Sentences with phrase «of higher economic value»

«There is no category of immigrant of higher economic value than a foreign - born entrepreneur who wants to come to the United States and start their business here,» says Dearie.

Here we examined the degree to which DNA barcoding discriminate freshwater fish species from the well - known Canadian fauna, which currently encompasses nearly 200 species, some which are of high economic value like salmons and sturgeons.

European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) is a dominant forest tree species of high economic value and ecological importance (Ellenberg 2009).

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The higher the value of the PMI, the stronger is economic activity.

Since the economic value of acquiring a new customer like this was so high, this quickly moved to the top of my to - do list.

The larger point Wolfers seems to be making with his response to Trump is that looking at the number of record - high closes in a narrow period is not a particularly good indicator of economic performance — particularly for a president who inherited a stock market that was already relatively high in value.

Actual results, including with respect to our targets and prospects, could differ materially due to a number of factors, including the risk that we may not obtain sufficient orders to achieve our targeted revenues; price competition in key markets; the risk that we or our channel partners are not able to develop and expand customer bases and accurately anticipate demand from end customers, which can result in increased inventory and reduced orders as we experience wide fluctuations in supply and demand; the risk that our commercial Lighting Products results will continue to suffer if new issues arise regarding issues related to product quality for this business; the risk that we may experience production difficulties that preclude us from shipping sufficient quantities to meet customer orders or that result in higher production costs and lower margins; our ability to lower costs; the risk that our results will suffer if we are unable to balance fluctuations in customer demand and capacity, including bringing on additional capacity on a timely basis to meet customer demand; the risk that longer manufacturing lead times may cause customers to fulfill their orders with a competitor's products instead; the risk that the economic and political uncertainty caused by the proposed tariffs by the United States on Chinese goods, and any corresponding Chinese tariffs in response, may negatively impact demand for our products; product mix; risks associated with the ramp - up of production of our new products, and our entry into new business channels different from those in which we have historically operated; the risk that customers do not maintain their favorable perception of our brand and products, resulting in lower demand for our products; the risk that our products fail to perform or fail to meet customer requirements or expectations, resulting in significant additional costs, including costs associated with warranty returns or the potential recall of our products; ongoing uncertainty in global economic conditions, infrastructure development or customer demand that could negatively affect product demand, collectability of receivables and other related matters as consumers and businesses may defer purchases or payments, or default on payments; risks resulting from the concentration of our business among few customers, including the risk that customers may reduce or cancel orders or fail to honor purchase commitments; the risk that we are not able to enter into acceptable contractual arrangements with the significant customers of the acquired Infineon RF Power business or otherwise not fully realize anticipated benefits of the transaction; the risk that retail customers may alter promotional pricing, increase promotion of a competitor's products over our products or reduce their inventory levels, all of which could negatively affect product demand; the risk that our investments may experience periods of significant stock price volatility causing us to recognize fair value losses on our investment; the risk posed by managing an increasingly complex supply chain that has the ability to supply a sufficient quantity of raw materials, subsystems and finished products with the required specifications and quality; the risk we may be required to record a significant charge to earnings if our goodwill or amortizable assets become impaired; risks relating to confidential information theft or misuse, including through cyber-attacks or cyber intrusion; our ability to complete development and commercialization of products under development, such as our pipeline of Wolfspeed products, improved LED chips, LED components, and LED lighting products risks related to our multi-year warranty periods for LED lighting products; risks associated with acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures or investments generally; the rapid development of new technology and competing products that may impair demand or render our products obsolete; the potential lack of customer acceptance for our products; risks associated with ongoing litigation; and other factors discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including our report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended June 25, 2017, and subsequent reports filed with the SEC.

In fact, this kind of negotiated tax increase might be a far preferable outcome for the world's savers, investors and high - income earners than the increasingly likely alternative: persistent uncertainty over the global financial system or the consummation of that uncertainty in an asset - value - destroying economic downturn.

For those uninitiated, Startup America is a White House partnership with AOL co-founder Steve Case and the Kauffman and the Case Foundations, with the aim to increase «the number of new, high - growth firms that are creating economic growth, innovation, and quality jobs; celebrate and honor entrepreneurship as a core American value and source of competitive advantage; and inspire and empower an ever - greater diversity of communities and individuals to build great American companies.»

