Sentences with phrase «largest falls from»

View the roaring waters of Europe's largest falls from the clifftop Laufen Castle and afterwards...

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At the I.S.O. meetings last fall in Tokyo, the Chinese government sent one of the largest delegations, with at least nine people, including representatives from the finance ministry and the Chinese central bank, according to a delegate from another country who met the Chinese participants.

At nearly 300 large public companies, median compensation for CEOs fell 3.8 percent last year, from $ 11.2 million to $ 10.8 million.

This is why I think the Galaxy S8 — and likely the Note 8 that's expected to launch this fall — will struggle against Apple's next iPhone, which is said to adopt a lot of features from Samsung, like a larger, curved screen.

Net income attributable to the world's largest retailer fell to $ 3.03 billion, or 98 cents per share, in the third quarter ended Oct. 31 from $ 3.3 billion, or $ 1.03 per share, a year earlier.

The limits of policy stimulus were all to evident in Japan where core consumer prices fell 0.5 % in August from a year earlier, the largest drop since March 2013.

NEW YORK, N.Y. — Wal - Mart's first - quarter net income fell 5 per cent as bad winter weather and financial struggles kept customers from spending at the world's largest retailer.

Suncor Energy Inc., the world's second - largest oil - sands producer, said first - quarter profit fell 23 percent on lower output, higher costs and absence of a gain from insurance settlements a year earlier.

One of the state's largest Aboriginal trusts is being forced to further tighten its belt as its royalties from Rio Tinto's Yandi iron ore project continue to fall.

Australia «s two largest non-casino gambling firms are struggling to cope with mounting competition from online betting agencies which have taken off since the deregulation of gambling licenses in 2012, and both reported profit falls in August.

Bitcoin, the largest cryptocurrency by market cap, fell below $ 10,000, or 10 percent, after the news from the SEC.

The world's second - largest reinsurer, Swiss Re, reported first - half net profit had slipped 35 percent after claims from natural disasters, falling prices and a resulting cutback in its business.

In Brunswick, Georgia, large chunks of ice fell on commuters» cars from the old oak trees that frame the streets.

«This is the only chance we will have to make history right,» says Charlie Okeese, a counsellor and former chief of the Fort Hope First Nation, a community larger than Marten Falls but farther away from the prime mining targets.

For Sprint, the fourth - largest wireless carrier, the move could add momentum and keep it from falling farther behind rival T - Mobile in the fight for mobile customers.

Because average tax rates have fallen for all income groups since 1979, growth in after - tax income has been somewhat larger than growth in before - tax income from 1979 to 2013.

From those peaks, home prices have fallen by about 30 percent on average, with much larger declines in some areas, while commercial real estate prices have fallen by about 40 percent on average.

Rising prices for assets seem to make most people better off, unless they are renters, or ethnic minorities, or immigrants, or come from large families and don't inherit a home of their own, or get sick and need to pay for medical care, or get fired, or get their pension fund ripped off or otherwise fall outside what most people think of as the bell - shaped curve of good fortune.

More alarming still, for 50 large companies in prolonged stall - out, we found that the onset had usually been sudden: Momentum fell sharply over just a year or two, with growth rates dropping from double digits to low single digits or even negative numbers — a finding consistent with past research (see «When Growth Stalls,» HBR, March 2008).

The share of its sales coming from its five largest customers fell from a peak of 25.1 % in 2009 to 14.6 % in 2015.

As a result of consolidation within the industry, Merck had lost its title as «World's Largest» in the 2000s and, in fact, found itself falling from the upper echelon.

Aside from the annual conference, we hold a large Fall ESOP Forum meeting, plus smaller in - person seminars that are held across the country, such as Is an ESOP Right for You?

The value of Bitcoin, the world's largest cryptocurrency, has fallen over -15 percent today, down nearly 30 percent from its record high of almost...

China's Stocks Decline From Two - Week High as Stimulus Speculation Eases China's stocks fell, dragging the Shanghai Composite Index from a two - week high, as the government damped speculation of a large - scale stimulus program to revive economic groFrom Two - Week High as Stimulus Speculation Eases China's stocks fell, dragging the Shanghai Composite Index from a two - week high, as the government damped speculation of a large - scale stimulus program to revive economic grofrom a two - week high, as the government damped speculation of a large - scale stimulus program to revive economic growth.

The dramatic fall from grace appears to have occurred when Facebook stepped on a third rail: the large - scale data collection by an outside party — Cambridge Analytica — without the company's knowledge, said Peter Crist, chairman of the executive search firm Crist Kolder Associates.

Both Gannett and Tribune were spun off from larger media companies that owned TV stations, a move to protect the accelerating growth of broadcast advertising from the falling fortunes of newspapers.

