Sentences with phrase «smaller than those of people»

Elderly obese people are more likely to develop dementia and their brains tend to be smaller than those of people of normal weight.

Not exact matches

Sears said the theft affected «less than 100,000» people, while Delta said merely that the breach affected «small subset» of customers.

But rather than have patients take buprenorphine manually, Probuphine dispenses small amounts of the drug continually into the bloodstream, ensuring that people actually stick to their prescribed regimen.

-- Amy Zimmerman, head of people for Kabbage, a global financial services, technology and data platform serving small businesses which has raised more than $ 1.6 billion in funding and lent out $ 4 billion overall

Rather than charging 2 % of the fund's total capital commitment, Sequoia has told investors the management fee will be 1 % based only on the smaller stages of «called capital» drawn from the investors, one of the people said.

Medium's new focus holds the potential for growth, but it also puts the company directly in the path of Facebook, since the giant social network is also busy trying to convince publishers large and small to see it as a home for their content — a distribution platform that can help get their journalism in front of more than a billion people.

But a small business with a work force of half a dozen people will be hurt far more by such an employee than will a company with a work force that numbers in the hundreds (or thousands).

Small businesses with fewer than 500 employees employ about half of the private workforce in the U.S., or roughly 56.8 million people, most of these in firms with under 100 employees.

Although 400,000 migrants did travel through Hungary in 2015, the number of people applying for asylum in the country was small, perhaps in part because of its less - than - welcoming attitude.

Although Amazon's Alexa team is just a small fraction of the company's overall workforce of nearly 350,000 people, the number of people working on Alexa is more than several consumer companies combined.

Contests are good for adding email addresses to your user base, but it is often far better to have a smaller, avid fan base than a larger number of people with no enthusiasm for your brand.

With the rise of a small number of big tech companies — and governments using technology to watch their citizens — many people now believe technology only centralizes power rather than decentralizes it.

Whether large or small failures, those people who have made it to the top tiers of all endeavors have experienced outcomes that were less than what they wanted.

More than that, people's primary means of accessing the web is via the small - yet - powerful smartphone so many carry around with them in their pockets all day long.

Theoretically, it's good for small business: The Wall Street Journal reports that Giuliani hopes at least 13 million people will trade their employer - based insurance for a private plan, bringing the number of Americans who buy their own policies to more than 30 million.

A listing of all companies by SIC codes reveals, for example, how many businesses are engaged in hunting, trapping, and game propagation (295, and all but one employs fewer than 500 people); coin - operated amusement devices (4,513, and all but 28 are small companies); and hundreds of other subindustries and sub-subindustries.

While the group's combined employees are fewer than 1 million people and a small slice of the more than 160 million people in employer - based healthcare plans in the United States, Amazon's strength in using data and technology to disrupt businesses has healthcare investors watching closely.

While it's a shock to get 89 percent of people to agree on anything (smaller numbers agree that the earth goes around the sun and not the other way around, for instance), the fact that working together is less lonely than working apart is hardly a world - shaking revelation.

The takeaway: «Small, concrete goals designed to improve the well being of others are more likely to lead to happiness for the giver than are acts with large, abstract goals — despite people's intuitions to the contrary,» and keeping that fact in mind can provide a considerable boost to your well being.

President Obama announced tax cuts for small businesses that hire new workers or raise current workers» wages, and a special tax credit of $ 4,000 for employers that hire people who have been out of work for more than six months.

And in a country of more than 150 million people, even a proportionally small middle class like Bangladesh's can be quite large in terms of absolute numbers and buying power.

The number of people who had messages taken is a small portion of the estimated 87 million users whose data was exposed, but it represents a much more intrusive collection than the page likes, birthdays, locations, and personality traits and so forth that were taken from other profiles.

Unadjusted career average earnings will result in a smaller denominator than career average earnings that are adjusted to reflect wage growth, as in the C / QPP benefit rate calculation, and both are likely to be lower than a measure of best average earnings for people whose earnings are high relative to average earnings for limited periods of time.

Oregon: OregonSaves launched in November 2017 and aims to offer workers employed by small businesses of less than 100 people a retirement savings plan.

It leaves a mark on our mode of thinking — we become silo thinkers when people say «my department» or «my unit» thereby identifying themselves with small parts of a business solution rather than with its entire mission.

At the heart of Virginia's economy are more than 650,000 small businesses, which represent 97.8 percent of all employers and employ nearly half of the private - sector labor force, or nearly 1.5 million people.

