Sentences with phrase «of points they gain»

Keeping an accurate score of points gained by each team, or player, is important when deciding who the overall winner is.

In fact it went up in exact numbers of the points I gained by hitting my targets from the other events.

Not exact matches

Yet, once a letter of intent is in hand, many business owners seek counsel to cut through these complexities and gain prescriptive, salient action points to guide them all the way to the closing and for a time afterward.

CNN analyst Van Jones, who gained a high profile for his strong and pointed commentary during election season, will speak about the current state of affairs, as will venture capitalist and guest Shark Tank investor Chris Sacca, who has been a vocal critic of Trump since long before he came president.

They've quickly gained a reputation for high - quality products at reasonable price points, and thanks to our own personal experience with them, they pretty much make their way into the majority of gift guides we do.

Put another way, Goldman Sachs alone is responsible for more than 400 points out of the Dow's total 1,400 - point gain during the «Trump Bump.»

«Very thin men, conversely, are punished relative to their average - weight peers, and men are rewarded for gaining weight until the point of obesity,» explain Judge and Cable of their findings.

The Australian share market has closed at its highest level in six weeks, wrapping up April with a run of gains that has added 230 points to the benchmark index since March.

His staff pointed to statistics encompassing seven months of job gains across the far broader mining sector.

For example, ComScore reported that in June 2013, its core search market share fell 0.5 percentage points to 11.4 percent — while Bing gained the same amount and Google controlled nearly 67 percent of the market.

After it hit 14,000 at the height of the housing bubble in 2007 — less than three months after passing 13,000 — the Dow wouldn't gain another 1,000 points until six years later, in May 2013.

Political analyst Boban Stojanovic believes the publicity given to convicted war criminals is a ploy by the ruling party to «gain some political points» ahead of the vote.

It's a point of view that's gaining traction: The fictional Gregory is said to be based on billionaire PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, a vocal critic of higher education.

The wealthy don't depend on their bonuses for their living, continued Mattoon, so they have wide flexibility to realize those gains when it's most convenient from a taxation point of view, as happened with the fiscal cliff.

The «You Earned It» tool, which ordinarily lets team members reward coworkers with points that can be redeemed for goods or prizes, is now offering their employees the power to give up their gains in favor of company donations to relief efforts in both Dallas and Houston.

His last open letter to shareholders makes the point clearly about investing in creating value — «Berkshire's gain in net worth during 2016 was $ 27.5 billion, which increased the per - share book value of both our Class A and Class B stock by 10.7 %.

You might be working on gaining an essential contract or be just about to close a deal and your client asks for your company registration number — At this point of course you can register a new company but, how much easier would it be to use a readily available genuine company number.

«For sure, the priorities are immigration, the control of borders, of Europe, (the issue of) cultural identities and the understanding of how the Italian society should move ahead in a globalized world,» Terzi di Sant «Agata said, following the Italian election result which pointed to a hung parliament where no one party or coalition gained a majority of the vote that would allow it to govern alone.

But BHP executives point out that the benefits gained from the construction and operation of Saskatchewan's first new potash mine in four decades could offset the negative implications of deferred tax payments.

With that cheeky introduction by host Carlos Watson, the PBS debate show Point Taken last night dove headlong into the fractious debate of salary transparency that has been gaining steam of late, especially as a way to bridge widening wage gaps based on gender, race, and social class.

«The tools they gain and the opportunities they earn permanently break the cycles of drug - use, incarceration, and poverty for them and their families, for life,» O'Donnell said in a statement to Business Insider, pointing us to some research outlined on The Doe Fund's website:

Investors will look to send U.S. stocks to their fifth straight week of gains with a strong finish to a week that saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average finally get back above the 17,000 - point mark and creeped into positive territory for the year.

A 25 percent jump would take the Dow to over 30,400, a gain of more than 6000 points from current levels.

And Dan Loeb, founder of Third Point, earned $ 260 million after his fund posted gains of just 6 %.

As the International Buiness Times points out, recent studies «found that disrupted sleep schedules of six - hour bouts decreased metabolism in volunteers, which could translate to annual weight gain of 10 pounds.»

