Sentences with phrase «of less deal»

But, thanks to a diet of less deal - driven IP, technology, media and communications work, Bristows is able to behave almost like a regional firm

Not exact matches

So while you can't make yourself into a natural - born genius, you can make a lot more or a lot less of whatever level of intelligence you were dealt.

Living a healthy lifestyle can eliminate all of this and create less stress levels for you to deal with later on in your work day.

It's important to add products that are more seasonal or are part of a Black Friday deal, while pairing back on non-gift items that holiday shoppers would be less interested in buying.

The deal, when announced last autumn, was predicated on a recovery in the oil price to $ 60 per barrel by 2019, an increase that now seems less likely with a glut of crude still circling the globe and keeping prices below $ 50.

One of the big «Justin - fications» for this proposal is that it'll help parents deal with expensive and hard - to - find childcare, which is often cheaper and easier to find for toddlers (partly because staff - to - child ratios are looser after 18 months, so daycares are less inclined to hire additional staff to accommodate more infants).

But security of supply ranks right up there with price as a deal - breaker in the energy business, and the world's No. 1 gas supplier is looking less reliable all the time.

As Verizon's deal is then first of its kind, the terms may be less generous than on subsequent issues.

But the world has changed a great deal since the height of OPEC's power in 1979, when member nations accounted for 50 % of global oil production, compared with less than one - third today.

With self - driving cars becoming the norm, longer commutes would be less of a deal - breaker, and that will affect home prices.

When you're honest with yourself about all five of these things, you're automatically dealing with the tippy - top of the pyramid — less than 1 percent.

In the summer of 2016, Ripple's former CEO Chris Larsen made a fateful decision: he signed a deal with a bank consortium R3, that included an option for its partner to buy 5 billion units of its currency for less than a penny.

The process of this deal wasn't dissimilar to the bailout programmes that have already passed — the other eurozone governments were a little less sympathetic, partly due to public pressure, and the Greek government was more radical than ever.

Earlier this week, DexCom announced a deal with Google's Life Sciences team to develop a new generation of smaller and less expensive monitor systems.

Results vary by region, though; only 38 % of Ontarians think they earn less than they deserve, while in Quebec, 54 % of respondents say they're getting a raw deal.

In 2008, the Conference Board concluded that, on average, foreign takeovers of Canadian companies were more positive than all - Canadian deals because «product and geographic overlap of businesses is less with foreign owners.»

PRICE RATIONALE: Since this is a business in which books sell for 50 % of their original price or less, it's no surprise that this deal feels right.

The offers can be bland — or as with the colon cleansing, of less - than - universal appeal — opening the door to rivals with a local sales team to solicit better deals from A-list merchants.

Later, deals were inked with mining behemoth Vale, which hadn't yet gobbled Inco and had a market capitalization of less than 2 % of its present value.

They surely never thought, «If we don't wear ties, we'll stand a lesser chance of getting the deal done.»

Adopting these best practices and going the extra mile to protect yourself online may seem tedious, but it is far less time - consuming and traumatic than dealing with the aftermath of a hack.

There is a good deal less competition for the long - tail end of this chart.

The deal would also strengthen Microchip's base in the computing and communications sectors, which together accounted for less than 15 percent of its full - year sales.

One big one is that proactive protection is far less painful than dealing with the trail of destruction that's caused when an online thief steals your information.

Through a deal with Insider Picks, you can get all of this customization for just $ 399 — way less than you'd pay for many off - the - rack suits that lack your personal preferences and made to measure fit.

They have these advantages, according to the reports of western companies: they usually have more of a sense of responsibility than do their unmarried sisters; they're less likely to be flirtatious; as a rule, they need the work or they wouldn't be doing it — maybe a sick husband or one who's in the army; they still have the pep and interest to work hard and to deal with the public efficiently.

Research shows that Generation Z in particular is much less able to manage and deal with stress: feelings of fear, trepidation, and hesitance keeps them from performing as well as they could.

