Sentences with phrase «than its utility as»

But since inflation is expected to remain at about 2 percent per year for the foreseeable future, commercial real estate investors are advised to look at the overall performance of a property or pooled investment fund rather than its utility as an inflation hedge, says Martha Peyton, CRE, managing director and head of Global Real Estate Strategy and Research at TIAA - CREF in Newport Beach, Calif..

Not exact matches

At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this month, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler signaled that he would heed President Obama's call to preserve net neutrality — that is, treat broadband internet service providers as utilities (subject to more rigorous regulation than previously) to maintain equal access for all to the internet.

Berkshire has more than 90 operating units, including large businesses such as the BNSF railroad, Geico auto insurance and Berkshire Hathaway Energy utilities, and smaller businesses making Dairy Queen ice cream, Duracell batteries, Fruit of the Loom underwear, Ginsu knives and the World Book encyclopedia.

«It goes further than we anticipated, and radical is the right word for it,» Downes says, adding Wheeler has gone too far, chiefly because the FCC does not have the authority to reclassify broadband as a utility or update Title II the way Wheeler's proposal intends to do.

A look at this list as a whole reveals something altogether more interesting than who had the greatest number of grumpy customers: of the worst 20 companies in the index, seven were telecommunications companies, five were airlines, and four were public utilities.

As of mid-2015, the measure (see blue line in chart) shows that less than a third of disposable income is required by a representative Canadian household for mortgage payments and utility fees — below the long term average (brown line).

«But as 2018 unfolds and signs of the cycle stalling start to build, watch for relative outperformance from defensives as the multiples in Health Care, Staples, Utilities, and REITs fall by less than the market.»

«And its target is nothing less than the utility of the Internet as a democratic space.»

Pacific Gas and Electric Co. shares sank in early trading as the utility reported Thursday that its first - quarter profits were lower than a year...

California has set a new record for peak output of utility - scale solar at more than 10.5 GW, as well as for renewable energy overall.

Utilities are less volatile than energy, materials and even the Index as a whole.

Old - line technology companies such as Boeing (BA) IBM, Rockwell (ROK), Hitachi (HIT) and United Technologies (UTX) will be safer heavens than utilities, and generally outperform.

Keeping Warren Buffett's advice «it is far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price» in mind, I zeroed in on Dominion Resources (Symbol: D) as the utility company to purchase.

Our client list includes more than two - thirds of the Fortune ® 500 as well as thousands of real estate, utilities, healthcare, government, higher education and not - for - profit entities.

Unlike more defensive sectors (such as utilities), price gains for mature tech stocks have largely been led by earnings growth rather than by multiples expansion.

In a new collaborative report, «An Underappreciated Disruptor,» Morgan Stanley's Utility and Clean Tech analyst, Stephen Byrd and Shared Mobility & Auto analyst, Adam Jonas, argue that the price of both solar and wind energy, as well as new storage units, have reached a point where renewable energy can finally become a dependable rather than an unpredictable source of energy.

Yet rather than taking this opportunity to run these banks as public utilities and lower their charges for credit - card services — or most important of all, to stop their lending to speculators and gamblers — governments left these banks operating as part of the «casino capitalism» that has become their business plan.

As a result, the biggest losses went to high - dividend companies such as utility and real estate companies whose stocks become less appealing than bonds to investors seeking incomAs a result, the biggest losses went to high - dividend companies such as utility and real estate companies whose stocks become less appealing than bonds to investors seeking incomas utility and real estate companies whose stocks become less appealing than bonds to investors seeking income.

One also has to question the editorial wisdom of allowing a biography of a famous Supreme Court justice to meander more than 450 pages before its subject even becomes a justice» a long walk through such dusty disputes as the Ballinger «Pinchot scandal and the 1890s battle over Boston's utility rates.

Nature, therefore, is to be looked upon as sacred, rather than as a mere agent of utility for human needs, towards which human beings are called to relate with a sense of duty.161 The arrival of the harvest, as may be noted from the case of the mustard seed, asserts that the time has come when the blessings of the Kingdom of God are available for all including non-human creation.

The platform planks for «32 embodied a number of Century concerns: U.S. adherence to the World Court protocol; U.S. entry into the League of Nations, provided that its covenant be amended to eliminate military sanctions; U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union (which was granted a year later); the safeguarding of the rights of conscientious objectors (including those denied citizenship, such as Canadian - born theologian D. C. Macintosh of Yale Divinity School); the abolition of compulsory military training in state - supported educational institutions other than military and naval academies; emergency measures for relief and public - works employment; the securing of constitutional rights for minorities; the reduction of gross inequality of income by steeply progressive rates of taxation on large incomes; «progressive socialization of the ownership and control of natural resources, public utilities and basic industries»; «the nationalization of our entire banking system»; and so on (June 8, 1932).

Even though he did make what might be called a «theological» contribution8 regarding «God's Utility Function,» clearly he should be counted as a «naturalist» rather than a «theist.»

1) Charities spend their income on necessities, such as food and utilities, which ever - so - slightly re-orients our economy toward recession - resistant products, rather than luxuries 2) Charities spend their money quickly, but on independent schedules, making for a smoother stimulus effect on the economy 3) Charities make purchases tax - free, meaning that $ 1 spent by a charity generates a full $ 1 of private economic activity; furthermore, much of those tax revenues are recovered as income tax on the grocery stores, utility companies, etc. that might not have received that income otherwise 4) Charitable giving is by far the most democratic way to improve society; from birth control to bombers, government assuredly spends money on something you don't like, and charitable giving restores your say - so 5) Charitable donations are tax deductible, meaning you keep those tax dollars in your local community 6) Charitable donations provide the funds necessary for volunteers to serve the needy, thus giving «the average citizen» a chance to meet and interact with the needy, breaking down stereotypes

Weiss is surely correct in thinking that logic, as construed in a sufficiently broad sense, is nowadays of greater practical, as well as philosophical, utility than ever before.

