Sentences with phrase «on the lower half»

Yet both are expensive and sometimes out of reach for countries on the lower end of the economic development scale.

The AER says on its website the leak was discovered by employees checking on a low - pressure alarm from the pipeline's leak detection system.

James Thomson, CEO of Buy Box Experts, an Amazon consultantancy firm, sees Amazon as focusing on lower - quality dropshippers.

The retail store on the Lower East Side of New York City is not bringing in enough profit and Giordano doesn't have enough cash flow to keep it afloat.

But just like banks, private equity will take a hit on the lowering of interest deductions.

As 1 World Trade Center starts to claim a place on the Lower Manhattan skyline, the area's retail scene is beginning to revive, with landlords raising rents in anticipation of thousands of new office workers, tourists and residents, commercial real estate experts said.

LONDON, April 23 - Hamstrung by a renewed slump in volatility and lack of clear market direction, FX and bond speculators are making historically big bets on a lower dollar and higher yields.

Chicago's commute time is fairly high at 13.5 minutes, but transportation costs are on the low end at 27 % of annual income.

In most cases, investors like to see stocks that are as highly valued as Netflix beat their targets handily, not miss on the low side.

Far from offering the sort of insightful, well - informed take that has brought the site as many as 35 million monthly uniques and won kudos from everyone from Nas to Junot D?az, they were more akin to the sort of juvenile remark one might find buried in the comments thread on a low - budget news aggregator: cruel, idiotic, shockingly insensitive, and misogynistic.

Those federal rules, which double down on restrictions adopted in 2014 and stern warnings to lenders issued by OSFI earlier this summer, require banks to qualify borrowers at higher interest rates, impose additional limits on mortgages for buyers with small down payments, and compel financial institutions to share the risk by taking out insurance policies on low - ratio mortgages.

One of the best ways to get attention to your business on a low budget is through controversy and general hype.

Groups like the New Brunswick Food Security Action Network have raised concerns about the impact of food inflation on low - income and fixed - income households.

Sometimes I'll have the alarm sound on low, but the speaker on the Apple Watch is weak enough not to jolt me out of bed.

In the past, the Bank of Canada has chided exporters for their lack of competitiveness and heavy reliance on a low dollar.

Focusing CPP reform on lower earners is wrong - headed for three reasons.

You might even be relying on a low - tech system, such as Excel spreadsheets, to carry your business forward.

If the Liberals want to attract businesses, they should focus on lowering Ontario's high hydro rates, corporate taxes and payroll taxes, he said.

The remaining enterprises that rely on low - wage work will see improved productivity, less absenteeism and turnover, reducing recruitment and training costs.

In fact, at last count Canada outpaced the U.S. in the reliance on low - wage work.

Meridian's consultant explained that Express Scripts would profit from spreads on low - cost generic drugs (though Meridian's contract with Express Scripts never specified their magnitude).

The pay at HootSuite is on the low side for an IT firm, Holmes says (though they all have stock options), but he sort of prefers it that way.

In some regions in Ontario, for example directors can only expect to fetch $ 15 an hour, on the low end.

Round - trip plane tickets from New York City to the Maldives cost around $ 1,000 on the low end, while hotels can range from under $ 50 to around $ 2,000 per night, depending on the level of amenities.

Analysts figure the company's projections are actually on the low side.

Large retailers like Walmart and Target thrive on low price models.

BHP Billiton also said Tuesday that its annual profit fell nearly 30 per cent on lower prices for copper, coal and iron ore.

When you have difficulty concentrating, work on the low intensity tasks such as printing something or archiving your files.

In order to meet payroll for her 52 employees and eke out a profit that she admits is on the low end for the industry, Antonetti says she budgets no more than $ 60,000 a year for advertising.

• Byline Bancorp, a Chicago - based financial firm, said it offered 5.7 million shares at $ 19 a piece, on the low end of its $ 19 to $ 21 a share range.

If you compare high - speed memory devices at four gigs for $ 19.99, we're actually on the low end in terms of pricing.

But more American students fell on the lowest end of the scale than in other nations: 17.8 percent did not reach basic proficiency versus 15.3 percent globally.

Still, combine the indications of the short - term bond market with today's 5 % GDP news and you get the sense that stock traders betting on low interest rates for longer periods of time may soon have to bail out.

Their passengers have higher expectations than when they pay an identical fare for the same trip on a low - cost carrier.

The other option is to adjust the weight on the low side.

Furthermore, even a relatively slow 1 GHz PC with 1 GB of memory can run Windows 7 (though 2 GB of RAM is recommended and 4 GB for the 64 - bit edition), making it suitable for installation on low - end netbook computers on up to high - end desktops.

A few cities on the lower - half of the list shuffled spots from last year, but not Canada's, which retained not only the same rankings from last year but the same scores as well.

The @washingtonpost loses money (a deduction) and gives owner @JeffBezos power to screw public on low taxation of @Amazon!

A recent City of Toronto report reckons that, even on the low end, Billy Bishop will handle in excess of four million passengers yearly.

A couple of months ago, Farhad Manjoo published a scathing piece in The New York Times that claimed the hottest tech startups these days aim to «help people on the lowest rungs of the 1 percent live like their betters in the 0.1 percent.»

Suncor Energy Inc., the world's second - largest oil - sands producer, said first - quarter profit fell 23 percent on lower output, higher costs and absence of a gain from insurance settlements a year earlier.

-- The bank was upgraded to «outperform» from «underperform» at Macquarie based on low expectations and an attractive valuation.

Valeant's 2H16 guidance implies approximately 155 % incremental growth in adjusted EPS from 1H16, and, in part, relies on lower SG&A and R&D spending to support making its numbers.

During Zappos's early years, Hsieh decided that customer service was the most important function of his company and proceeded to craft dozens of counterintuitive policies that lavished benefits on the low - wage workers who answered the phones.

With little success to toast on the field or at the ballot box for that pair in recent years, it's not surprising that champagne consumption is on the low end of our list.

Quadratic Capital Management's Nancy Davis — who correctly predicted the blow - up in the popular wager on low volatility by hedge funds before last week's plunge — thinks the market will remain turbulent.

Consumer demand for cars was ready to rise on low oil prices, and lower raw material costs could also translate to lower costs for GM.

Each waffle has 200 calories, which, in comparison is on the low end of the caloric scale for a grab and go breakfast snack.

By the time Box went public, however, its valuation had dropped more than $ 700 million to $ 1.7 billion, with shares pricing on the low end, at $ 14.

That final bit focused on lowering the corporate tax rate and slashing regulations on businesses and the energy sector.