Sentences with phrase «points a year off»

A United Nations report released Sunday said that governments must act faster to keep global warming in check and that a radical shift from fossil fuels to low - carbon energy such as wind, solar or nuclear power would shave only about 0.06 of a percentage point a year off world economic growth.

That may not sound like much, but effectively shaving one to two percentage points a year off investment returns can dramatically diminish the wealth you accumulate over the course of your career.

How Passive Funds Trim Your Tax Bill Taxes knocked an average of 0.96 percentage point a year off the returns of about 2,000 actively managed U.S. stock mutual funds over the 15 years ended in September 2014, if they were held in taxable accounts.

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But nobody in his camp was prepared for the outcome: Turnout in the off - year primary was nearly double what the Grayson campaign anticipated, as Paul piled up an eye - popping 23 - point margin across the state.

The square was declared off limits to demonstrations for a third year running and police blocked points of entry, allowing only small groups of labor union representatives to lay wreaths at a monument there.

(He says the company expects the $ 4.7 million investment to pay off in just under three years, at which point it will save more than $ 1.5 million per year.)

Triggertrap has decided to do things a bit differently in 2015, designing a new four - point approach to vacations that significantly tweaks the simple «no tracking time off» policy that didn't work so well last year.

Special circumstances like these emphasize the point that the right amount of days off for each person will vary from year to year based on circumstances.

Shares of Daktronics (dakt) fared well in the second half of last year after starting off slow, finishing the year at $ 10.70, up more than 15 % for the year and 80 % higher than the stock's low point for the year of $ 5.92.

Calliet points to a photo shoot Boyega did around Thanksgiving last year for The Hollywood Reporter that shows off the actor looking «leaner and ripper» than he did in the movie.

A sell - off on Friday left the Dow Jones Industrial Average down more than 260 points for the week and the blue chip index remains down 7 % on the year, while the tech - heavy Nasdaq composite is now off by almost 13 % this year.

Right now that inflection point is 4K (with whatever's post-4K likely a lot more than just three or four years off).

It can shave points off your credit score, defeating the purpose of your request, and can stay on your credit report for up to two years.

On April 3, he initiated coverage with a buy rating, and pointed out his report that the emerging markets «downtick» is leveling off, while U.S. enterprise and commercial markets is growing by 10 % a year.

While on the campaign trail in 2015 at the age of 44, the presidential candidate spoke at Liberty University and alluded to his experience of having to finance his education: I, Cruz said, «took over $ 100,000 in school loans, loans I suspect a lot of y» all can relate to, loans that I'll point out I just paid off a few years ago.»

Two separate answers on the thread took the same quote as their jumping off point: «We tend to overestimate what we can do in a year, and underestimate what we can do in ten.»

Italian 10 - year bond yields fell 2.5 basis points (bps) to 1.754 percent while other euro zone yields were pushed higher by a sell - off in U.S. Treasuries and data suggesting the euro zone economy was not as weak as expected.

A recent survey of small - business owners conducted for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce by Harris Interactive reported an 11 percentage point rise in the last year in the number of owners who are unsure of whether their business will be better off in the future than it has been in the past.

It's not too late to start the new year off right, reviewing where your business is, renewing customer touch - points, and recalibrating your goals.

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.»

I'd be interested to know how many new business were still alive after ten years and at what point, if any, the curve leveled off.

This is the point at which all the years of financial propaganda pay off.

We estimate that the oil price shock, on its own, took about 1 1/4 percentage points off GDP growth in the first half of the year.

In a move that caught everyone off - guard, Canada Post announced a five point â $ œaction planâ $ last week that included phasing - out home delivery of the mail over the next five years, making Canada the only G7 nation to do so.

At some point in the next year, the Fed will taper off its bond purchases, As it does that and as the market anticipates that, we're likely to see some big swings in the stock market.

The main points here are that QE has encouraged the dramatic overvaluation of virtually every class of investments; that these elevated valuations don't represent «wealth» (which is embodied in the future stream of deliverable cash flows, not in the current price); that extreme valuations promise dismal future outcomes for investors over a 10 - 12 year horizon; and that until a clear improvement in market internals conveys a resumption of speculative risk - seeking by investors, the current combination of extreme valuations and increasing risk - aversion, coming off of an extended top formation after persistent «overvalued, overbought, overbullish» extremes, represents the singularly most negative return / risk classification we identify.

I'm getting close to having my rental house paid off, probably 3 more years, at which point I will gain around $ 350 per month in «passive» income.

