Sentences with phrase «less than the firm»

Permissive - where the parents place a high priority on having their children like them, usually leading to less than firm boundaries and inconsistent consequences.

But many women feel self conscious baring their less than firm arms, and many of course feel the cold and then have to spend more on shrugs or coverups.

On Portugal's pretty decent highway system the M5 feels never less than firm.

Less than a firm position.

Simply stated, a partner with a book of business that generates a 40 percent margin is balancing out business elsewhere that is less than the firm's lower PMO.

Not exact matches

Firms in Canada's financial sector are under less pressure than their counterparts in, say, Europe or Japan, where negative interest rates are out in force.

By way of pay, while the average worker at a startup earns about 6 percent less than a worker at a more established firm, the youngest workers earn about 3 percent more than they do at older firms.

Trump's name shows up in filings of less than 14 % of all companies, but the stakes are much higher for firms that have bet on the federal government taking a hands - off approach to marijuana policy.

Today, two - thirds of new net jobs in the U.S. are being created by new firms that are less than five years old.

No less a skeptic than Jamie Dimon has led his firm to spend money on blockchain - related projects.

Over the past three decades, companies less than five years of age have added an average 1.5 million new jobs annually, while older firms have tended to just shed jobs.

But it should be remembered that the underlying businesses owned by PE firms are not less volatile than other real - world companies.

All the main areas, including the Permian, Bakken, and SCOOP / STACK, have average breakevens at less than $ 54 WTI, according to executives from 65 E&P firms.

Ninety - five percent of exporting firms in the NSBA survey had less than 100 employees.

Daniel Miessler, advisory services director at the cybersecurity firm IOActive, has a recommendation that «would cost infinitely less than the dumpster fire of products we constantly purchase and deploy for millions of dollars a year,» as he writes on his personal blog: simply hire a couple of people to maintain a catalog.

I mean, as you see consultancies — like they say the big three accounting firms are now — bill less in accounting revenue than they do in consulting revenue, particularly in the marketing and advertising space.

Some researchers have even found that firms owned by and named for their heads are 21 percent less valuable than others.

For instance, a study from America's Best 401k, a Scottsdale, Arizona - based firm that works with retirement plans, reviewed fee disclosures for 11 insurers and payroll companies that specialize in plans with less than $ 10 million in assets.

The outside firm can often cost less than the salary and benefits of a full - time employee and, at the same time, you may be getting a higher level of advice from a CPA or a tax accountant, the latter of whom usually is a licensed CPA and a lawyer specializing in tax law.

Cons: Firmer feel and less flexibility than previous versions, runs slightly short (you may need to go up a half size)

In March, Price went walking with a good friend who earned less than $ 50,000 at another firm.

Among other changes at the firm, Jon Rubinstein, who joined the company less than a year ago, will step down from his co-CEO position.

Less than a year before that, another UAE - owned firm took control of the Berbera port in the breakaway northern region of Somaliland and pledged up to $ 440 million to develop it.

«KPCB discriminates against [Ellen Pao] and other women by failing to promote them comparably to men, by compensating them less than men through lower salary, bonus and carried interest, by restricting the number of investments that women are allowed to make as compared to men, by failing to include junior women from meetings and discussions, by failing to provide equivalent sponsorship of women as of men, by failing to include junior women comparably to junior men in the interview process, and by failing to provide opportunities for visibility and success inside and outside the firm for women as compared to men.»

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.

The employee says the firm hired and promoted fewer women than men and paid her less than male counterparts.

The compound annual growth rate for beer overall was less than 1 % between 2010 and 2016, but low and no beers provided a glimmer of hope at 5.2 %, according to insights firm GlobalData.

It's the sort of rapid gearshift that few companies ever experience, much less master: over the course of about five years, FouFou Dog (FFD), a Markham, Ont. - based dog apparel firm, has seen its revenue grow by more than 800 % — a steep growth trajectory matched by the company's shift from providing very specialized boutique goods, like jewelry and booties for small dogs, and to a far wider range of products suitable for mass merchandisers and large offshore customers.

Less than two weeks after debuting on the ASX, tech firm BrainChip's chief executive has tendered his resignation while an interim CEO has been appointed.

Small businesses tend to attract fewer and less - experienced candidates than their large firm counterparts, and startups in particular find it difficult to provide adequate compensation for talented prospects.

These companies on average pay bills in Europe that are less than half of those of other firms.

«The growth rate (of non-energy exports) persistently was less than what we thought should happen and it's gradually building up to something that we have to acknowledge, and we have to say, «Either it comes back someday after firm creation kicks in more strongly» or something,» Poloz said.

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 finances at Norway's Statoil leave it with less room to maneuver than its peers, and Italy's Eni appears focused on growing without M&A, the firm says.

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.

The infographic below, generated by Pulp PR, highlights 13 U.S. venture capital firms, each with a total fund size of less than $ 150 million, as well as their particular area of interest.

Perhaps no tool is more effective at putting a human face on a firm than social media — and no tool is less expensive, either.

The proposed repeal of the current Obama - era protections would be a big win for ISPs including Comcast and Verizon, but has been strongly opposed by tech firms like Google and Facebook — though those giants are less likely to be hurt than smaller content providers.

Sales for the owner of KFC and Pizza Hut declined, but less just than expected after news that a Chinese firm had supplied the company with expired meat.

Female - owned firms in the survey are 10 percent less likely to hire their first employee, even after seven years, than male - led firms, according to Fairlie and Miranda.

While July was the fifth straight month in which small firms added jobs, «the magnitude of growth is less than desired,» according to SurePayroll CEO Michael Alter.

According to a recent report from Chinese market research firm iResearch China, Amazon's Chinese site holds less than 1 % of the country's $ 378 billion e-commerce business in terms of market share.

Female - owned firms in the survey are 10 percent less likely to hire their first employee, even after seven years, than male - led firms, according to

New numbers from market research firm Consumer Intelligence Research Partners, estimate that 8.2 million Echo units have been installed in the U.S. since the product became broadly available less than two years ago.

But it turns out that in aggregate, small firms pay about the same premiums as big firms — in fact, for family coverage, companies with under 200 employees pay less ($ 11,835) than firms with 200 or more workers ($ 12,233).

Despite all the fury, political polling accounts for less than 5 % of the revenue of most market research firms.

If you own a small firm and have been in operation for less than three years and have a credit score of below 650, you likely won't be able to secure a small business loan from a large bank.

Next Jump, for example, a deliberately developmental ecommerce firm, has less than 10 percent turnover in its largely millennial workforce — quite an accomplishment in an industry that averages 40 percent turnover across generations.

Sharon Tsao is a principal of Contemporary Staffing Solutions, a national recruiting firm that fills 82 percent of searches in less than 48 hours.

«While women still make up less than 20 percent of U.S. boards on average, movement toward greater gender parity is evident with the proportion of new nominees that are women nearly doubling over the past seven years at larger firms,» Kamonjoh said in a statement.