive, the housing picture isn't as rosy if you look back at the past half - century.

As observers have pointed out, Microsoft is nowhere in this area — at last month's Consumer Electronics Show, it was very difficult to find any of the connected home or wearable gadgets with apps for Windows devices.

Believers in the technology - is - alienating - us theory are quick to point out the real separation is happening in more intimate settings, such as at home, where families aren't talking much at the dinner table because they're all on their phones.

As Neil points out, it's only a matter of time until we do the same things with our homes.

Interest rates will inevitably rise, as the Bank of Canada keeps pointing out, and the federal government has instituted numerous changes over the past few years that will make a home purchase more difficult for first - time buyers.

Cook's appearance at an enterprise software conference was intended to drive home the point that Apple wants to be taken seriously as a company that can sell to businesses.

It pointed to the scandal at Home Capital Group as an example of problems in the Canadian market.

In fact, direct access to Google's cutting - edge mobile services may be the Droid Pro's most persuasive selling point: As of late 2010, the Android Market application storefront was home to well over 80,000 apps, while rival BlackBerry App World mustered only about 10,000.

To point out its advantages over its more enterprise - focused competitors, Dropbox has launched what it calls the Home for Life strategy, in which Dropbox serves as the platform for other daily productivity apps.

Initial conclusions might point to cost as the main reason, but many people who opt for home workouts spend plenty of money on online programs, fitness experiences and relevant wellness information.

But Baird and other analysts have pointed out that many international markets don't have the same kind of broadband penetration as the U.S. does, so Netflix may be less attractive to consumers there than it is at home.

Rates for home loans eased up slightly as investors bought more bonds, sending yields down a few basis points.

Two things — I probably won't ever retire - retire early as I'll continue working on stuff I love that'll prob bring home money, and then secondly I plan on opening up a separate brokerage account at some point too to start investing in outside of the retirement accounts.

Your equity would be defined in each cashflowed home, cash flow of repairs outside of owned properties, as well as equity upon sell of some, or liquidation of all homes at any point as deemed most profitable timing as the market improves.

The Bureau of Economic Analysis, the Commerce Department unit that tracks G.D.P., said the full effect of the government closure «can not be quantified,» but estimated that the hours lost as government employees stayed home shaved off 0.3 of a percentage point.

Smith points to the threats the pipeline poses to British Columbia's tourism industry, rising floodwaters in Bangladesh and the Maldives, drought in sub-Saharan Africa and Mexico, the homes that will be lost in future forest fires, respiratory health impacts in communities from Vancouver to Kamloops and Quesnel, and future hurricanes in the Caribbean and Gulf states as climate impacts that are left out of the narrative about the project.

Now that the region's economy is recovering and creating jobs, the Workforce Housing Scorecard is again released at a turning point for the housing market — but this time in a positive direction, as home prices, construction and demand are on the rise.

Sales of existing and newly built homes had slowed during the summer but then turned dramatically higher in October and November, surprising the experts who continue to point to the low supply of homes for sale as a drag on the market.

«The underlying theme is demographics,» Poole says, as he points to the basket of nations that is home to 600 million people with an average age of 26.

Today, it's perched atop global currency markets as Canada wins acclaim for its economic outlook and handling of the public debt, a point driven home Wednesday when a Russian Central Bank official confirmed that the Canadian dollar would be added to its international reserves.

As the reforms gather steam, a particular point of interest for the housing market is the impact of the proposed new legislation on the mortgage interest deduction (MID), which allows homeowners to claim a tax deduction equal to the amount of interest they paid on their home loan.

It's a major benefit of owning a home, and critics have pointed to it as a huge driver in American inequality.

In large part, I agree... especially with your point about the thinness of my analogy between Alberta (as home of the oil sands) and Arkansas (as home of Walmart).

Miami showed no sign of playing above a championship level in Air Max 2014 3 of the NBA Finals on Tuesday, getting beaten 111 - 92 as 4 - point favorites in their first home game of the series.

Eventually, Rockefeller's oil operations became so vast that he could fund all of his expansion efforts from his own profits, but there was a point in time in which Morgan was mad as hell that he couldn't get an asset override on Rockefeller's wealth, and you better believe there is a take - home lesson in that anecdote.

I agree with the Accumulator's points about Global Index linkers but would point out that a Global Equity fund would also give a measure of protection against home - grown inflation via currency depreciation as well as capital / income growth.

As of November 12, 2015, the average rate for a 30 - year fixed home loan has risen to 3.98 % (with an average of 0.6 % fees and points at closing).

As shown in the 2016 mortgage rate chart below, home loan rates in three categories have risen for the last seven weeks in a row and are now at their highest point of the year.

The author, Christopher Jones, points out that stock owners already have exposure to real estate as large public corporations own most of the commercial real estate in the U.S. Given the short history of REITs, he is not convinced that they provide «meaningful» diversification and points out that home owners already have enough real estate in their household assets.

The latest Home Buyer Reality Report from NerdWallet reveals that 39 % of denied mortgage applicants pointed to poor credit history and low scores as the reason for being turned down, and more than 50 % cited high debt - to - income ratios.

A good way to «drill down» to the news and information that you're looking for is to use the «Media Center» Home Page as your point of reference.

It is important to note that this point that the amount offered will be less than the market value of your home, as quick property buying forms look to make a profit when they sell the house on.

Local brokers point out that other Palo Alto - based billionaires, among them Google chief Larry Page and late Apple cofounder Steve Jobs, have amassed similar «compounds» to preserve their privacy, ensuring the left - as - is homes won't be torn down and neighbors fully vetted.

For mortgage loans, excluding home equity lines of credit, it includes the interest rate plus other charges or fees (such as mortgage insurance, discount points, and origination fees).

Interesting data points: Absentee buyers, typically investors who don't intend on living in the home as a primary residence, made up 22.3 percent of all homes sold in March, up from 20.9 percent at the same time last year.

As Iacano points out, lower home mortgage interest rates can mean dramatically higher home prices.