Sentences with phrase «lot less than that of»

For example, the Australian, Canadian and New Zealand dollars all increased by similar amounts against the US dollar over the six months, even though Canada's interest differential relative to the US was a lot less than that of Australia and only about half that of New Zealand.

Trying out the best large breed puppy food, you will notice that your puppy eats a lot less than that of the commercial foods.

Not exact matches

But for many investors, the benefits of tax - loss harvesting could turn out to be a lot less than expected.

• Even though Canadians have a lot of mortgage debt, national mortgage - in - arrears numbers remain very low, at less than half of one per cent.

Moreover, it should take even less fuel than a fission reactor does to produce a lot of energy.

Outlook shows the projected demand for employees in the field in 2022, as measured by Employment and Social Development Canada: ➚ = more than 1 job available per job seeker — lots of opportunity ➙ = about 1 job available per job seeker — balanced opportunity ➘ = less than 1 job available per job seeker — low opportunity

It'll cost a lot less than undoing the damage of a major hack.

There's been a lot of research of GMO foods over the years, and the World Health Organization says that these foods are no less safe than conventionally grown foods.

The partners knew that $ 1 in cash taken as payment for design services would never amount to more than $ 1 in sales — and a lot less of that in profit.

One of the ironies about being a leader is that you sometimes wield a lot less power than people think.

It put out a clarification statement after the report, giving two clues about the number: that daily users make up less than 50 percent of monthly users, and that there's a lot of room for growth.

As Harry Campbell, founder of the Rideshare Guy website, told the Guardian, «The most common feedback we hear from drivers is they end up earning a lot less than they expected.»

«They're willing to give you less capital than you might be able to rase in New York or San Francisco, but you find a lot of early stage companies that find ways to make money fast.»

«There are lots of people who were as liberal as I was in the military, and like in the rest of America most folks in the military are probably less ideological than talking heads would ike to think they are.»

A lot of supercars can brush that off in less than 4 seconds, on their way to top speeds that threaten or exceed 200 mph.

With less than half of companies rating their customer experience as exceptional yet 89 percent saying that they plan to compete primarily on the basis of customer experience by 2016, according to a recent Gartner report, businesses certainly have a lot of work to do.

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 State Department and a number of Washington think - tanks have long indicated that the real story about Keystone XL is a lot less exciting than most of its supporters and opponents seem to believe.

That will be a lot less profitable than investing in the part of Exxon that does, say, oil exploration and production, but it will be there.

If you're talking about a new project with no significant investment already deployed, building a new mine if you expect today's prices to hold in the long term is a tough call — a 50 - year oil sands project is a lot of risk for less than a 10 % rate of return — but even there, you can see the impact of the lower Canadian dollar and the hedge provided by a royalty regime which lowers rates when prices are low.

Vaynerchuk admits that he's «betting on the jockey a lot of times»; in other words, the product itself is less important than the person who pitched it.

«When the defense contractors get slammed by a big sell - off, they should be right at the top, No. 1, of your shopping list because the things people are worried about — like the Fed possibly getting too aggressive — matter a lot less to the defense industry than, say, to the industrials,» explained CNBC's Jim Cramer on Wednesday.

But, four sources familiar with Elliott's thinking said Europe offered a lot of scope, as fewer activist funds operated there than in the United States, and European companies have been subject to the attentions of activists for less time.

«We'll jump on a problem with a lot less resentment and foot dragging than you would find in another company,» says chief financial officer Thomas Downing, who spent most of his career working for other companies.

For that reason, Northrop shares edged up only 0.3 % in early trading Monday, suggesting that, while the deal made lots of sense over the long term, the price is pretty full and the buyer has less practice than some at integrating new businesses, especially big ones.

Such retailers make very small margins on the hardware and virtually all of their money on the games themselves — giving up consoles will hurt them a lot less than the manufacturers.

