Sentences with phrase «substantial amounts at»

We are continuing and will continue our purchases in substantial amounts at levels which we believe represent sound investment values.

«Our goal is to identify compounds with medicinal, environmental and other uses that can be renewably produced in substantial amounts at a reasonable cost.»

A few dollars you save on a monthly basis can add up to become a substantial amount at the end of the year.

Not exact matches

Of all the goals, the worst for shareholders is, ironically, «Do at least one significant deal that creates substantial shareholder value» because there was no accountability for the amount management would pay for acquisitions.

Years ago I lost a fairly substantial amount in my first and only attempt at working with a broker who invested too much in tech stocks.

According to this model, a small amount of deceleration in credit growth can occur as additional credit efficiency is squeezed out of the system, but without a sharp decline in GDP growth, substantial and sustainable credit growth deceleration can not occur except after a major transformation of China's growth model, one condition of which is net wealth transfers from local governments to median households of at least one to two percentage points of GDP annually.

Zvi Bodie, professor of management at Boston University and author of «Worry Free Investing,» thinks you should a substantial amount of your money in Treasury Inflation - Protected Securities (TIPS).

The alternative to a substantial bet on stocks at age 60 and up is a portfolio heavily in bonds or bond mutual funds, with only a modest amount of money in stocks.

At just over 50 per cent, the share of foreign currency issuance denominated in US dollars was below past norms; financial institutions issued substantial amounts in euros and pounds sterling.

The share of foreign currency issuance denominated in US dollars remained low by historical standards at just over 50 per cent; financial institutions issued substantial amounts in euros, pounds sterling and Canadian dollars.

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Dean Burch, then Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, indicated at the Senate hearing that the broadcasting industry «s response should be «immediate and decisive,» and that their response should include sharp reductions in «all gratuitous and needless violence» in the programs children watch, and «the creation of substantial amounts of new diversified programming, not just the usual diet of cartoons, to open the eyes and expand the minds of young viewers.»

And without significant effort over a substantial amount of time, the weakest, merely descriptive marks are incapable of serving a trademark function at all.

Maybe it's just me - but I found this to be pretty bland and after making it, a substantial amount of liquid settled at the bottom of the bowl and broke up the zucchini.

«At this point in time what it does show is people out there are prepared to invest substantial amounts of money in coal assets and Rio's predominantly foreign owned already - that's another issue to remember - and I've been reading a couple of comments and I think even the unions are in support of this one.

If the line has already moved a substantial amount, you're better off not playing it at all.

After being offered that amount, we could understand why Ozil wants a substantial increase on his paltry # 120,000 a week that he is earning now at Arsenal.

«But if we can be in the top 25 in points with some top - 10s and top - fives and run at the front sometimes, we'll have improved a substantial amount.

Rarely does a day go by in the era of modern football when we don't hear of a substantial amount of money being offered for a top quality footballer, be it from the far - eastern Chinese Super League or the Abu Dhabi - funded coffers at Manchester City.

One of the most enterprising financial establishments in the country, uniBank (Ghana) Limited, having made an immense contribution in providing pivotal social interventions through its agile CSR commitments, has again donated substantial support, including a health post, marketplace, a cow, 50 bags of rice, 25 bags of sugar, cartons of drinks and bottled water, etc. to the Muslim community at the Hajj Village in an estimated amount of Two Hundred and Seventy Five Thousand Ghana Cedis (GH cents 275,000.00).

«This is a substantial amount of overbilling, and I thank Erie County Division of Information and Support Services Commissioner Michael Breeden, Budget Director Robert Keating, and the staff at Troy & Banks for working together to identify the issue and begin the refund process,» Poloncarz said.

«Instead, the Woodstock Town Board should be supporting developers like us, who are spending substantial amounts of time and effort to follow the rules through the regulatory wringer at great expense while Airbnb gets a free ride.»

«My message to Ed Miliband; make a commitment to build a substantial amount of new houses - that's a vote winner, promise to keep the NHS free at the point of need - that's a vote winner.

At the same time, it is adding a substantial amount of retail to the area to serve the needs of current and future families.

Two sources close to the Kennedy family — both well - known individuals — told The Post that Cuomo, 58, and Kennedy, 56, have been involved in at - times - bitter, lawyer - assisted go - rounds over «substantial amounts» of child support payments for the past 2 1/2 years, and reached an agreement on some of the financial obligations only two weeks ago.

At the same time, City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito recently urged the end of the «unfair» 8.875 % tax, saying, «it does come out to a substantial amount of money in a person's lifetime.»

