Sentences with phrase «of face cards»

As we try to count the cards revealing the character and complexion of current Treasury holders, I think it's very fair to suggest the major holders of the moment have played the bulk of the face cards in their hands.

As we look back over the last few decades, it is clear that the foreign sector and the mutual fund complex have played the bulk of the face cards in their hands.

Lesson: As you take non-face cards out of a deck of cards, the percentage of face cards left in the remaining deck goes up.

What makes these special is that the backs feature the McMurphy and bird cover design (minus title and text) and the fronts of the face cards feature characters» photos.

Researchers then scanned the brains of volunteers with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) while showing them 32 of the face cards; with half of them, subjects were instructed to consciously think about the associated harrowing counterpart and with the other half, they were instructed to consciously suppress their thoughts about it.

As we look back over the last few decades, it is clear that the foreign sector and the mutual fund complex have played the bulk of the face cards in their hands.

As in blackjack, when the bulk of the face cards have been played, the odds of «winning» with successive hands decreases.

Not exact matches

And since you probably couldn't afford to take a comparable salary at first, you also faced a variety of unappetizing choices like dipping into savings, or running up credit card debt, or borrowing money from your friends and family.

By combining with Foursquare, the credit card companies could finally justify and preserve their transaction fees (in the face of competition from other payment options) but working to drive demand to the local retailers.

(How many business cards like those do you have laying around, for which you can't even put a face to the name of the person you met?

Facing pressure over allegations that Kevin Spacey forced himself on an underage actor in 1986, Netflix has announced that is is ending one of its most popular series, House of Cards, in 2018.

«This is one of the biggest nightmares merchants are going to face,» says Michael Kleinman, owner of Mason Eyewear, a store in Brickell, Florida, and Centurion Payment Services, a company that processes credit and debit card payments.

And, without realizing it was happening, learning to memorize a deck of cards helped me develop techniques that make me a lot better at remembering the names and faces of people I meet — as well as a bunch of other things.

It took a lot of practice for me to be able to memorize the 12 face cards in under a minute.

Former U.S. Senator from New Hampshire Gordon Humphrey, a leader in the «Never Trump» movement, holds a business card in front of his face as he arrives on the floor.

Expand to the Rest of the Deck Once you've mastered memorizing just the face cards, the next step is figuring out the PAOs for the rest of the deck, namely, the number value cards.

Your business card is the face of your company, along with your website — it's not a place to skimp.

While most retailers face a 2015 deadline to switch to the new systems, gas stations have until 2017 because of the expense of «breaking concrete» to install new credit card readers at pumps.

In one recent cases a Baltimore man is facing federal charges of identity theft and bank fraud after he used personal information of at least three nursing home residents to open multiple credit card accounts without their permission.

Sweden's Gold Card program status faces renewal in October, and Mattis warned his Swedish counterpart that signing the treaty would foreclose the option of joining NATO, according to Defense News.

Although the lack of jurisdiction over Bitcoin and its links to money laundering and illicit marketplaces have raised more than a few eyebrows, the currency offers a simple way for legitimate businesses such as small retailers and professional service providers to accept payments for international sales without facing onerous credit card fees or exchange - rate surcharges.

The most notorious fee was the debit card usage fee, which barely got off the ground before banks axed it in the face of a major consumer backlash.

As of Oct. 1, 2015, if your business doesn't use a credit card terminal that can process credit cards with chips embedded in their face, you could be liable for any fraudulent credit card use through your system.

Red - carpet: Sarandos gets face time with (clockwise from top left) comedian and Netflix talk - show host Chelsea Handler, at the ICG publicist awards; Idris Elba, star of Netflix's movie «Beasts of No Nation,» at the Independent Spirit Awards; Jenji Kohan (left) and Taylor Schilling, creator and star, respectively, of Netflix's «Orange Is The New Black»; and «House of Cards» star Kevin Spacey, at a Netflix Emmy's party.Handler: Mathew Imaging — Wireimage / Getty Images; Elba: Randall Michelson — Wireimage / Getty Images; Spacey: Charbonneau — Rex Shutterstock via Zuma Press; Kohan: Jesse Grant — Getty Images

Spreads range from 30 percent to 92 percent of face value, depending on the retailer and value of the gift card.

The big payoffs come from seemingly small things: a home - cooked dinner with her children, or a birthday card from staff that superimposed her face on a photo of Xena, Warrior Princess.

Combined data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Federal Reserve allowed us to dive deeper into credit card debt in the United States, and look beyond the face value of those two figures.