First, although it should be clear that neither GDP is «correct» as a true measure of wealth creation, I think there are good reasons to argue that the difference in real wealth creation might be greater than the difference in GDP — in other words that U.S. wealth creation is higher relative to U.S. GDP than China's wealth creation is relative to China's GDP — and it is this adjusted GDP, representing real wealth creation, whose value must be discounted to determine the economic «wealth» of each country.

«We were particularly encouraged to see fiscal discipline in light of the continued economic uncertainty seen elsewhere in Canada and the world, the establishment of a commission on tax competitiveness to evaluate current taxation instruments like the provincial sales tax, and proposed changes to the property transfer tax to start addressing housing affordability by increasing the exemption threshold and introducing a third tax rate on higher - valued properties.»

As the gap widens, it creates rising uncertainty about how excess debt servicing costs will ultimately be allocated, and at the point at which this uncertainty is high enough to alter materially the behavior of economic agents, and so lower the net asset value of the economic entity, the borrowing country has «excessive» debt.

Deal value suffered from a troublesome combination of weakening economic conditions, stubbornly high asset prices and volatile public - offering markets, which discouraged pre-IPO deals.

High profits may be justified if novel products offer significant benefits to patients (thus producing indirect economic value through the patients» restored health) or if they represent significant pharmacologic advances over their predecessors — offering new mechanisms of actions and emblematic of high - risk reseaHigh profits may be justified if novel products offer significant benefits to patients (thus producing indirect economic value through the patients» restored health) or if they represent significant pharmacologic advances over their predecessors — offering new mechanisms of actions and emblematic of high - risk reseahigh - risk research.

High inflation rates, slow economic growth, loss of global value of currency, and social and political uncertainty leads to increment in prices of precious metals.

Thus, the holders of Series A are indifferent between sale prices from $ 50M to $ 60M, which may lead to the same odd economic incentives as the non-participating preferred stock, albeit at higher transaction values.

Eurozone officials are unanimous that it means a commitment to financial war against labor — to austerity and yet further economic shrinkage; to faster privatization selloffs (but not to Russians if they offer higher prices, as Gazprom did) and hence higher prices for hitherto public utilities; to no rejection of past insider privatization deals to higher value - added taxes on consumers; and to lower pensions for labor.

Most of these overseas investments retain their high - value head office operations in Canada, and many also generate upstream and downstream economic benefits for domestic suppliers and clients.

Still reeling from two successive hikes to stamp duty in recent years which particularly hit the higher value prime central London (PCL) property market, appetite to transact has also been buffeted by Brexit - inspired political uncertainty, domestic economic jitters and a surplus of luxury new build developments gearing up to enter the market.

In recent months, as discussed in the section on Domestic Economic Activity above, housing loan approvals have stabilised after the strong growth recorded earlier, but they remain at a high enough level to generate continued strong growth in the value of loans outstanding.

Values may fluctuate significantly in times of high volatility or market / economic uncertainty; such swings are even more significant if your positions are leveraged and may also adversely affect your position.

Gold and silver rose to three week highs Friday after China cut benchmark interest rates to support economic growth, leading to demand for precious metals as a store of value.

Individualistic countries value individual effort and achievement and thus are in favor of redistribution of family wealth toward creating more equal economic opportunities, independent of the social context (i.e., wealth of the family) into which one is born, which legitimizes high inheritance taxes.

Gold and silver futures rose to three - week highs after China cut benchmark interest rates to support economic growth, boosting demand for precious metals as a store of value.

The predator's skills and attitudes are also those cherished by the economic establishment, and successfully learning them is the way value is most profoundly appropriated at MIT and at other institutions of higher education as well.

Therefore, a standalone peristaltic machine is Ideal for these products because of the high accuracy required of these small fill sizes and also because many of these products have a high economic value per volume.

«As consumers continue to demand a wide range of high quality, full - flavored beers, small and independent craft brewers are meeting this growing demand with innovative offerings, creating high levels of economic value in the process.»

Classes include «full bio» As consumers continue to demand a wide range of high quality, full - flavored beers, small and independent craft brewers are meeting this growing demand with innovative offerings, creating high levels of economic value in the process.

The Club through the Tottenham Hotspur Foundation has a long established, productive and valued partnership with the council and the local community in an area with significant socio - economic challenges such as high unemployment and high levels of crime.

