Sentences with phrase «less business seems»

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Or take pricing schemes: Many businesses offer a high - priced «premium» service simply to make a less expensive level of service seem like more of a bargain.

With the president aspiring to lower taxes for both businesses and individuals, it seems clear Trump is looking for the government to redistribute even less wealth in this country than it has in the past.

(Someone went as far as to tell me he wanted to send something to me, and that he already had my home address, making him seem less like a potential business connection and more like a real - time cyber-stalker.)

While Jackson's musings are provocative, it's a safe bet the console makers have a minimum of one generation left to do business more or less as usual, although hardware improvements designed to take advantage of streaming and cloud computing seem almost certain.

Women are also less likely to tap personal networks of close friends and business acquaintances for financing, though men and women seemed equally likely to approach banks for financing.

«But unlike the Apple Watch or some of the new luxury brand Android Wear watches, the Ionic seems like less of a fit in a business meeting or at a fancy dinner party.»

But unlike the Apple (aapl) watch or some of the new luxury brand Android Wear watches, the Ionic seems like less of a fit in a business meeting or at a fancy dinner party.

But it is well - made, and with the Mac becoming less and less relevant to Apple's bottom line, the company's laptop business seems to be focusing exclusively on the high - end.

Virgin Atlantic's wording for its mid-level seating is quite clever: by calling it premium economy rather than business class or something similar, it makes it seem less of a step up even though there is quite a large price difference.

But as Alibaba's stock soared, Yahoo's dropped, an indication that the market seemed to concur with Jackson's analysis: Yahoo's core business was worth less than zero dollars.

Competition is medium — there are less PPC ads, and Google seems to be more willing to rank individual businesses here.

As a result, even though a tightening labor market and recently supportive levels of business, consumer, and investor confidence may bode well for the near - term outlook, the hard data currently seems considerably less encouraging than the soft data.

Without a dedicated retail specialist, for example, we're less obliged to invest in retail businesses if opportunities seem scarce.»

Measured across all loan products, and taking into account changes in customer risk margins, however, it seems that interest rates paid on average by small businesses have increased by a little less than the rise in interest rates directly due to the tightening of monetary policy.

All of these new initiatives, currently seem less profitable than the search - ad business.

Many of these myths seem to be the result of wishful thinking; the world would be a much nicer place to do business in if we all had less paperwork, paid fewer taxes and had people showering us with free money.

With easy growth behind us and waves of uncertainty coming from all sides, investors and businesses seem less assured than before about the prospects of the Canadian growth story.

Sure seems like a lot of manic hype over well less than 10 % of AMZN's business model.

This weekend, it could be that Spurs supporters seem to have their Tottenham back, that Thierry Henry's pre-match motivational hugs for his team mates seemed less somewhat forced, that West Ham owner «Eggsy» Magnusson looks even scarier when he's upset, that Cristiano Ronaldo's acting matches his makeup, that Reading are Champions League bound or that both Martin Jol and Rafa Benitez need to ease up on that rotating business.

The only teams Arsenal can do business with now are these kind of teams with lesser financial muscle, appear, CL football and appear to some extent, good luck to waiting for bigger teams to get tired of a player offering them, seems to be the norm at the club now.

The transfer window is due to close in less than three weeks, and Madrid do not seem to be looking to sign any more players, other than the Welshman from Tottenham, but that may not be the last bit of transfer business the club does.

We are less fit, we make less sprints, we cover less ground per player than (this season) any other team in the league, we make more errors to leading to goals, we have more players booked and sent off, we have more injuries than most clubs, we are less likely (since Payet) to do as we did last night and come from a losing position to win, we lose more games from winning positions than any other club (last season and this), the facts are damning to Slav, the biggest surprise is that our Chairmen run multiple businesses yet they don't seem to link these things together and realise that the manager and or the coaching staff are the problem.

Corbyn is obviously no fan of big business — and the people that elected him leader seem to be even less sympathetic.

In an interview with Crain's New York Business earlier this year, Ms. Glen said that one of the impacts of her group's work was making big banks seem a little less evil.

Stringer seems to have grown more business - friendly since his Mitchell - Lama advocacy days, though his evolution is less well - documented than that of his prospective mayoral rival Christine Quinn, with her breadcrumb - trail of legislation nurtured and legislation squashed.