A 10 % drop for Walmart, its worst loss in 30 years, took 73 points off the Dow and caused selling in other retailers like Target.

In general, to make up for the $ 95 you'll have to spend at least $ 9,500 each year in the long run to earn enough points to pay it off in cash.

Instead of being able to easily pawn off more borrowing on the markets - say 90 basis points for a 5 - year note as at present - they may have to pay hundreds of basis points more.

The credit card net charge - off rate increased 48 basis points year over year, to 3.3 percent.

Full - blown trade war may slash as much as 0.8 of a percentage point off city's growth next year, commentator warns.

If there is a cut - off point, it should be to exempt people who earn LESS than $ 60,000 a year.

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Five things that could derail the expansion, and one that would send it soaring The economy has its weak points, but giving innovation a freer hand would set off another round of growthThe expansion is going into its ninth year, but there are things that could derail it.

As shown in the chart, maintaining an open secured card account for two years was associated with a 24 - point increase in median credit score, while being charged off by the lender was associated with a 60 - point decrease in median credit score.

But to view 30 as a dropping off point is to negate a decade of child bearing years.

I was very reluctant to do that because I felt that I really wasn't sure if I would get an answer, or that I wouldn't be ready for an answer, or that I wouldn't know for certain if I felt that I did get an answer that is was actually from God or whether I was just deceiving myself, so for a few years there I just put that off, however those questions and concerns kept boiling up within me, so at that point I couldn't take it anymore putting it off.

At this point in his year - long quest to obey the Bible literally, Jacobs has yet to deal with the New Testament, and it's too bad because I think it would take some pressure off if he could read Jesus» words that «he who is without sin can cast the first stone.»

That was true because, as Romney advisor Jonathan Gruber pointed out, liberal Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy «had basically figured out a way to sort of rip off the feds for about 400 million dollars a year» in order to fund Romneycare.

(well, yes, you have a three - day pass to Lollapalooza, so you do look like you have money, but anyway) at which point he punched the 11 - year - old child in the stomach forcing her to drop her beach ball and running off with it.

It should be pointed out, perhaps, that for the first fifty years or so of quantum chemistry, the results of theoretical calculations were uniformly poor and unhelpful; but this tended to be put off to the enormous complexity of the mathematical techniques — if only these could be overcome, it was thought, it would become obvious how wonderfully we could depict the results of chemical reactivity and bonding simply by applying calculations to the known constituents.

Sometimes I wonder if perhaps the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous have, at some point in its 76 year history, contained individuals who possessed the ability to do great things — cure cancer, revolutionize politics, or contribute other great things to society — but whose minds became so polluted with AA propaganda that they shut off their own brilliance and chose to spend the rest of their lives «making their sobriety their number one priority» and believing humility to be more valuable than fulfilling their potential and allowing their greatness to shine.

Though, he should get some bonus points for making fun of Mariah Carey's New Year's Eve meltdown off - the - cuff later in the night, explaining, «I just got off the phone with Mariah Carey and she thinks that Dick Clark Productions sabotaged my monologue.»

In how many Christian imaginations and theologies, private and public, does Jesus the Christ swoop through the 33 years of his life, dipping briefly into the world of matter before soaring off toward the real point, the resurrection?

At our springboard meeting in Munich in 1989, our key people reported that all signs pointed to the lid blowing off the Soviet Empire before the end of the year.

The thought of certain dinosaurs running into the wind in an attempt to take off and, after several million years, succeeding like the Wright brothers in flying a few yards, is a fantasy that sufficiently points up the absurdity of evolution.

I was also beaten by random girls for no reason, put into a dumpster, tied up in an abandoned rv by some sick teens who thought that was funny, almost raped by a man while walking down the street at the age of 17 but because I screamed he only made me jack him off (at knife point), almost raped at a friend of a friend's house when we just dropped in for a minute, was impovershed growing up, even to the point where we didn't have power in the middle of winter, had to sleep all in the same bed to stay warm and used our pantry as a refrigerator, lived (and I mean LIVED) with roaches for years no matter where we moved to, was a child during the time when we had our own civil rights movement here and went through a few horrible experiences at the time.

Joe, you have a point... if there was indeed a «god» he sure would have been better off making the week only 5 days... then there would be 73 of them in a year and things would be much more predictable...

He gleefully ate everything in sight (alas, without a charming dance), until the day he turned two, at which point he systematically crossed everything off his favorite foods list and has remained a whiny, picky eater to this day, some twenty years later.