Sentences with phrase «only laggard»

Healthcare was the only laggard, but losses were limited to a mere 0.1 %.

Coal was the only laggard during the past half century, rising only 263 per cent from 33.7 to 122.2 quads.

Healthcare was the only laggard, but losses were limited to a mere 0.1 %.

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Fully 59 % of those in the leader category in 2012 had a formally accountable executive for innovation; only 28 % of those in the laggards did.

Scotch was the laggard — only increasing 0.5 % for single malt but posting a slight decrease for blended.

Large companies, with more than 1,000 locations, were the laggards in this category, with only 33 percent integrating kiosks into their stores, the Restaurant Readiness Index found.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average was the day's laggard, as it closed only fractionally above breakeven.

Only through cheap debt accumulation have laggards been able to afford the buybacks necessary to keep stock appreciation stable.

Their support will only return if the economy provides them with decent, well paid jobs that offer security and prosperity, which requires a hard - headed assessment of the weaknesses of the pedestrian, laggard sectors of the UK economy and the failure of skills and innovation policy to shift their performance of the last decade.

The only way for this laggard gastropod to rack up its air miles is to be eaten by a bird and excreted out the other end.

Our industry is only in the very early stages of implementing social features and the major players are also the biggest laggards.

Our laggards include: Transatlantic Holdings, which has only returned 5.63 % including dividends, and Reinsurance Group of America, which has returned 8 %.

Thus, the table not only lays out two decades» worth of performance history for a broad swath of investments, it also allows you to see which of those investments have been leaders or laggards from one year to the next.

PB was a notable laggard at the beginning of the data, and slightly underperformed over the full period, but the composite was the better bet only 36 percent of the time.

I wholly endorse Hansen's carbon tax - time and time again we have seen models that suggest that with the proceeds promptly refunded, a carbon tax will only hurt the laggards and fools who do no take common sense means to reduce their carbon footprint.

History proves that laggards only grab for the new once they are totally convinced the old doesn't work anymore.

While its apps are well - praised and available on a number of platforms, TunnelBear only lets you connect through 20 or so countries — making it a bit of a laggard compared to the competition.

You can be an innovator, adopter, or laggard... that, and how you prepare in life, are the only things you over which you will have control.

Redmond has been a laggard in locking down Skype as a truly end - to - end encrypted comms system — end - to - end meaning only the people talking to each other can decrypt the chatter, leaving Microsoft and whoever may be eavesdropping on the connections in the dark.