Sentences with phrase «point margin made»

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She noted that with the $ 15 minimum wage (a frequent point of comparison in the discussion) Safeway chose to absorb the cost of the minimum wage instead of cutting jobs or passing the costs on to consumers, but that made Seattle Safeway stores» profit margin half as much as stores in other locations.

In addition, Morningstar's Burns points to «a lot of growth in the alternative space, like margin arbitrage and managed futures making it into the ETF wrapper — and with pretty good success for people looking for diversification.

First, the «returns on equities» here are typically taken to be earnings yields, which as we've frequently noted, are affected by cyclical variations in profit margins that make them notoriously poor indicators of long - term prospective returns (see Two Point Three Sigmas Above the Norm and Margins, Multiples and the Iron Law of Valumargins that make them notoriously poor indicators of long - term prospective returns (see Two Point Three Sigmas Above the Norm and Margins, Multiples and the Iron Law of ValuMargins, Multiples and the Iron Law of Valuation).

In his native Argentina and in his nascent papacy, Francis has made a point of ministering to people on the margins and preaching about mercy.

I'm sure everyone is familiar with the idiom «You can't teach an old dog new tricks», its the most applicable phrase when i think of describing Martinez, I'm not saying he's that old but the point i'm making is that he is getting older so the margin for error or correction is slim.

While the Titans made just 22 of those 39 attempts, it made a huge difference in the four - point margin of victory.

For example, only 4.64 % of all regular season games have been decided by 1 - point, which makes it the seventh most common margin of victory.

I hate to say this but I don't see us making the top 4... we missed out by a point last season... this season will be by a bigger margin.

In the end it was a 2.0 point margin that made the difference — with total team scores of 453.7 to 451.7, this was just as much as a pointed toe.

Other, more minor changes include the introduction of Nascar - style two - lane rolling starts at every race, the addition of a series of complex mirrors and cameras to the Halo in order to make it appear invisible to the naked eye, and bonus points being awarded to the driver who can exceed the pit lane speed limit by the smallest margin over the course of the weekend.

You will notice that the average margin of victory is just over 10 points, which made us wonder whether these teams should be taken on the moneyline.

While no wide receiver is worth 2.5 - points to the spread, «9» is the 20th common margin of victory which makes it a dead number.

Every team who wins the league will likely lose no more than 5 league games — and we give up a loss at home to West Ham! It makes our margins for error even smaller, and now we need to make up those 3 points at either Stamford Bridge or Old Trafford.

But President Barack Obama carried this district by an 11 - point margin in 2012, making Hardy one of two House Republicans who the Rothenberg & Gonzales Political Report / Roll Call view as an underdog going into his re-election fight.

The district voted for President Barack Obama by an 11 - point margin in 2012, making it a top pick - up target for Democrats this year.

The right track - wrong track question has taken something of a swing: Last month voters by a margin of 49 percent to 41 percent said the state was heading in the wrong direction — making for a 15 - point improvement in how they are viewing the direction of the state.

The poll, the first independent survey to be made public in the general election campaign, has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.6 percentage points.

«I've talked to Carl Paladino several times, in fact, since the primary and I've explained - we've had very civil discussions -... the Conservatives went to the polls, there was an election I won by a very large margin, (the voters) made their decision, the voters have expressed their point of view in that case,» Lazio told host John Gambling.

While he came out of the gate with a polished talking point — I was born here, served my country and now I'm back to serve my community — it didn't make a lick of difference, and he was trounced by even wider margins.

Europe region in particular is even more challenging at that price point, and it leaves * very * little margin to make it worthwhile unless we jack up the price.

In the margins of the paper next to the glossed section or with an arrow pointing to the revisions, the student writes why they made the changes.

Whatever the fate of the Race to the Top, round two promises to end with winners and losers being decided by the narrowest of margins, making every point in the competition's 500 - point grading scale count.

Accordingly, here are Linn's two key points of caution: (1) Factors that complicate doing this, and make such simple conversions less reliable and less or invalid include «the content, format, and margins of error of the tests; the intended and actual uses of the tests; and the consequences attached to the results of the tests.»

Tony makes a valid point, if dealers are to protect margin, they would be well served to A. Follow Tony's advice, B. Study the «gross» value chain from lead to sale.

Readers looking for bargains will buy illegal books instead of legal ones, the profit margin for authors and publishers which is small now will plummet to the point that publishing will no longer be profitable for anyone, and those who make the money will have done nothing to create books.

