There are two
points the book makes that I would like to emphasise here.
Gates: The key
point the book makes is that reuse is a stronger benefit energy-wise than recycle, because in recycle you, in the case of the metals, you molt it again, and so you're actually using almost as much energy — aluminum say half as much — but almost as much energy — actually, it's less than half.
The most important
point this book makes is that, in writing a persuasive legal brief, you have to draw a fine line between setting forth the facts and legal arguments, but also making the damn thing readable.
Not exact matches
The complementary starting
points of sports arenas versus board rooms amid shared passions for leadership and teamwork
make the
book unique and valuable.
A clear summary of your
points is possibly the best thing you can do to not just deliver value to the reader, but also
make the
book memorable, which helps you sell more
books.
Feldman - Barrett
makes some excellent
points in the
book that emotions are too complex for those hard and fast rules.
Because Slack hasn't yet reached the
point where it has tens of thousands of workers on its
books, «[i] t is relatively easy for us to move the lever a small bit right now to
make a significant change in our trajectory,» CEO Stewart Butterfield and HR chief Anne Toth write in a blog post disclosing the numbers.
However, if you
book travel through the Chase Ultimate Rewards portal and use
points to pay, you'll get a 25 % bonus,
making points worth 1.25 cents each.
The key turning
point came a decade ago, when Smith
made significant changes to Winters» management structure after reading Jim Collins» bestselling business
book Good to Great.
You can use
points from the Reserve the same ways as with the Preferred, except that you'll get a 50 % bonus when
booking travel through Chase,
making your
points worth 1.5 cents each.
His last open letter to shareholders
makes the
point clearly about investing in creating value — «Berkshire's gain in net worth during 2016 was $ 27.5 billion, which increased the per - share
book value of both our Class A and Class B stock by 10.7 %.
Andrew Keen, an author and tech entrepreneur, is hardly the first to
point this out, but his ambitious new
book, How to Fix the Future,
makes what might be the most forceful case yet.
In his best - selling
book «Outliers,» which investigates the psychology of success, Malcolm Gladwell
makes a powerful
point about what helps people commit to and enjoy their work.
Rush casts its net wide; there's a macroeconomic argument woven through the
book that
makes the case against taxation structures that are redistributive to the
point of dampening the urge to succeed.
While not all gossip is bad — one can share secrets about wonderful things like a suspected pregnancy or job promotion — Epstein
points out that «useful gossip is, in the minds of most people, not what gossip is really about,» and so the majority of the
book focuses on the more naughty kind of tattling, the kind that
makes your heart beat faster when the subject of ridicule comes around the corner.
She adds that even the
book's critics «are
making a deep if inadvertent
point: Only in women is success viewed as a barrier to giving advice.»
About five years ago, Malcolm Gladwell, author of bestselling
books like The Tipping
Point and Blink,
made this prediction, basically writing off the power of social media for businesses: «In about five years, everyone will head back toward traditional advertising.»
In his
book «Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk» (1996), Peter Bernstein
makes a good
point about what's at stake in the debate:
For reservations
made before November 1, 2017, first - time AirBnB users that provide their Elevate loyalty program membership number will earn a bonus of 1,500 Elevate
points and a $ 20 AirBnB travel credit for a
booking of at least $ 150 in value.
Case in
point: Following the Enron blow - up, the Financial Accounting Standards Board banned an accounting practice that Enron had used to
book expected future profits as earnings, immediately, at very the moment it
made an investment.
Depending on the way a rewards program is structured, you may be able to earn
points by using your credit card to
book flights and pay for other travel expenses, shopping through your card's online bonus mall and
making purchases at certain retailers, hotels and restaurants.
And you know, look, I had read a ton of
books at that
point but they were so... you read «Market Wizards» by Schwager, and then you read Peter Lynch, and then you read Jack Bogle, you've got three completely different... So I read Nick Murray, was the
book that
made... probably changed more about my investment philosophy than anything else.
