Sentences with phrase «in the points world»

The card offers great partnerships and excellent value, which makes it one of the favorites in the points world.

The card offers great partnerships and excellent value, which makes it one of the favorites in the points world.

It's sometimes hard to wrap your head around everything that's possible to do in the points world.

For a normal middle class family in the points world, a typical year can earn you about 1 trip for a small family, or maybe 2 trips for a couple without kids.

It turns out that alliances are much older than loyalty programs in the travel industry, but both are important in the points world.

I've written about the secrecy that exists in the points world and even wrote a post called «Is there a... [Read more...] about The Aftermath of the Home Improvement Gift Card Deal

In the points world it's all too easy to get caught up fantasizing about travel blogger's lives criss - crossing the globe in business or first class....

Keep in mind not all offers can be «stacked» in the points world.

But prepaid cards and other schemes do not allow you to travel for free, which I think is a mistake that many beginners make when getting started in the points world.

Amex Starwood — Only a 30K signup bonus, but these are the most valuable points in the points world.

We attended a rather painful 2 - hour tour which in my personal opinion is designed to sell you a club membership which to us in the points world is an incredibly BAD deal....

Owners with «book» but feeling under compensated in the points world move laterally to another «hotel» promising a better «mint on the pillow» (compensation).

Not exact matches

In his book The Demon - Haunted World, the renowned astrophysicist helpfully suggested questions to ask to detect baloney, science writer Michael Shermer points out in the extremely useful video below (hat tip to Jason Kottke for the pointerIn his book The Demon - Haunted World, the renowned astrophysicist helpfully suggested questions to ask to detect baloney, science writer Michael Shermer points out in the extremely useful video below (hat tip to Jason Kottke for the pointerin the extremely useful video below (hat tip to Jason Kottke for the pointer).

We get so candid that we start revealing things we wouldn't declare in the real world; and that is where the actual problem lies...» Excellent point!

Some higher - end brands live in both the fashion and comfort world — even if a few luxe designers are loath to admit they try to make shoes comfortable, as though it devalues their brand, Schneider - Levy points out.

In hyper - connected world of texts and tweets, seven minutes is about the right time to make a point.

And while Macdonald did not look into it, other studies have pointed to another major influence China has had lately on many countries, including Canada: how its high savings rate and mounting foreign currency reserves, much of it invested in benchmark U.S. government debt, have depressed interest rates around the world.

The whole point is to allow operators to get all their mistakes out of the way in the virtual world, so they can be safer in the real one.

As James Colaco, senior manager of Deloitte Canada's insurance practice points out, in the competitive world of insurance sales «it would be incumbent on the insurers to treat their customers well.»

That means interleaving not only produces better short - term results, it also results in much greater long - term retention — which is incredibly important in the real world where the point of learning isn't to simply remember something long enough to pass a test.

His question to them: «If I'm completely stupid in a world that is changing beyond recognition, in ways that we can not imagine at this point in time, and we do not take account of it in our decision - making, what is the likelihood that I will end up with value at risk?»

Since I'm writing for Data Sheet this week, and not CEO Daily, I should point out that all of this Change - the - World - Don't - Be-Evil stuff started in the tech sector — even if some players (looking at you, Facebook) have wandered astray.

But Scarborough points out that some of the buzziest names in the business world today are sustained by massive sales machines — Apple sells devices, while Google and Facebook sell ads.

All this points to the possibility that Enceladus is an ocean world harboring life, right here in our solar system.

On a Zero, he was able to ride fast and record almost pure wind noise in a real - world environment (here at Pigeon Point), which in turn allowed the company to isolate the sound of wind and then design firmware that could all but eliminate it from recordings.

In a legendary moment during the 1932 World Series, Babe Ruth pointed to the stands to show exactly where he was going to hit a homerun — and then did it.

The NBA world rallied behind Boston Celtics star point guard Isaiah Thomas after his 22 - year - old sister, Chyna, died in a car crash on Saturday.

That misses the point of what a post-PC world is — it's a future where computing is made invisible and divided into different devices in different situations (until we get that direct brain - internet connection, that is).

In the luxury goods world, the brand website is often more of a transit point for purchase via other venues.

Linden Lab operates the virtual world called Second Life... Bolstering its rep for brash - to - the - point - of - crazy dealmaking, AOL purchased Bebo, the third - largest social network in the U.S., for $ 850 million.

(I am facing that problem head - on every day as I try to write my new book on what the world will look like in 20 years - knowing that I'm going to be laughably wrong at various points along the way.

Ingenico, one of the largest point - of - sale terminal manufacturers in the world, wants in on the game too.

The company points to a simple resource allocation problem that's hindered the most effective patient care: the fact that it is physically impossible for oncologists to keep track of every study, every clinical trial, and every breakthrough in the wildly stratified world of cancer research.

Which is a fine point (and one several other tech experts have also made), but if that's as far as it goes, then Marie Kondo might still be onto something here in the real world.

In 2014, the Guinness Book of World Records gave her an award for Longest TV Career for an Entertainer (female), for her, at that point, 70 years in the industrIn 2014, the Guinness Book of World Records gave her an award for Longest TV Career for an Entertainer (female), for her, at that point, 70 years in the industrin the industry.

According to Harris, and as reported in the NYT article, «The largest supercomputers in the world are inside of two companies — Google and Facebook — and where are we pointing them?»

QNX, which made more than 60 % of the core software inside the world's car infotainment systems in 2011, has partnered with The Weather Network to send location - based weather data to drivers, and the intelligent dashboard system in many of Nissan's 2013 models, for instance, will feed drivers real - time local fuel prices, flight - status information, and points of interest supplied by Google.

In the meantime, this week brought fresh evidence of China's rising prowess as the country's two tech giants, Alibaba and Tencent, reported record quarterly earnings, prompting the New York Times to point out that the two companies now rank alongside Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon as the world's most highly valued companies.

As political risk analyst Ian Bremmer points out, those beliefs are vital to keeping America's distinct place in the world.

«I speak to people in the business world and the technology world, but I don't admire them,» he says, pointing an 8 - inch combat knife at me for emphasis.

He pointed to the fact that China has removed homosexuality as a mental illnesses in 2001, and that the World Health Organization had done so in as early as 1990.

«For sure, the priorities are immigration, the control of borders, of Europe, (the issue of) cultural identities and the understanding of how the Italian society should move ahead in a globalized world,» Terzi di Sant «Agata said, following the Italian election result which pointed to a hung parliament where no one party or coalition gained a majority of the vote that would allow it to govern alone.

What I also never imagined is that we'd have one of the two highest - rated Syrahs, with 96 points, in the world.

It's worth pointing out here that the HSBC survey was conducted between March and May 2016, before the U.K. referendum on membership of the European Union, so the views of expats may change in a post-Brexit world.

Being empathetic and in tune with other people's emotions allows you to see the world from others» point of view.

But for now, I'll point you to the CEO Action for Diversity and Inclusion, an organization comprised of some of the world's biggest companies who have made a public commitment to work together on issues of diversity and accountability in all its challenging nuance.

And despite so - called stimulus spending totalling nearly three - quarters of a trillion dollars, he points out that there is still very little momentum in the world's largest economy.

Because the point here is not that the company grew from «Don't be evil» to the world's most visited web site in the blink of an eye.

The Millers recently cashed in hundreds of thousands of points to book a month - long trip around the world aboard luxury airlines.

Kraft Heinz, whose brands include Velveeta cheese and Heinz ketchup, said it raised prices in the United States and in other parts of the world, driving overall pricing up by 1 percentage point.