Sentences with phrase «less offering of»

This approach takes more listening to the needs of our families through their own unique and important lens, and less offering of one - size - fits - all solutions on our part as teachers and administrators.

Not exact matches

Businesses with more than 50 employees that do not offer coverage will be taxed based on the size of their payrolls, but the cost will be significantly less than the cost of providing insurance benefits, and the tax is not set to go into effect until the 2014 fiscal year.

A National Association of Colleges and Employers survey found that unpaid interns were no better at landing job offers than those who did no internship; and unpaid interns were paid an average $ 1,366 less in their first job than students who started cold.

Hulu — which is owned jointly by CBS rivals Walt Disney, 21st Century Fox, Comcast, and Time Warner — made a similar move less than a year ago, when the service offered subscribers the option of paying a few dollars more per month for an ad - free experience.

Pub restaurants tend to have less expensive menus than most other restaurants, so once you've savored ideas over lunch you can offer to buy your client a drink at the bar — but plying them with drink shouldn't be part of your sales pitch...

The Conservatives are in a full identity crisis now, and will have to figure out if they want to play tough with the U.S. and go back to the Sir John A. MacDonald days of a National Policy — essentially copying Trump's Buy American stance with a Buy Canadian — or if they want to follow the pro-free trade Mulroney - Harper path, which is more likely but offers less differentiation from the Liberals.

Since employers already offer maternity leave, women faced less stigma for taking advantage of programs intended to reduce their workloads — but doing so also derailed their careers.

Charging less than your competitors signals potential clients that you doubt the value of what you offer.

Rely on reputation and gut instinct and you'd probably name a familiar list of Ivy league and top - notch technical schools, but new numbers offer some suggestions that may surprise you (and offer campuses with less cutthroat competition from bigger companies).

But beyond these basics, Morrell also offers less expected suggestions that won't simply insure your internship program doesn't suck, but just might elevate it to the sort of experience that turns eager young interns into exceptional new hires.

When it came to that last question, there was plenty of anger to go around, with many complaining about David Cameron's decision to call the referendum, others infuriated at the weak Leave campaign, and still others offering less than polite commentary on segments of their fellow citizens.

The collapse of oil prices wiped out profits and killed the incentive to expand in the oil patch, and economic growth of less than 2 % offers little incentive for non-energy companies to expand.

Mattrick was supposed to turn things around, but Zynga's stock is nearly the same as when he started and less than a third of the price of its 2011 initial public offering, $ 10.

It would be a shame if they were willing to make a better offer but you mentioned you would accept an offer for thousands of dollars less.»

Each of his six tickets cost him less than $ 200 and, thanks to some bonus offers, earned him 11,076 miles on American to be used later for a dream vacation.

«We're north of a million dollars in sales in less than one year,» says DeHerrera, who offers the high - end spinner directly to consumers through the Torqbar website.

GV, Alphabet Inc.'s venture capital firm, offered up significantly less than half of its stake in Uber even though Alphabet's self - driving car subsidiary Waymo is suing Uber for stealing trade secrets.

Like Twitter and dozens of other companies that have gone public in the last couple of years, GrubHub took advantage of a provision in the JOBS Act of 2012, which lets small companies valued at $ 1 billion or less to file for an initial public offering in private, and just a few weeks before it intends to debut.

Another improvement on the Nimitz design, the AAG on the Ford class will help accommodate a broader range of aircraft and offer a less jarring landing than the Navy's current Mk - 7 Mod 3 and Mk - 7 Mod 4 designs.

Any amount less than several million dollars is too small to be considered for a standard initial public offering of stock, for example.

Those factors partly help explain why Exxon is now seen by Wall Street as a less - desirable investment than Chevron, which has several large oil and gas projects coming online by the end of the decade, offering far - stronger growth potential than Exxon.

Supplication is a wonderful sour ale with a heavy cherry flavor and clean finish, while Consecration is another sour aged in Cabernet Sauvignon barrels that has less of a puckering quality, but still offers a nice, dry finish.

Perth - based oil and gas company Antares Energy has received a fresh $ US300 million offer from an undisclosed party for its Permian Basin oil and gas assets in Texas, less than six months after it backed out of a previous sale agreement.

They've taken out the middlemen and added costs of showrooms and as a result, offer an often superior mattress for less money and less hassle than you'd find in a brick - and - mortar store.

«We're going to offer a lot of the same capabilities of similar phones... for $ 100, $ 200 less.»

