Sentences with phrase «points less this term»

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As I recall the headline read, more or less, «Women Don't Negotiate Because They're Not Dumb,» and the author went on to cite research to make her point that when women do ask for more money, people tend to hate it, and «pushy» women end up paying mightily in terms of career progression and opportunities.

But he added that thinking in terms of incremental changes may miss a larger point: As wearables and home devices become more important to the way we use our phones, the design of the phone itself may become less critical.

Investment - grade corporates pay about two percentage points more than short - term government bonds, and they're less risky than they used to be.

Jonathan Krinsky, chief market technician at MKM Partners, pointed out in a note Thursday that less than 60 percent of stocks in the Russell 3000 are trading above their 200 - day moving average, a key long - term technical metric.

Because most wealthy Chinese seem to think about RMB in terms of USD or Hong Kong dollars, it is the fear that any depreciation of the RMB against those two currencies (the Hong Kong dollar is pegged to the USD through a modified currency board) greater than the couple of percentage points interest rate differential would yield less than equivalent USD or Hong Kong dollar bonds.

Ryan Avent pointed out that even if we enacted Trump's massive tax cuts and spending increaes, adding $ 34 trillion in new debt over the next two decades, our ratio of debt to GDP two decades from now would still be 30 percentage points less than Japan's government debt ratio is right now... and the market is still buying their negative interest rate long term debt...

Let's be frank, up until this point, the Taylor rule from John Taylor (of Stanford) has been a very applicable rule in terms of suggesting the need for more or less ease.

In office less than two months, he commented that we were at «the point where buying stocks is a potentially good deal if you've got a long - term perspective.»

: It is always very tricky to try to time an entry point into any long - term investment, but I think that the consequence of a mistimed investment would be less of a concern in an adaptive strategy than a static strategy.

A shorter loan term means lower operating expenses and presents less risk from the lender's point of view.

The BofA Merrill Lynch high - yield index is trading at roughly 600 basis points versus government bonds, but if energy, metals and mining is excluded, it's about 80 basis points less in terms of spread.

Borrowers who chose a loan with a shorter repayment term in order to get the lowest interest rate and maximize overall savings reduced their interest rate by 1.71 percentage points and will pay $ 18,668 less over the life of their new loan, on average.

Some investors will be in wait - and - see mode until the macro environment becomes less clouded, while long - term offshore investors may see the inherent value of UK property in view of the weakening sterling and softening values, it points out.

While Wieman was somewhat less concerned with the term «God» at this point in his career, the second theme, that of the elusive «Something,» may be seen in a brief look at Man's Ultimate Commitment.

1) i hear you stating your point of departure / «end of the line» / etc. & admitting — for you — that this is a somewhat arbitrary thing... or, at the very least, requires «faith»... for lack of a less - loaded term.

It dramatically portrays as never before that churches around the world have reached a critical point in the movement from being more or less homogenous in faith, worship and life to a situation of theological and liturgical heterogeneity, rooted in a profound commitment to express Christian faith and witness in terms of particular local cultural idioms.

For Christ's sake can we, an undisciplined people, begin to think in terms of a self - disciplined life, foregoing some of our transient pleasures for the deeper joy of helping humanity — to the point, even, of casting our votes for proposals which are contrary to our self - interest but which can help to alleviate poverty, promote peace, and confer dignity and self - respect on those less fortunate?

«Now, «natural» and «organic» are overused to the point where they're more or less meaningless terms,» Hess says.

Unless we get a proven and talented grad transfer point guard who can help steady the ship for this season while Pikkiel gets his future long term point guard next season will be another rough season culminating in perhaps less wins.

Less sure about Auba but I like him too in terms of finishing ability... Anyway there's no point talking about him this season as he has been quoted to be biding his time for a transfer to RM.

How can the team being heavily favored by the public become less of a favorite in terms of point spread?

Cardiff have won just one of the eight games Kenny Miller hasn't started this season, while some of their secondary attackers (Joe Mason, Joe Ralls and Rudy Gestede) have been far less successful in terms of securing points for their team when starting matches.

Despite a dismal away record last term, Clyde had the fifth - best home record in League 2, collecting just a point less on their own patch than eventual champions Arbroath managed.

Except it sounds like what he really wants at this point in his life is a caretaker, which a lot of men around his age want and which a lot of women his age are less like likely to want to be, especially if they did that in long - term marriages or relationships.

The long - term study of more than 3,000 men and women in Copenhagen found that those who were breastfed for 7 to 9 months averaged IQ scores that were 6.6 points higher at age 27 than adults who were nursed for 1 month or less.

It's really easy for people who are sitting back with a calculator to point out that the cloth diaper start up fees are significantly less than the long term cost of disposable diapers.

