Sentences with phrase «of high drops»

We subjected it to a series of high drops onto a tiled bathroom floor and it survived with barely perceptible denting.

Making real life connections is easier said than done because of the high drop - off rate that exists on most online dating platforms.

Chemistry and modern foreign languages also had some of the highest drop - out rates, despite also offering some of the largest bursaries.

Research found the Triple P - Positive Parenting Programme - had minimal impact on families from deprived backgrounds in Glasgow and may even have increased social inequality because of the high drop - out rate.

Not exact matches

In light of the stock market's recent decline, investors seem increasingly to be giving the tech sector the cold shoulder, with stunning drops in value of once high - flying stocks, among them the micro-blogging site Twitter, whose stock is down more than 50 percent compared to September of 2014.

Today's result marks a third consecutive market drop, quite the contrast to the nine - day streak of all - time highs that preceded it.

Even if Canada doesn't start dropping payloads of cash itself — something Cooper says he does not foresee in the next three years, at least — the ripple effect of a central bank explicitly targeting higher inflation and adopting formerly verboten measures to get it would be felt on these shores in the form of increased global volatility.

Gold, meanwhile, hit a six - week low of $ 1,307.40 an ounce, as the dollar strength and bets on higher interest rates kept it on the slide having already gone dropped through its 100 - day moving average.

Oil has dropped more than six per cent since closing at a two - year high of $ 110.53 on Sept. 6.

Richard Branson is an iconic entrepreneurial figure, a high school drop - out whose knack for seizing opportunities, taking risks, spotting opportunities, and betting on himself and the people around him to build businesses in a variety of industries.

As higher costs are passed on to consumers, supporters aim to put a dent in sales, as was the case in Berkeley, where according to public health officials retail purchases of sugar - sweetened beverages dropped nearly 10 % during the first year of that city's soda tax.

He is one of the progenitors of Brooklyn's hipster scene — a shaggy, tattooed, larger - than - life titan who, last fall, dropped $ 300,000 on a lavish Las Vegas meal for 25 friends after winning $ 1 million at a high - rollers» blackjack table.

Stocks dropped considerably in February as the market began to address the implications of higher rates and higher wages.

American Airlines stock drops after the company trims its full - year outlook because of higher fuel prices.

But so are the benefits: proximity to high - level execs, who drop in for pep talks and training sessions (founder Marc Benioff did not appear the week I was there, but his aura was everywhere); free run of the City by the Bay after hours; and the glow, the buzz, the grace that imbue Salesforce's vibrant headquarters in San Francisco's SoMa district, reminding initiates at every turn that they're part of something special.

After dropping out of high school to pursue his passion for technology, he gained real - world experience as a lead engineer at photo - sharing startup Fotolog, which ad network Hi - Media purchased in 2007 for $ 100 million.

The euro dropped to $ 1.1320 on Tuesday early afternoon, coming off from a day's high of $ 1.1389, after media reports suggested that markets misinterpreted President Mario Draghi of the European Central Bank.

Despite the high quality, the average dollar - per - litre value of WA wine has dropped in the last five years, which Ms Dent attributes to competition pressure pricing premium producers out of the market.

Nonetheless, Fossil shares are back to where they were about a year ago at $ 15.33 after precipitous drops in the last 12 months, but just a fraction of their $ 131.98 all - time highs only six years ago.

The poverty rate dropped to 22 % for black Americans and 19.4 % for Latinx Americans — both significantly higher than the average U.S. poverty rate of 12.7 %.

Hot Topic is no exception — its shares dropped to about US$ 5 in July from a high of US$ 8.58 in mid-April.

Sales of high rise dwellings have dropped over 30 % year over year from an eight - month period between January and August 2013, in comparison to the same time frame in 2012.

While the Navy's F / A -18 Super Hornets actually flew the most combat missions, the Air Force's F - 15Es dropped the highest number of bombs, releasing more than one in five of the total amount, according to AFCENT.

