Sentences with phrase «making outsized»

At the two year mark, they found no significant achievement effects for students who were offered vouchers, but their third - year results found voucher recipients making outsized reading gains.

If you want to join a fast - growing startup that's making an outsized impact (and that's making a lot of people happy) please get in touch.

I basically missed out on making outsized gains in everything because I was so concentrated on my career.

In a winner - take - all economy, talented superstars such as Beyoncé, Brad Pitt or LeBron James make outsized money.

The Wall Street firm made outsized fees raising money for the fund at the centre of a scandal that nearly toppled Malaysia's prime minister.

Second, VCs typically invest because your product, service and / or software is something they feel has an unusual ability to make outsized returns.

The only way as an investor and as an entrepreneur to make outsized returns is by being right and non-consensus.»

Below the radar, in towns not often associated with March Madness, three players are ready to make outsized contributions that could shape their schools» destinies — and their own

Our base of assets and earnings is now far too large for us to make outsized gains in the future.

While liquidity is often viewed as a benefit, public markets» high efficiency and transparency also comes with the drawback of offering fewer opportunities to make outsized returns.

That's how advisors rationalize their fees, on the idea that they can help you make outsized returns in stocks.

But an opportunity this was, as the stocks had low enough spreads and high enough liquidity to make outsized returns, and the risk was muted due to the fact that the acquirer already owned 50 % + of the target.

She has designed slippers for a giant and made an outsized rosary for a medieval statue, and frequently smuggles her cheekier work into everyday life by combining it with existing objects — nestling a pair of glass breasts in a Chesterfield chair, tucking two more into bed, and anchoring a pale orange tent with a series of louche - looking blown - glass pitchers.

The up - front investment in a cargo bike can be a blocker for someone who isn't convinced they can give up their car, so ways to soften that will make an outsized impact.

And Google's made an outsized push to bring the Google Assistant to more devices.

«They are only in it to make outsized returns.»

«Healthier consumer spending, housing investment and government spending growth are expected to make outsized contributions to the projected acceleration in overall economic activity,» said John Silvia, NABE president and chief economist for Wells Fargo.

Not exact matches

And even the Federal Reserve's modest rate hikes have had an outsized impact on the bottom line of Bank of America, which pockets the extra interest it collects on loans while paying out much less on consumers» deposits (making money on the so - called spread).

Practicing certain «power postures» can actually have outsized effect on mood and confidence and thus on the impression you make on others.

One caveat is that the fund is likely relatively small by hedge fund standards, which makes it somewhat easier to post outsized return figures.

At an investment conference in May, Ackman explained that his long position in the pharma firm stemmed from his belief that Valeant's aggressive acquisition style — and the outsized returns it had so far produced — made the company akin to a younger version of Warren Buffett's Berkshire.

Despite the city's high startup density, strong projected job growth and decent opportunity share of new entrepreneurs, the outsized cost of living makes it a deal breaker.

That means your reverse bucket list won't just make you happy by exercising your gratitude muscles, it will also make you nostalgic for all sorts of small but beautiful past moments, and that too will bring you outsized pleasure.

No matter what, outsized prizes like the current Powerball payoff should make us reflect on how noncompetitive, unfair and predatory the current system is.

Offering products called contracts for difference, Exness Group allows investors to make highly leveraged trades that can provide outsized gains on the way up — but also can result in deep, swift losses in the event of a downturn.

I love learning about how people make decisions and how seemingly small cues can have outsized impacts.

Coupled with a lack of distributions from their existing private equity and real assets portfolios, many of these investors were left with disproportionately outsized remaining commitments to, and invested capital in, a number of investment funds, which significantly limited their ability to make new commitments to third - party managed investment funds such as those advised by us.

Typically, outsized orders, when seen by other traders will cause the market to move unfavorably, making it more difficult to fill the order at the desired price.

This recent turn of events favoring international equities over U.S. equities could point to the early makings of a mean - reversion following years of outsized gains for U.S. equities.

«We have all been taught that earning high rates of return requires taking on greater risks... If an investor can make virtually risk - free bets with outsized rewards, and keep making the bets over and over, the results are stunning.»

The new law, rather than seeking to harmonize international taxation (which could decrease the outsized role of tax in decision - making), instead casts the United States as Rocky making a comeback in the global fight for capital investment.

The five leading price performers (Patterson - UTI Energy, Lear, Bruker, Crane and TD Ameritrade) are all smaller holdings in the Fund, meaning that their outsized price increases did not make them leading contributors.

But Fortress and Dune claim their development partner is looking for a closing credit and an outsized work letter that would bring the actual revenue closer to $ 17.4 million — and that the closing wouldn't make the March 31 deadline.

The burly bull's outsized legacy was made possible in part by careful record - keeping and, later, applied genetics, in which farmers select cattle whose genes — like Chief's — are linked with high milk production and other valuable attributes.

Every little adjustment you make has outsized effect on the final result.

«With our size, Colleen and I make up quite a gene pool, but without exposure to games our kids could have turned out to be average — if outsized — competitors.»

While Andre Drummond and Griffin make for an imposing frontcourt on the offensive end, they still allow outsized production to opposing big men.

BFW: Honestly, the fee was far outsized of the impact many Bayern Munich fans expected Costa to make.

-- Pop culture continues to exert an outsized influence, with names making the hot list thanks to animated heroine Moana, Younger star Sutton Foster, and Blake Lively and Ryan Reynold's infant daughter Ines.

A «representative string of emails» subpoenaed by investigators included «a lively discussion among members of an organization about which of the organization's LLCs should be used to make a round of outsized contributions, based upon which ones had already given outsized contributions in the past,» the report said.

If there is anything recent events have taught us, it's that we need to limit the outsized influence of wealthy corporate donors, who have been able to influence lawmakers by making virtually unlimited campaign contributions to candidates — often without even disclosing their identities.

«Having served as Borough President the last three plus years, and living the reality that city agencies play a dominant and outsized role in the local decision - making process, demonstrates unmistakably that non-Staten Islanders still don't truly know or understand our borough, and probably never will,» Oddo said in a statement.

On the one hand, he was a black man with an outsized personality representing an organization made up mostly of minorities.

I love drop - crotch harem pants, outsized, controlled volume pants and dresses (think Kedem Sasson, Yohji Yamamoto, or Ivan Grundahl) made of interesting fabrics.

It's not just the prosaic approach the mythically outsized hallmarks of Americana that makes A.J. Edwards's first directorial effort feel like a Malick movie.

The movie telegraphs the protagonist's escalating madness but without letting him go Full Aguirre and without entering the kind of outsized, Lynchian vortex that unmistakably makes the point: it's easy to watch and think that you, not Zama, are failing to keep up.

In McKay, Ferrell has found an unusually simpatico collaborator for the type of humor that's made him a comedy force: outsized, unexpectedly sweet, and unrelenting.

Wicked is the operative term in this apt title to the Eclipse release of three outsized, overwrought, gleefully excessive Gothic - pulp melodramas made by the British studio Gainsborough during World War II.

If the film turns in an outsized gross performance, the financier stands to make a lot more than $ 12 million.

Indeed, one could make a strong argument that any outsized influence that teachers unions exercise in school board elections provides a nice enhancement of democratic decisionmaking on education policy because teachers, as much as any other group in society, can serve as powerful advocates for those Americans who can not vote: schoolchildren.