Sentences with phrase «made higher figures»

In this case, offering a ballpark figure apparently gave participants a jumping - off point that made higher figures (although ones that were below the real number) seem more plausible.

The $ 140m quoted as the price obtained by Sotheby's for Pollock's Number 5, 1948 would make it the highest figure known to have ever been paid for a painting.

Not exact matches

Total sales for 2015 edged upward by 3 %, to more than $ 700 billion, and market research firm NPD Group forecasts that Americans will make 61.8 billion visits to restaurants and food - service outlets in 2016 — which would be the highest figure since before the Great Recession.

To this end, clever researchers are continuously at work figuring out what sets the most joyful and high functioning of us apart, as well as digging to discover hacks, tricks and daily rituals that can make the already pretty happy into the genuinely self - realized.

With his technical background and her experience, the two of them figured they could create software that would make it easy for corporate customers to automate high - volume routine translations in order to reduce reliance on human translators.

Wait for the employer to give a range, and when it does ask you for a figure you expect to be making, choose a salary that is higher than the median they provide.

Some retailers make a practice of buying businesses only for their locations rather than how much or what they sell, or who they sell it to, figuring that a high - traffic spot will eventually prove a winner for some business combination.

John Boyd opened a winery in 1972 with prices of $ 1 to $ 1.50 a bottle — low enough to grab market share but high enough to cover variable costs (which he figured at about 35 cents a bottle) and make a profit.

Make sure this figure contains high, medium and low sales estimates.

Make sure you also stick with the campaigns long enough to give them time to gain traction and to give yourself time to figure out how AdWords works and how you can get the highest return.

«If one supplier quotes us a slightly higher price, but at net 60 days instead of net 30, we'll do a complete cost analysis to figure out which way we're better off, making certain we factor in our costs of money,» Blocher explains.

As with credit card debt, your strategy is to figure out which loan you want to pay off first, and make the highest payments possible on that one while maintaining minimum payments on the others.

Using an average figure may make a franchise system look more successful than it really is, because the high incomes of just a few very successful franchises can inflate the average for all franchisees.

I was kind of like I said interested in gambling or at least speculating or figuring things out and then taking a calculated gamble and what they were telling me was don't try, there were saying that no one can beat the market and the stock prices are efficient and just through simple observation looking at the newspaper and they used to have the 52 - week high low prices in the newspaper, it seemed unreasonable that you know the fair price was 51 day and eight months later, it was 120, and that was pretty much every stock had that kind of range every year and it didn't make sense to me that the fundamentals of the underlying businesses were actually changing that much.

The figure makes two important points: the premium is as high as ever (wage signal: go to college!)

Having medical school loans and figuring out how to best repay them can be complicated, and most medical school graduates do not start making high salaries until several years out of medical school.

Over a six - month period, teams met for 10 hours each week to figure out the highest - impact changes that could be made to its aircraft operations.

I had a goal to make six figures from an occupation while I was in high school after one too many crap jobs making $ 4 an hour.

Therefore, the key to figuring out which of these two choices makes the most sense for your business comes down to which will provide higher rewards.

With the market apparently far more concerned with perception than reality when it comes to the Fed, any tendency toward higher inflation figures or substantial dollar weakness is likely to make investors fret that the Fed might not be able to «ease» as aggressively as it otherwise would.

Given your belief that Berkshire's intrinsic value continues to exceed its book value with the difference continuing to widen over time, are we at a point where it makes sense to consider buying back stock at a higher break point that Berkshire currently has in place and would you ever consider stepping in buying back shares that did dip down below 1.2 times book value per share even if that prior years» figure had not yet been released?

The vast majority of Albertans who want fiscal responsibility, free enterprise and lower taxes not higher taxes are trying to figure out how we make sure they don't get re-elected.»

When women routinely win Nobel Prizes in physics, chemistry or medicine, when a woman becomes a world chess champion, when a woman conceives and develops a brand new computer chip that represents a significant advancement over quad cores, when a woman invents warp drive or phasers, when a woman solves an «insolvable» math problem, when a woman, while working with the Large Hadron Collider, discovers the now - hypothetical Higgs Boson to be an actual scalar subatomic particle, when a woman figures out how to pinpoint the exact location of an electron at any point in time, when a woman working for Merck or Pfizer develops a remedy for Alzheimer's disease, when a woman's baseball team can defeat the New York Yankees, when a woman can bench press six hundred pounds, run the 100 meter dash in under nine seconds or set a world record in the high jump, then the fairer sex will have made an advance or contribution unlike any it has made before.

The difference between Greek pessimism and the oriental and modern variety is that the Greeks had not made the discovery that the pathetic mood may be idealized, and figure as a higher form of sensibility.

It's one of my favorites, and with that stockpile of kale staring me down, I decided that it was high time I figured out how to make it at home.

Figured it was okay for a fallen Lutheran to make a gastro - moronic choice during the high holy days... so I served the bread with freshly harvested from friends dungeness and king crab in a chowder.

Whether it's a package that has your favorite baseball team or a local high school, customization is huge, and it's making the supply base figure out a way to offer lower quantity items [at a] cost - effective point.»

After making said crust for every year since I figured it was high time for a bit of an update.

This recipe makes a ton so I figured (or had high hopes) that there would be plenty leftover after making the tamales to have around for the week to come.