«The MAVEN mission tells us that Mars lost substantial amounts of its atmosphere over time, changing the planet's habitability,» said David Brain, a MAVEN co-investigator and a professor at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder.

«We have many independent lines of reasoning that lead us to the conclusion that we have substantial amounts of dark matter in the local part of our galaxy,» says dark matter theorist Dan Hooper at Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois.

So, if you are looking at the Midwest where there is a substantial amount of wind — all the way from the Dakotas down to Texas — or if you are looking at the solar availability in this country in the Southwest, in Arizona or Nevada, or even the offshore wind in the Atlantic, you have to build lines from those sources to the loads, and you have to have a much more robust system that can support that.

Patients age 90 or younger whose brains showed evidence of substantial amounts of at - risk but salvageable tissue were randomized into two groups: One set of patients, the intervention group, received thrombectomies.

But the AAAS panel found that substantial upgrades to the current infrastructure would be needed anyway to carry out the RRW program, including at least a doubling of the current assembling and disassembling work at the Pantex nuclear weapon assembly facility as well as a significant increase in the amount of plutonium pits produced at the TA - 55 facility.

The amount of money now coming through the ERC, almost $ 2 billion per year, is substantial enough that one has to think of its impact on the way research is organized at the European level.

«There's a substantial amount of evidence suggesting that student mobility poses serious problems for the students who change schools, as well as their schools, teachers and even peers who do not change schools,» said Ruth López Turley, an associate professor of sociology at Rice and director of the Houston Education Research Consortium.

Eri Saikawa, who studies air pollution and its health impacts at Emory University, and wasn't involved in the new study, plans to use Wiedinmyer's data in a model to see how it matches observations in China and Southeast Asia, and to see how trash burning might be contributing to the substantial amounts of air pollution there.

Bananas that are still green at the tips contain substantial amounts of resistant starch, says Bingham, whereas in ripe bananas with black spots most of the starch has been converted to sugars.

Obese people who lose a substantial amount of weight can significantly slow down the degeneration of their knee cartilage, but only if they lose weight through diet and exercise or diet alone, according to a new MRI study presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

«This results in a substantial amount of food waste at the household level.»

Both are inorganic fertilizers that were being stored in «substantial amounts» at the West Chemical and Fertilizer Company building, the New York Times reports.

That means it sinks into the deeper layers of the ocean, and the contrast between this warm water and the undersea ice canyons contributes an unknown but substantial amount of sea level rise, said Josh Willis, an oceanographer at JPL in Pasadena, California.

New research from Carnegie's Ivana Cvijanovic (now at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) and Ken Caldeira, as well as Douglas MacMartin of Caltech, shows that while an incredibly large effort could, in principle, restore vast amounts of sea ice by this method, it would not result in substantial cooling.

AMP T2D focuses on type 2 diabetes genetics, seeking to use and supplement the substantial amount of human genetic data available from people with type 2 diabetes, or at risk of developing it, to identify and validate novel molecules and pathways as targets for therapeutic development.

«The dollar amount associated with these grants is substantial,» said Timothy A. Kohler, professor of anthropology at WSU and coauthor of the NSF grant proposal.

«This new data indicate that latency is far from an accident — it is encoded in the virus's circuitry and is an evolutionarily advantageous strategy, likely increasing the odds of infection by a substantial amount,» Leor Weinberger, a coauthor and researcher at the Gladstone Institutes, a nonprofit focused on biomedical research, said in a statement.

Not only did the researchers confirm that pH levels fell at a hastening pace during the 20th century as greenhouse gas pollution levels rose — they also found that the pH levels have fluctuated a surprisingly substantial amount between years and seasons.

The good news is that disabling both brakes at the same time often increases the response rate by a substantial amount.

Cut the stress by figuring out ahead of time whom you should notify and what you need to do if you miss a substantial amount of time at school or work.

When there are quality studies that where subjects actually eat a whole food plant based diet of roughly 70 % — 80 % carbohydrates, 10 % — 15 % fat and 10 % — 15 % protein along with consumption of at least 40 grams of fiber a day (any less and it would be an indicator that the subjects were eating substantial amounts of highly refined plant foods), and those studies show that diets like Atkins or Paleo or Weston - Price result in better cholesterol, blood pressure, blood sugar (both fasting and post-prandial) then I will start paying attention to them.

Generally speaking, when people take the plunge and decide to change their lives by loosing a substantial amount of weight, many of them look at examples of fit, tight bodies for motivation.....

(I purchase all of these products for myself at Thrive Market which saves me a substantial amount of money, however most of these products should be available at your local co-op or health food store as well.)

Starting now until Tuesday, May 30th a substantial amount of PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3 games are on sale at a heavily discounted for the week.