Sentences with phrase «less unit of»

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In 1996, Buffett created Class B shares worth 1 / 30th of Class A shares, but with lesser voting rights, to stop fee - hungry managers from creating «unit trusts» that sliced up Class A shares for smaller investors seeking «Berkshire look - alikes.»

Under Assembly Bill 693, the program fully subsidizes solar panels on multifamily buildings that are located in disadvantaged areas, have a number of federally subsidized units, or where the majority of tenants earn less than 60 % of the area's average income.

Battlefront II fell dramatically short of its sales targets, selling less than half of the 1.72 million units it was expected to in its first month.

Esperanza's Budlong Apartments - a 12 - unit apartment building located less than two miles from the AllenCo drilling site - is one of the nearly 800 buildings in Los Angeles that qualify for SOMAH benefits.

Specifically, the last sentence of the official statement weirdly calls out the fact that the number of complaints the company has received regarding its sun block lotion is»... less than one half of one percent of all units actually sold.»

This includes $ 4 million in severance pay, the accelerated vesting of 5.1 million unvested stock units (worth about $ 15 million) plus options to buy more, as well as a cash payments of either $ 1 million or the cash bonus he would have been entitled to in 2015, whichever is less.

The creators of Shake Weight, the exercise tool with the oddly sexual infomercial, recently announced they sold two million units in less than a year, garnering $ 40 million in revenue.

In Vancouver, for example, a recent survey found that half of new condo buyers expected to live in their units less than six years.

Canada is expected to take a less than 10 % share of the projected 18.6 million units.

Torrone thinks you could spend thousands of dollars on parts and build a device less powerful than Kinect, and suggests that Microsoft almost certainly subsidizes the $ 149 cost of the unit, hoping to profit via game sales.

In the summer of 2016, Ripple's former CEO Chris Larsen made a fateful decision: he signed a deal with a bank consortium R3, that included an option for its partner to buy 5 billion units of its currency for less than a penny.

Tillerson, who must step down as CEO after he turns 65 next March due to Exxon's mandatory retirement rules, is likely to be replaced by the head of the company's refining unit, a less - glamorous but more financially stable unit.

Traditional answers often focus on various sectors and involve more or less hand - wringing about their rise and fall, but according to the author of a forthcoming book on entrepreneurship and economy, there is another, better way to view our economy — as one single ecosystem, a sort of one - sector economy that interacts as a unit much like a forest and which should be nurtured as it grows and recycles itself.

He was thrilled to participate in policy discussions at think tanks, according to former executives, but less interested in digging into the nitty - gritty of a troubled unit.

The contractor in question, the Virginia - based US Corrections Special Operations Group (US C - SOG), has been stationed at Rikers Island since May, training the jail's nearly 200 Emergency Services Unit (ESU) officers in tactical techniques, including the use of Tasers and Kel - Tec shotguns loaded with rubber «less lethal» ammunition.

While the wireline unit represents Verizon's legacy business, it generated about 29 percent of the company's revenue in 2015 and less than 7 percent of operating income.

Where previous versions of Windows had sold less than two million copies combined, Windows 3.0 sold four million units in its first year.

Though it costs less to make than those of competitors, making the self - contained Eyecan + units are expensive — approximately $ 500 — and the market of individual consumers would be niche, so Samsung does not plan to sell the product in retail stores, according to The Verge.

«Prices have declined at the high end of the market but remained steady for more moderately priced units; bidding wars have become noticeably less prevalent,» the Beige Book said.

«If workers spend time discussing the outcome of last night's game rather than devoting this time to job - related activities, then these workers will be less productive in terms of output produced per unit of time,» write Coates and Humphreys.

Some 81.3 percent say they plan to increase units, with 29 percent saying they plan to increase units by 6 percent or more and 52.3 percent saying they expect a moderate increase in the number of units (less than 6 percent).

The wireline unit, which represents Verizon's legacy business, generated about 29 percent of company revenue in 2015, down about 60 percent since 2000, and less than 7 percent of operating income.

We have the right to acquire all of our then - outstanding common units at the then - current trading price either if 10 % or less of our common units are held by persons other than our general partner and its affiliates or if we are required to register as an investment company under the 1940 Act.

Because Carlyle Holdings I GP Inc. must pay taxes and make payments under the tax receivable agreement, the amounts ultimately distributed by The Carlyle Group L.P. to common unitholders are expected to be less, on a per unit basis, than the amounts distributed by the Carlyle Holdings partnerships to the limited partners of the Carlyle Holdings partnerships in respect of their Carlyle Holdings partnership units.

Companies should give CEOs share units less often and stop paying them with stock options to motivate better long - term performance and minimize the role of luck in compensation payouts, a new report argues.

