Sentences with phrase «miles and points as»

The pair pay their rent, groceries, gas and just about everything else on their cards to get as many miles and points as possible.

This time of year is perfect for using your miles and points as the peak season of June through August has passed.

Your priorities will likely change over time, and you can always adapt your approach to miles and points as you go.

That, to me, makes it worth going through a few hoops to buy miles and points as an interim currency.

The secret is to think of miles and points as an investment, and your payoff as that magnificent holiday with a loved one.

It's a good idea to burn those miles and points as soon as possible to avoid seeing them lose value during devaluations.

I'm not here to tell people how to value their miles and points as that can be pretty subjective (as I mentioned earlier), but there are a right ways and wrong ways of considering how much value you're getting out of your miles and points and basing that value purely on how much an airline or hotel wishes to charge you is, to my mind, incorrect.

It started off as a hobby initially to rack up miles and points as I was buying inventory using credit cards and obviously paying them off in full each month to avoid interest charges.

This is a great way to help meet the minimum spending requirement on ANY credit card, or even for earning miles and points for transactions which don't usually earn miles and points as long as you buy Vanilla Reload cards with your credit card at Office Depot and load them on your Bluebird card.

Not exact matches

They both accept points as opposed to miles travelled as payment for seating, and each had availability for 100 percent of requests.

And while a rewards credit card might net you extra points or miles and some extra consumer protections, charities pay extra fees to accept credit cards, so your contribution may not stretch as fAnd while a rewards credit card might net you extra points or miles and some extra consumer protections, charities pay extra fees to accept credit cards, so your contribution may not stretch as fand some extra consumer protections, charities pay extra fees to accept credit cards, so your contribution may not stretch as far.

Great rewards credit cards will award perks such as cash back and points for gift cards and airline miles, but the APR will be rather high.

He points to Santa Clara, California - based Intel Corporation's decision to build a large research and development (R&D) facility in DuPont, Washington, about 10 miles south of Tacoma, as an example.

If you simply save these rewards up, and cash them out once you want to book a vacation, you can think of a reward program like this as being equivalent to one based on points or miles, except you are given much more freedom.

With the mushy value propositions of some rewards, such as airline miles, airport lounge access and concierge service, calculating a break - even point can be cumbersome, inexact and changing.

Points and miles, however (particularly when redeemed as travel rewards), can be worth 3 to 5 cents per reward.

It is a gateway to the Black Hills to the north and the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey officially designated a point 20 miles north of Belle Fourche as the geographic center of the United States in 1959.

The article quotes David E. Teitelbaum, Partner at Sidley Austin, as saying that the guidance will be «challenging» and Angela Angelovska - Wilson, Counsel at Latham & Watkins in Washington D.C. and a Member of the Finance Department and the Financial Regulatory Group, as explaining as others have how the guidance creates more confusion than it clarifies: the new definitions introduce ambiguities and where it seems to target Bitcoin it isn't clear if it affects programs offering «miles» or «points,» etc..

You also have the option of transferring points on a 1:1 basis for valuable miles at frequent travel program partners such as British Airways, United MileagePlus, and Marriott Rewards.

In contrast, frequent flyer miles and hotel points invariably lose value over time as companies change their award charts.

You're going to be presented by cards with various perks associated with them, such as airline miles, points - per - dollar spent, discounts, and cash back bonuses.

You'll want to assess your spending, both the typical amounts as well as where you do the bulk of your spending; decide what type of rewards — cash back, miles or points — will be most beneficial to you; and crunch the numbers to see whether you can offset an annual fee.

The former allows you to transfer points to a number of popular airline loyalty programs, and the latter allows you to use miles as statement credits.

The point is you speak of things as FACT and then something changes by 14 BILLION YEARS in a distance of 347 miles from the Earth observation to Orbit, and you just say OH well that's science for ya.

In my conversations about this, people usually then turn to the book of Revelation and point out how when Jesus returns a second time, He is going to kill so many people that there will be a lake of blood 200 miles wide and as deep as a horse's bridle (Rev 14:20).

But the Coens do their best to keep the puzzle and possibility open, as we later learn that the first cat Davis lost miraculously made its way from Greenwich Village back uptown to Washington Heights, and at one point Davis's eye fixes on a poster for Disney's INCREDIBLE JOURNEY, the one where pets find their way home across hundreds of miles of wilderness.

And so it is, to a large extent, with the other saints» cults as well, a point vividly illustrated in the testimony of several of the children of Sanchez, for whom the Lord of Chalma (another cult, centered about sixty miles southwest of Mexico City) was the focus of their spiritual life.48 Even when the cult is community oriented — as in the case of agricultural saints — it remains largely apolitical.

