Sentences with phrase «much smaller declines»

Hauser's testimony is based on online surveys conducted across 1,600 people; under cross questioning, he conceded he hadn't analyzed real - world programming disputes that sometimes show much smaller declines.

Studies show that couples who participate in weekly group counseling had a much smaller decline in marital satisfaction — than parents who didn't attend counseling.

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«We expect it (revenue from big six) to be more or less like that this year, so it will be less than last year but now the declines are much smaller,» Chief Executive Officer Tom Leighton told Reuters on a post earnings call.

Even in negative periods, Starbucks» stock price has generally only seen small periods of declines, followed by much larger stock price gains.

Today, sales expectations are much rosier according to Raddon's Small Business National Research: 59 percent of small businesses expect an increase in sales, while only 6 percent expect a decSmall Business National Research: 59 percent of small businesses expect an increase in sales, while only 6 percent expect a decsmall businesses expect an increase in sales, while only 6 percent expect a decline.

Mr Ritter attributes much of the decline in the number of companies that are listed to the difficulty of being a small public company.

Analysis of the most recent British Election Study data demonstrated that while support for UKIP will fall after May's European Parliament elections, this decline will be by a much smaller margin than in previous years.

Importantly, these threats have led to tiger populations becoming smaller and more fragmented, making them much more susceptible to sudden population declines and even extinction due to disease.

«The substantial decline in the prevalence of serious bacterial infection, following the introduction of conjugate vaccines, has made clinical decision making more difficult — the needle has become much smaller, and the haystack much larger, particularly in young infants.

Sales of compact cars, the biggest slice of the small car market that includes top - sellers like the Honda Civic, Toyota Corolla and Hyundai Elantra, fell by an overall 20.4 % on last April, a much steeper rate of decline than seen in the wider passenger car market.

The market for small and midsize trucks has been in a steady decline since the early 2000s, so it didn't take much for the Tacoma to hold its position as the top - selling truck in its class.

Even so, it should be obvious, and I tried this out on a 9 year old this week, new generations, those whose eyesight will not deteriorate for a long time to come, those people can read prints I can't even read with my reading glasses, thus they could care less about the size of the font available in a Kindle, leaving the Kindle sadly to the declining Boomers, who are spending $ 500 on the average when they buy a Kindle, while an entirely new computer generation is buying this new crop of Netbooks that are full computers in pretty much all senses, but are even smaller in size than the Kindles, and smaller in price.

Energy prices in April were down 3.2 per cent compared with a year ago, but the drop was much smaller than the 7.8 per cent decline in March.

I was never convinced that allocating to U.S. size differences (like a small cap fund) or quality differences (like a value fund) would raise my returns or moderate steep declines much, and these new correlations still support this position.

You have a great blog and are clearly very bright and above many of your peers in the finance industry.As you know, when the market goes down, it pretty much takes everything down with it and small caps have been hit even harder.Everyone feels dumb when the prices of their stocks decline and feels smart and vindicated when prices turnaround and shoot up.We are living in challenging times and the macro is likely to affect future stockmarket performance affecting 80 % of all stocks for a long time to come.Stocks as part ownership of businesses are affected by the global economy.In the meantime, most stock prices have been gyrating based more on Mr Market's emotions of how various economies will emerge than anything else.

Just a thought, but maybe you should be using a value index or small cap index to show us how much the worst declines have been, the lowest rate of return for 5 or 10 years, etc?

Still, Merritt Clifton of Animal People, an independent newspaper dedicated to animal protection issues, makes a compelling argument that the population of feral cats in the U.S. is much smaller than is often reported, and may very well be on the decline.

They are now just much smaller than they were during the Wii era and are declining every year.

Urban to non-urban differences are also typically largest during the evening, decline slightly by the time of minimum temperature in the early morning and are much smaller during the day (Figure 11).

Because these policies are much smaller than a traditional life insurance plan, they are not going to require a medical exam, which is an excellent benefit for anyone that's in poor health or has been declined for life insurance coverage in the past.

It's much faster to draw up a simulation than to put together a breadboard circuit, you can add instrumentation and swap values ad nauseam, and you are less likely to make an inscrutable wiring mistake that contributes to small declines in your mental health than you are with a physical prototype.

Although Taylor declined to state how much the Mall of America generates in rents from its specialty leasing program, she says even the smallest centers in the U.S. can make $ 1 million to $ 1.5 million and it goes up from there depending on the size of the shopping center.