«If the CEO of a company tells you it's a great place to work, that's going to resonate a lot less than if an actual employee says it,» Castellan explains.

If both sides, through their eyes and their people's eyes, have concluded that the plaintiff is absolutely going to win this case, and the plaintiff is going to get a lot of money because they're totally on board with everything that has been presented, then that might be a good reason for the defendant to agree to a settlement with the plaintiff for less money than the potential exposure if the jury comes back and finds willful infringement.

A bouquet of roses on Valentine's Day or a candlelight dinner with chocolate - covered strawberries would probably be less expensive — and a lot more fun — than giving away the store to lawyers and forensic accountants.

With the dilution of influence out there in the media, a placement in any one of the media has a lot less impact on its readers than it used to.

«I think anything less than that is just marginal improvement but a lot of people confuse marginal improvement with disruption,» he says.

«There's a lot more upside potential than downside risk,» says David Elstone, an analyst with Gibsons, B.C. — based ERA Forest Products Research, who notes that those improved 2012 housing starts were still less than half of historical norms.

One serving of veggies is also a lot less than you think.

And Valeant's round - about method of funding research, if that's what it's actually doing, seems a lot less cost effective, with all of the bankers and lawyers and hedge fund managers taking chunks of deals than if drug companies directly devoted a portion of their sales toward finding new drugs.

Another way to look at that is if those in the audience who know what covenant - light loans are, which are loans without a lot of stuff tied around you, back in» 06,»07 less than 20 percent of the debt was issued cov - light.

«When the defense contractors get slammed by a big sell - off, they should be right at the top, No. 1, of your shopping list because the things people are worried about — like the Fed possibly getting too aggressive — matter a lot less to the defense industry than, say, to the industrials.»

While the U.S. and Europe are currently grappling with huge debts, a lot of the developing countries had their financial crises more than a decade ago and are now less vulnerable to shocks.

Lately, a lot of people have also been asking me if businesses started during recessions are more or less likely to fail than businesses started during expansions.

If you're talking about a new project with no significant investment already deployed, building a new mine if you expect today's prices to hold in the long term is a tough call — a 50 year oil sands project is a lot of risk for less than a 10 per cent rate of return — but even there, you can see the impact of the lower Canadian dollar and the hedge provided by a royalty regime which lowers rates when prices are low.

You've made this part of getting into business a lot easier and lot less stressful than it could have been, and have gone above and beyond in helping us get our business off the ground.»

And America sees a lot of these horrific events: According to CNN, «The US makes up less than 5 % of the world's population, but holds 31 % of global mass shooters.»

The rest is attributable to businesses having a lot less physical capital (such as machines and software) than was anticipated, and having unexpectedly low total factor productivity (the productivity of labor and capital).

I believe I understand this for DE, US, JP, China new recent edition: http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/37/41/49454618.pdf For the OECD keep in mind, these guys know less than you hope, take it with a lot of salt!

But that strategy works a lot less smoothly than it used to, says green marketing expert Shel Horowitz, author of eight books — most recently the Amazon Environmental category bestseller Guerrilla Marketing Goes Green (with Jay Conrad Levinson).

Our credit was less than perfect and we had a lot of bills starting to pile up.

(the CEO of Amazon) and proceeding to purchase shares of AMZN at any price is a lot less boring than sifting through the financial statements of a company to measure their profitability.

I'd put Amazon and Tesla in a different category than Facebook — neither generates a lot of earnings or cash flow, and their financial situations tend to be less certain.

While a lot of the experts hem and haw about this option and consider it less desirable than transferring your points to travel partners, I would argue that the Chase Ultimate Rewards travel portal has its own share of gems.

It tilts smaller than our benchmark, with less of a value focus, and it makes a lot of sector bets, especially as it heavily underweights financials in favor of industrials, consumer cyclicals, and tech.

The cost of local and international calls has dropped a lot in recent years; some operators charge less than five cents a minute for local calls and from seven cents a minute for international calls.