Sentences with phrase «point in the past with»

Wyndham Rewards has gutted their airline transfer ratios, but I successfully bought points in the past with the sole intent of transferring them to United Airlines at a very favorable price.

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Called «Seeso,» the service will launch widely in January, at which point members can pay $ 3.99 per month for ad - free access to a full library NBC comedy programming — from new episodes of Saturday Night Live and Jimmy Fallon's The Tonight Show to all past episodes of classic shows like The Office and 30 Rock — along with a slate of new original series and stand - up comedy specials.

As lawmakers and the public scrutinize dramatic price increases for other old drugs — most recently with the Mylan - owned EpiPen, which saw its cost go up by 500 % in the past nine years — the next flash point may be insulin, a drug both ubiquitous and complicated.

We felt that we were past the tipping point in terms of video technology and comfort with it — most applicants would have used Skype or FaceTime.»

Rather than just talking to them, you'll actually listen to them and try to understand their goals, their needs, their pain points and any problems with similar providers they've had in the past.

In the past, leaders were people with Ivy League degrees or West Point commissions.

In court documents filed with the Northern California District Court on Thursday, Uber argued that the class - action part of the suit should be dropped because the 160,000 drivers, «have little or nothing in common, other than their use of the Uber App in California at some point over the past six years.&raquIn court documents filed with the Northern California District Court on Thursday, Uber argued that the class - action part of the suit should be dropped because the 160,000 drivers, «have little or nothing in common, other than their use of the Uber App in California at some point over the past six years.&raquin common, other than their use of the Uber App in California at some point over the past six years.&raquin California at some point over the past six years.»

In the past, brand promises and marketing campaigns provided companies the first point of contact with potential customers and prospects.

The issue of bond market liquidity has been a consistent theme over the past years or so with financial executives such as JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon, Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman, and Oaktree Capital's Howard Marks weighing in on the issue and generally pointing the finger at a lack of liquidity exasperating moves in financial markets.

In the past week, a series of moves by the campaign, coupled with some striking numbers about his place in the race, point to the fact that Gingrich is entering a new phase in his presidential quest: the death marcIn the past week, a series of moves by the campaign, coupled with some striking numbers about his place in the race, point to the fact that Gingrich is entering a new phase in his presidential quest: the death marcin the race, point to the fact that Gingrich is entering a new phase in his presidential quest: the death marcin his presidential quest: the death march.

In the past decade there has been no lack of best - customer clubs, point programs, new twists on airline frequent - flier plans, and contests with spectacular prizes.

The proposal has generated a great deal of often vitriolic debate over the future of the wheat board, and the C.D. Howe Institute recently weighed in with a report arguing that global grain markets have changed significantly over the past few decades, to the point that the CWB is more often than not a price taker.

Investors representing nearly 20 % of Jazz's shares have held talks with the company's top executives and board since the beginning of the year to voice their views, though the talks have accelerated in the past several weeks, the people said, adding that conversations with management remain friendly at this point.

Lewis is averaging over five yards a carry and has scored 15 points or more in four of the past six weeks even with Burkhead getting the bulk of the workload.

You'll definitely want to avoid vague statements and hyperbole, but you'll score extra points if you can include some stats on how you have impacted companies or associations that you've been employed with in the past.

Baker, reached by phone in New York, is quick to point out that the 47 - store chain, centred in nine northeastern states, is «making great strides,» with sales up 20 % over the past two years.

For the past 20 years, business pundits have pointed out that every industry is in a process of «disruptive innovation,» that today's markets change with lightning speed, and that only nimble companies can survive.

From this point, what happened in the past, it's being dealt with by authorities.

In the past three years, HYLD has returned negative 1.68 percent, while JNK is up by about the same percentage, with an expense ratio (0.40 percent) that is 83 basis points lower.

Historically, the Fed has responded to recession by cutting rates substantially, with the benchmark funds rate falling by 400 basis points or more in the context of downturns over the past two generations.

He has been pointed over the past several quarters to the fiscal side and pointing to Washington as opposed to the Federal Reserve in terms of what they can do going forward with tax reform with some type of stimulative fiscal policies that propel the real economy forward as opposed to monetary policy.

While the Facebook trade was quite profitable for newsletter subscribers who followed our exact, preset entry and points, we have successfully used this strategy with many other trades over the past few months (+58 % in $ TSLA [still open], +40 % in $ SCTY, +20 % in $ SYNA, and more).

At one point I had a 100 % success rate with my submissions, but have only made 1 submission in the past 12 months as a result of what I know is an overwhelming backlog of poorly written submissions and websites with almost no value in terms of content or concept.

With that said, I've paid for each of these tools at some point in the past and did find them each to offer their own unique value.

We've got a really strong operating business model in place now, and we've been in a situation this past quarter with a number of activities going on, and still putting up 4.5 points.

The stock market had a brutal week, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropping over 1,100 points in the past two days alone.