While the primary objective is hands - on polishing, line editing can also include notes in margins to explain changes, illustrate points of craft, or pass along ideas to push a scene further or make an approach to something work better.

As principal analyst at The Enderle Group, Rob Enderle, points out: «This is a subsidized device that comes with advertisements that make money for the company and offsets that manufacturing price, giving Amazon its profit margins.»

Booksellers were quick to point out that ebooks don't have that kind of margin available to give to Apple, and that changes would have to be made to get around it.

That's the key underlying point, in fact, to the whole argument: Amazon could sell ebooks for $ 9.99 and break even or make a bit of money even if they pay their wholesale pulp brink price to the publishers, and the publishers make money on the ebooks even if they do take some discount, because ebooks cost nothing on the margin to produce.

Type in 12 - point font, for example, Arial which is the easiest to read, make it double - spaced with one - inch margins.

Now that you know the «contribution margin» from selling one of your tacos, you can calculate how many tacos you need to sell to cover the taco stand's fixed expenses, in this example this will also be our break - even point (the point where we've sold enough tacos to cover all of our fixed and variable expenses for the month but have yet to make any profit).

Brian makes the point that most stock investors do not use margin, and when a dividend investor decides to use margin, they are limited to 50 %.

Many swing traders use mathematical models to calculate entry and exit points, and put a margin of safety in to make sure they lock a profit.

Yet even that may be ending: since we are looking at the margin, it makes sense to present David Rosenberg's observations on what it is that he is looking at the moment, which appropriately enough, is NYSE margin debt, whose 12 month trailing average has just turned negative: traditionally an important inflection point.

At this point, or even before, the broker will make a «margin call.»

Making Sustainable Sales With higher price points and good margins, eco-friendly pet beds are a great opportunity.

In practice these are fairly blunt tools that tell me «1 cent a point for American miles is a really good deal» but that I'm not going to spend 2 cents unless there's a very specific scenario — like a few points at the margin to top off an account for an award I've put on hold — where it makes sense (and in that scenario, my valuation of each point is higher since they're helping me to save with a real redemption).

Europe region in particular is even more challenging at that price point, and it leaves * very * little margin to make it worthwhile unless we jack up the price.

While in her brief essay «curator Carol Podedworny makes the predictable political point that these are artists speaking from the margins of white male culture, this show is not simply a litany by the dispossessed.

If you measure the latitude of the ice margin at just one point, you can make a very reasonable estimate of the total extent.

does having such a large number of points lessen the margin of error???? OR could the errors be compounding each other and making the margin of error much larger?

i think that's inaccurate shx, the scientists did their work, and from what i could gather tried very hard not to overstate their case, the media did the scare - mongering and the media have then turned like the whores they are in the other direction, al gore's film upped the tempo and although it seemed like a good thing at the time, i think with hindsight it was a poisoned chalice, but lets be clear, doing research in multiple areas and having the results point to potentially catastrophic climate change and asking for changes to be made to avert this is not scare - mongering, its common sense, accepting that their is margin for error but erring on the side of caution since the stakes are life on earth as we know it is not scare - mongering, it is the application of the precautionary principle and common sense

On the margin point, the trial Judge made the observation that most claimants seemed to contend that all valuations were «standard»; clear reference to the analysis of the authorities on the issue set out by Mr Justice Coulson in K / S Lincoln v CB Richard Ellis and the tendency for those bringing claims to argue for the lowest possible margin; but accepted that this valuation was in the exceptional category but at the lower end of such — a firm steer that in the right case a higher margin would be achievable.

PayPal could drop their prices for bitcoin transactions overnight by a full percentage point and make the same gross margins, because the company wouldn't be exposed to the same interchange or credit card fees.

According to new research from NPD, AirPods are effectively dominating the truly wireless headphone market, making up for a huge margin of the sales up to this point.

Make sure your font size is readable (12 - point at least), and easily adjust line spacing and margins for great visibility.

Proofread carefully, use headings and bullet points to break up text, use consistent fonts and make sure margins, bullet points and indents are cleanly aligned.

Set your own margins, indents, bullet points, fonts, borders, bold, underlines, and special features to make your resume look organized and professional.

Perusing entire stacks of single - spaced, 12 - point Times New Roman crammed improbably between the margins is enough to make a guy go cross-eyed.

Leave some «white space» so that important points can stand out; and try to make your margins between.75 ″ and 1 ″ on all sides.