Sentences with phrase «less point of»

With your latest comment I think — well, if that's more or less your point of view then what you are saying is more DLR causes less energy to leave from the ocean depths.

That's more or less the point of the article.

«It benefits them because they have less points of contact and a more consistent go - to market strategy, which reduces costs on their bottom line.

Not exact matches

«All else equal, a man who is 25 pounds below average weight is predicted to earn $ 210,925 less across a 25 - year career than a man who is of average weight,» Judge and Cable point out.

The more that business owners take such points on board, the less chance they have of doing damage

One seasoned private equity lawyer savvily points out that PE is a people business and that fund performance depends less on the brand name of the fund family than on the specific people managing the fund.

Some observers point the finger at labour - saving technology, others at the demographics of aging itself — seniors simply buy less stuff.

As Duportail points out, for many of us, our online and offline lives have grown so entangled it's basically impossible to share less data without radically overhauling our lifestyles.

The website's team approximates the value of each point at $ 0.019, though it's possible to get a lesser or much greater value depending on how you use them.

Researcher Ruta Aidis, a fellow at George Mason University, gave Canada (and Australia) an overall score of 69 out of a possible 100 — just two points less than the No. 1 - ranked country, the United States — in the 31 - country survey, commissioned by Dell.

A recent survey published by insolvency trustee MNP Ltd. found 48 per cent of Canadian respondents were $ 200 or less away from being unable to fulfill their monthly financial obligations, an eight point increase since September.

Italy's former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi staged his stunning political comeback, and came within less than a percentage point of winning the last week's election, on an anti-austerity, anti-German platform, mixed with promises of rescinding a widely resented and highly regressive real estate tax.

And due to its economies of scale and zero marketing needs, it would have very low management fees, less than half a percentage point.

After it hit 14,000 at the height of the housing bubble in 2007 — less than three months after passing 13,000 — the Dow wouldn't gain another 1,000 points until six years later, in May 2013.

Whatever the cause, most of us have had to sit down and figure out how to feed our families for less money at one point or another.

The rest of the afternoon flies by and before I know it, it's time to check out the evening commute report, dinner options in my neighborhood, and my outfit for tonight's date, which was put together by WhatToWear (at some point all these companies stopped coming up with clever names and just called themselves by descriptions; less confusing for me).

«As well, yesterday's FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) meeting was less dovish than expected as the Fed kept its policy forecasts unchanged despite clear deceleration in inflation and a couple of bad data points yesterday.»

But as Romano points out, they account for less than 10 % of all recharging (because most journeys are shorter than a car's range).

«Coach's game plan of becoming less ubiquitous and selling more at higher price points is now delivering,» Saunders added.

WorldWise, for instance, makes a point of using only U.S. manufacturers, which it can visit to ensure that they meet its standards; proximity to customers also means energy savings and less pollution.

He's less hopeful about the Bangladeshi government's initiatives, but says, «I think that part of the key points of this agreement is that you've got some of the major buyers in Bangladesh working with some of the major trade unions and labour rights groups together to push on Bangladesh and I think that combination is going to be a powerful force.»

Meanwhile, «transportation in the U.S. costs the equivalent of less than one yuan ($) per kilometer, while road tolls [in China] are higher,» he added, pointing out that some mid - and small - sized Chinese enterprises have already started moving to Southeast Asian countries like Vietnam and Cambodia for cheaper wages and materials.

A half - percentage - point difference in fees will translate into thousands of dollars less in total return over an investor's lifetime.

As I recall the headline read, more or less, «Women Don't Negotiate Because They're Not Dumb,» and the author went on to cite research to make her point that when women do ask for more money, people tend to hate it, and «pushy» women end up paying mightily in terms of career progression and opportunities.

Of course, at one point it was worth asking how a company founded by a then 19 - year - old could invent a new, less - invasive way of drawing blood from patientOf course, at one point it was worth asking how a company founded by a then 19 - year - old could invent a new, less - invasive way of drawing blood from patientof drawing blood from patients.