Prior to the market correction, which has reduced Tesla's 2018 gain to about 3 % ahead of earnings, there was no real major dip, so you could argue that the staggering losses and the capital obliteration — over $ 1 billion per quarter at his point — are, well, somehow rationally priced in.

Partner with thought leaders in your industry to gain first - person points of view on ways to connect with and develop relationships with Latinas.

Baumgartner could have pulled his stabilization parachute at this point, but at the cost of not gaining enough speed to break the sound barrier.

Dec 1 (Reuters)- U.S. stock futures pointed to a reversal of some of this week's gains for Wall Street on Friday as a delay in voting on a Republican tax overhaul kept investors on edge about its passage.

Dec 1 - U.S. stock futures pointed to a reversal of some of this week's gains for Wall Street on Friday as a delay in voting on a Republican tax overhaul kept investors on edge about its passage.

Despite a shortfall of workers, average hourly pay rose just 2.4 percent from a year ago, one - half percentage point lower than September's annual gain.

The old Wall Street cliche «sell in May and go away» hasn't applied in recent years, and futures were pointing to gains ahead of the first session of May 2017.

Avon gained only 1.1 percentage points of share in the direct - selling industry during the same time frame, with 11.4 % of the market in 2011.

The Australian bourse has clocked up its best two - day gain in over 33 years after the market closed four per cent higher, following the biggest point gain ever on Wall Street and news of the federal government's $ 10.4 billion economic stimulus package.

Within an app, too, advertisers can gain an understanding of a user's passion points, intent and emotional state.

Given the current price - to - earnings ratio of the S&P 500, a 10 - percentage - point reduction would imply a 11 % gain for the S&P 500, to 2,450.

Year - over-year, Windows Phone's share of the U.S. smartphone market rose to 4.1 percent from 2.7 percent; in Great Britain, it rose to 6.7 percent from 3 percent; in Australia, it rose to 3.4 percent from 1.7 percent; and, in Italy, it posted a gain of 7.7 percentage points, rising to 13.1 percent from 5.4 percent.

The index rose 205.60 points to 25,574.73, a record close, with Boeing as the biggest contributor of gains.

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett's annual letter to shareholders recently gained a lot of attention when he pointed out one very important point about the future of America: don't bet against U.S. innovation.

There you tend to get into who lost and gained a percentage point of market share.

The Dow Jones industrial average rose 440.53 points to close at 25,335.74, with Goldman Sachs among the biggest contributors of gains to the index.

«If this was a straightforward guide to business success and personal growth,» Harford writes late in the book, «this would be the point at which the author would urge you to use the principles of adapting to gain wealth and success.

(poetsandquants.com)-- Harvard Business School applicants are getting some quirky counsel on how to avoid the kind of faux pas that would destroy their chances of ever gaining admittance to the West Point of Capitalism.

Investors would be left with annual gains, net of inflation, of around half a point a year.

One of the keys to gaining consistent referrals is identifying and addressing all the customer touch points — steps in the customer life cycle that lead them to believe that your organization is one they can trust, buy from and eventually refer.

Those worried about potential security threats posed by Chinese investments in sensitive areas (such as high - tech, communications, and energy) point to Beijing's declared strategy of «going out» to gain technology and resource security as grounds for scrutinizing Chinese investments.

President Barack Obama and Speaker of the House John Boehner are unlikely to reverse several scheduled tax increases, including the 0.9 percentage point increase in the Medicare tax rate on wages and salaries of more than $ 200,000 for single filers ($ 250,000 for married filers); a 3.8 percent Medicare tax on unearned income of higher income filers; and an increase in the capital gains tax rate.

Van Dreunen says the challenge Nintendo faces is in gaining vertical control, where Miitomo operates as a single point of entry for games played across mobile, console, and handheld devices.

«We do strongly feel that there's significant opportunity for us to gain more share through the launch of more mass appeal devices in the category... most importantly all at the right price point.»

Siegel thinks that earnings per share can grow about half a point faster than nominal GDP — in the 5 % range including inflation — chiefly because of big gains in the technology sector.