Just like a thorough vetting of cabinet nominees could have foreseen the scandals that later emerged, a thorough vetting and review process for the monster tax cut legislation would have cautioned against such radical moves in the face of massive maturing supply, a trimming Fed, and a debt - strapped consumer that is seeing higher interest rates on mortgages and credit cards as a result of the spike in rates.

A study of American credit card habits revealed that this age group also faces some of the largest amounts of credit card debt.

The EMV certification process is a confusing one to say the least — with merchants having to decide between a myriad of choices and certification methods to figure out the type (s) of certification (s) needed to actually accept EMV - enabled chip cards and to then face the long lines of other merchants doing the same.

When financing through personal credit cards, you also face the risk of high interest rates.

We've analyzed the most common forms of debt Americans face: credit cards, mortgages, auto loans, and medical debt.

However, like residents from many other states, those living in Missouri have been challenged lately by the amount of credit card debt they find themselves facing.

How many current and large Treasury owners have already played the bulk of their «face cards», with perhaps little left to play further?

One would hardly realize that the problem facing U.S. industrial employment is that wage earners must earn enough to pay for the most expensive housing in the world (the FDIC is trying to limit mortgages to absorb just 32 per cent of the borrower's budget), the most expensive medical care and Social Security in the world (12.4 per cent FICA withholding), high personal debt levels owed to banks and rapacious credit - card companies (about 15 per cent) and a tax shift off property and the higher wealth brackets onto labor income and consumer goods (another 15 per cent or so).

Call the director or the producer or I'm not supposed to be being escorted out of buildings and business card ripped up in my face all day cold calling.

The candle flame jumps before the faces Of the card - players dressed in green.

He may also be faced with incomprehension and hostility when he tries to persuade the school not to support «Red Nose Day» or «Jeans for Genes»; when he suggests that asking pupils to stand at the front of the class and shout out the names of intimate body parts is an invasion of their modesty; when he objects to the non-Catholic geography teacher's presentation of solutions for over-population, the «gay rights» agenda seeping in through text books, the chaplaincyco - ordinator's failure to get abortion agency leaflets removed from the library, or the school nurse's distribution of cards with information on how to get the morning - after pill.

After a decade - plus of working, worshiping, and growing families in the States, TPS recipients now have until next September to leave or obtain green card status; if they stay past the deadline, they will face the risks of living in the US illegally.

Dallas faced it's 2nd round of snow last week and it's been really nice hibernating once again (read: popcorn and house of cards).

The New Orleans Saints defeated the Carolina Panthers by a final score of 31 - 26 in the final matchup of Wild Card Weekend, meaning that they will make the trip north to face the Vikings at 3:30 PM Central time next Sunday afternoon.

Their road through the postseason has been nothing short of magical, as they faced the Atlanta Braves in the play - in Wild Card game and advanced following a controversial play.

The winner of each division faces off against a wild card team, while the second - and third - place teams face each other.

First thing, when Costa started complaining about Gabriel's flick, Fabregas joined him (you must see his face while complaining), Pedro joined him, and then at the last Ivanovic ran the length of the pitch first to control Costa, then followed Dean until he doesn't gets the red card out.

The seven minutes of injury time were notable for their utter lack of anything remotely resembling real quality as the match petered out leaving Stuttgart facing another week closer to the inevitability of relegation though the visitors also suffered the ignominy of a red card for Schulz after picking up his second caution after a foul on Tim Leibold.

As it stands today, the Ravens (10 - 5) are projected to be the No. 4 seed in the AFC, and would face the surprising Indianapolis Colts (10 - 5)-- who clinched a playoff berth after defeating the Kansas City Chiefs 23 - 10 on Sunday — in one of the two AFC wild card games.

Although he's facing a match ban in England for his costly red card last week, Louis van Gaal might want to maximize his use of Mata while he still cant.

If cbs start to get in his face and wind him up he could become the new suarez of the pl spending a lot of time banned due to red cards.

After the 8 «Äì5 Ravens put themselves in prime position for a wild - card berth — bam — they have to face a pair of division champions, the Colts and the Steelers, on the road on back - to - back Sundays.

On Wednesday, when the Gunners face Chelsea at the Emirates we will have another ref from Manchester in Anthony Taylor, who is thought to be a much more even - handed and careful whistle - blower, and we can happily say that Taylor has only been in charge of one Arsenal game this season in which we easily beat Bournemouth 3 - 0 and we got through the whole 90 minutes without sustaining even one yellow card.