Give them Bigger bonuses instead
of bigger fixed weekly wages.
Likewise, if you miss those two recent years (or those eight distant years)
of a big fixed field of ten, it seems reasonable to determine what film just missed out on a Best Picture nod based on the other major nominations it received.
Check it out along with a representative sample
of the biggest fixes below.
Office rent is one
of your biggest fixed expenses.
Not exact matches
But teaming up with BuzzFeed means he can
fix one
of the
biggest problems Quirky struggled with — dealing with
big box retailers.
The rest
of the tale is hearsay: that a heavily indebted Heywood, a former family friend and
fixer who had helped get Bo junior into Harrow (Heywood's prestigious alma mater in England) had demanded a
bigger cut
of a business deal; that he threatened to expose underhanded dealings by Gu if he didn't get it; that Bo's police chief, Wang Lijun, had confronted him over the alleged murder (the death was originally put down to alcohol poisoning), after which Wang sought asylum at an American consulate; that Gu had shown up at a police station in a People's Liberation Army major - general's uniform to announce that she was under special orders from Beijing to «protect» Comrade Wang; that the couple had plotted to assassinate Wang and came up with three separate storylines to avoid being implicated.
Because regulatory compliance has a high
fixed cost, small businesses face a larger per - employee cost
of adhering to government regulations than
big companies.
If, instead, like many, you apply the 80/20 rule and figure that
fixing the 20 percent
of your most egregious cases will cover 80 percent
of your problems, you've missed a
big point
of the exercise — both in how you communicate and your learning.
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But Google Ventures, the in - house VC firm
of the search giant, has found perhaps the world's least sophisticated
fix for the eternal office productivity issue
of meeting creep — a
big, plastic alarm clock.
Plus, by releasing the leaked files bit - by - bit, WikiLeaks is making it nearly impossible for a
big tech company to say that all the problems in the leak have been
fixed — what if Assange is sitting on a doozy
of a bug?
Assange has said that WikiLeaks will share details
of the vulnerabilities with Apple and other
big tech companies, so they can
fix the vulnerabilities that the CIA uses for its hacking tools.
The onus is now on the federal government to
fix the
bigger issue, which is a lack
of competition between
big players.
The
biggest obstacle to regulating Facebook is a lack
of political will, and an unwillingness to identify the problems to
fix in the first place, the New York Times reported.
In Canada, TSN's 9.1 million viewers and Sportsnet's 8.8 million subscribers have no choice but to pay one
of the
Big Three cable providers for their live - sports
fix.
None
of these
fixes can come from
Big Waste alone: they require a surge in public concern to lift the unsexy issue
of garbage onto politicians» agendas.
Avon CEO Sheri McCoy, who took the helm in 2012 to
fix a cosmetics giant left in disarray by her predecessor Andrea Jung, has repeatedly said that because
of Avon's heritage, the
fixing the U.S. business is her «No. 1 priority», and has pledged to return its second
biggest market to profitability in 2015.
Nothing I did for the rest
of the trip was nearly as difficult — not hooking up or draining the waste tanks, not
fixing a bad connection on the water hose, not even pulling into a crowded gas station (the thing about having a really
big car towing a really
big, shiny trailer is that people tend to see you, and maybe take pity, and certainly get out
of your way)-- and nothing left me with such a giddy glow in the aftermath, even after I learned I'd pulled in a little bit catawampus, and our trailer listed slightly to the left.
While that's not a
big change, those worried about the escalation
of rates can often convert the balance into a
fixed - rate option at any time, Kinane said.
I am a
big fan
of cold brew and have always just gone to Starbucks to get my
fix.
It doesn't imply that any particular CEO isn't worth the money, and it doesn't imply that any particular board is obligated to do the impossible, namely to «
fix» the
big problem
of social inequity by paying its own CEO less.
The other reason why Yellen will have to give
big banks a whole lot
of attention is that there seems to be new momentum in Washington to add new and deeper
fixes.
The next couple
of years will be, if you will, the first road test for some
of the
biggest finance
fixes inspired by the meltdown
of 2008 - 2009.
It's not just about having one issue
fixed, like establishing better parental leave policies or solving for the wage gap, it's addressing all
of these small things that add up to a
bigger problem.
In general, the
fixed costs
of operating any airplane are high, but
bigger planes tend to have lower costs per passenger.
The majority
of the active ETFs in the market are
fixed - income strategies, and none is
bigger — or even comes close, really — to the PIMCO Enhanced Short Maturity Active ETF (MINT).
