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We focus our energy on high points of leverage in collaboration with clients and partners in the field.

A church that is the largest voluntary association in the country; a church whose universal pastor has, over the past decade, definitively answered Stalin's cynical query about the pope's divisions; a church that is, demographically, at its strongest historical point of leverage in American society — this is a church that would seem well positioned to seize what Richard John Neuhaus and others have seen as a possible «Catholic moment» in American history, pro Deo et patria.

After it was revealed that the governor's aides steared the commission away from investigating administration allies, and with the U.S. attorney looking into the possibility of illegal interference in its workings, the governor presented the Moreland Commission as simply a point of leverage in legislative negotiations.

Some years ago, it appeared as if Microsoft had gained a legitimate point of leverage in the mobile phone marketplace.

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Lastly — at a panel in the afternoon Tristan Walker, Director of Business Development for FourSquare, Marci Weisler of Tipping Point Partners, Daniel Kim founder of Red Mango and Inc. blogger Howard Greenstein tackled the hotly controversial topic of leveraging daily deal sites and tapping into local marketing.

«Most people who are fresh out of college have very little leverage in the negotiation process, because you typically can't point to any concrete workplace results you've accomplished yet,» said business consultant Dorie Clark, author of «Stand Out.»

We provide a single point of contact, capable of leveraging the GRS Group portfolio of companies and delivering customized solutions to assist our clients in achieving their investment goals.

Leveraging inside information about upcoming initiatives, current pain points, and leadership changes is the equivalent of having a triple double in your sales cycle.

Directors in our study expressed fairly significant dissatisfaction with boardroom dynamics at their companies: Only around two - thirds (64 %) strongly believe their board is open to new points of view, only half strongly believe their board leverages the skills of all board members, and less than half (46 %) strongly believe their board tolerates dissent.

The sales manager is in the unique position of serving as a critical leverage point in distributing a company's message and in ensuring the implementation of the go - to - market strategy, with (all too often) little input into the strategy and tactical plans that are developed.

By the time this point has been reached, the financial managers have paid themselves outsized salaries and bonuses, and cashed in their stock options — all subsidized by the government's favorable tax treatment of debt leveraging.

At one point, sources suggested that Trump could use AT&T's merger with Time Warner as leverage in pursuit of better coverage by CNN.

The KEY point there is capital preservation and money management; properly controlling the amount of money you risk per trade (your leverage and exposure to the market) is the primary thing that will make or break you as a trader; in fact, it will decide the fate of your entire trading career.

Trinity specializes in National Account Programs, where a company with multiple locations can leverage its national packaging spend, while having the support and services of local businesses, with one streamlined point of contact nationwide.

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Selling, general and administrative expenses were 74 basis points lower than last year as a percentage of sales due to sales leveraging, lower incentive compensation and a reduction in media spend at Olive Garden.

Based on recent corporate leverage, this decline in the cost of debt would increase the typical company's return on equity by more than four percentage points.

In a very small company it can certainly provide the jumpstart of instant credibility (leveraging those with an identity to introduce those without an identity (new small biz)-RRB- but, at what point, size, stage of business maturity do you begin to see diminishing returns?

Amundi pointed out that in the current market conditions, active management of the portfolio of selected leveraged loans aims to deliver a return of around 4 % above Euribor until the fund's maturity (6 to 8 years), while providing monthly liquidity.

There is also plenty of leverage in central bank balance sheets (+20 percentage points of GDP since 2009), government debt (+37 percentage points since 2008), and bond funds (+11 percentage points of GDP).

In particular, the organization raised concerns about leveraged trading of cryptocurrencies, though it acknowledged that the low correlation between cryptocurrencies and other assets «suggests that the risk of spillovers from idiosyncratic price moves in crypto assets to the wider market may be limited at this point.&raquIn particular, the organization raised concerns about leveraged trading of cryptocurrencies, though it acknowledged that the low correlation between cryptocurrencies and other assets «suggests that the risk of spillovers from idiosyncratic price moves in crypto assets to the wider market may be limited at this point.&raquin crypto assets to the wider market may be limited at this point.»

For cardholders that may be interested in leveraging the points transfer program we've included the partners that the SPG points can be transferred to and the number of Starpoints needed to receive one corresponding point / mile.

According to S&P, «global non-financial corporate debt grew by 15 percentage points to 96 % of GDP in the past six years, with some 37 % of companies deemed to be «highly leveraged», up from 32 % in 2007.»

The answer to that is when we put the plan together, we have leverage in it from sales to expenses of approximately 100 basis points so — or approximately 37 % will result in some leverage in the P&L.

Humans need to sacrelize / make idols of things in order to create rallying points to leverage the economies of scale.