The Ben & Jerry's decision, unless (as my NMS colleague Soren Dayton pointed out) it's being driven by some kind of U.K. - specific restrictions that make email marketing less effective, seems to reflect one of two things: either a bean - counter followed the instinct to cut costs in the short term regardless of the long - term consequences, or a marketing executive took a big drink of the social media Kool Aid.

The point being, marijuana short term negative symptoms are mostly either the same as alcohol or less severe.

Instead, Astorino, the Republican county executive of Westchester took a direct shot at the Legislature, releasing a 10 - point ethics reform package that called for everything from term limits and a less generous state pension system for state lawmakers to an overhaul of the state's Byzantine campaign finance laws.

«Everyone knows that Christine Quinn gave [Bloomberg] a third term, but there's no point focusing on the past now,» said candidate Sal Albanese, in a less - than - subtle response that drew laughter around the room, including a few chuckles from Quinn herself.

(CNN)- With less than six weeks left until Election Day, a new poll suggests that Michael Bloomberg holds a 16 point lead over his closest rival in the New York City mayor's bid for a third term.

Where previous estimates were drawn from a range of mostly long - run models that looked at century - long changes, we instead focused on a precise definition and current starting point, and other factors which matter far less in the long term, but a lot if the goal is much closer.

If they would use a more realistic climate transfer sensitivity of 0.11 K / Wm -2, or even somewhat higher (0.12 or 0.13) for the long - term, and use trends instead of smooth curve points, they would end up with solar contributions of 10 % or less for 1950 - 2000 and near 0 % and about 10 % in 1980 - 2000 using the PMOD and ACRIM data, respectively.

In addition to disputing the relevance of your source trial (which doesn't appear to offer a duration or suggestion that the tests increase healthy lifespan of the mice in question), I'd like to point out that protection is less beneficial in the long term, because you can not stop damage from occurring completely no matter how well you defend an organelle, and that damage will accumulate over time.

All of these could make you feel like your life is less comfortable or ideal.Some long term sufferers may even be housebound at a point, due to the unchecked progression of the condition.

Over the long term, excess food and insufficient exercise will override your body's natural tendency to stay at its set point and lead to a higher, less healthy set point.

The researchers point out that although several studies have shown that eating less and exercising more results in weight loss, in the long term, they are proven to be ineffective.

In the broadest terms, Crimson Peak could be pretty comfortably described as a more visually sumptuous but significantly less subtle Penny Dreadful (indeed, if it turns out that Eva Green was at some point in the running for Chastain's role, it would be far from surprising).

After two years the difference in scores is 4.3 percentile points, which is slightly but not significantly (in statistical terms) less than the 5.8 percentile point difference observed after one year.

I can not in all conscience, endorse statements 2 and 3 -LSB-(2) Appropriate in terms of their level of clarity and specificity; (3) Comparable to the expectations of other leading nations] The standards are, in my view, much more detailed, and, as Jim Milgram has pointed out, are in important respects less demanding, than the standards of the leading nations.

Not only does the clutch suffer from less - than - ideal engagement point and a lack of feel, but our long - term test vehicle went through a clutch in less than 15,000 miles.

In terms of your points: A) Rights ARE going global I agree, but the point of this post was to suggest a temporary strategy for the era if crossover, while ebook rights are far less valuable then print rights.

But the main issue is cost: For a lot less money, the Velocity Micro Z30 comes with the same processor (slightly lower clocked) and «only» one lower - spec GeForce GTX 260 graphics card, yet is within a few percentage points behind the Talon (Core i7 - 860) in terms of performance.

The brief actually went on to discuss a lesser - known point of the terms brought about by the DoJ, one which involves the ability of third party companies like Amazon or Barnes and Noble to sell ebooks through their iPad apps.

I'm just making the point that the reports I am getting, as well as my own experience, is that the free thing is fading fast, has 10 % the effect it did 60 days ago in sales terms (which may still be significant — just 90 % less significant than before), and that the spillover effect of folks reading what they downloaded is, er, muted, to say the least.

Indexes are focused on meanings, not simply character strings (like a search), and include as access points not only words explicitly used in the publication but also alternative terms that users might think of, so that the user is less often left with «Sorry, no such term.»

My money management rules were as follows: (1) Never risk more than half as much as the reasonable potential reward (e.g., don't risk more than 10 pips if your reasonable take profit point is less than 20 pips), and (2) never risk on any one trade an amount that would draw down your total trading capital by more than 10 % (that's my «make sure you don't blow out your account» rule — I'm fairly confident of my ability to avoid putting on 10 losing trades in a row, trading as I do as a scalper and short term swing trader).

The two mortgage lenders advertised fairly similar rates, but a closer look at the mortgage points show that Guaranteed Rate's offers tend to cost less in terms of initial fees.

It should be pointed out that debit cards do not have the same consumer protections as credit cards, making them less safe for use on large purchases, and less safe in terms of avoiding fradulent charges etc..

Investments tend to be less risky since the point of an IRA tends to be long - term growth for future retirement.