A.T. Kearney's study, «Firmly Rooted, the Local Food Market Expands,» reports that consumers today have redefined the meaning and 96 percent describe local as products grown or produced within 100 miles of the point of sale.

My point here is that in as much as Chelsea are being hailed as having had a super season and their team rated as being miles ahead of other teams, their success was also down to having the same first 11 for very long periods in the season.

The track, a 2.52 - mile road course wrapped around a quarter - mile drag strip that can pack in 100,000 fans on its busiest days, opened in 1968 and for many years was known as Sears Point for the spit of land it lies on.

As he hunts for marlin in the Kona waters off Keahole Point, Skipper Henry Chee can see, above him and far away — 25 miles away — sunlight shining on a different kingdom of hunters.

But I wouldn't rule out, that our results will continue to be as bad, as they are, so we in a month or two find ourselves lying no better than sixth and with 12 - 15 points to the leaders and also miles behind the likes of spurs.

They are just1 point behind us and we are acting as if we are miles ahead of them.

Wenger will never go the «extra mile» to reinforce the squad... We always «seem» to miss something and, as usual, will end up paying a «hard» price for it at one point of the season.

He is every bit as much as responsible as is Pochettino for the fact Spurs have left us miles behind, in points, talent, ambition, artistry, desire, fitness, hope, expectation and enjoyment.

Kos is better than squillachi by a mile and i think he will make a fine player for us, but squillachi is not gonna cut it at arsenal, too error prone, as long as he's there, we'll still be droping points.

«As state legislators representing millions of New Yorkers who live within the 50 mile blast radius surrounding Indian Point we demand that FERC respect New York's authority and jurisdiction in this matter,» reads a letter sent Friday from Democratic Sen. Tony Avella of Queens, Democratic Assemblywoman Sandy Galef of Westchester and three dozen others to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

And it is Audubon who in 1833 identified the passenger pigeon, Ectopistes migratorius, as the most numerous bird on the continent, highlighting the point by describing a mile - wide flock of migrating pigeons that passed over his head and blocked the sun for three straight daAnd it is Audubon who in 1833 identified the passenger pigeon, Ectopistes migratorius, as the most numerous bird on the continent, highlighting the point by describing a mile - wide flock of migrating pigeons that passed over his head and blocked the sun for three straight daand blocked the sun for three straight days.

Farmers are seeing the same trend in voluntary FDA and Agriculture Department standards called «good agricultural practices,» which include several common - sense measures such as hand - washing but can dock farms points if they sit within 2 miles of livestock.

But fuel cell advocates point out that given the space available in a car frame and the laws of thermodynamics, today's batteries can only provide a limited driving range — 40 miles (65 kilometers) for GM's own Chevrolet Volt — before requiring a recharge, such as by the gasoline motor in a full hybrid like the Toyota Prius.

The ice stretches over these sticking points twice per day as the tide lifts up and sets down the Ross Ice Shelf, a 1,100 - foot - thick slab of ice the size of Spain that hangs over the ocean several hundred miles away.

«As length scales become smaller from several hundred miles to a few tens of miles, we discovered the point at which geostrophic balance becomes no longer valid — meaning that sea level is no longer useful for calculating ocean circulation,» said Qiu, professor at the UHM School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST).

The fliers in this nebula, which appear as two red blobs against a pale green background of radiation, seem to be moving fast enough — about 100,000 miles per hour — to fit Balick's original theory, but they also have backward - pointing bow shocks, as though an even faster wind were coming from behind and pushing past them.

As O'Donnell notes, what makes solar thermal power plant technology expensive «is the cost of the hydraulics and steel and concrete associated with maintaining a half - degree of pointing accuracy in a 20 mile - per - hour breeze.»

We have, and on the screen, it now says the total cruise distance at this point has been 2,151 nautical miles as we follow the coastline, although we did cruise straight across from the Juneau area to Anchorage, along the Gulf of Alaska or within the Gulf of Alaska.

The planet, called Fomalhaut b, swings as close to its star as 4.6 billion miles, and the outermost point of its orbit is 27 billion miles away from the star.

• Use 1 - 2 measurable events to set as data points that you can test and retest → For example you could track a 1 repetition max deadlift, a mile sprint time, or your max number of pullups.

As I was doing the second half of the relay, I was not at the start line and instead met my partner at the exchange point around the 6.6 mile marker.

NPH would have been miles better in the lead role and it's a puzzle as to why no one pointed this out to MacFarlane when the script was being read.

As one commentator points out during Billy's successful title defence, he grew up just a few blocks and a million miles away from the showtime grandeur of Madison Square Garden.