The terms of the deal will allow Pfizer to domicile in Ireland, where corporation tax is just 12.5 percent, significantly less than the 40 percent rate charged in the U.S.

The nature of the discussions changed dramatically, and it made it far less of an emotional negotiation that he's dealt with before, he said.

EASTWOOD: Iraq, I know was a different deal because there was a lot of intelligence that told us that bad things could happen there and we're never sure how that ended up whether it was pro or con or no, I tend to err on the side of less is best.

Because equity investors — that tend to get what they ask for — increasingly are saying enough is enough, and a lot of releveraging activity was front loaded, and with an expected more benign rate hiking cycle there is less urgency to pull the trigger on deals, we continue to think that corporate balance sheets (ex-energy, ex-materials) will improve in 4Q and into 2016.

So far this year, about 70 percent of China's outbound deals have been valued at $ 1 billion or less, according to Dealogic data.

Russell Robb, managing director of Atlantic Capital Management and president of the Association for Corporate Growth, a trade group for deal - makers, is less ambivalent on this point.

The deal announced late Wednesday comes less than two years after Google bought Motorola Mobility for $ 12.4 billion in the biggest acquisition of Google's 15 - year history.

«More public engagement in this debate will be better for the quality of the deal than less,» Perriello says.

After several years of dealing with thrifty consumers, retailers have gotten the message and even high - end department stores such as Nordstrom, and specialty stores like Pottery Barn and Crate and Barrel, are offering a wide range of gifts that cost less than $ 25.

Consider hiring an intermediary, which depending on the size of the deal could be a broker (usually $ 10 million or less), mergers and acquisitions professional (more than $ 15 million), or an investment banker (a large or public company).

The blurring of language — retailers» using «Black Friday» to describe deals that happen on days other than the day after Thanksgiving — makes Black Friday less about one day of the year and more about a deal's perceived value.

The low liquidity levels are caused by a combination of regulations, which make it less attractive for big banks to hold inventories of bonds for dealing, and new forms of quick, computerised trading, which have the potential to move markets in times of stress.

For that reason, Northrop shares edged up only 0.3 % in early trading Monday, suggesting that, while the deal made lots of sense over the long term, the price is pretty full and the buyer has less practice than some at integrating new businesses, especially big ones.

A deal with the French oil giant Total to sell d.light's new S300 (about $ 30) and S20 (priced in the mid-teens) in its gas stations in countries like Cameroon, Indonesia and the Republic of Congo, has boosted shipments from less than 30,000 to more than 500,000 lanterns each month.

Intuitively, you'd guess that «letting out» your emotions leaves less of them for you to deal with, but science says the opposite is true.

Beyond deals, for analysts who cover the industry, their eyes are trained on advances in some of the less sexy, but continually important security challenges.

But if this owner structured a deal around the sale of assets, the after - tax outcome would be far less lucrative for her.

And Valeant's round - about method of funding research, if that's what it's actually doing, seems a lot less cost effective, with all of the bankers and lawyers and hedge fund managers taking chunks of deals than if drug companies directly devoted a portion of their sales toward finding new drugs.

NVCA president Mark Heesen is also concerned that the total value of merger and acquisition deals, another key outlet for VC - backed companies, was 40 percent less in the second quarter than in the same period in 2007.

Doing so would have been relatively inexpensive: According to Darren Rovell of ESPN, «Nike failed to match a deal worth less than $ 4 million a year.»

In that kind of environment, adding the debt and other costs associated with the proposed Tronc deal made less and less sense all the time.

It's less clear to a lot of Americans who have not benefited from Nafta or other trade deals or from anything that the U.S. has done globally that they want the United States to continue to be the indispensable power.

To recap: There are 52 countries which are significantly affected by losing GPT status, and Canada is currently negotiating trade deals with less than 14 % of them (7 of 52).