Sentences with phrase «of keeping down»

Law firms started to manage their complex legal matters more aggressively as a means of keeping down costs and responding to client demands for fixed price legal work.

They don't completely eliminate maintenance, but they take less time and effort and usually do a better job of keeping down odor than manual scooping.

Many of the arguments that Mr. Bogle makes in the book would be familiar to readers: the drawbacks of investing in mutual funds, the importance of keeping down frictional costs such as fees, commissions, sales charges and taxes, the virtues of index funds etc..

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«We sat for hours in disbelief until we eliminated any possibility that this result was wrong,» said Gruss, whose mind kept racing even after powering down his computer, so he barely caught a wink of sleep.

And after Argentina's president was accused of pressuring McDonald's to keep the price down.

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But the All Day Every Day Pant provides a ton of comfort with a look that won't force you to keep changing after you've already decided to dress down after work.

If you're planning to go the coupon route yourself, a primer on trends from Inmar's report: The clip - and - save renaissance forced companies to keep face values down — they declined by a penny to $ 1.44, a reversal of years of increase.

Keeping with the family hand - me - down motif, Middleton matched the necklace with a pair of earrings that previously belonged to Princess Diana.

Nor can the company really go flat out in public and admit that it's trying to dump the stock and lock in enormous profits without triggering yet another spin or two of the vortex that keeps sucking down Uber's stock price.

When you're thinking of a succession plan to keep a family business entrepreneurial as it gets passed down through generations, the research suggests that you recruit non-family members.

«If you look at the legislation, in what's written in there for business, the goal is to increase the pool of businesses in each state to keep costs down, but its unclear whether the incentive is actually there for them to not opt out?»

Priest recommends keeping the number of tenets down to three, though he breaks his own rule.

That's exactly what has happened over the last month, as shown in this graph of the yield on the 10 year US treasury bond for the last year (keep in mind that yields going up means prices going down):

But van Beurden has been slimming down his portfolio of oil projects with the intent of keeping only those lean enough to make good returns in a world in which oil prices average no more than $ 40 a barrel, well below the average price over the past decade.

«We were actually cutting bamboo down to make a few bucks an hour to keep the trip going and I kind of had one of those eureka ideas,» Goldberg recounts.

The rest of us should keep our heads down

So the name of the game is to keep «deposit costs» down while attracting enough deposits to lend out.

I turned it down a number of times, and they kept coming back with more money.

The study looked at 149 participants in networking and business groups from the United States, Belgium, India, Japan, Australia and England and found that more than 70 percent of the participants who sent weekly updates to friends reported successful goal achievement, compared to 35 percent of those who kept their goals to themselves and didn't write them down.

Shirakawa's doubts kept the BOJ firmly focused on interest rates, rather than the size of its balance sheet, even after it had driven its policy rate down close to zero after the global financial crisis.

Instead, Trump has started down the road of driving — and keeping — the best people away.

They found that after weeks of exercise, there was an increase in participants» concentrations of butyrate, a type of fatty acid that helps keep our guts happy by tamping down on inflammation and producing energy.

It's a bit of a mixed area with subsided low - income properties and new development, which could keep prices down for sometime.

And yet he must prove the business wisdom behind it, not only to keep Gravity from sinking — and going down with the ship himself — but also to achieve his long - term goal of transforming the business world.

But how does a company like Marriott keep its rooms full and avoid fighting with its own properties, even when some of them are often down the block from each other?

Whole grains, fruits and veggies, yogurt, chicken and fish are examples of food that won't slow you down and will keep you alert.

When Levy emails a high - demand person like a celebrity, he keeps his email down to a single sentence that cuts out any trace of filler.

In which we unzip the up - and - down origins of the little mechanical wonder that keeps your pants from falling down.

A lot of people counted them out two and a half years ago, and although I don't know that there's been major product innovation, they've definitely kept costs down and have succeeded greatly.

It's called Bullet Journaling — a form of rapid logging that allows me to boil everything down to focus just on the results I want to achieve, and keep track of what I did when.

The hard work is done — all that remains is to bring the cost of the meat down to less than the real thing, which may not be that hard to do if the demand for and cost of beef keeps skyrocketing, especially in China.

Well, it is largely determined by the author's ability to keep the «flow» of the story going and to deliver during pivotal moments, the same way a good prosecutor may begin to bare down on a witness that starts to show signs of «cracking».

In so doing, it strengthens the power of Verizon and Comcast, and diminishes the power, and ultimately the need, for backbone providers whose competing services keep connection prices down.

«We're not saying no one should ever drink at all — we're just saying if you do drink, even trying to keep it down to less than one drink a day would be a smart choice,» Alice Bender, a registered dietitian who is the head of nutrition programs for the AICR, told Business Insider in May.

No matter how lofty its status or how stressful the environment, keeping cash flowing comes down to two things: accelerating the stream of cash coming into your business and slowing its outgo.

With more trading in that part of the portfolio, Gross pointed out that the better tax efficiency of index funds can keep a portfolio's tax liability down.

«We as an industry would welcome the opportunity to sit down with Bank of America executives and explain our industry's perspective to discuss what really would work to keep firearms out of the hands of those who should not have them,» said Michael Bazinet, a spokesman for the NSSF.

I hate this debt, it's always keeping me down, it's always chaining me, so let's just get rid of the house mortgage,»» he says.

He just kept acquiring companies until federal regulators put a stop to it and the house of cards came tumbling down.

Deep learning will keep booming in tandem with advancements in computing hardware that shows no signs of slowing down.

The only way it's going to bring down the cost is if it lets providers make better decisions about the care and either improves patient health or keeps them out of the system.

Stringent Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) rules prohibiting the use of unmanned aircraft for commercial use has largely kept American companies from leveraging drone technology to their advantage, but that's rapidly changing in the Arctic, where a series of FAA decisions handed down in the past year are easing restrictions on commercial drone flights.

All three of those sales went down just last September, and the big money keeps on buying rounds.

The qualities below should be kept in mind if you want to find a reliable pair of wireless headphones that won't let you down.

A genuine passion for the work kept him with the company for 41 years, until he stepped down as CEO at the end of 2016.

But almost none of its lawyers work there, which keeps infrastructure costs down.

Cathcart didn't talk about any of the potential down - sides of this approach, such as the «filter bubble» effect that can keep users from seeing potentially important topics because they don't fit the platform's pre-conceived notions of what that user is already interested in.

But the company says by offering the opt - down choices, it has consistently kept 25 percent of people from completely opting out.