Sentences with phrase «than at the bottom end»

We have made investments in all of those and I learned over time that I am better off being more on the top than at the bottom end» Mohnish Pabrai

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That 12 % tends to be much happier at work than those who scored their bosses» goal - setting at the bottom end of the scale.

The bottom line — net profit — turned positive in about a month and a half, and at the end of 2002, it stood at more than $ 500,000.

Maximization rates were much higher at the top than the bottom end of the income spectrum — the rate for holders with incomes above $ 250,000 was about four times the rate for holders with incomes below $ 20,000, and the rate for eligibles with incomes above $ 250,000 was 10 times the rate for eligibles with incomes below $ 20,000.

The Indian economist Amartya Sen notes, moreover, that the growth in per capita income has been about one - third greater in countries at the bottom of the economic heap than those at the high end, and that the figures would be even higher if sub-Saharan Africa were excluded.

As cliched as it is, sometimes you have to hit rock bottom to go forward and I believe that at the end of this transfer window, we might be a lot more positive than people thought we would be.

I just can't believe that we have become a joke we always start the season well then have a bumpy December and by the time Feb comes our form has taken a dip and we get kicked out of all competitions except for that valuable top 4 that the board loves so much... ultimately if Arsenal want to compete again we need changes from the bottom up... Kroenke and his board need to go cause clearly for them profits matter more than trophies... Wenger needs to go for his lack of tactical naus guy has been using the same fornation since I was in high school and I'm doing my honours in accounting now... our medical team must all go our players always get injured and they never come back in time (take a look at Santi) players like Coquelin Theo Mesut Gabriel Gibbs Giroud just to name a few need to go they're just not good enough seriously these players lack fight tactical Discipline and tactical awareness... at the end of the day change needs to happen things can't keep going like this for us....

We may have spent good money on the likes of Mesut Ozil and Alexis Sanchez but during the summer transfer window and the current winter window the Frenchman has spent less than most clubs at the bottom end of the table.

He even goes much further than Labour ministers ever dared by using the «R» word (redistribution) and spelling out exactly what he means — «a tax system that means people at the bottom end of the scale pay less and at the top end of the scale pay more».

The bottom line is, these kinds of detoxes do not serve long - term weight loss goals and at the end, they do more harm than good.

In other words, the greater the disparity in social skills, the wider the gap in adult outcomes — kids who scored «well» on social competence were four times more likely to obtain a college degree than kids at the bottom end of the spectrum.

For example, a student who begins the year at the 50th percentile on the state reading and math test and is assigned to a teacher in the top quartile in terms of overall TES scores will perform on average, by the end of the school year, three percentile points higher in reading and two points higher in math than a peer who began the year at the same achievement level but was assigned to a bottom - quartile teacher.

For a better sense of the magnitude of these estimates, consider a student who begins the year at the 50th percentile and is assigned to a top - quartile teacher as measured by the Overall Classroom Practices score; by the end of the school year, that student, on average, will score about three percentile points higher in reading and about two points higher in math than a peer who began the year at the same achievement level but was assigned to a bottom - quartile teacher.

I found on almost every occasion I put the car into gear I ended up in Sport mode (at the very bottom of the PRNDS progression) rather than Drive.

Highlights include a larger trapezoidal grille that sits higher than before, leaving room for a small lip at the bottom of the fascia and new headlights that are connected via a small air inlet at the end of the hood.

That's important because you don't want to go into a market meltdown with too much in stocks and end up bailing on equities at the market bottom — or have less than you should in stocks after a crash and miss out on the gains when stocks rebound.

Simply put, our mission is to provide back - end dispute services for companies like yours, and give you bottom - line hard ROI's and soft ROI's in the forms of customer care, reliability and support at a reduced cost than you could on your own.

At the risk of oversimplifying a complex analysis, Siegel's bottom line is that while there are not enough younger generation Americans to absorb the Boomers stock and bond assets at current prices, investors in emerging countries, like China and India, will more than make up for that and will end up buying the Baby Boomer's paper assets as the Boomers sell them off to fund their retirementAt the risk of oversimplifying a complex analysis, Siegel's bottom line is that while there are not enough younger generation Americans to absorb the Boomers stock and bond assets at current prices, investors in emerging countries, like China and India, will more than make up for that and will end up buying the Baby Boomer's paper assets as the Boomers sell them off to fund their retirementat current prices, investors in emerging countries, like China and India, will more than make up for that and will end up buying the Baby Boomer's paper assets as the Boomers sell them off to fund their retirements.

Investors that can't handle the volatility of his investment style may end up selling at the bottom of a draw down rather than at the peak of his hedge fund's high water mark.

No matter how outdoorsy you are or how much you like to paint the town, just the time you spend sleeping can add up to more than 2,900 hours a year at home — and that's likely the bottom end of the scale.

There's a fairly large open area at the bottom end of the table which helps give the whole thing a less clustered feel than other tables in the series, but it does mean this is a very top end table with most of the action going on in the upper limits of the table.

What hurts even more in the end is that even though the average overall will come down by half a point or so, this review is so much lower than the average that it could possibly still be at the very bottom of the list.

* & & * — if the stratosphere were optically thick and warmed at the bottom even if the whole experiences net cooling, then the stratospheric feedback adds to the initial TRPP forcing, and the end result could require warming below TRPP to change the flux at TRPP to an amount greater than the TRPP after stratospheric adjustment, because of the additional warming that would occur in the (lower) stratosphere.

-------- * & & * — if the stratosphere were optically thick and warmed at the bottom even if the whole experiences net cooling, then the stratospheric feedback adds to the initial TRPP forcing, and the end result could require warming below TRPP to change the flux at TRPP to an amount greater than the TRPP after stratospheric adjustment, because of the additional warming that would occur in the (lower) stratosphere.

Any existing ice this year will form the basis of the multi-year ice, yes — but the sea forms at the bottom, in contact with sea water, and melts at the top — so at the end of next summer, all of this year's ice could have melted off the top, leaving only the new ice beneath, possibly thinner than this year.

Isolate the system, or heat it at the top and explain to me how the bottom will end up warmer than the top.

Way down at the bottom end of the severity chart are some offences (e.g. growing more than 4 plants) which can result in a simple ticket, fine and no criminal record.

It bears more than a passing resemblance to the Motorola Razr in terms of its overall shape in that it's thicker at one end than the other — although for this device, it's slightly thinner at the top, rather than the bottom as it was with the Motorola.

The most high - end in this lineup is the Tab 4 10 Plus - the 10.1 - inch model, rather than the smaller 8 - inch model - which comes in at around # 300, to directly compete with Apple's bottom - rung full - sized iPad.

At the bottom end of the market, this is producing some incredible bargains for home - hunters — albeit in run - down, crime - ridden areas — with agents falling over themselves to advertise «Britain's cheapest house» and many houses selling for considerably less than a London garage would attract.

Mom very clearly instructed me to wash from the bottom up, not top down, because if you start at the top, the dribbles run downward and end up drying lighter in color than the rest of the surface.