Sentences with phrase «larger than the gains»

A loss always appears larger than a gain of equal size — when it goes deep into our pockets, the value of money changes.

«The findings suggest that in many situations our brains rush to judgment,» Gehring says, adding that «at some basic, neurological level, losses really do loom larger than gains.»

The variance in each group is larger than their gains in hip extension, thus reducing the statistical likelihood of identifying differences between groups.

When comparable samples and measuring sticks are used, the improvement in test scores for black students from attending a small class based on the Tennessee STAR experiment is about 50 percent larger than the gain from switching to a private school based on the voucher experiments in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Dayton, Ohio.

When we compare this present value to that of Scenario 1, where all states move to perform at the level of the best state, we see that joint action yields gains that are 65 percent larger than the gains that would accrue to each state acting on its own.

Each of these results is statistically significant at a very high level, meaning that we can be highly confident that the test - score gains made by schools facing the actuality or prospect of voucher competition were larger than the gains made by other public schools.

What's more important than building and developing trust is not losing it once you have it — losses loom larger than gains.

Not exact matches

Valeant's largest shareholder, billionaire and hedge funder John Paulson, has gained a seat on the drug maker's board, sending the beleaguered company's stock spiking more than 6 % in Monday trading (although it's still hovering at around the $ 13 mark).

New Conference Board of Canada research finds that companies that proactively innovate and adapt their EU offerings will be able to achieve much larger gains than companies that sit passively and wait for the deal to boost their sales.

«Prospects for renewed gains, other than a relief rally following the election results, would require somewhat larger wage increases and continued job growth as well as the maintenance of low inflation.»

The crux of the problem, Richard Mattoon, a senior economist at the Chicago Fed and a lecturer on real estate at Northwestern University told Canadian Business, is that dividends and capital gains make up a much larger share of top earners» pay than they did in the past — and that part of their compensation package tends to be very volatile.

More than 16,000 undergraduates participate in the world's largest post-secondary co-operative education program where students alternate school and work terms, gaining experience with employers such as Google, Facebook, and Amazon.

At a time when Chinese wages are rising by double - digit percentages annually, Bangladesh has gained market share: it is now the world's second - largest exporter of apparel (behind China), sending more than $ 19 - billion worth abroad in 2012.

Still, the US economy extends its streak of payroll gains larger than 200,000 to 11 months, the longest since a 19 - month streak that ran from 1993 to 1995.

Large or small, high tech or low, a business's uncertainties are real, and losses are more likely than gains.

Depending on how your savings are invested, Klein explained, the portfolio's gains could end up being more valuable than a larger Social Security check.

Even though these programs tend to be more expensive than loans and lines of credit, a large group of merchants turn to them because they can gain access to financing more quickly and easily and because the repayment schedule tracks their business performance.

Overall our default perspective probably ought to be against mergers - we should require abundant and specific evidence of large potential gains to convince us that a particular merger is in the best interest of anyone other than management and the investment bankers constructing the deal.

Gold's annual gain was the largest since 2010, outperforming all major asset classes other than stocks.

Lately, we've been closing our swing trades with about a 50 % win rate (maybe even slightly lower), but our average gain has been MUCH larger than the average loser.

Improving rather than moving: Spending on home improvements and repairs is expected to jump by 7.5 % this year, the largest year - over-year gain since 2007.

On the London Metal Exchange, it was nickel's turn in the spotlight as it soared 12 per cent at one point to a more than three - year high of $ US15, 875 a tonne, before closing up 7.5 per cent at $ US15, 275, its largest daily gain in 6-1/2 years, Reuters reported.

Cobalt prices have increased by more than 47 % year - over-year, one of the largest gains in the entire metals spectrum.

JULY 2012: Mitchell Anderson, as part of a larger project in collaboration with Tides Canada reporting on Canada's transition to cleaner energy, travels to Norway and a files widely read stories on how that nation has gained far more wealth from its oil reserves than has Alberta.

Selected companies gain exposure to a large number of investors from angel groups across the state who co-invest to meet the company's fundraising goals; the angel groups gain far more insights than they can generate on their own.

If wage negotiations, for example, were to build in current low expected price increases — of the order of 2 to 3 per cent — that kind of behaviour would clearly produce better national outcomes than if larger increases (not backed by genuine productivity gains) were pursued and granted, only to be followed by a tightening of policy.