The legislation is stricter and offers far less clarity than expected: it expands the definition of state - owned enterprises (SOEs) to include any company that is «influenced, directly or indirectly» by a foreign power or, for that matter, any person under government direction.

It's unclear how much of that share is due to Roku offering less expensive — and presumably less profitable — boxes.

Retail sales rose less than expected in June, the latest sign of a slowdown in economic growth that offers a cautionary note to the Federal Reserve as it mulls scaling back its monetary stimulus.

In a steroid - tainted, reality - TV era, Jeter, the son of two Army veterans, continues to stand out because of his old - school approach: Never offer excuses or give less than maximum effort.

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.

In a recent survey of 1,000 public companies by ShareData, a Silicon Valley - based supplier of employee - stock - plan software and services, 74 % of the companies with less than $ 50 million in sales, and 68 % of those with fewer than 100 employees, offered stock - option plans to all employees.

A little less than one in three small businesses were found to offer health insurance benefits to employees, for example, as compared to the national average of 96 percent of larger firms.

The offers can be bland — or as with the colon cleansing, of less - than - universal appeal — opening the door to rivals with a local sales team to solicit better deals from A-list merchants.

But a current Softbank offer to purchase a large chunk of Uber at a discount would lower Uber's valuation to less than $ 50 billion.

«Your competition may offer a better compensation plan, but smart salespeople realize that if the pre - and postsales support is not available, they will make less money on a more generous comp plan,» says Schmidt, CEO of $ 20 - million Abraham Technical Services, in Maple Grove, Minn..

For most of the films that were offered in both two and three dimensions this summer, the enhanced versions accounted for less than 50 % of opening weekend revenues.

Part of what may be contributing to this trend is the fact that public offerings in Europe are, on average, smaller than they are in the U.S. Consider that 18 of the companies to go public in the region this year have a market cap of less than $ 100 million, the Atomico research found.

A team of investors led by Softbank Group (sbhgf) has made an offer to buy Uber's (uber) shares at a valuation of around $ 48 billion — approximately 30 % less than their last private valuation of nearly $ 70 billion.

According to the T - Mobile rep, those who have the $ 30 plan today are now «grandfathered» in, but for new customers the $ 45 a month offering — which gives unlimited talk, but 1 GB less of 4G data — is now the cheapest option.

According to an evaluation by Hired, female candidates in the field are offered an average of four percent less than their male counterparts, and «63 percent of the time women receive lower salary offers than men for the same job at the same company.»

The fundraising round comes less than two months after Reuters reported Sun Basket hired bankers for an initial public offering in the back half of this year.

The four critical factors are: (a) businesses with recurring revenue bases — like a renewable subscription — are far better than ones dependent on constantly securing new customers; renewals are much easier and less expensive to secure than new sales; (b) customer retention is absolutely critical — all customers are very costly to acquire and very easy to lose in a world of almost infinite choices; (c) businesses based on products that require constant replacement or renewal (the «razor blade» model) are much more attractive than durable goods businesses (like selling refrigerators) where the products have very long repurchase or replacement life cycles and where the market could even fairly quickly reach saturation points; and (d) businesses that offer products or services that had a predictably high rate of obsolescence were much more attractive than those where the products had long, useful lives.

Still, his successors were terrified that offering any kind of data on a different, cheaper platform would make their cash cow less unique and desirable.

In fact, figures no less respected that Albert Einstein, his fellow physics Nobel laureate Richard Feynman, and super entrepreneur Elon Musk have all offered practical advice anyone can use to accelerate their learning of the subject of their choice.

So the new web version of BLAW carried a public sticker price of $ 5,400 a year — a lot less than the terminal, but still pricey for such a product — while also privately offering discounts to many firms.

According to the Wall Street Journal, people who had shorted SolarCity stock will have to scramble to rebuy shares that have gone up because of the potentially less - than - arm's - length acquisition offer.

The car rental business came full circle: Suddenly, Enterprise's slew of downtown locations — used by people whose cars are in the shop or who don't own cars at all — offered a less cyclical, more profitable model.

Self - consciousness can cause us to put on a mask or attempt to please those whom we perceive as having greater status or power than we do, while simple laziness makes it easy to overlook the average Joes or Janes on the street and offer them less than the best version of yourself.

They may not have the cachet of a Columbia or a Wharton, but we found nearly 50 business schools in the U.S. that offer executive MBAs for less than $ 50,000 in total tuition.

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