We've seen tremendous improvement in the economy and at the social level since 1992, the Rawlings regime and that of Kufour all contributed immensely to the growth we seeing, the Mahama administration has added value to what he inherited.The infrastructure development recorded under this government is the highest after Nkrumah, the improvement in the health and education sector can not be downplayed.Policies rolled out by the regime to close the yawning gap between the toiling but highly productive rural folks and city officials is commendable.The IMF director Christie Lagarde was right when she described what we called economic success between 2005 - 2008 as mediocre growth.The base of the economy was still shattered and now being built to restore the confidence of the people.

The fund grew 5.96 percent and has an estimated $ 150.3 billion value — the highest since the economic turmoil of 2008 - 09, DiNapoli said.

Wednesday Questions — Implementation of the recommendations from the farming regulation task force report; harmonising British time with that of the UK's main European trading partners; health of carers Legislation — Justice and security bill Debate — The economic viability, value for money and benefit - cost ratio of the high speed 2 London to Birmingham and London to Leeds and Manchester lines

«I congratulate the Economic and Social Research Council for 50 years of high - quality, high - valued research and very much welcome its new Strategic Plan to ensure this continues for the long term.»

Shorn of all euphemism, it is the principle that sees the national economic space as a frontiers space with economic cowboys shooting from the hip to achieve the highest value and profit.

Similarly, Latinos make up 77 percent of California's agricultural workforce and will likely see economic hardship as climate change reworks the state's highest - value farm products.

If the services provided by nature for human well - being can be substituted for well with human - produced goods and services, then the economic value of nature for a society is higher, the more equally incomes are distributed within it.

But these trees also have a high materialistic value because harvesting lumber is one of the forest owners» major economic income.

The economic loss is very low — not because of the damage, which is high — but because Nepal is such a poor land with very little infrastructure, around $ 40 billion in total infrastructure value.

«The Maine Center for Biomedical Innovation is really focused very heavily on trying to develop a large economic sector in the state of Maine that's driven by a high value science and technology commercialization efforts,» said Kevin Strange, President of the MDI Biological Laboratory.

In terms of economic impact, changes in temperature and precipitation patterns may result in damage to tourism and other strategic economic sectors with growth potential such as high - value - added agriculture.

In terms of economic language these people set their «reservation value» of a mate low in expectation of never marrying if they set it any higher.

The Economic Value of Higher Teacher Quality (PDF).

Space limits an extended discussion here, but we note two conclusions from a 2012 article by Economic Policy Institute researcher Monique Morrissey, who explains that «the logical implication of Richwine and Biggs's [pension] position is that public employers and taxpayers would be indifferent between current pension funding practices and investing in Treasury securities, even though this would triple the cost of pension benefits» and that R & B «selectively alternate between the cost of benefits to employers and the value to workers, and inappropriately equate the latter with the often much higher cost to individuals of obtaining equivalent benefits.»

Given the impact of educational attainment on a variety of economic and social outcomes, a positive result could have significant implications for the value of school - choice programs that include charter high schools.

The standard of political and moral performance required to consider should be the following: 1) increase of solidarity among the inhabitants of the country; 2) increase in the practice of social justice by organs of government and civil society; 3) increase in the distribution of income and wealth among the population; 4) increase of measures to preserve and care for nature; 5) increase in policies for integral development of education in accordance with the highest human values; 6) advances in the realization of the collective will of the citizens; 7) improvement of political institutions; 8) success in combating corruption measured by its reduction; 9) increase in the exercise of citizenship with the effective participation of citizens in government decisions and fight for expansion of their rights; and 10) increase of contribution of public and private organizations to the political, economic, social and environmental development of the country.

As an editor and writer, I've covered travel, world news, and community economic development, and I'm excited to now be back in the world of education, working on high - quality content that's of value to teachers.

All of these factors reduced the economic value of a high school diploma for black males.

Pathways to College Credentials and Careers: In order to increase the economic mobility of low - income and minority students, the Joyce Foundation will support state and federal policy work to: (1) better prepare students for college and career through early college credits, work - based learning, and high school interventions to reduce college remediation; (2) increase the likelihood that low - income and minority students will complete credentials or degrees of economic value at the institutions they attend; and (3) increase access and success for low - income and minority students in the public institutions with the highest economic payoffs.

«The economic value of higher teacher quality,» Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol.

This groundbreaking step was an acknowledgement of the economic and social value of multilingualism, the realities of a global century, and of the high level of academic achievement associated with attaining literacy in multiple languages.