Sentences with phrase «of point drops»

Go check the number of points we dropped after scoring first.

«You look back at some of the defeats from the beginning of the season, and some of the points we dropped, and it is frustrating, because we would be right there or thereabouts now if we had got something from those games.

However, there is another theory about what has stopped Arsenal from taking control of the Premier League and taking advantage of the points dropped by our big rivals Man City and United.

We simply can not afford to not win today to take advantage of the points dropped by one or more of their rivals.

However, this is not recommended as the value of your points drops significantly for these types of redemptions.

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That means Theranos is using full blood draws, from patients» arms, rather than a few drops of blood from pricking patients» fingers, which up to that point had been one of the company's key competitive advantages.

But the sudden drop - off in sales in January, which pointed to a deeper dysfunction, was arguably worse than both of those combined.

The Fed Audit, which has consistently been fought by the Senate, could easily be dropped - with Republican legislators being able to point to the endorsement of the beltway's leading libertarian think tanks as evidence of being tough on the Fed.

The Bank of Canada announced this morning that it is dropping its target interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point to 0.75 %.

Gross domestic product contracted at an annual rate of 0.5 % in the second quarter and 0.8 % in the first, which is exactly what the Bank of Canada predicted in July when it dropped its policy rate by a quarter point.

As the price of fuel has dropped, it's been taking up a smaller and smaller share of these expenses, to the point that now, he estimates, fuel only makes up about 15 percent of airlines» spending (assuming their other costs have remained roughly equal).

Then there was the «hash crash» of 2013, when the Dow dropped 145 points in two minutes after someone hacked the Associated Press's Twitter account and posted, falsely, that explosions in the White House had injured President Obama.

The numerical index upon which the survey is based fell 28 points into negative territory — the largest drop since the fourth quarter of 2010.

After checking in Wednesday night and asking the front desk to point me in the direction of ice cream, I dropped my bags in my room and took a moment to admire the view.

The campaign launch involves a complete refurbishment of all the stores, with point - of - sale posters, local press exposure, coupon drops to the local areas and television commercials in the metro and country areas.

More significantly, small business owner outlook for the next 12 months, an index component, tumbled 19 points, the largest drop since the fourth quarter of 2008, at the height of the financial collapse.

You may be tempted to move your investments to cash in light of the more than 1,100 point - drop the Dow Jones industrial average suffered in one day that put the index in correction territory.

At its core, the market sell - off, which shoved the Dow Jones industrial average nearly 1,600 points lower Monday in the biggest intraday point drop in history, showed traders adjusting to signs of firmer economic growth and, potentially, a resurgence of long - dormant inflation.

The optimism survey found that fewer than 1 in 2 — or just 45 % — of small business owners are optimistic, a sharp 15 - point drop from 60 % in August.

That's a percentage point drop from the previous year and a steeper drop since 2011 when 26.7 % of U.S. population growth was focused in urban areas.

After studying the decline in U.S. crime rates that occurred in the 1990s, it concluded that a drop of two percentage points in unemployment was responsible for a 9 % decline in burglary, 14 % drop in rape and robbery and 30 % plunge in assault.

Now, when you drop in a photo, a new facial recognition system can identify that there's a person in the photo and adjust the cropping and position automatically, making the person the focus point of every shot.

They see a two - point drop in their stock, which translates into a $ 40,000 loss of wealth.

In Canada, hybrid sales represented only 1 % of the market in 2010, which is actually a drop of half a percentage point from the previous year, according to Geoff Helby, a director at the market research firm J.D. Power and Associates.

For most contractors, success relies on the strength of the construction industry, and observers point to recent drops in housing - starts and building permits to suggest that Canada's house - building spree may be cooling off.

Shares of Sprint dropped more than 13 percent at one point after Nikkei first reported on Monday that the deal could be in jeopardy.

So it would be unfair to call Poloz a currency manipulator: he has dropped Canada's benchmark interest rate to within a quarter point of its record low because otherwise inflation would drop below 1 %, the low end of the Bank of Canada's comfort zone.

The company's lone outstanding junk bond, worth $ 1.8 billion and maturing in 2025, briefly dropped two points to as low as 85 cents on the dollar for a yield of around 8 percent on Monday, according to MarketAxess data.

U.S. stocks have opened the first full week of 2015 with a steep decline, with the Dow Jones industrial average dropping 331 points, as falling oil prices weighed on the energy sector.

About half the economists surveyed by Bloomberg News now say the Bank of Canada will drop its benchmark interest rate a quarter point to 0.5 % today.

In court documents filed with the Northern California District Court on Thursday, Uber argued that the class - action part of the suit should be dropped because the 160,000 drivers, «have little or nothing in common, other than their use of the Uber App in California at some point over the past six years.»

The S&P 500 dropped one point before closing, with a weekly decline of 1.4 %.

A pilot allows you to test the effectiveness of your survey invitation, determine if there is a particular point in the survey where people drop out, and see if you'll be able to take action based on the results, Ambler says.

Dora Gicheva, an economist at the University of North Carolina, has found that for every $ 10,000 young people carried in student debt, the likelihood of getting married in the seven years following graduation dropped by some three or four percentage points.

Last year, women comprised a meager 7 percent of directors for the top 250 films, a two - point drop from 1998, according to the Center For the Study of Women in Television & Film.

As markets continued their wild ride today, clawing back most of their losses from Monday, including a nearly 600 point drop on the Dow, it's important for us to take stock of where we are.

And they were kind of dropping the whole program at that time and I was early in the game there so I went out and at that time T.V. was starting to come in and a lot of TV series at that time just Highway Patrol and Men of West Point or Men of Annapolis, they had a couple of those.

U.S. stock index futures pointed to a mostly lower open Tuesday as shares of Apple dropped in premarket trading.

The downtrend in many of these stocks was exacerbated Friday after the Dow Jones industrial average dropped nearly 666 points, marking the index's sixth - largest points decline ever.

KEEPING SCORE: The S&P 500 index dropped 32 points, or 1.2 percent, to 2,603 as of 10:35 a.m. Eastern time.

Volatility as measured by the VIX, which had surged on the recent downwards moves, dropped by 4 points to roughly 18.5, eversing all of its jump over the past week.

As Franz - Stefan Gady at The Diplomat points out, this means that the Knyaz Vladimir «will be capable of launching 96 - 200 hypersonic, independently maneuverable warheads, yielding 100 - 150 kilotons apiece,» meaning each warhead alone is ten times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

I found myself way too invested in an early regular season game between two middling teams, though it was an entertaining show: New York's 7» 3 ″ phenom / freak - of - nature Kristaps Porzingis dropped 31 points in a 107 - 103 New York win.

The stimulus from a weaker currency is over; if companies didn't respond to a 20 % drop over two years, they likely aren't going to respond to a decline of a few more percentage points.

Today is the 28th anniversary of Black Monday, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 508 points in one day back in 1987.

As the Wall Street Journal «s Phil Izzo points out, though most of the July drop happened as a result of more people finding jobs, part of it still reflected some workers dropping out of the workforce.

The eight senators with the biggest declines last quarter — a net drop of 9 points or more — are all Democrats.

Some of my properties are mortgaged so that drops the return a few percentage points.

While Trump's approval fell into the red after a 4 point drop in Arizona, where there's an open - seat race to replace retiring Sen. Jeff Flake (R), Trump has pulled to within 6 points of breaking even in neighboring Nevada, where Sen. Dean Heller (R) seeks re-election this fall.

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