Because of U.S. trade intervention, in other words, U.S. jobs gains in industries competing with Mexico would be more than offset by U.S. jobs losses as a larger overall American trade deficit undermined other American industries.

These gains should more than offset marginally higher borrowing costs for Berkshire's BNSF railroad and Berkshire Hathaway Energy, which finance their large capital investments with borrowed money.

But those supply gains will taper off to 2.5 per cent next year and average less than 2 per cent annually through 2030 as pipeline and regulatory hurdles curtail investments in the world's third - largest oil reserves, CAPP said.

«The gains in a plausible bull case look larger than before, fueled by the prospect of fiscal expansion, rising earnings and a return of true «animal spirits.»

This is only slightly better than the mid-cap index, S&P 400, that gained on average 4.9 % but is significantly better than the large - caps of the S&P 500 that rose just 4.0 %.

U.S. producer prices rose more than expected in January, recording their largest gain in more than four years amid increases in the cost of energy products and some services, but a strong dollar continued to keep underlying inflation tame.

The time value depreciation is much larger than the potential gain from a stock fall, unless the stock breaks $ 30 / share before they expire.

There were well over one dozen large digital currencies that soared more than 11,700 % last year, including Ripple and NEO, which gained a respective 35,564 % and 52,372 %.

If there's any question that digital mortgage firms are gaining attention from larger fintech players and investors, then look no further than venture capital firm Santander InnoVentures «investment in Roostify, a startup that digitalizes the mortgage application process.

On April 13, the US cannabis index jumped more than 15 %, the largest one - day gain of the year, on news of a huge shift in US cannabis policy.

Several of the ETF's largest holdings posted solid gains, with BBCN Bancorp (BBCN) climbing 13 %, and Bank of the Ozarks (OZRK) posting a better than 8 % rise.

In fact, we're seeing a general cooling trend in many major cities already, particularly those that experienced larger - than - average home price gains over the last year (such as San Francisco).

It found that price expectation shocks accounted for 30 per cent of the increase in home values between 1996 and 2006, larger than all other factors driving price gains, such as housing supply, housing demand or mortgage rates.

While it maybe be true that large pools of institutional money are better at buying political favors, influencing scientific research, and swaying foreign governments, it has always been known and is frequently demonstrated that individuals always do better at loving and caring for other individuals, tend to be wiser stewards of money, and view their giving and service toward others as a means of actually helping them, rather than a means to gain political power or popular prestige.

No theory need cover the entire range of social realities, of course, but it is worth noting that sociologists seem to have gained more mileage from this framework for their considerations of individual beliefs than for analyses of large - scale institutions.

If it is spent on something that uses up as much or more energy per dollar as the original reduction, nothing has been gained in the energy budget at large (though this person may now own a more desirable mix of goods and services than before).

Indeed, we should begin by asking pointedly what, if anything, we might gain from adopting a theoretical perspective that specifically attempts to take into account the forces of some social unit larger than the society itself.

First, what happened at CUA in 1967 — 68 was part of something much larger and more important than change in American Catholic Education, namely, worldwide, public theological dissent beginning around the time of Vatican II and quickly gaining control of most of the world's Catholic graduate programs and journals.

Buyers gain access to a large pool of supply from multiple regions, and know that they will never pay more than any other successful bidder for that product.

Actually, after a pregnancy in which you threw up more times than you can count and yet still managed to gain an embarrassing amount of weight, and where your feet swelled to unrecognizable lumps at the bottom of your legs, you finally suffered through a hideously long, painful labor and delivery only to arrive home (in your largest maternity outfit which barely fit!)

Insufficient weight gain can compromise the health of the fetus and cause preterm, or premature birth; excessive weight gain can cause labor complications, giving birth to significantly larger than average fetuses, postpartum weight retention, as well as increase the risk of requiring a caesarean section.

One of the most dreaded physical / external symptoms that women typically hold when carrying two children at the same time (more likely twins than not) is the rapid weight gain that comes with the large bulge in the woman's stomach.

In fact, these findings from a large study by the ESS suggest that it may be men rather than women who have the most to gain from a more equal distribution of housework between the sexes.

Of the three second - placed parties who won nine seats, UKIP gained the largest share of the county - wide vote, more than 10 % ahead of Labour.