Sentences with phrase «share of its points in»

Cheeky and irreverent, with lots of style, Common Wealth scores the lion's share of its points in the initial hour of set - up, with some witty banter, engaging situations, and a few mild thrills in the mix.

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The share of employees who failed to use all their vacation time was actually down one percentage point from 55 % in 2015.

Sharing tasks makes you not only more emotionally resilient but also more economically resilient as well, Smith points out: «Flexibility and redundancy add up to greater resilience in the face of economic shocks.»

And Sessions might already have a few judges in green - friendly states who share his point of view.

In an interview in the April 2017 issue of Vanity Fair, Musk shared that Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — a book about aliens destroying earth, creating supersonic highways and building a supercomputer that knows all of life's mysteries — was a «turning point» for hiIn an interview in the April 2017 issue of Vanity Fair, Musk shared that Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — a book about aliens destroying earth, creating supersonic highways and building a supercomputer that knows all of life's mysteries — was a «turning point» for hiin the April 2017 issue of Vanity Fair, Musk shared that Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — a book about aliens destroying earth, creating supersonic highways and building a supercomputer that knows all of life's mysteries — was a «turning point» for him.

The Australian share market has closed at its highest level in six weeks, wrapping up April with a run of gains that has added 230 points to the benchmark index since March.

That's more than double their share of startup activity at points in the 1990s.

For example, ComScore reported that in June 2013, its core search market share fell 0.5 percentage points to 11.4 percent — while Bing gained the same amount and Google controlled nearly 67 percent of the market.

And I find that one of the greatest joys I have is sharing what I've learned as a way to give back to the people who are either starting out in the industry, or are sort of at a point in their careers where they're looking for some sage counsel and advice,» he told me.

The point is to put what you have to offer in front of the people who have the greatest interest in it, and are most likely to either buy it or share it with someone who will.

The company's board put a special provision in Papa's employment agreement that turbocharges his pay the way a videogame might when a player levels up into bonus points mode: If Valeant's stock price reaches a new high of at least $ 270 a share in the next three years, Papa gets double the allotment of performance - based stock.

He makes a point of sharing the type of information that will help others avoid mistakes that he made when he was just starting out, and of taking complex ideas (like big data or digital marketing technologies) and explaining them in a way that beginners can understand.

Third Point: The hedge fund run by Daniel Loeb disclosed Thursday that it bought more than 45 million shares of Ally Financial (ALLY) during the second quarter, giving Third Point a 9.5 % stake in the auto lender.

Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of HP, shared that the point is to «turn data into information, information into knowledge and insight, and knowledge into competitive advantage, and to do it in a matter of minutes or seconds, not days or weeks.»

However analysts point to a bounce in Teva's shares over the past four months and a slowing in the rate of decline of U.S. generic drug prices as bright spots.

Comcast also pointed to the CTIA's notice in a blog post on Friday, reaffirming that it would let customers opt out of sharing their web - browsing history in the process.

His last open letter to shareholders makes the point clearly about investing in creating value — «Berkshire's gain in net worth during 2016 was $ 27.5 billion, which increased the per - share book value of both our Class A and Class B stock by 10.7 %.

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.

In the run - up to the Brexit vote, the easy parallel to make from an American point of view is that the Leave camp shared many similarities with the Trump campaign.

The key sticking points remain with the owners wanting concessions on many issues, most notably an 18 - game regular season, a rookie salary cap, and a pay cut in the players» share of the overall revenue.

Third Point's Dan Loeb sold out of Snap shares in the second quarter, one quarter after buying the social media stock, according to a filing Friday.

A case in point: Beauty products, which generate about 15 % of department store visits, became a chronically weak spot for Macy's about five years ago, as it ceded market share to the likes of Ulta and Sephora.

Shares of Sprint dropped more than 13 percent at one point after Nikkei first reported on Monday that the deal could be in jeopardy.

He points out that the company's business model allows it to turn its inventory around about twice as many times as its peers and its strong free cash flow — the company has about $ 4 of cash per share, he says — could be used to buy back stocks, which it has done in the past.

While not all gossip is bad — one can share secrets about wonderful things like a suspected pregnancy or job promotion — Epstein points out that «useful gossip is, in the minds of most people, not what gossip is really about,» and so the majority of the book focuses on the more naughty kind of tattling, the kind that makes your heart beat faster when the subject of ridicule comes around the corner.

