Sentences with phrase «picked over by»

Gordon will be showcasing various, lesser known real estate investing niches so you locate profitable deals that have not been picked over by the hoard of investors entering or re-entering the market.

«Private communications picked over by a hostile audience can make a saint look like a sinner, and so while there might be some karmic justice to that, I would not wish it on my worst enemy»

The US businesses were more picked over by value investors so the only remaining ones were of very poor quality.

If a short sale has been vacant for any amount of time, it may have leaks, mold, termites, rot, or refuse, or it may have been picked over by thieves or currently occupied by squatters.

«There's always a backlash against anyone feted by the international community, read: the West,» she says, «and anyone who exposes the darker side of Pakistan to be picked over by the world, which she did by virtue of being shot just for wanting her education.

I'd heard a lot of good things about NYX's setting sprays, so when I finally saw one — when my local Target's NYX display finally looked like it hadn't been picked over by wild animals — I picked one up.

Normally sales get a bit picked over by the end of the first week but I was happily surprised that this time is not the case.

Smith, of course, was eventually picked over by Colin Kaepernick and traded to the Kansas City Chiefs.

Best player available sounds great and all, until you have a massive hole at a position going into the draft and you fear that position group will be picked over by the next time you're on the clock.

Going early was always smart, as goodies sold out quickly and were often picked over by noon.

Clothing, for example, donated to give needy women something good to wear for a job interview is often picked over by volunteers who don't need it.

Not exact matches

Combine that with a sparkling balance sheet and its history of never cutting its dividend — the yield is now 2.5 % — and its beaten - down share price (down by a third over the past two years) looks like an opportunity to pick up a high - quality bargain.

Whether finding a great co-founder, who has complementary skill sets (in my case, an old friend I met at theater camp over 20 years ago), or picking your executive team exclusively composed of «A» players (who you can alternately delegate to — or be inspired by), you need a bunch of great teammates to be successful when creating a new business.»

Mak saw his first success a few years ago with Everyday Shooter, which was picked up and offered by Sony as a downloadable game over the PlayStation Network.

Harvard professor and business founder Clayton M. Christensen argues that to find success, you should change your common perception of how to conduct business by not always listening to your customers and how to know when to pick a smaller market over a larger one.

Wealthy Chinese view properties on MLS as stock that has been picked over and rejected by the masses, he says.

Stock markets have rallied hard over the last 12 months, helped by a pick - up in the global economy and corporate profits.

If you have flexibility on the timing of your trip, compare prices to see if you might score extra savings by picking one week over another.

Old and new sit comfortably side by side in Querétaro: when parents pick up their kids when school's over, at 1:30 p.m., they'll also pick up freshly made tortillas for comida, the afternoon meal.

Cabinet ministers have been at odds over policy, including citizenship laws, the national vote on same - sex marriage and competition reform, as well as being left out of the decision loop on a series of «captain's picks» by the prime minister.

Borrowing by students and their families has picked up steam over the years as social and economic pressure grows to obtain a college education to get ahead, even as states reduce their financial support for colleges and colleges raise their tuition.

CBS and others in the case have contended that Aereo effectively steals their content by picking up their signals and selling them as streaming video over the Internet.

As Freshii grows, Corrin believes that to reach his target demographic, he'll need to reinforce the brand with outstanding customer service, by leveraging innovation, and by exploiting new technology, like an iPad app that allows you to customize your salad on the walk over to Freshii and pick it up when you arrive (which is currently indevelopment).

Our formula for picking likely candidates for growth over the next 12 months is inspired by his approach.

If a licensee would acquire 1000 units per month over a 4 - 6 month period through their offline efforts and / or through online efforts they would net ~ $ 2,100 per month with the heavy lifting done by; 1) Mark Cuban (and / or associates) in Financing, 2) Buybak.com in Software and Receiving, 3) Amazon.com in Warehousing, Pick, Pack, Ship and Marketplace Sales and 4) Citibank / Visa in payment processing.