Urbis records that there were less than a third of new apartments launched in the March 2017 quarter (225 units) compared to the previous December 2016 quarter (668 units).

At the seed phase of its existence a startup will also have less defined business model and unit economics, but an investor can still have a sense of what these aspects of the business may ultimately be.

In the case of rent estimates, the underrepresented segments typically consist of less expensive units and neighborhoods.

(The Senate bill also limits companies to making autonomous - only cars so long as they sell less than a certain number of units in a given year, capping the number at 15,000 vehicles in the first year, 80,000 in three years, and allowing an unlimited number of cars in the fourth year.)

At about a 20 percent discount for the less profitable Banamex Citi's unit may be worth about $ 15 billion — perhaps more to the likes of local billionaire Carlos Slim.

According to latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau, the number of households, proxied by occupied housing units, fell in the first quarter of 2018 to just under 120 million, i.e. growth of less than 1 % on a year - on - year basis.

An ETF combines the evaluation feature of a mutual fund or unit investment trust, which can be bought or sold at the end of each trading day for its net asset value, with the tradability feature of a closed - end fund, which trades throughout the trading day at prices that may be more or less than its net asset value.

She went on to award damages of about $ 100 per member of the bargaining unit — and ordered that «a full copy of this decision [be posted] throughout all workplaces of the employer to which the collective agreement applies, in conspicuous locations, where it is most likely to come to the attention of the employees in the bargaining unit, for a period of no less than 60 days.»

In August 2013, the German Finance Ministry characterized bitcoin as a unit of account, [93][260] usable in multilateral clearing circles and subject to capital gains tax if held less than one year.

ETFs are less expensive than mutual funds as they operate at a much lower Total Expense Ratio (TER), typically 0.5 % — 0.75 % because most ETFs are not actively managed and because ETFs are insulated from the costs incurred by unit trusts of having to buy and sell securities to accommodate shareholder purchases and redemptions.

«Mr. Speaker, today in First Nations communities across the country, the unemployment rate can reach 80 %, half of the housing units are in a pitiful state and schools and students receive 30 % less funding than others,» Thomas Mulcair reported.

Lenovo smartphone shipments have fallen more than 60 % YoY and managed to ship less than a million units, while Gionee smartphone shipments are down 90 % YoY with an all - time low of 150,000 units shipped.

Below the 20 % ownership figure, however, only our share of dividends paid by the underlying business units is included in our accounting numbers; undistributed earnings of such less - than - 20 % - owned businesses are totally ignored.

At the point when the general value level ascents, every unit of cash purchases less merchandise and administrations.

After they sell the rentals, they can have present income plus $ 39,700 from investment of their equity in the units less $ 18,000 the units no longer provide and $ 7,004 from Jack's OAS at 65.

If the firm's PE is lower than its peer median, an investor is paying less per unit of earnings than the median of its peer group.

The cost of living in Tampa is slightly less than the national average, and a spring 2011 survey of 93,000 rental units in Tampa showed the average monthly price for a 1 bedroom / 1 bathroom was about $ 730, with 2 BR units averaging out at $ 925 a month.

One such project is a «worker equity» program that attempts, as one of its goals, to eradicate from employers» minds the common negative stereotypes of older employees (they are stubborn, lazy, have less energy, do not adapt to new technologies) Another unit of the organizations the Interreligious Liaison Office, is also involved with the non-material aspects of aging.

In other words, philosophic theism has always shown a tendency to become pantheistic and monistic, and to consider the world as one unit of absolute fact; and this has been at variance with popular or practical theism, which latter has ever been more or less frankly pluralistic, not to say polytheistic, and shown itself perfectly well satisfied with a universe composed of many original principles, provided we be only allowed to believe that the divine principle remains supreme, and that the others are subordinate.

The division of Christendom into national units would have been a less serious matter had it not resulted so frequently in a division into nationalistic units.

But as the heating continues, eventually a closed loop of molecular movement develops in some region — a column of rising molecules happens to be next to a stack of sinking units — so that a more or less circular path becomes available.

Secondly, the coefficient of complexity further enables us to establish, among the natural units which it has helped us to «identify» and isolate, a system of classification that is no less natural and universal.

However imposing their extent they are false units, aggregates arranged more or less in order of density.

The analysis of «things» into «societies» of more ultimate units can be considered as his thoroughgoing attempt to push on toward natural entities in Aristotle's sense — even where Aristotle on the basis of bare perception could, despite his principles, see only a more or less amorphous, passive «matter.»

For thirty years the electric oven hood has sold an average of less than a few hundred thousand units a year, while today almost every household in the United States and Canada owns at least one color TV set, and more than 5 million sets are sold annually.