Sentences with phrase «make it less»

A report from the National Women's Business Council shows that only 1.8 percent of women - owned businesses earn $ 1 million or more, and 68 percent make less than $ 25,000.

Interest rates on 15 - year mortgage terms are typically lower than those on longer - term loans because the shorter duration of the loan makes it less of a risk to the lender.

The median earning for Uber drivers is just $ 155 a month, meaning that half of Uber drivers make more than that amount and half make less.

It says: «By involving someone else, I am making myself less culpable should whatever we're emailing about go sour.»

But just because founders won't need as much cash doesn't necessarily mean that investors will make less.

I believe in the years to come, how we choose to spend our time and what we decide to work on is going to make us less mechanical, and more human.

By 2030, solar - plus - storage could threaten the economic relevance of their distribution grids by making less necessary the connection with the local electric utility.

While it's never a very pleasant experience to quit your job, there are ways to make it less painful than a traumatic high school breakup.

Having already suffered significant legal penalties, SNC - Lavalin has engaged in a process of reforming itself, making internal changes that (hopefully) will change the organization's character and make it less likely to offend in future.

The social endeavors mean the company makes less money.

It doesn't just make us feel happy about the past; nostalgia actually makes us less fearful about the future.

Here's how to make them less painful.

In an analysis of the changing shape of the American middle class, Pew Research Center divided the population into three groups: Lower - income Americans made less than 2/3 of the median household income, middle - income households had incomes between 2/3 and 200 % of the median, and upper - income households had income more than twice the median income.

These are basic ideas, yes, but that doesn't make them any less powerful when executed.

They're better than simple silent or vibrate modes, since they completely eliminate potential interruptions, rather than simply making them less obtrusive.

California's wine industry may suffer too, since U.S. wines will be hit with a 15 % tax in China, likely making them less attractive to shoppers.

For managers, the test might cement pre-existing biases, making them less likely to give employees so - called «stretch assignments» that force staff to work outside their comfort zones.

This may mean making less money this year than we otherwise would, but we're confident our investments will pay off down the road.

So, if there's a lot of global slack, that will make them less concerned about inflation pressures, but by then, if a lot of places are at relatively full employment and seeing target inflation, that will make them want to make sure that we're not going into an overheating kind of mode.

Such a system is naturally bad news for TV providers because they will inevitably make less.

The plan will eventually double the salaries of 30 workers and give raises to 40 more making less than $ 70,000.

Green Monday doesn't have quite the fanfare surrounding it that Black Friday and Cyber Monday do, but that doesn't make it any less important.

«Amazon's been signaling for about one or two years that they're going to make big bets, because they can, because they've got the cash flow to do it, so that makes this less of a surprise,» said Mahaney, an analyst at RBC Capital.

This means that if you choose to start a business, thinking that it would be a good source of funds, you could very well make less money than your friend who works a minimum wage job.

The fact that we tend to commute twice a day at least five days a week makes it unsurprising that the effect would build up over time and make us less and less happy.

He said the most effective way to blunt trolling is to make it less costly to see patent litigation through to court so companies will not feel pressed to settle claims quickly.

Here they weigh in on various scenes where the characters make less - than - brilliant money moves and what they should have done.

Commute time has doubled for those making less than $ 75,000 over the last 10 years.»

Not only is that sort of chronic sleep deprivation terrible for your body, other studies have shown it makes you less charismatic, more paranoid, and can even reduce your IQ as much as being drunk.

Many taxpayers who earn income from working in the sharing economy do not receive any such form, potentially making them less likely to report that income.

It means Uber can forgo lofty rhetoric to make itself a less - risky investment, says Arun Sundararajan, who specializes in the sharing economy at New York University's Stern School of Business.

By comparison, the last pick of the draft's first round will likely make less than 20 % of that total in his first year.

While Franco - Nevada is making less per ounce than it once was, the company has increased both the number and size of its revenue - generating interests, says Shane Nagle, an analyst with National Bank Financial.

This prevents your channels from competing against one another and optimizes the efficiency of your ad placements — and makes less work for you.

Over in the House of Representatives, Democrats have also been hot on the tail of pharmaceutical companies that have jacked up the prices of some of their drugs, though they've making less headway than their Senate bipartisan counterparts.

Kevin was now making less money than before and was quickly going broke.

Bad habits slow you down, decrease your accuracy, make you less creative, and stifle your performance.

After a slow and steady recovery following the housing crisis of 2008, Leibowitz explains that American consumers generally had fewer problems with their mortgages, better employment prospects, and greater access to credit, which made them less likely to file.

«I don't call myself a minimalist, but I realized that the more and more stuff you have, it almost makes you less happy.»

If you drive for Uber or Lyft, you probably make less than minimum wage.

«I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business.»

Well operators make less than petroleum engineers and drilling supervisors, who take home around $ 100,000 a year, but more than service workers.

But just because this problem is widespread doesn't make it any less embarrassing.

White says, «Women - owned businesses do not make less money because they are women - owned.

The Burr - Feinstein approach «would make us less secure, not more so,» Landau wrote in a blog post on Thursday.

In fact, there is a strong possibility you'll be making less.

This means that when you start a business, you have a lot more to risk than someone who makes less money and has fewer career options.

«They're looking to play a long game where, through steady investment, they make it less and less likely that countries that act impulsively can catch up.»

Almost half (46 %) of all filers made less than $ 25,000 per year representing 13 % of total income but they only paid 2.2 % of the total tax.

In fact, of those eight films, five of them have made less at the box office than Crash, which is currently the fifth - lowest grossing film of the past four decades (in terms of sales adjusted for inflation).