It seems that Raul's success as an international businessman means the ranch's troubles are over, but when Armando falls for Sonia, and Raul's business dealings turn out to be less than legit, the Alvarez family finds themselves in a full - out war with Mexico's most feared drug lord, the mighty Onza (Gael Garcia Bernal).

The authors seem to believe that board members spending «little time on district business... might not be an altogether bad thing: limited time on district business could mean less opportunity to micromanage or engage in petty politics.»

He also seems to have a problem with what he calls «self - styled» reformers who have come on to the scene in recent years, essentially arguing that the likes of Steve Brill and Davis Guggenheim (as well as one would suspect, the editor of this publication) have no business offering an opinion, much less pushing for systemic reform.

This (manufactured) outrage seems no less underhanded or manipulative than what Amazon is doing, but by the same token is equally mundane as a business practice.

In this market, when it seems that even finding an agent willing to take on an author's project can mean years of querying and futile efforts of trying to make connections, many authors are shifting their focus away from the business end of publishing in favor of a lower key approach that allows them to retain control over their work and spend more time writing with less time trying to become published.

In February, Bertrams, the UK's second - biggest book wholesaler, was sold to private equity backer Aurelius for half the sum it originally bid for the business (which itself seemed like a knock - down price for a business with sales of more than # 200m); last week the UK's biggest high street book chain Waterstones was sold to activist investor Elliott Advisors for a sum thought to be considerably less than its Russian owner Alexander Mamut once wanted; and this week the UK's biggest printer of black and white books, Clays, with sales of # 77m, was sold to Italian printer Elcograf for # 23.8 m.

And as more and more brick and mortar bookstores go out of business, you know, that «distribution the publisher is promising seems less and less interesting.

Galley Cat, Booktrope, AllRomance, and IndieReader are just some indie book businesses who have declared «a shift in the indie author landscape» to be the cause of their indie book business closures, while many others seem to be in decline with much less activity and showcasing.

I thought indie - bookstores would be the natural place to start pitching my self - pubbed non-fiction historical research title... but as a small business, it seems they are even less likely to take risks on indie authors.

Less business for the surviving guarantors, it would seem.

But it did become very evident to me while I was observing — and contributing to — the cacophony of investment pitches, that the unspoken truth is that most investors seem very focused on what the stock they own will be doing in the next six months, and much less focused on what the business underlying that stock will be doing in the next five years.

He owns many more stocks than I do — and is far less interested in the underlying nature of the business; I don't seem to have very much influence on him.

Warren Buffett had this to say about Walters Schloss: «He knows how to identify securities that sell at considerably less than their value to a private owner; And that's all he does... He owns many more stocks than I do and is far less interested in the underlying nature of the business; I don't seem to have very much influence on Walter.

So, earnings may be improving, but sales are not improving which would seem to suggest that further raw materials price increases will contract profit margins, and that the margin growth in the past year and half can be partially attributed to the fall in raw materials prices and the price of oil... The more money the system prints, the less oil there is per dollar, which theoretically should compress margins for just about every business besides the oil companies...

It all seemed so logical: if I could simply liberate my energy away from the custom work and streamline my business as much as possible, the less time I'd have to spend in the business, and the more time I'd have for my creative things.

«I liked doing the basic reportage, but for once, the business of the fair seemed less essential than the art on view.

IT»S GOT CHILL VIBES: Here's what Paddy had to say about NEWD last year: «I liked doing the basic reportage, but for once, the business of the fair seemed less essential than the art on view.

But what I'm saying seems contradictory: A. No - one doing anything creative should think of themselves as anything less than «potentially exceptional», otherwise what business do they have?

But it seems store owners and business owners are less likely to avoid paying the tax, and if want illegals paying more taxes, there also that benefit.

Alternative business structures (non-lawyer ownership) seem less inevitable in the U.S., but their eventual existence does not seem like an unreasonable prediction.

Messages of this kind seem less believable, however, when they are communicated in the style recently seen from Wolters Kluwer Law and Business and in the context of the disrespect of customers that is frequently shown by the publishers.

As well, it would seem that uses may be less likely to reject cookies if the warning and option are browser - based, rather than a part of a business's website.

For business - facing services where attorneys are considered the primary user, it seems logical that the user (read: attorney) is less of a customer and more of a sensor for the ecosystem.

Taken as a whole, this data suggests that between 1975 and 2012, consumers» share of lawyers» business fell from about 50 % to less than 25 %, a decline that seems to be accelerating.

Nowadays, it seems like the younger generation prefers to do all their business online and less business face - to - face.