Sentences with phrase «points off on»

This is perfect for people who are just a few points off on their credit score.

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Active management of the meeting, while it is in progress, can keep it from getting off track or dwindling too long on unnecessary points.

TORONTO, May 2 - Canadian energy producer Crescent Point Energy Corp is poised to win support for its director nominees based on a preliminary counting of votes, shrugging off opposition from activist investor Cation Capital, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Wednesday.

The point is that, instead of providing equal value to all of their customers, they're providing incredible value to a specific group of customers, and it's paying off on the loyalty front.

How to Manage Interns: Providing Mentorship and Advice Even if you have a hands off management style, when you bring on interns, you have to make sure that they have at least one point person, if not more, that they can go to with their questions.

The feisty billionaire investor and «Shark Tank» star sounded off about the failed mega merger on Twitter and — no surprise — he's pointing the finger at the FCC.

The powerful Titan IV rocket lifted off near dawn in October 1997, went behind a cloud from our vantage point and then thankfully emerged serenely on its way to Saturn, reaching the planet on July 1 2004.

Despite a record one - day point decline on the Dow Jones index, many Wall Street experts believe the sell - off was less tied to fundamentals and was instead exacerbated by volatility - linked products and algorithmic trading.

Greenspan went on to give all the usual qualifiers, but his point was clear: Paying off the debt was both desirable and possible.

If I were to point out the single biggest driver for your app's discoverability, on or off the app store, it has to be the name or title of your app.

The sell - off continued on Friday, with the Dow shedding an additional 144 points to 16,026, and the NASDAQ losing 55 points to 3,998 in late afternoon trading.

While the express delivery company didn't take off immediately — at one point, he resorted to saving the company with an emergency trip to Vegas and wiring money he made at Black Jack — by the late 1970s, Smith was on his way to building the $ 48 billion company he still runs today.

Sydney Harbour Bridge The focal point for much the day's celebration, the Sydney Harbour Bridge, known locally as the??? coat hanger,??? was completed on March 19, 1932, and wasn't fully paid off until 1988.

The GDP release also delivered an unwelcome surprise on government spending: budget trimming by federal agencies, especially the defence department, shaved an estimated eight percentage points off growth.

Plans to build wind turbines off Point Pelee, Ont., were put on hold after concerns about fishing, bird migration and other environmental issues emerged.

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.

«For however long that lasts, he's the person they want to have on at some point because he's guaranteed to go off script, because that's the most entertaining part of all this.»

The bowl operates similarly to other fantasy football platforms: Users will select a team of nine players — who score points based on their real - life, in - game performances — and face off against teams assembled by other contestants across the country.

The Dow fell 665.75 points on Friday — or 2.5 percent — notching its biggest one - day sell - off since June 2016.

But the fact that Ellison consistently bit off more than he could chew — Oracle has never outpaced Microsoft's revenue, and the personal computing era lives on — is largely beside the point.

For most contractors, success relies on the strength of the construction industry, and observers point to recent drops in housing - starts and building permits to suggest that Canada's house - building spree may be cooling off.

Startups who hold off on publishing sometimes cite the need to protect intellectual property, but critics of the practice point to another reason: With early - stage capital already hard to come by, companies run the risk of scaring off investors if they open their underbaked ideas to rigorous scientific scrutiny.

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.

Generally, 1,500 employees is the cut - off point for SBA consideration, but even establishments that have between 500 and 1,500 employees may not qualify as small businesses; in such instances the SBA bases its determination on a size standard for the specific industry in which the business under consideration operates.

This isn't necessarily a selling point — after all, a razor is a tool — but something that looks great on your shelf is always a nice bonus and shows off Jagger's high - level Sheffield craftsmanship.

Which brings me to an important point: no one is claiming vast scientific rigor for this poll, so consider this list a jumping off point for discussion rather than the final statement on the topic.

Bitcoin went on to enjoy a huge run - up; as a point of comparison, in an unrelated auction this January, the marshals sold off 3,813 Bitcoins and netted $ 45 million — or about $ 11,800 per coin.

From that point on, everything had to pay off that position.

Instead, use these numbers as a jumping - off point to determine where you should begin engaging, but be sure to measure your performance on each site to see when and if you need to change course.

It becomes your single central point of management for all HR needs, streamlining tedious workflows like employee on - boarding and off - boarding, document management, time off tracking, performance management, compliance and benefits administration to name a few.

«Such assets can be, and routinely are, used to supplement retirement income — for example, by downsizing the family home at the point of retirement, collecting rent on an investment property, or selling off a business and investing the proceeds,» Vettese wrote.

A sharp sell off in the equity market «exerts a significant drag on world growth» in the period that follows, according to Deutsche Bank, with real GDP reduced by about 0.5 percentage points.

You'll be amazed at exactly how even the slightest difference in the contact point on the club face gives you the knowledge that a shot will be off line before you even see where it's going.

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 Wednesday's «Closing Bell» Tetrick added the argument between mayonnaise and «Just Mayo» was somewhat off point.

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.»

As executive vice-president and chief information officer for Indigo, Serbinis was the point person on Shortcovers, which he now describes as a «pilot» project designed to take the company's theories off whiteboards and out of conference rooms and test them in the marketplace.

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.»

Then while the software was still open, he pointed the camera at another lamp shade with a Belkin WeMo lamp, and it too was recognized instantly and he was able to turn the lamp on and off from the app.

And while you're at it, ease off on all the exclamation points.

You just have to treat it like a gun: assume it's loaded, keep the safety on, pointed away from people, finger off the trigger until you're ready to shoot.

On Wednesday, when Representative John Shimkus, Republican of Illinois, questioned Facebook's tracking of logged - off users, Mr. Zuckerberg was quick to point out that Google and «the rest of the industry» employed similar tactics.

The tech giant's stock fall shaved off 30 points on the Dow, which briefly fell 100 points shortly after the open.

* EX-DIVS: G4S, Kingfisher, London Stock Exchange, Mondi, Unilever, will trade without entitlement to their latest dividend pay - out on Thursday, trimming 4.73 points off the FTSE 100 according to Reuters calculations.

China focusing on domestic demand rather than exports for growth is worth watching closely: if wheels start falling off Chinese reform, that's the tipping point for a big hit to globalization.

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.

Depending on your credit, you could shave off a few percentage points in interest, resulting in big savings.

As such, $ GLD now presents us with a low - risk entry point on the short side only if the price falls below the April 26 low (all bets are off for short selling entry until that happens).

A point drop of around 80 can affect interest rates differently depending on the lender and the credit score you're starting off with.