Bulls increased sharply to 50.0 % last week from 44.2 %, while outright bears fell to 18.8 % from 21.1 %, their largest weekly drop in 10 months.

In addition to the euro zone, inflation rates fell sharply in two of the largest developing economies during December, to 2.5 % from 3.0 % in China, and to 9.1 % from 11.5 % in India.

Figures already released for December showed a renewed drop in inflation in two of the world's largest economies, with the euro zone recording a decline to 0.8 % from 0.9 %, and China recording a fall to 2.5 % from 3.0 %.

This fall has been larger than the fall in the United States so that the spread between 10 - year yields in the two countries has narrowed from about 60 basis points to about 20 basis points.

In the midst of early February's market turmoil that saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average decline by 1,175 points — its largest point drop in one day ever — and the S&P 500 enter correction territory (a decline of 10 percent or more from its previous high), a handful of investment products fell, essentially, to zero.

Monday's drop, the largest one - day percentage fall since August 2007, presages a change in focus from near - term weather concerns to demand in the spring.

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

U.S. oil consumption, by far the largest in the world, has recently fallen to 18.6 million barrels a day, down from nearly 21 million prior to the last recession.

The small business indicator rate has been reduced to 9.8 per cent, from 11.3 per cent, while the large business indicator rate has fallen to 9.3 per cent from 10.8 per cent.

As a result, the unemployment rate, which is derived from the household survey, has fallen by about 1/2 a percentage point from its recent peak, although this decline is also partly explained by a large fall in the participation rate.

U.S. stocks are falling broadly in morning trading Thursday as investors weigh some disappointing earnings from U.S. companies and a survey from China suggesting the manufacturing sector of the world's second - largest economy is headed for a contraction.

The largest detractor from performance for the quarter was U.S. - based electronics retailer Best Buy, which fell 16 %.

The data we have, both looking at large caps vs mid caps and from looking at equal weighted indices vs cap weighted indices, is that the cap weighted indices that have a bigger focus on larger companies tend to hold up better during market corrections, while the equal weighted varieties with a more balanced large / mid cap spread tend to fall more sharply.

The auction comes as global diamond demand slipped 2 percent last year, with total polished diamond sales falling to $ 79 billion from $ 81 billion in 2014, De Beers, the largest producer, said in an April report.

... they appear convinced that the large crowds who have defended Morsi since his fall are paid peasants brought in from the countryside.

Under this magnification what I saw appeared as a large, vast, dark sky, with thousands of shooting stars falling toward me from all directions.

Although the congregations of Jesus» followers no doubt fell short of their ideal of mutual love, those who participated in them knew a profound difference from the larger society.

For me to appear to you as a woman and suggest that you call me Papa is simply to mix metaphors, to help you keep from falling so easily back into your religious conditioning... To reveal myself to you as a very large, white grandfather figure with flowing beard, like Gandalf, would simply reinforce your religious stereotypes, and this weekend is not about reinforcing your religious stereotypes.»

Changes in the larger world - system are likely to consist of shifts in overall rates of economic growth, changes that reverberate from the rise and fall of great powers, alterations in international relations, variations in uncertainty and conflict, and even modifications of the extent to which people are aware of these larger relations.

I need not discuss this: everyone knows about the Syrian from Palestine, the adept in it, how many he takes in hand who fall down in the light of the moon and roll their eyes and fill their mouths with foam; nevertheless, he restores them to health and sends them away normal in mind, delivering them from their straits for a large fee.

We remark the curious fact that just as, thirty years ago, the churches had about succeeded in excising Bach and Palestina from the ken of the new generation at the moment college and high school choirs were finding them — and church schools, afraid of the recondite reaches of the doctrine of the Lord's Supper, beheld their children at school singing «0 Magnum Mysterium» and «Ave, Corpus Verum» — so, too, the preaching fashion, having become in large part the holy branch office of the local psychiatric clinic, is now confronted with «J.B.,» «The Fall,» «Christmas Oratoria,» and the considerable theological imagery in «Four Quartets.»

President Clinton managed to avoid this effect for a large part of his administration — since the tax hikes he imposed were modest and he benefited by an enormous peace dividend from the fall of the Soviet Union.

Furthermore, this bodily conflict between the mother and her emergent child anticipates the often much more painful act of separation, when the child, exercising the newly awakened powers made possible by his large head, reaches for his own autonomous knowledge of good and had, and repeats the original rise and fall from obedience and innocence in the ever - recurring saga of human freedom and «enlightenment.»

Quail in large numbers annually migrate from Europe in the fall, September and October, crossing in flight the Mediterranean Sea to fall in exhaustion along the Sinai coast.