Sentences with phrase «point of the north»

Having closed to within a point of north London rivals Tottenham, it would be hard for Arsenal fans to see that gap open up again and the spuds have a home game against Crystal Palace this weekend which you expect them to win.

At worst, I think Hurricane Irene will clip the easternmost point of North Carolina at worst, and very possibly miss the US entirely.

However, the most interesting thing about the easternmost point of North America is that the entire name of the province is Newfoundland and Labrador.

Nestled perfectly on the southernmost point of North Myrtle Beach, is a unique southern plantation full of luxury and charm.

The stunning panoramic views from this Caribbean style villa, on the highest point of the north shore, could only be improved if airborne.

Not exact matches

But Chinese exports of automobile parts to North America are growing about a percentage point slower than they are to the rest of the world, suggesting NAFTA actually makes U.S. automobile companies more competitive.

Nearly as surprising was the willingness of Russia and private oil companies in North America to carry on at prices that were understood to be well below their break - even points.

I live in Canada now, but I gave birth to both of my kids in the United States, and from the vantage point of the Great White North, I can tell you that parents here view the standard three - month American leave as unfathomable and a two - week leave as downright barbaric.

The Martinsville Bulletin, which serves communities along Virginia's border with North Carolina, questioned the point of endorsements:

Canadian CEOs agreed that the BP disaster will lead to much tougher regulation of the entire North American oil extraction industry, with a mean of 6 on the 7 - point agreement scale.

Ford said that over the next couple of years it will increase its SUV mix 10 percentage points and decrease its car portfolio 10 percentage points in North American.

Those rumours reached a boiling point in September when North Korea's parliament held a rare second meeting of the year.

The Navy is also renovating hangers and infrastructure in Iceland as part of a project to house P - 8s there for patrols over the Greenland - Iceland - UK gap, a choke point for ships moving between the Arctic and North Atlantic oceans — though those plans don't necessarily include reestablishing a permanent presence there.

The activist movement has grown steadily since the tribe established Sacred Stone Camp in Cannon Ball, North Dakota, in April, a temporary site founded as a point of resistance to the pipeline.

«The company believes that malware, installed through the use of compromised third - party vendor credentials, affected one particular point of sale system at fewer than 300 of approximately 5,500 franchised North America Wendy's restaurants,» the company said in its quarterly filing Wednesday.

It's therefore logical to assume that for the sake of its own security, North Korea will not risk escalating beyond the point of sporadic missile and nuclear tests.

The company has developed a machine that uses electricity to print the magnetic equivalent of pixels on a surface — complex patterns of north and south polarity points — allowing precise control over the topology of the magnetic fields.

Just south of Queen Elizabeth Park, the residents around Edinburgh Drive, who are new on the list this year, have a scenic view of their slightly wealthier peers across the North River in Lewis Point (see No. 2).

The youngest marketing professor to be hired by a North American B - school, Giesler is known as a dynamic instructor willing to go to extreme lengths to drive a point home, even setting his PhD dissertation on fire as part of one demonstration.

Chad O'Carroll of the Korea Risk Group says there is some pressure for both the North and South Korean leaders to stress key negotiating points.

Investors have been buying equities because of strong economic data and earnings growth, according to Phipps, who pointed out they have been mostly ignoring political turmoil, including the specter of nuclear war between the United States and North Korea and the investigation of potential links between the Trump campaign and Russia.

During the election, Trump scored points with an array of working - class voters by saying he would renegotiate trade deals, such as the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, which the president has said favored other countries over the U.S.

Dora Gicheva, an economist at the University of North Carolina, has found that for every $ 10,000 young people carried in student debt, the likelihood of getting married in the seven years following graduation dropped by some three or four percentage points.

North Korea's state media on Saturday released the joint statement as part of a multi-page spread with more than 60 photos from the visit, lauding Friday's summit as a turning point for the peninsula.

Geographically speaking, Nielsen, who's the director of the school's Business Startup Center, has a point: Ten minutes to the north of campus is the much - buzzed about Downtown Project, an effort into which Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh has poured $ 350 million of his own money to turn Vegas into a start - up oasis.

«Point S has 40 years of experience with a value - added concept that we had less of in North America.

One trader has his sights on a far bolder call nearly 100 basis points north of that.