Sara Silverstein shares an interesting takeaway from Chisholm's research that points to the differences in tech companies today versus the days of the tech bubble.

Angel investors normally provide capital for start - ups or businesses in the early stage of growth in exchange for equity, or in some cases, convertible notes, that converts into shares or cash value at a point later on.

John Betts: When I arrived in Canada four years ago, we were at a low point in terms of our market share, and when you looked at our business, clearly one of the areas where we were not connecting well was in our breakfast business.

In a heated discussion on Reddit this week, social engineer Chris Hadnagy, who tests the network security of companies using tactics such as phishing and keylogging scams, shared his tips on cybersecurity from a hacker's point of view.

By its low point in June, P&G was losing share in two - thirds of its markets.

Here's the thing: I actually agree with many of the points Sinek shared in his talk, and I actively write about them often: don't over-indulge on social media, don't binge on Netflix, don't mistake fleeting social interactions for deeply gratifying friendships and relationships, etc..

If you are in doubt as to whether you have a conflict, you must disclose and can not influence or take part in a decision, transaction, arrangement or otherwise in which you can be perceived to have an interest, direct or indirect; can not be seen to be impartial from an outsider point of view; or receive a benefit not shared by other shareholders.

From a management point of view, an ESOP company runs just like any other: The CEO is in charge and can share or not share any financial information he or she chooses.

Making the point that everything a user sees in his or her feed is there because another user shared it, Stamos wrote that Facebook is «like a pot luck... where everybody brings their own food from the outside, and the host decides how to arrange the buffet table based upon a model of what people like to eat.»

Elford points out that Secure Energy has a track record of «substantial» growth on an absolute and per - share basis; it has a relatively clean balance sheet and it's in an industry with high barriers to entry.

Avon gained only 1.1 percentage points of share in the direct - selling industry during the same time frame, with 11.4 % of the market in 2011.

U.S. stock index futures pointed to a mostly lower open Tuesday as shares of Apple dropped in premarket trading.

Raymond James, which has an outperform on the company, pointed out in a note that its Q4 adjusted earnings per share was 67 cents, compared to a consensus estimate of 63 cents.

When Business Insider pointed out that The New York Times had indeed pushed back in a statement against the assertion that the paper had shared a copy of the article with Manafort in advance, Bossie doubled down.

With three locations, it's also a great way for the restaurant to make company - wide announcements, communicate in - between their staff meetings, discuss the «wine of the week» and share selling points.

However, not everyone else shares this point of view, so knowing who to joke with and when is important if you don't want to be the social hand grenade in the room.

Berman's death was one of a handful of unsolved cases — all of which shared Durst as a suspect — at the center of The Jinx, which aired last year and covered Durst's history of run - ins with the law as well as his ability, to that point, to wrangle away from any major conviction of wrongdoing.

Instead, Facebook's PR team and lower ranking leaders have led the company's defense by drawing technical distinctions between what happened and more common breaches by hackers, and by pointing out that Facebook curtailed the amount of user data it shared with app makers in 2014.

The share of part - time work among university - educated Canadians also rose from 10 per cent in the 1990s to 13.5 per cent today, with the gap relative to high - school graduates narrowing to only one percentage point.

Year - over-year, Windows Phone's share of the U.S. smartphone market rose to 4.1 percent from 2.7 percent; in Great Britain, it rose to 6.7 percent from 3 percent; in Australia, it rose to 3.4 percent from 1.7 percent; and, in Italy, it posted a gain of 7.7 percentage points, rising to 13.1 percent from 5.4 percent.

Case in point: influential photographer Jeff Mindell shared a picture of his infant son rocking a Mini Mioche cap with his 60,000 Instagram followers (with the caption, «New hat, who dis?»)

«Every Monday morning he came in and read the market share data, and if we slipped a share point in one category, there was hell to pay,» says Patrick, the company's president of worldwide sales and operations.

You might be surprised to know that the business world was strongly in favor of profit sharing at many points in American history, typically when the concentration of wealth was a major public worry or the country was trying to come together after a crisis.

Investors representing nearly 20 % of Jazz's shares have held talks with the company's top executives and board since the beginning of the year to voice their views, though the talks have accelerated in the past several weeks, the people said, adding that conversations with management remain friendly at this point.

The president's share of support also reached new lows among his base, with 73 percent of Republicans (down three points from earlier in August) backing him.