Sentences with phrase «out of using points»

Generally, your best value can be gotten out of using points to book hotel stays, which is what we recommend and what our analysis will focus on.

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Barry Pellas, who oversees tech strategy and the development of strategic assets for digital transformation firm PointSource, points out that Amazon certainly could be using facial recognition to individually identify customers in its new high - tech store in Seattle, but does not.

Still, Davidson of American Century points out that Schlumberger shrewdly uses the periodic downturns to improve its competitive position, buying companies on the cheap.

The report also points out that Dreamers start businesses at more than twice the rate of the general population, in large part because they are used to making ends meet without help from the government.

That latter point is especially notable since just last month, Twitter announced that it would be using a variety of tools to protect the students from Parkland and use anti-spam tools to «weed out malicious automation.»

Rather than point readers to another weighty tome on a serious issue of the day, Gates used his latest post to suggest a book that's quite out of character.

-- Douglas Merrill, former CIO of Google and now CEO of ZestFinance, a big - data startup that uses more than 100,000 data points about an individual to figure out if he or she will pay back a loan.

«We often use that service as the thin edge of the wedge,» says Kureluk, pointing out that this software gives Yardstick the opportunity to upsell other products and services to its customers, such as the «e-learning» software tools developed by a firm that Yardstick bought earlier this year and sold online.

To further help, RI's tech support solution is a combination of in - house and third - party, but Eisenhardt is careful to point out that even third - party support uses RI's own QA process, rather than something off - the - shelf (which can make for an inconsistent consumer experience).

For one thing, as Josh Benton at the Nieman Journalism Lab has pointed out in a thoughtful analysis of the project, the initial specification makes it impossible to use any kind of Javascript - based tracking or analytics codes in a page.

As a number of critics have pointed out, using AMP would come at a certain cost.

One of my favorite statistics is pointed out by Jason Benderly, who suggests that households headed by a male adult with spouse present is a sector whose unemployment rate can be most consistently used to determine when wage pressure is beginning to rise.

The Future List put out by The Information and Social Capital, took 6,000 data points on 552 senior investment professionals across 71 firms to use diversity to plot which investors are best positioned to take advantage of future trends.

«Google uses its Quality Score algorithm to rate the quality and relevance of your keywords and AdWords ads,» SEO expert Larry Kim points out.

A number of fan have pointed out the warped horizon and wavy lines in the foreground, which indicate the use of Photoshop.

He points out that group RRSPs are already available, and few employers make use of them.

While Fink is right to point out that low interest rates are putting a large burden on those of us trying to save retirement, he does not address the fact that central banks aren't primarily responsible for the fact that bonds of all types are yielding less today than we're used to.

You might point out that when presidents sign treaties, they use a different pen for each signature and they give the pen to one of the people who helped to make that treaty happen.

But it is also true that Apple's business model is very different from Facebook's: As Mark Zuckerberg pointed out, Facebook is free to use, unlike Apple, which relies on the sale of relatively expensive devices as its main revenue stream.

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McGonigal points out that one of the most replicated findings about willpower is that it seems to be finite — that is, we only have so much and it runs out as we use it.

He points out that the company's business model allows it to turn its inventory around about twice as many times as its peers and its strong free cash flow — the company has about $ 4 of cash per share, he says — could be used to buy back stocks, which it has done in the past.

He did say he expected future game consoles to continue using discs of some form, though he specifically pointed out that his statement was not based on knowledge of Sony's plans for a new PlayStation console.

However, he points out that if executed properly, leveraging the popularity of Tiger long after his playing days could be key for the golf industry just as the NBA used Jordan to elevate its business.

«I'm a big proponent of simplicity and efficiency, so rather than own a car and use it infrequently, I've opted to use car sharing services that provide wheels when I need them and take the hassle and expense out of car ownership,» she notes, pointing out that «we're focused on something similar at Sunrun.»