While Fink is right to point out that low interest rates are putting a large burden on those of us trying to save retirement, he does not address the fact that central banks aren't primarily responsible for the fact that bonds of all types are yielding less today than we're used to.

And instead of a slowdown, fundamentals are actually pointing to solid growth in the coming months, albeit less dynamic than last year,» Brzeski said.

Recent interest in London may have more to do with the relative ease of doing business there, and less with its status as an E.U. entry point.

A little less than 15 minutes passed between our first handshake and the moment I pointed this Audi TT toward the (cloudy) coastal highways of Santa Cruz.

The fees can vary from less than 1 percent to a few percentage points — and interest at the prime rate to several points over prime on the balance of receivables you sell, making it steeper than most bank loans.

As a simple rule of thumb, if the value of each point is less than 1 cent, use cash and keep your points for a higher - value opportunity.»

«It's clear that people call in sick for a variety of reasons, some less honest, but everyone will catch a cold at some point and legitimately need the time off,» said Ted Karkus, CEO for ProPhase Labs, the manufacturer of Cold - EEZE.

But a mobile point of sale system allows your employees to be on the store floor, which often discourages theft because clerks are mobile and thieves feel they have less opportunity to steal.

The largest such S&P 500 fund, Vanguard's 500 Index Fund, boasts expense ratios of less than a percentage point.

And to get there, Alberta needs to focus more on coaxing and wheedling other provinces into seeing things its way, and less on defending a narrow «Alberta First» point of view.

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.

Less than 10 miles outside of Washington, D.C. it counts proximity as a selling point.

A simulation by Oxford Economics suggests a 25 percent U.S. tariff on $ 60 billion worth of Chinese exports, with comparable retaliation, would reduce China's growth by about 0.1 percentage point this year and a little less next year, chief Asia economist Louis Kuijs in Hong Kong said in a recent note.

Her lead was down from an average of 5 points less than a week ago, according to RealClearPolitics.

Part of what makes the Google Home Mini and the Amazon Echo Dot so successful — besides their size and price point — is that they're no less powerful or helpful than their larger counterparts.

Because of this, a venture capitalist maintains a more surface level and less emotional connection to the business, which can sometimes bring a more grounded point of view at critical moments.»

Your Summary describes the highlights of your plan, includes only the most critical points, and leaves out less important issues and factors.

Suzy Welch, who contributed to the project, pointed out that every single one of the top 10 companies on the Top Attractors list is in the tech space (and 45 % of the total companies on the U.S. list), despite the fact that tech companies make up less than 10 % of the American GDP.

What it does mean, is that once kids are old enough to understand the finer points of language (and according to Bergen, that's probably younger than you imagine), there's no cause for guilt if you use (and they pick up) some less - than - demure language.

This not only boosts existing shareholder trust and support, but also shortens preparation time for new rounds, enables new investors to better assess historical results and leads to less of a need for future data points for validation.

The point of the last piece, the subsidies, is to keep enough people in the pool of insured to avoid triggering a so - called death spiral of declining enrollment, a growing proportion of less healthy people and premium increases by insurers.

But he added that thinking in terms of incremental changes may miss a larger point: As wearables and home devices become more important to the way we use our phones, the design of the phone itself may become less critical.

John Kirton, co-director of the G - 20 Research Group at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs, called the summit a «very solid success,» pointing to broad agreement on the agenda, much of it focusing on less controversial issues such as women's empowerment and promoting digitalization.

The Monmouth poll found that in counties that Trump or Hillary Clinton, his Democratic challenger, won by less than 10 percentage points in the 2016 presidential election, 30 % of people say they approve of the bill and 38 % say they disapprove.

A Chinese currency devaluation is less of a concern than a Chinese slowdown, with real GDP forecast to be down 0.2 percentage points.