First - place CEO Gerry Schwartz's $ 87.9 million is tens of millions higher than last year's first - place entrant, CP Rail CEO Hunter Harrison, who got $ 49 million (Harrison has dropped to No. 57 this year, at a below - average $ 7.2 million.

After companies from cable giant Comcast to satellite TV titan AT&T, which owns DirecTV, reported their fourth quarter results, the total number of pay TV subscribers dropped 3.4 % from a year earlier, the highest rate of decline since the trend of cord cutting emerged in 2010, analysts at MoffettNathanson Research reported on Thursday.

The terms of the contract reset to higher values but do not decrease if the market subsequently drops.

If you're a high - end brand, you can always pick up a lot of sales by dropping down.

A drop in the euro provided support, helping the exporter - heavy DAX index outperfrom with a rise of 1.5 percent, while Italy's FTSE MIB rose 1.2 percent to its highest level since October 2009, as government debt rose on dimming prospects of a snap election.

But on February 13, 14, and 15, 1945, more than 1,200 British and American heavy bombers dropped nearly 4,000 tons of high - explosive and incendiary bombs on the city.

Poor performance and high fees drove money out of the money managers» funds by about $ 70 billion last year, the biggest drop since 2009, according to data tracker HFR.

Exxon, Royal Dutch Shell, Statoil, BP, and Chevron announced dismal earnings this week, missing expectations and showing how slashing spending and pulling back isn't yet enough in a world where oil has dropped from a high of $ 115 - per - barrel in 2014 to a low of $ 27 - per - barrel in January of this year.

The drop in filings sounds promising, though the study also found that the total number of bankruptcies in the first quarter of 2011 is still 30 percent higher than in the pre-recession first quarter of 2008.

Yahoo is expected to leave Tumblr safely in the hands of founder David Karp, the new poster boy for dropping out of high school at 15 and still managing to do all right.

As the number of available spaces dropped, so did the number of sales, resulting in higher prices.

She grew up in Dallas, by way of Jackson, Miss., and dropped out of high school, embarking on an almost comical series of jobs — from data entry to pizza joint manager to concert tour manager.

A high school drop out who preferred the outdoors, Tompkins always tended to march to the beat of his own drummer.

Investors could decide to ditch investments in the developing world both because higher rates in rich countries would make those investments comparatively less attractive and because their appetite for risk would likely drop in case of a U.S. default.

October saw a 3 % drop in software sales despite the release of high - profile titles like Halo 5: Guardians and Assassin's Creed: Syndicate.

Although much of the recent drop in oil prices has been due to the prospect of higher exports from Iran in the coming months (the International Energy Agency forecasts an extra 300,000 barrels a day by the end of March), the dumping of stored oil is essentially a short - term factor, and its influence on crude prices should logically pass quite quickly.

As the region with the highest percentage of EEA - born workers, rising from 7 % in 2004 to 14 % in 2016, London is most vulnerable to a drop in migration, the report said.

He is a high school drop out worth $ 4.6 billion and one of the most successful entrepreneurs of all time.

However, the lender also cautioned clients about the possibility of a sudden drop in the value of cryptocurrencies which «could expose them to substantially higher debt levels than they are able to repay.»

Lauren graduated high school in the Bronx, New York, but later dropped out of college to join the Army.

At 15, he dropped out of high school.

They drop in the immediate aftermath of a shooting and are mostly trading higher three months later.

While there's still plenty going on in this area in terms of startups and venture capital investment, the city may have seen a drop because of a relatively low high - growth company density of 94.4 (out of 100,000).

«These large drops, usually between the 25 - 40 percent range, generally find a bottom that is a consolidation of a previous all time high.

The findings are skewed by the high numbers of students who enroll in for - profit schools and end up dropping out before they finish their programs.

Now that the dust has settled, those bearish speculators haven't gone anywhere, with Netflix short interest — a measure of bets that share prices will drop — still perched near highs.

In high school, he smoked pot, dropped LSD and experimented with how his brain would feel when deprived of sleep.