Sentences with phrase «recent increase down»

«We raised our deductible from $ 250 to $ 1,000 and cut back on maternity benefits,» he says, «which kept our most recent increase down to 20 %.»

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But in recent years the «can't - miss» company has struggled with product delays; executive reshufflings; increased competition from Apple and Fitbit, costly lawsuits with its supplier, and Fitbit; and a down round that cut the company's valuation in half.

The company has expanded its focus in recent months to overseas markets like the UK, France, Germany, Japan, and Brazil, and has doubled down on increasing the advertising on its platform.

Proxy advisors Institutional Shareholders Services (ISS) and Glass Lewis, both recommended shareholders vote the recent pay increase down.

While some housing market trackers report a slowdown — price increases averaging in the single digits year over year, compared with 15 - 30 % in recent years — in the nine cities tracked by market research firm Dragonomics, prices were down 4.9 % in April compared to a year earlier.

In recent years the UK tax collector, HMRC, has come under pressure to crack down on tax evasion — which is illegal, whereas avoidance is not — and increase tax receipts.

The 18.1 % growth expected this year for US display advertising is down somewhat from more robust rates of increase in 2011 and 2012, but eMarketer continues to be bullish on the prospects for digital display advertising — especially at social media properties like Facebook and Twitter, as well as at Google, which has dramatically increased its overall share of the display market in recent years.

Among producers, surveys suggest that expectations of selling - price increases moved up a little in the most recent quarters, perhaps in anticipation of firmer demand conditions, but they remain well down from a year ago.

Demand for labour has increased, with employment rising solidly over recent months and the unemployment rate continuing to trend down.

Currently all three of the national series show prices rising at a relatively fast pace over the latest year for which data are available, though they also show that the rates of increase have come down from their most recent peaks.

Fonterra has revealed that prices were down sharply at its latest auction, as concerns about supply, which had fueled recent price increases, eased.

Besides the 2013 University of Washington study, a number of other recent studies have found education ineffective in improving self - reporting by athletes, adding to a growing body of evidence challenging the conventional wisdom that inadequate athlete concussion knowledge is the principal barrier to increased reporting, and suggesting that one of the best ways to combat underreporting by athletes of concussion symptoms may be to shift the focus of educational efforts towards helping coaches facilitate concussion reporting, the theory being that athletes will be more likely to report concussion symptoms if they no longer think that they will be punished by the coach for reporting, such as by losing playing time or their starting position, perceived by their teammates as letting them down, or viewed by their coach as «weak,» all of which have been documented in numerous studies over the past decade as reasons athletes are reluctant to report concussion symptoms.

Among the reasons given for the falling rates: teens waiting longer to have intercourse, increased use of contraception and, the report posits, the recession likely played some role in holding down recent teen birth rates as it did among all other women under 40.

In recent years, doctors have cut the number of implantations down to two in most cases, reducing the incidence of triplets and quadruplets, but increasing the rate of twin births.

Swaddling may also possibly increase the risk of overheating in some situations, especially when the head is covered or the infant has an infection.308, 309 However, a recent study found no increase in abdominal skin temperature when infants were swaddled in a light cotton blanket from the shoulders down.302

The number of texting tickets in New York continued to increase last year as police crack down on abusers and recent laws increased the penalties for getting caught.

Indeed, Cuomo started laying down markers for a potential 2020 bid earlier this year, and has only increased his orientation toward national issues in recent months.

NEW YORK — The head of the New York City Housing Authority, a woman who's faced increased criticism in recent months over conditions in NYCHA homes, is stepping down.

Debt is still lower than when Labour came to power, although this doesn't necessarily mean that Brown - or his successor - would be able to make such a strong debt - busting claim a couple of years down the line In fact, recent increased borrowing debt looks likely to increase further.

Recent accidents and increasing political instability make Russia a dangerous destination for nuclear material, say nuclear experts, but the International Atomic Energy Agency says it had no alternative after Britain and France backed down from their initial offer to take it.

But Vijg argues that the increase in the survival age in even these three countries has significantly slowed down in recent years and so seems to be trending towards no increase.

Indeed, the slow - down is to be expected if recent papers on increased reflective aerosols in the atmsophere are correct.

You can read a more recent discussion of the role the bark beetle and climate change are playing in burning down and reshaping the West in this National Wildlife Federation report, «Increased Risk of CatastrophicWildfires: Global Warming's Wake - Up Call for the Western United States.»