That figure was down from 102 pounds per year in 1970, but the decrease has been more than made up for by increased use of high - fructose corn syrup and dextrose.

In total, they represent an increase of $ 147.3 m in terms of those who made the top 100, although the number could be higher depending on how others outside the rankings will affect the final figure.

No offence to Palermo, but 30k + (if figures seen in the papers are true) for a striker that has no high level experience, it makes absolutely no sense to me.

It appears that Wall has figured out the best way to make people see things his way: play at a ridiculously high level.

The board don't give a sh!t bout winning anything they only care about keeping the share price high and their bank balances in the six figure region Wenger has only kept his job because he does what the board expects and that's keeping us competitive WITHOUT actually winning anything too serious and WITHOUT spending too much money Now here's the teal nasty bit imagine if we won the EPL the next thing the fans would expect is the CL and to win that we'd need to spend big far bigger than we ever have oh no far better to just make 4th each season and see the money roll right in to the boards pockets and f@ck what the fans think

Although I've found it very cathartic to speak, vent and end occasionally rant about all things Arsenal, we need to act carefully and intelligently right now or we're going to get played by this club even worse than at present... the pro-Wengerites and the suits, who represent a considerable proportion of the season ticket holders, don't want to believe that there is no plan and that Wenger has mailed it in for several years now or that things are going to get much worse before they get better... why would they... many have spent a considerable sum buying some of the highest priced tickets in the World... they want to have a front row seat to see something special and to be seen doing so, which simply provides ample justification for the expense and the time invested... to many of them, Wenger is the sun in their soccer universe... his awkward disposition, misplaced arrogance and his utter lack of balls makes him a rather unusual cult figure, but the cerebral narrative seemed to embolden those who already felt pretty highly of themselves... many might not even of really liked football that much before his arrival and rarely games they weren't attending... as such, they desperately believe that Wenger, and only Wenger, can supply them with their required fix... if he goes, they were wrong and that's a tough pill to swallow... they would have to admit that they were duped... they will definitely resent whoever made them feel this way, but of course it will be too late by then... so when we go overboard with ridiculous comments bordering of anarchy, it scares the shit out of them and they shift their blame towards us rather than at those who really perpetrated this act of treason... we aren't the enemy... we simply woke much earlier and the reason our comments have gotten more vile in recent years is out of utter frustration... in order for any real change to occur at this club we need to bring as many supporters as possible with us or the big money interests will fade and our ultimate objective will be lost... so it's time to focus on the head instead of the heart for now

As feared by many Foxes supporters, it appears as though their Premier League title - winning squad could lose some key figures this summer, with Kante the first high - profile player to make an exit.

All of those teams have stud Volleyball squads with Ex high school and college players, with the exception of Team Watts who just figured out how to keep the ball up and let the other teams make the mistakes.

U, otherwise Fergie would not have taken him for granted, Fergie thought he was too young to make a mark yet at 18, 3 years later figures as high as 77 million pounds are being thrown around in the media besides Patrick Viera came to us at 19, so why not Bielik?

Yards per reception figures make higher the defense of Denver by 1.3.

High school is about creating stories to tell, being adventurous, and figuring out what and who makes you happy.

We talk openly and positively with our daughter about adoption and her birth family, and are figuring out how to make the move from Box 3 (low contact + high openness) to Box 4 (high contact + high openness).

I figured he was hungry, and had high hopes that he'd wolf down the gnocchi I was making.

«With high profile, successful figures like an MP or a barrister, the challenge lies in making them sympathetic,» explains fellow screen writer Chris Lang.

My fear stems from the fact that a renowned economists and a vice Presidential candidate of a party whose philosophy stands on ideals of conservatism, will confidently move around with a message of establishing one factory in each district at this point of our national reconstruction.How do you implement such a policy after scrapping 70 % of taxes across, build 350 secondary schools, free secondary school etc.You sum up all these deceitful platitudes and you begin to shiver.We are made to believe that the issue of unemployment would be buried under their government forgetting that, we were made to lineup in hot sun to register for employment only to be told in 2005 by Ghana Statistical service that unemployment figure for that year was the highest do far and remains the highest today.The lowest unemployment figures recorded between 2001 - 2016 was recorded in 2013 under Mahama.So who possess the practical record to support his call.

Paid account holders don't have this new requirement because Google likely figures that anyone paying is incentivized to produce high quality ads — plus Google needs to make money.

Otherwise, there will be pockets of losers among taxpayers making low six - figure incomes, mainly singles and married couples without dependents living in New York City and in the highest - taxed New York City suburbs.»

Whereas in 2012 just 35 % said that the Scottish Parliament should make all decisions for Scotland (and indeed in 2013 just 31 % did so), now the figure stands at 51 %, far higher than the 39 % who explicitly chose independence.

Even Democratic allies have complained of Mr. de Blasio's high - handedness — not everyone thought it was a moral obligation to make mayoral control permanent — and Ms. Wolfe will need to figure out how to keep securing wins in an environment that can be hostile for a big city liberal mayor.

It's expected to have more traction in the Legislature this year because of the sexual abuse allegations made against numerous high - profile figures in Hollywood, politics and the media.

BHA Education Campaigner Jay Harman said «Faith groups make up over a fifth of all Free School applications in this group and that figure is far too high.