This is the next great challenge for Beijing, and when the regulators finally do start to repair overextended balance sheet, with a much higher debt - to - GDP ratio than any other country at China's stage of economic development, according to a presentation Monday night by my very smart former student, Chen Long, I expect annual GDP growth rates will continue dropping steadily, by 1 - 2 percentage points a year through the rest of this decade (and there has been increasing talk in the past month or two that GDP growth rates are already 1 - 2 points below the printed rates).

-LSB-...] we stop being so parsimonious with our money because our financial nut grows to the point where we can afford luxuries otherwise foreign to us in the past.

Well, bearing in mind that we start our analysis with a projection that Canada's economic potential is likely to grow by only around 1.5 per cent, which is not very inspiring, we need to take every decimal point of potential growth more seriously than we have in the past.

Last August, at the time of the announcement of the sale of the Washington Post, I noted that Washington Post Co. shares had proved a mediocre investment over the past two decades, trailing the S&P 500 by more than 2.5 percentage points on an annualized investment (although starting at the time Buffett began accumulating shares, in 1973, the performance was much better, with an estimated annual return of 11.5 %).

Moreover, one year earlier, in 2016, IJR was the stronger performer, outpacing VB by 800 basis points, serving as a reminder not to rely on past performance success with an ETF.

In 2015, as in the past, the best mortgage rates are reserved for borrowers with excellent credit and the willingness to pay more money up front in the form of discount pointIn 2015, as in the past, the best mortgage rates are reserved for borrowers with excellent credit and the willingness to pay more money up front in the form of discount pointin the past, the best mortgage rates are reserved for borrowers with excellent credit and the willingness to pay more money up front in the form of discount pointin the form of discount points.

On this point, we are in agreement with many financial luminaries who we have cited in past letters.

Among other English - speaking countries, the Bank of England has increased official rates by 100 basis points in four steps to 6 per cent, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand has increased rates by 200 basis points to 6.5 per cent, and the Bank of Canada has increased rates by 125 basis points to 5.75 per cent, with the past four increases immediately following the US Fed (Table 3).

Case in point: given the 18 percent decline in the value of the euro versus the dollar during the past year, a domestic producer would need to reduce costs significantly to remain competitive with a European counterpart, all else being equal.

Oil giants ExxonMobil (XOM) and Chevron (CVX) have accounted for about a third of the Dow's point losses this month, with Exxon stock falling in 20 of the past 21 trading sessions.

With the outlook for growth in the euro area remaining fairly subdued, German bond yields are now below those in the US after having been around 30 basis points higher for much of the past year.

According to S&P, «global non-financial corporate debt grew by 15 percentage points to 96 % of GDP in the past six years, with some 37 % of companies deemed to be «highly leveraged», up from 32 % in 2007.»

Barhydt went on to point out that these sorts of issues with decentralized governance have not necessarily existed on this scale in the past, using Linus Torvalds's benevolent dictatorship over Linux as an example of how things are usually operate in open - source software projects.

From this vantage point, Japan looks cheap relative to the United States, with the other regions looking comparable to how they have been valued relative to the United States in the past.

Together with other factors — such as strong underlying demand based on demographic trends, favourable employment conditions, and the large amount of work still in the pipeline — this points to the current downturn in dwelling investment being relatively mild compared with past experience.

Either earnings have to grow much faster than sales, or sales growth has to come from things that aren't advertising, or the ad industry has to grow much faster than it did in the past, or you have to pick an end point for the year you are measuring to that is very near today - or, you'd end up with Google having a huge share of global advertising spending.

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With those improvements, the company has seen reduced costs, boosting gross margin by six percentage points in the past year.

But as I noted last week (see Two Point Three Sigmas Above the Norm), nominal growth and interest rate variations have historically canceled out over the past century, with little effect on the accuracy of our valuation estimates — matched reductions in the growth rate and the discount rate really don't affect fair value.

''... with 40 % to 47 % of Americans surveyed saying they believed that God created humans in their present form at one point within the past 10,000 years»

As I've pointed out, there have been instances in the past where people explained phenomena with spiritual answers, only to have those explanation later debunked by science.

There is one further point to be made, however, to bring these remarks into relation with the deepest insights of the Christian tradition in its best moments, and into relation with the convictions of the wisest men and women — past and present, in our own family, of our own acquaintance or within our own awareness and observation.

One could argue that this had religious advantages from a Christian point of view, since it emphasized what God is doing here and now in and with us rather than locating God's action in the distant past.

Like the part about women - blaming and shaming combined with the pastor digging up offenses from the past, referencing an emotional distance he feels from us as we leave, citing his own pastoral involvement and authority in the decisions of our lives up to this point, threatening to talk to the pastor of the church we're visiting to share his «concerns,» and suggesting that I'm just a weak mess of emotions and that's why I can't handle the life - sucking horror that has become sundays at this church.