And over recent times, issuance appears to have picked up a little, particularly by lower - rated companies.

In May, I was able to attend a Pick Pack Play Day, where over 3,600 pieces of sports equipment were sorted by volunteers from Dr Pepper Snapple Group and Good Sports, and then donated to three...

By JEFFREY BELL AND RICH DANKER There is thought to be a pitched battle raging within the White House over President Obama's pick to succeed Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke when his term expires early next year.

If you convinced somebody in the fall of 2007 that this was the right way to invest, they'd have a bone to pick with you, as they'd watch U.S. stocks crash by nearly 60 % over the following sixteen months.

Growth in household disposable income picked up steadily over the past year, driven by solid employment growth, to be running at just under 6 per cent over the year to the June quarter, the highest rate of increase for almost three years.

Which is why are two factions of the board of Uber — which will meet tomorrow to try to pick a CEO by Labor Day — still incessantly leaking about and wrangling over the possibility of Whitman, with one side trying to thwart her unlikely return and the other hoping there is some scenario possible in which she would come back?

However, despite this pick up in appetite and improved performance more recently, it is important that investors do not lose sight of the fact that EM equities have still lagged developed markets by more than 50 % over the last five years.

The improvement in confidence has been greatest for manufacturing firms, which have benefited from the strong pick - up in external demand: exports increased by 8 per cent over the past year.

Business investment has picked up considerably over the past two years, rising by over 30 per cent.

The pick - up in growth over the past year has been driven by a marked increase in domestic final demand.

Although export growth has also strengthened over this period, it has been roughly matched by a pick - up in import growth.

Author Burton Malkiel believes that by buying and holding a low - cost, internationally diversified index of securities over time, an investor can exceed even portfolios picked by professionals with complicated analytics (aka «index funds»).

The pipeline goes over mountains, across farmland, over the Fraser and Skeena rivers, and straight through the Great Bear Rainforest to the Pacific where it will be picked up by supertankers trying to navigate our inland coastal waters,» said New Democrat environment critic Rob Fleming.

We concur with recent comments by Fed policymakers that US economic weakness seen in first - quarter data is likely to be transitory, and that activity should pick up over the rest of the year.

Nonetheless, with wholesale import prices having risen by about 10 per cent over the past year, some pick - up in consumer prices must be expected.

The pace of growth in the US has picked up over recent months, assisted by very expansionary macroeconomic policy settings and supportive financial conditions.

Nevertheless, borrowing from financial intermediaries has picked up recently, rising by 7 per cent in annualised terms over the six months to September.

The Bank's current assessment is that inflation could fall a little further than earlier expected over the next year, but pick up a little more after that, so that it will be about 2 1/2 per cent by the second half of 2005.

Results from the Bank's latest quarterly survey of financial market economists show that the median inflation forecast is 2.1 per cent over the year to June 2004, before picking up to 2.4 per cent over the year to June 2005; forecasts for both periods are lower than they were in November 2003 by 0.1 percentage points (Table 16).

Over time, the stock market has reached new records, powered by economic and earnings growth.2 We expect both to continue: The domestic economy is picking up a little speed, helped by improving growth in the rest of the world, and company earnings have benefited from better sales, the weaker dollar and still - low interest rates.

More recently, however, there was a pick - up in residential building approvals in the March quarter, although this was largely driven by the volatile medium - density sector; house approvals have been broadly unchanged over the past six months (Graph 27).

«Patriarchy» is traditionalism but you can't just pick everything you hate and blame it on male rule because we had plenty of queens making rules over the centuries and Victorian culture being the most oppressive was by guess whom?

Take your pick, just don't over simplify the discussion by missing the point entirely.

Buoyed by the voices of the saints past and present in that parish, I felt my faith picked up at the seams and pinned to angels who carried me over canyons of doubt.

Moreover, this entire system is based on a collection of ancient stories that has been picked over, edited, and censored by the «leaders» of these factions so that the other accounts do not infringe or contradict what they have been promoting.