That is the
big benefit
of fixed - rate loans — if interest rates rise, your rate is locked.
For the one - week period ended last Thursday, U.S. bond funds were the
big winner among ETFs, with four
of the top five ETFs for new investor money coming from the U.S.
fixed income asset class, according to ETF.com data.
With Powell set to carry out the Fed's process
of raising short - term interest rates and gradually unwinding a $ 4.2 trillion portfolio
of mortgage and Treasury securities,
fixed - income investors are contending with
big risks.
Bond ETFs saw their highest inflows in three years in April Rise in yields attracted buyersInvestors snapped up
fixed - income exchange - traded funds in April, with the category seeing its
biggest month
of inflows in more than three years.
Our survey
of mortgage and refinancing rates at Ohio's
biggest lenders revealed a spread
of 0.75 percentage points between the highest and lowest offers on a 30 - year
fixed rate mortgage.
PIMCO's Bill Gross, the
big dog in the
fixed income space and to whom Gundlach lost the title of Morningstar's Fixed Income Manager of the Decade in 2010, earned an average of 7.6 % during the same period in his much larger $ 281 billion PIMCO Total Return Fund (PT
fixed income space and to whom Gundlach lost the title
of Morningstar's
Fixed Income Manager of the Decade in 2010, earned an average of 7.6 % during the same period in his much larger $ 281 billion PIMCO Total Return Fund (PT
Fixed Income Manager
of the Decade in 2010, earned an average
of 7.6 % during the same period in his much larger $ 281 billion PIMCO Total Return Fund (PTTRX).
Yet as unprecedented as the political environment has been, the present state
of the financial markets — and
fixed income market in particular — may seem like an even
bigger surprise.
«We had anticipated a rebound in activity from earlier this year when the harsher than normal winter weather took hold, but the
biggest drop in
fixed mortgage rates in almost four years and resulting improvement in affordability also gave the Canadian housing market a boost
of extra energy.»
But the small city is taking a
big bet to try to
fix its lagging economy with a strategy that many
of the tech elite have been largely only pontificating about: universal basic income...
At Societe Generale, named this year's global Best in Interest - Rate Derivatives, sales
of these products grew substantially in 2016, making them the
biggest contributor to a 42 % increase in revenues from
fixed income, currencies and commodities trading during the third quarter
of last year.
But the depressed forecasts have extended to all banks with
big fixed income trading operations, after several warnings
of slow activity throughout the last three months.
One
of the
biggest banks in New York is using this method to basically value
fixed income securities which are bonds.
And that dire prediction came before many
of the
big banks had started incrementally increasing rates on their
fixed - term mortgages in the wake
of market reaction to U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's recent warning that $ 85 billion (U.S.) in monthly bond buying may be coming to an end this year.
Here at Investor Junkie, we're
big fans
of investing in real estate — be it through individual
fix and flips or through crowdfunding platforms.
VANCOUVER — New Democrat leader Adrian Dix is calling on the Liberals to immediately
fix the Pacific Carbon Trust and end the Liberal practice
of taking money from schools and hospitals and using it to subsidize
big polluters like Encana.
«TD raised five
of its
fixed - rate mortgages, including a
big 0.45 percentage point increase to the five - year term.
«I'm sure he will have even
bigger following» after last year's call, Rod Davidson, the head
of fixed - income at Alliance Trust Plc, an HSBC client overseeing $ 5.2 billion, said by telephone from Dundee, Scotland.
But the
bigger issue Vaidhyanathan suggests is one that's much harder to
fix: the disconnect between what Facebook users expect the social network to be and how Facebook sees itself — which is really the core
of the issue.
Of note, all the capital gains distributions reported by the three -
biggest U.S. ETF sponsors — iShares, State Street Global Advisors and Vanguard Group — were in
fixed - income ETFs.
The People's Bank
of China has introduced
bigger movements in its daily
fixings of the country's currency against the dollar.
Since closing costs represent the
biggest fixed expense
of refinancing, Guaranteed Rate's lender credits represent a significant advantage in cost savings.
The knee - jerk reaction
of many Canadians, including Industry Minister Tony Clement, is to assume that high gas prices and inflated profit margins are likely to be explained by collusion among the
big oil companies to
fix prices at higher than acceptable levels.
The president
of the
biggest children's charity in the world has exclusively told Premier we will never see permanent solutions to humanitarian crises until the Christian faith plays a greater role in
fixing them.