What do you think of this strategy as a way to get money back into the hands of really creative people who have small financial needs than the big banks want to fund?

Absent such a standard, the shareholder proposal rule becomes nothing less than a species of private eminent domain by which the federal government allows a small minority to appropriate someone else's property — the company is a legal person, after all, and it is the company's proxy statement at issue — for use as a soap - box to disseminate their views.

In fact, part of why I like the state crowdfunding alternatives (alternatives to JOBS Act Title III) is that they seem to take more of the approach that people want to back small companies for reasons that are as compelling or more compelling than the prospect of financial return.

Give your new enterprise the best chance of success with these top business tips, the best advice I've collated from other entrepreneurs and developed from my own experience of more than 20 years of having «been there and done that» as a small business person.

Unemployment, Marginal Attachment and Labor Force Participation in Canada and the United States Stephen Jones, McMaster University Craig Riddell, University of British Columbia Jones and Riddell build on two previous papers: one by David Card and Riddell (originally published in Small Differences that Matter) that studies the reasons for higher rates of unemployment in Canada than the U.S. in the 1980s, the other by Jones and Riddell which uses data from the U.S. Labor Force Survey to study the differences in rates of job creation for people who are counted as unemployed versus those who are counted as out of the labor force.

At a time when people are living longer, yet retiring with a smaller pot of savings than they'd hoped for, this book will become the essential guide.

With a population of just over 45,000 people, Cornwall is an «in - the - middle» kind of place — not quite large enough to be a city, but certainly bigger than a small town, and as a Read more...

«People on TV news shows spoke significantly fewer sentences about Hurricane Maria than about Hurricanes Harvey and Irma,» he writes, and «the spike in conversation about Puerto Rico right as the hurricane hit was also much smaller than the spike in mentions of Texas and Florida.»

I didn't ask for this very small part of who I am any more than albinos asked for their skin tone, or left - handed people asked to never be comfortable using scissors or can openers made for us «natural» right handed people.

Second there are plenty of people who come to their faith as it were through something more than bible verses its called critical thinking people can critically think their way to the idea that they are rather small beings in a relatively huge universe and that they realize that they can't know everything and leave some things including the nature of the universe to faith and acknowledge it as faith if that's how they see the world fine is there anything particularly wrong with that?

The most offensive aspect of Obama's assessment was its crude anthropological reductionism, the assumption that he understood the people of the small towns better than they understood themselves.

What's sad is that a small subset of Christians ARE hateful, and get all the press, and presume to speak for the vast majority of Christians who don't cram stuff down people's throats, and who are a lot more Christian than the loudmouths.

Not to mention, using your considerable influence and reach to defame a person simply because you disagree with them is wrong and way worse than calling someone, your wife for example, «crazy» to a small portion of people and especially when crazy has so many definitions.

Some might see glaring faults from a guy named «Attack of the 50 Foot Magic Underwear» who seems to think he has the facts on his side, when in reality he is just as small - minded and un-educated as the people he professes to be better than.

The number of people repressed for their religion under Communism is far smaller (at least an order of magnitude) than the excess deaths caused by these regimes.

And for ripping off how many people of there life savings and dragging the name of Christianity and god through even more mud than usual and he gets a small stroke?

But 1,000 or 10,000 people spread out over hundreds of smaller churches and ministries can do just as much ministry (and some of it in better ways, for the reasons you've mentioned) than when we're all clumped together in one big congregation.

I propose the following as a proper image of evangelizing: a minister seated along with a group that is more than one other person but small enough to engage in discussion — and with the members of the group being quite varied as to age, sex, color, and other characteristics.

Since people behave differently in small intimate groups than in large public ones, there are some things we can say about the behavior of people in groups that refer to the structure of the group rather than to the individuality of its members....

As much as I believe in evolution, I think that you are misguided, people are bigger today because we have better nutrition, just look at North Korea, they are smaller on average than everyone else and the reason is their lack of food.

Let's not pretend this is anything other than what it is: a small group of people holding onto their evil discrimination against a group of people.

We, a small group of theological educators, went to a Demolition Derby — a real one, with cars, and then trucks, smashing into each others in a muddy arena, and more than a thousand people watching from the grandstands.

If all programs are being designed to meet specific needs of specific people, it is logical to design the programs to meet small, achievable needs of a few people, rather than the vast, insurmountable needs of a few million people.

Socialism and communism are based on the principle that the means of producing goods and providing services — such as all factories and companies — should be owned publicly and controlled and planned by a centralized organization rather than being controlled by members of a small class of wealthy people.