In the first few pages of Pinker's
book, he
makes the
point that civilization has
made «spectacular progress» in nearly every possible way.
In providing this service, it was essential that bmi be able to allow diamond club members to
make their
bookings online using accrued
points.
Given your belief that Berkshire's intrinsic value continues to exceed its
book value with the difference continuing to widen over time, are we at a
point where it
makes sense to consider buying back stock at a higher break
point that Berkshire currently has in place and would you ever consider stepping in buying back shares that did dip down below 1.2 times
book value per share even if that prior years» figure had not yet been released?
Make sure you check the
points cost of the travel portal, as well as when transferring to an airline or hotel to
book an award.
Obviously if you're close to an award
booking on an airline then it may
make sense to use your
points to top off your existing pool of rewards.
Further, this
book will
point out that how an asset is held will
make a difference in its future performance.
This
makes Asia Miles the easiest
points to acquire if you want to
book the new QSuite business class seat on Qatar Airways.
Up until this
point, we have only talked about American Express» airline transfer partners, but you'll also have access to
booking hotels by
making use of their hotel transfer partners.
I
make the argument more fully in my recently released
book «The Customer Relationship; Your Last Competitive Advantage» available from Vision Critical, but if you want the abridged version the three key
points are:
Generally these rooms are not going to cost very much, so
make sure to check the value you are getting from your
points before you
book.
= > I have no idea what
point you are
making with «I would take something by just its word and a scientist telling me to believe it» what
book are you talking about?
Augustine — being concerned with his «ascent» (a word used repeatedly in
Book X) from sin to salvation — is preoccupied with the relationship between memory and sin: he
makes a
point of noting that we are able to remember our sins without committing them over again.
Neither can they become disposable accessories — a
point Coughlin
makes clear in one of the
book's essays, «What Truths We Hold,» which also appeared as a First Things web column.
But I will (again) reiterate one crucial
point that Smith
made in his response: there is no substitute for reading the
book.
In another publication, Fletcher wrote that «I am afraid that reality has overtaken Meyer's
book and its flawed reasoning» in
pointing out scientific problems with Meyer's work by citing how RNA «survived and evolved into our own human protein -
making factory, and continues to
make our fingers and toes.»
The
point of there being a
book like that is to try to distract you with a bunch of other
points the other wants to
make to persuade you.
As a reader trying to be charitable, I face an unattractive choice: accept that His Eminence does hold the mistaken view that mercy is essential to God; or assume that when he emphatically
made the multiple important statements at key
points in his
book that mercy is essential to God, he didn't mean them.
He
points out that in the section of his
book regarding the Trinity, titled «Mercy as Mirror of the Trinity,» he
makes no such assertion.
Anyone who has even just perused the
book of mormon can see the people followingthis cult, as nice as they may seem, are
making a
point to distance themselves from the real world.
I don't know what's more amusing, your assumptions about all atheists, or your attempt to quote a
book they don't believe in to
make your
point.
Later, I did a whole series on «Gospelism» (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6) in which I argue many of the
points that Scot McKnight
made in his
book, but which he referred to as «Gospeling.»
GQ had the opportunity to
make a good and fair
point, but instead put Christians (rightly) on the defensive for singling it out as the holy
book that all of culture should abandon.
In the
book, I
make a brief but impassioned case for reading the text with the prejudice of love, a hermeneutic I believe was employed by Jesus, and, as many reviewers have
pointed out, a hermeneutic that Augustine also favored.
In several of them, effective use is
made of bullet
points, e.g. on pride, gleaned from St. Catherine of Siena's
book The Dialogue.
This
book isn't an argument to
make or a
point to take.
The
book's main
point was essentially this — knowing and following Jesus
makes our lives completely satisfying.
In that
book he
made the
point that the teaching of Jesus — his words as reported to us in the New Testament — has its peculiar importance for us in that it shows «who Jesus was» in terms of «what Jesus said.»
but your religion and
book is man
made;; just give your own life meaning for the time ya have — is hawkings
point.