While we haven't yet got to the point where Canadian oil production is literally stranded — shut down for lack of a place to store, let alone ship it — our product is selling for far less than the North American and world benchmark prices that continue to make filling up your car an expensive proposition.

Applying the lower of these two weighted - average calculations (24 percentage points) to Canada's existing automotive manufacturing footprint (and assuming that the dislocation for Canada's industry is only proportional to the overall North American shrinkage, an assumption which is probably optimistic), allows us to generate an estimate of the potential scale of economic loss if the U.S. - Japan rules were implemented.

The event is avowedly nonpartisan, and Hugh Welsh, DSM's president of North America, says that's the point.

Perth - based exploration junior Alkane Exploration NL is on the point of proving up the marketability of product from its 100 per cent held Dubbo Zirconia project, located twenty kilometres south of Dubbo and 400 km north - west of Sydney.

Explaining their findings in Harvard Business Review, the study's authors, Harvard's Robert Huckman and Bradley Staats of the University of North Carolina, pointed to the time it takes new team members to learn how to communicate with one another and determine who is the best authority in different areas.

That's a valid concern, but it's worth pointing out that since its recent low of $ 26 a barrel in February 2016, the oil price has surged nearly 150 percent — all while the number of active wells in North America has risen.

As many others have already pointed out, Amazon's recent announcement that it will build a second headquarters in North America has set in motion what will become one of the biggest competitions in history among state and local governments for a corporate expansion project.

The consolidation of distributors in North America has reached a breaking point and I think there are plenty of people in beverage alcohol looking for other options.»

The top influencer spenders last month, as estimated by Points North, include names you've likely heard of, such as Amazon, Walmart and Mercedes Benz, but also the more obscure — at least until that influencer spending kicks in — like Flat Tummy, Waist Gang Society and SugarBearHair vitamins.

Points North is a firm founded by former executives with analytics experience going back to the old Jupiter Research digital ad measurement business, as well as with the Word of Mouth Marketing Association (now part of the Association of National Advertisers) and such influencer networks as CrowdTap and House Party.

Fake follower counts are based on Points North scanning followers of influencers to sort out such things as accounts making comments in languages that don't make sense for the content or the influencer, or accounts making the exact same comments across multiple influencers and posts.

The wide range of new CMIT Solutions locations points to the growing demand for comprehensive and IT solutions for small to medium - sized businesses (SMBs) all across North America.

The Wall Street Journal in August spoke with a South Korean trader who provided perhaps the best insight into why: «If war breaks out with North Korea and they fire a nuclear weapon, it becomes a matter of life or death, and at that point, what happens in the stock market is meaningless.»

Fitzpatrick points to numbers that show Air Canada's on - time performance improving steadily since January, beating out several of its North American rivals».

Although this large North American industrial distributor might be «down from prior guidance of 300 basis points, the company stated that the reduced guidance implies fiscal year 2016 revenue growth of between 3 percent and 6 percent,» said Nicholas Wesley Yee, a certified public accountant and director of research at Gradient Analytics.

The line is a key choke point for Puerto Rico's power grid, carrying electricity from generators in the south of the island to load centers in the north.

There could be several factors that had investors on edge — including news that North Korea had completed a fifth nuclear missile test and the European Central Bank had declined to announce additional measures to help stimulate Europe's sluggish economy — but many strategists pointed to a speech Friday morning by Federal Reserve Bank of Boston President Eric Rosengren, in which he said that «a reasonable case can be made» for tightening interest rates in the U.S..

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And with the U.S. president in full - blown Art of the Deal negotiating mode on tariffs and the North American Free Trade Agreement, there are trade statistics to prove just about any point.

«[Project C.O.R.E.] has no value unless we learn how to balance physical development with human capital development,» says Danise Jones - Dorsey, a longtime Fells Point resident, former Baltimore Housing Authority official, and current member of the North East Housing Initiative land trust.

Pricing was 0.4 percentage points lower as timing of promotions in North America and Europe more than offset price increases in Rest of World markets, primarily Latin America.

Although $ 8 billion market cap Ares Capital is the largest of these three BDCs, he pointed out that Prospect Capital is well diversified and pays out a dividend north of 12 %.

While it's unlikely the North Korean leader wants to become a new kind of activist investor — despite the generous compensation — the hacking of Sony reignites the issue of whether the Japanese conglomerate should spin off its entertainment unit as Loeb's Third Point suggested.