In that briefing note, we identify five entry points for sustainability standards to contribute to the development of these approaches and ensure their integrity and complementarity: preferential or risk - based sourcing; land use planning; government and stakeholder mobilization; producer support at scale; and leveraging finance.

why was Sanchez truly playing... no one believes he was too injured to play to start the season, and some like myself would go as far to suggest he wasn't injured at all... so why play him... they can't say it was to appease the fans because when was that ever a factor at this club except when «panic buys» were in the offing... I believe that this was to give Arsenal a little leverage when it comes to negotiating his transfer... just imagine their horrible bargaining position if Sanchez never saw the field before the deadline then heading back to South America and played for Chile... regardless of the facts, this was sadly again another example of a team putting business ahead of fielding a team with the greatest chance to secure 3 points... of course, some will say that Sanchez is, or was, our best player, so obviously he's a no - brainer to start, but those who really watch the game know that his heart hasn't been truly in it for quite some time... even at the end of last season you could see a definitive difference between the Sanchez who played for Chile and the one that played for Arsenal... that being said, 70 % of Sanchez is still better than a 100 % of the vast majority of our remaining roster... shame on you Arsene and shame on you too Sanchez for that telling smirk... I've supported your attempt to push this squad to the next level but don't pretend for a second that you didn't know you were being watched... don't lower your standards or you'll end up like this club, on the outside looking in

I would've thought at that point the risk of getting countered off the ropes — where Canelo will have a fraction the leverage he has in center ring — would be worth the chance of landing some thudding shots and slowing down an already tired Alvarez.

Would it really make sense that a club claiming to be functionally «house poor», who has a lengthy history of thriftiness, would be willing to leverage everything in the kitty and more on a relatively unknown and unproven player that no one rated anywhere near that 11th hour price point.

Of course, after leading what appears to be a smear campaign against Freeman and thoroughly destroying any chance of the quarterback rejoining the team at any point in the future, the Bucs don't exactly have much trade leveragOf course, after leading what appears to be a smear campaign against Freeman and thoroughly destroying any chance of the quarterback rejoining the team at any point in the future, the Bucs don't exactly have much trade leveragof the quarterback rejoining the team at any point in the future, the Bucs don't exactly have much trade leverage.

much like when a country can't divulge highly classified information publicly for obvious economic and military reasons, a professional soccer organization must keep certain things in - house so they don't devalue a player, expose a weakness, provide info that could give an opposing club leverage in future negotiations and / or give them vital intel regarding a future match, but when dishonesty becomes the norm the relationship between cub and fan will surely deteriorate... in our particular case, our club has done an absolutely atrocious job when it comes to cultivating a healthy and honest relationship with the media or their fans, which has contributed greatly to our lack of success in the transfer market... along with poor decisions involving weekly wages, we can't ever seem to get true market value for most of our outgoing players and other teams seem to squeeze every last cent out of us when we are looking to buy; why wouldn't they, when you go to the table with such a openly desperate and dysfunctional team like ours, you have all the leverage; made even worse by the fact that who wouldn't want to see our incredibly arrogant and thrifty manager squirm during the process... the real issue at this club is respect, a word that appears to be entirely lost on those within our hierarchy... this is the starting point from which all great relationships between club and supporters form... this doesn't mean that a team can't make mistakes along the way, that's just human nature, it's about how they chose to deal with these situations that will determine if this relationship flourishes or devolves..

To do this, we're leveraging the rates at which teams score their points and opposing defenses concede them in each phase of the game.

It's a classic jujitsu idea — use your enemy's strengths against him, in this case leveraging off of the favorable attention Gerlach has been getting over his puppy bill to point out something that he IS N'T working on... or at least, something that Trevedi would like voters to PERCEIVE that he isn't working on.

At some point in his life, the First Man reasoned about ways to improve the productivity of his Labor towards meeting the bare necessities of life to free up some of his time for leveraging his human capacity for abstract thought towards Capital purposes, which could be used to improve productivity further which would free up more time which would etc, etc, etc..

In short, Senate Republicans are in an enviable situation: They have a number of leverage points to take advantage of, and few issues they need to get done politically or governmentally this JunIn short, Senate Republicans are in an enviable situation: They have a number of leverage points to take advantage of, and few issues they need to get done politically or governmentally this Junin an enviable situation: They have a number of leverage points to take advantage of, and few issues they need to get done politically or governmentally this June.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is ahead of his Republican challengers when it comes to fundraising and name - recognition in the governor's race, but the GOP is trying to leverage an ongoing corruption case against a former Cuomo aide as a point of attack.

It's a worthwhile, if provocative, question that becomes even more interesting when you consider it in the context of an online left made up of blogs big and small as well as network - based organizations whose mailing lists constitute their major — if not only — point of political leverage.

«There is too great an interest, I think, in (the Cuomo administration) to make a headline, to score political points, to leverage people against one another in order to score a win instead of truly understanding the kind of change that needs to happen in order to grow the economy, keep New Yorkers here and make the state more affordable and improve everybody's quality of life,» Molinaro said.

At that point they had lost leverage in negotiating the terms of this benefit.

While conventional engineering would consider bucking to be a mechanical instability and a point of failure, in this case the team leveraged this instability to develop VAMPs (vacuum - actuated muscle - inspired pneumatic structures).

At this exact point, the structure of your body causes a change in leverage, making it the weakest point in the range of motion (every exercise has a unique strength curve with a unique sticking point).

All of the stress of the exercise is placed on your muscles in their least favorable leverage, which will build up your weakest point.

As Dr. Perlmutter puts it, «It is very humbling to consider that what seems to be emerging as our most powerful leverage point in terms of treating a variety of disease states may well rest in the hands of the hundred trillion bacteria that consider our bodies to be their home.»

«The biggest point of difference I've noticed is that in the US and Europe, there is a heavy celebrity and influencer attendance, which can be leveraged by the public relations team to pitch and secure substantial mainstream media coverage, which in turn, introduces brands to new audiences,» Steele said.

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