Thanks to its compact size — less than 1 m in height — and with a connection size of 80 mm, the Alfa Laval T8 is the ideal gasketed plate heat exchanger for HVAC applications in buildings, as well as numerous other industries such as fluid power, metalworking, marine, power generation, general manufacturing, general utility cooling, engine cooling, and the semi-conductor industry.

as does the word «class» but sorry pure class applies no more to ramsey than it does to of lots of similar players like milner townsend henderson and other hard working utility players with decent skillls... in arsenals case the damage it brings from not having a class player on the wing is so obvious i am even surprised you try to defend it....

He needs to be your third option, and he needs to embrace a more utility role as a rim runner and pick and pop guy, and passing guy, rather than trying to be a big time scorer or creating for himself.

3 RB's 3 CB's 2 LB's and Chambers as utility... Without looking it up name me 1, just 1 top 4 club in any league's fourth choice CB who's better than Chambers?

A couple years ago, before he went on loan for a long stretch, I though he would be sold soon as he just wasn't ever going to be more than a solid utility player.

However, Welbeck has been brought in to do a job of not only scoring goals, but to render better utility as a striker than the Girouds and Sanogos, who neither fall into the category of strikers or target men.

However, what is more likely is that Coutinho will start of the left of the front attacking three with Emre Can filling in the midfield role, ahead of fresh signing Alex Clade - Chamberlain who will be used more as a utility player than anything else in Europe.

Juventus have played like three billion games per week since January, and this happens to coincide with a switch in formation that includes having four designated attackers, and Juventus don't actually have many true attackers (due to a strange midfielder fetish; I'm sort of a Rincon fan, as much as that can be true, and of course hindsight is 20 - 20 but it would've been nice to spend that cash on a utility attacker rather than another central midfielder), all of which means Higuain has been logging a lot of minutes.

Our clothes come out cleaner than before, as well, and the cut in our utilities bill has been amazing.

Cost drivers such as housing, utilities, transportation and health care are far less in Buffalo than in Brooklyn,» Biryla writes in the letter.

Thus, not only do rural people have a greater democratic say in how their local governments are run, they also have a greater democratic say in how some of their key utilities and economic institutions are run, and are far more likely per capita to serve on the governing boards of such institutions, (even though, as in the case of governments, they have far less formal training and expertise in doing so than their urban counterparts running investor owned corporations that do the same things in urban areas).

Rural phone companies and electric utilities, rural financial institutions, rural farm product marketing companies, companies that provide irrigation water, and lots of the companies that sell goods to farmers, for example, are all organized as cooperatives of either consumers or producers and run on a much more democratic basis than investor owned companies.

The pledge unanimously passed and signed by the Town Board at its April 11 meeting went on to ask «the New York State Legislature to commit to these same clean energy goals, which would represent a 20 percent increase over the current New York State Energy Plan targets» and to urge «Governor Cuomo to adopt a statewide minimum energy efficiency target of three percent per year of annual energy savings for New York's utilities as part of his comprehensive energy efficiency program, to be announced on Earth Day 2018, and further urges that this program be implemented through a centralized planning process rather than in separate utility rate cases.»

With award - winning higher education, a skilled workforce, competitive real estate, attractive incentive packages and utility rates, it's no wonder why major companies such as Gap, GlobalFoundries and IBM collectively employ more than 10,000 people here.

The Cuomo administration estimates the Clean Energy Standard, chiefly its nuclear subsidies, will add an average of $ 2 to residential electric bills, although the Empire Center calculated the standard would hike the average residential bill by more than $ 2.09 in 2018 and by $ 3.40 in 2021 from added supply costs alone; compliance with the standard will necessitate major changes to the electrical grid, which will separately drive up customer delivery charges as utilities are forced to accommodate intermittent generation from solar panels and wind turbines.

So you operate as a public utility at cost for public benefit, rather than for private profit.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced in February that the state was taking tough new measures against energy marketing companies, also known as ESCOs, after data showed some were charging more than utilities for gas and electricity supply.

Orange and Rockland Utilities reports at about 1,974 customers in Rockland without power and 7,128 customers in Orange County, as of 12:30 p.m., slightly fewer than earlier in the day.

Nick Braden, spokesman for the nonprofit American Public Power Association, which represents more than 2,000 community - owned electric utilities, said in a statement that as government bodies, public utilities have an inherent political character and that knowing how to «operate within a political structure» is useful.

Smith says the budget may be more solid than it appears right now because there may be as much as $ 6 millions more coming in from utility savings and increased garbage fee collections.

The city - owned utility has invested in and jointly runs some of the renewable energy facilities, such as the McNeil Generating Station, a biomass plant located near the city capable of producing more than 50 MW of power.

While water utilities across the country spend more than $ 50 billion a year to treat drinking water, the nation spends $ 207 million a year to protect source waters and prevent pollution from sources such as urban runoff, the study says.

As gas becomes dear, utilities across the world are opting to build coal - fired, rather than gas - fired, power plants.

The developmental processes underlying these two types of distolingual cusp are unknown, and the validity of the distinction is based on phylogenetic utility and homology rather than cusp position, as in other mammalian groups.

Lead residues on Flint's water pipes were much lower than those found on the lead service lines from 26 water utilities in the U.S. Half of the chemical build - up — 54 percent — on pipes around the nation was lead, more than four times as much as in Flint.

In 2013, as the administration was preparing to roll out the rules, a lobbyist with a utility consortium told The Atlanta Journal - Constitution that the Southern Company devotes more resources to lobbying than most utility companies and is «very active in pushing its point of view.»