When I first enrolled I was told for $ 11,000 worth of credit card debt I would only have to pay $ 250 a month for 3 years and the cards would be paid off and my credit score will only take
a small hit of 50 - 75 points.
There is a subtlety of design with
small hits of colour for those who are prepared to look and each canvas was full of textures.
The messy book pattern provides
a small hit of visual interest without the actual clutter.
The walls — previously a pale green — were painted a more versatile light grey, while
small hits of soft blue - greys (delivered via low - commitment accents like artwork and toss cushions) enhance the serene vibe, and black elements add contrast to ground the airy look.
This style embraces minimal embellishment in cool glassy materials using reflection for a splash of glamor punctuated with
small hits of bright colors on a neutral canvas.
The color palette I used for this credenza, and the living room in general, was blues, whites, warm woods and leathers, and
small hits of green, gold, and floral pinks.
Not exact matches
It can
hit about 174 mph (280 kilometers per hour), which is on par with some
of the quickest
small passenger aircrafts.
Still, we're in the fifth year
of a very weak recovery in which
small businesses have been
hit hard by tight credit markets, slow sales and limited spending.
Innovation is about «
small ball» — a succession
of base
hits and quick scores rather than swinging for the fences and hoping for home runs.
In the US, nuclear modernization has meant for decades improving the survivability, accuracy, and precision
of nuclear systems to
hit small targets with minimal collateral damage.
In Dick's case, Wedbush Securities estimates that the whole hunting segment, not just firearms, make up only 10 %
of company sales and that the moves announced by Dick's would have at most a
small impact on sales, with the biggest threat coming from a
hit to store traffic.
However, as that happens,
small businesses continue to be a top target for hackers, with the number
of organizations
hit by cybercrime rising each year.
Stacey Harris
of Hit the Mic Marketing discusses the importance
of one on one strategy sessions for businesses — there is not a solution that serves every
small business.
Use the same process
of defining specific and challenging marks to
hit when mapping out the
smaller goals that will lead you to your final destination.
Increasingly, there's a new technological race in which hedge funds and other well - heeled investors armed with big - data analytics instantly analyze millions
of Twitter messages and other non-traditional information sources to buy and sell stocks faster than
smaller investors can
hit «retweet.»
There are also
smaller films that should have your attention like the Sundance
hit «The Birth
of a Nation,» the powerful «The Light Between Oceans,» and the Amy Adams sci - fi trip «Arrival.»
Small - business owners, with their strong voting records and firm intentions
of hitting the polls in November, represent an untapped but potentially game - changing force in this presidential race, particularly if overall voter turnout comes in low.
The other three cases involved
smaller Hamas teams who performed «
hit and run» attacks, one
of them with regular firearms, the other two with anti-tank missiles.
The premise
of all these pitches is that you can take any good idea for a product, service or network (typically someone else's idea, who is already
hitting it out
of the park) and shrink that business down to a narrower target population or niche, or to a certain kind
of consumer, and instantly turn the process
of serving that
smaller segment into a big business as well.
Another sign
of the pressure is that bigger, swankier properties are being
hit harder than
smaller ones.
As a result, only a comparatively
small percentage
of these stories
hit the mainstream.
And clearly, Canadian entrepreneurs aren't optimistic for the future: a recent study from PROFIT magazine said that nearly 40 %
of small business owners think another recession will
hit by the end
of next year.
Although currently a
small market, HP CEO Dion Weisler believes that 3D printing will become a big
hit for his company and that it could win a sizable share
of what he said is a $ 12 trillion market.
Small - and mid-sized businesses that have come to rely on cloud services would be
hit more heavily than Fortune 1000 companies; SMBs would sustain some two - thirds
of the economic losses, the report says.
But essentially, Mattel is looking to replace the revenue derived from a home - run
hit — Disney Princess — and replace it with a mix
of smaller, lesser known and not as popular brands.
James Hahn, who won his first PGA TOUR event last year, was looking for an edge when he jumped to PXG in January: «I didn't feel the need to switch (from TaylorMade) but a
small part
of me was thinking, «I can't compete with a guy who
hits 30 yards longer than me and one or two clubs longer than me.»
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 9 - Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg is kicking off an effort to get U.S.
small businesses to spend more on advertising as the image
of the social media network's ads have taken a
hit for their role in alleged Russian attempts to sway U.S. voters.
Big Food manufacturers have increasingly announced either full takeovers
of startup brands, or in more recent months, have set up venture capital arms to invest in a slew
of smaller brands with an option to eventually acquire some
of those brands later (if they become successful
hits on grocery store aisles).
«When you're an entrepreneur, you're either investing in your own company and trying to
hit it out
of the park or else you've made money and now you're trying to figure out what to do,» says McWhirter, who has spent his career working with entrepreneurs and
small business owners.
The retail apocalypse
hit Best Buy's line
of small mobile phone stores.
Optimism among
small business owners is trending slowly downward too, now at 60 %, after
hitting a high
of 65 % in April.
The AP did its own triage, dedicating two months and a
small team
of reporters to go through a
hit list
of Fancy Bear targets provided by the cybersecurity firm Secureworks.
Still, that hasn't stopped scores
of small businesses and start - ups looking to create the next big
hit.
Small - business groups are adding their voices to the chorus
of Americans urging Washington politicians to resolve the fiscal cliff crisis before it
hits their customers.
Republicans say that would
hit small - business owners who report business income on their individual income tax; Democrats say the overwhelming majority
of small businesses would not be affected.
The platform, which
hit the App Store in April and raised a
small seed funding round in September told users in December that «the challenges
of operating our business in NYC prompt us to end this chapter for the time being.»
TWO multi-million dollar abalone farms are being set up for the first time in WA in the
small South West seaside resort
of Bremer Bay — recently hard
hit by the closure
of the pilchard fishing industry by Bremer Fish Processors.
An index
of small business employment growth eased last month after
hitting its highest level
of the year in June.
Uber just lists Phoenix even though its coverage area
hits all
of the
smaller municipalities within the metropolis.
But Square, particularly with the Snapchat deal, is in some ways
hitting that goal from the other direction — by gathering a coalition
of smaller businesses and services that probably no one had ever thought to wrap payments into to spread its brand.
Dickinson, a
small town southeast
of Houston on Galveston Bay, has been one
of the hardest
hit communities by Hurricane Harvey.
The
smallest institutions — those with fewer than $ 10 million
of assets — have taken the biggest
hit over that period.
Roger Smeets
of Rutgers looked at R&D spending by
small firms, comparing firms that were
hit by extensive lawsuits to a carefully chosen comparable sample.
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety replicated
small front - overlap crashes with seven
small SUVs that received good ratings after the front driver's side corner
of the vehicle
hit a barrier at 40 mph.
Individual leadership stocks, typically
small to mid-cap stocks with a strong history and outlook
of earnings growth, were
hit hard as well.
While most
of the news coverage goes to data breaches that
hit major corporations,
small businesses are frequently the target
of cyber attacks as well.
In this election Adrian Dix and his campaign
hit lots
of precise if
small notes that a political journalist like myself might keep track
of and tally, but overall the New Democrats apparently neither summoned enough fear
of their opponents nor struck the themes or meme - like policy ideas that summoned enough inspiration.
While the exact impact
of the new dimension - based pricing structure will ultimately depend on how prepared a company is to adapt its strategy, it is clear that
small businesses will be
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This year has even seen a 401 (k) plan with less than $ 10 million in assets get
hit with a lawsuit, a development that garnered the attention
of many players in the
small plan universe.
We began planning for this reduction (and also SS taking a
hit) decades ago by pouring a lot
of money into our
small farm.