For example, in «A Short History of the Income Tax,» John Steele Gordon points out that the U.S. income tax act of 1913 was only 14 pages long; by 1942, it had blossomed to 208 pages with over three - quarters of them «devoted to closing or defining loopholes» that tax lawyers and accountants were using to «game the system.»

Cook pointed out on Apple's last earnings call that nearly all of the Fortune 500 already use iPads, but don't roll them out to very many employees.

Case in point: a family that used to spend hundreds per month going out to the movies can now binge - watch all four seasons of House of Cards on Netflix in 30 days for less than the cost of a large popcorn.

Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in the U.S. and the American Academy of Dermatology points to several troublesome stats involving the nation's teens: 43 percent of that group say they lie out in the sun but only three in 10 say they always use sun block.

The Obama Administration's use of drones to attack terrorist targets has drawn scrutiny from those who point out that those same attacks sometimes kill civilians.

She points out the discrepancies between the amount of time people claim to spend on work during a week, for example, and the number of hours that studies using time diaries actually show we spend making productive contributions to our jobs.

The bank pointed out «new prohibitions on using credit cards to buy cryptocurrencies, implying that perhaps a substantial amount of Bitcoin buying in 2H17 had been funded with credit cards.»

Codorniu and Cross pointed out to Starbucks» use of Workplace as key to adding a popular new drink to the menu.

Those policies don't clearly outline what types of videos can be used to make ad money, but they do point out that YouTube wouldn't be liable for any illegal activity from the video owner.

While your recent social networks are only connecting you with «safe» places and people you already have a connection with, it's important to know there are others out there who can use your point of view and expertise.

A steady stream of it informs much of the decision - making at the Toronto - based company, though Segal is careful to point out that it isn't the only tool Klick uses.

Follmer points out that architects and urban planners can use the technology to create three - dimensional, tactile views of cityscapes that can be manipulated by touch.

«Part of the reasons active measures have worked in the US election is because the commander - in - chief has used Russian active measures at times against his opponents,» Watts said, pointing to Manafort and Trump's citations of fake - news stories pushed out by Russian - linked entities last year.

Lemonis says that Twitter can be a powerful tool for leaders, and the president should get in the habit of consistently delivering both good news and bad news over the platform, instead of using it to vent his frustrations or point out other people's mistakes or faults.

Even Richmond and Todd point this out on their website, writing that the company's name is just a «popular phrase that people use as an expression of enjoyment, surprise or disbelief.»

Owners can use the app to book lots online, update their menu and send out social media blasts, and there's a Point of Sale system built in specifically for food trucks.

Mr. Wang recalled a story of how on a long drive near his hometown years earlier his father pointed out all of the tunnels and bridges in China built using his cement.

The two announcements also acknowledge that «the function of digital tokens has evolved beyond a virtual currency» and point out use cases, such as representation of ownership or a security interest over a token seller's assets or property, or a debt owed by the seller.

While the government's policies have remained opaque, officials with the Russian Central Bank have talked about blocking the access of people inside the country to virtual currency websites, and Mr. Putin has pointed out the many potential illegal uses of the technology.

As Stewart also pointed out, this is kind of how the stock market behaves — people just aren't used to it:

Pointing out that he is not making a political statement, Marrion said Trump's use of the bully pulpit has implications for the markets.

She pointed out that smugglers are using claims of «credible fear» to get their human cargo into — and remain in — the United States.

The principle behind Pure Barre's proprietary technique is to use precise, focused movements to work each major muscle group — including arms, thighs, seat and abdominals — to the point of fatigue, and then stretch the muscles back out to create a strong, lean and toned physique.

As Paul Krugman points out Reifschneider, working with John Williams and using the same FRBUS model, concluded that the ZLB was only a very small issue less than a decade before the financial crisis led to an 8 year stretch of zero rates.

While many companies started out using social media to get the word out about products, the most successful have significantly expanded their efforts to engage their customers at every step of what we call the «customer corridor,» touch points that start when a potential customer first learns of a product and extend through the moment they opt to make repeat purchases.