I agree with the recent increase in sugar babies and daddies, the quality of both have gone down.

The growing global demand for food and bio-energy, and the recent rises in food prices, slow down progress in reducing poverty, but increase demand for water from the agriculture and energy sectors.

School funding chiefs and academy trust bosses have been under increasing pressure to crack down on excessive executive pay following a public backlash over rising academy CEO pay in recent years.

Rather, in the case of recent proposals in Kentucky and Michigan, the increased costs were due to the fact that the states were simultaneously shifting new workers into a new system AND changing the way they paid down existing debts.

I like that the back seats fold down to increase the rear storage area - came in very handy as I packed and hauled furniture and boxed items for donation or transfer during a recent household move.

In a recent financial earnings report Simon & Schuster stated that e-book sales only increased by one percentage point in the last three months, while HarperCollins said sales were down 3 %.

Due to recent mortgage reform, the previous FHA down payment requirement of 3 percent has now been increased to 3.5 percent

A recent post by the National Association of Realtors (NAR) revealed that in the months of December 2014 through February 2015, there was an increase in the number of first - time buyers making a down payment of 6 % or less as compared to last year:

In a recent survey of mortgage originators by the National Association of Realtors (NAR), it was revealed that most loan officers believe the move to a lower down payment will increase access to mortgage credit.

The renminbi was down for the first three quarters of the year, and only a recent surge has resulted in any increase at all.

That DGR isn't markedly slowing down, either, with the most recent increase (announced in November 2011) coming in at 10 %.

We'll discuss the implications of the recent tax reform bill and how YOU can plan strategically to bring down your taxes — and increase your wealth.

With the launch of numerous automated advisories in recent years and increased competition within the industry, it all boils down to good news for consumers.

The recent increase in stock prices after the Ardent Medical Services acquisition has died down and Ventas is on the verge of spinning off its SNF facilities, resulting in a new $ 5B company.

Still, the slowdown of residential mortgage volumes continues, with banks posting a 5.3 percent increase from January 2017, down from a recent high of 6.6 percent in May, the data show.

Still, the slowdown of residential mortgage volumes continues, with banks posting a 5.3 per cent increase from January 2017, down from a recent high of 6.6 per cent in May, the data show.

«Putting CMHC into OSFI hands may well represent a greater tightening of credit than Flaherty could have done by shortening amortization lengths or increasing down payments,» Ben Rabidoux said in a recent article for Maclean's.

This is a great food and I would definitely recommend it to those with dachshunds, but I am seriously considering changing brands after the recent change in packaging size (14 lbs down to 12 lbs) and the increase in cost (by $ 5.00) at the store I purchase it from.

Once a sleepy port down, Cefalu's evening options have increased somewhat in recent years, and now you'll find many a chic cocktail bar or quirky café to land yourself in after dark.

VooFoo Studios», developers of top down racing title Mantis Burn Racing, have already taken advantage of the increased graphical capabilities of the PS4 Pro, and in a recent interview, he welcomes the change that Project Scorpio will bring in Microsoft's mid-generation console refresh saying; «It has generally been more difficult to reach 60 fps on Xbox One than on PS4, so Scorpio... Read More»

Furthermore, this is consistent with a recent modeling study out of Japan, except that the Japanese study projects an anomalous frequency * increase * in the Atlantic even though frequencies elsewhere go down:

Based on a relatively recent EOS article setting forth the idea that it is not only SST but also the depth profile of the warming that effects hurricane strengthening in the Gulf, would it not be possible that additions Carribean heat content could warm the sea lower down, increasing intensity.

What has caused the heating of the ocean to increase and the heating of the atmpsphere to slow down in recent years?

By even countenancing the idea that there is a down and upswing you have already admitted that the principal driver of the recent (1975 - 1998) temperature increase is not dominated by CO2.

The recent cooling in Antarctica has been put down to SAM, but «the surface warming amplifies as the radiative forcing increases, implying that the recent local cooling over the Antarctic will reverse at some point in the future.»

«It has been claimed (apparently based on HadCRUT4v1) that incomplete coverage of high - latitude zones in the HadCRUT4 dataset biases down its estimate of recent rates of increase in GMST [Cowtan and Way 2014].

Up and down the coast, recent increases in sea temperature have caused plunging plankton density.