Sentences with phrase «than the country at»

In most respects, there is more that unites the supporters of the four candidates than divides them: as a group they are much more political, more left wing and more partisan than the country at large.

It lays bare how the art world — no less than the country at large — has persistently struggled with the politics of race, and the ways this struggle has influenced how museums, curators and artists wrestle with notions of free speech and the specter of censorship.

Not exact matches

Editor's note: People over 50 are among the country's most active entrepreneurs, starting businesses at rates higher than their young counterparts.

Legere likes nothing more than to travel around the country and visit that gold mine, at the stores and call centers where most of the company's 51,000 U.S. employees work.

The annual cost of incarceration for a single juvenile is over $ 100,000 — more than twice as high as tuition at the most expensive college in the country, according to the American Correctional Association and the Chronicle of Higher Education.

«Other than Antarctica and the North Pole, I can't think of any countries we're not looking at,» he added.

Skeptics may balk at the figure, but WeWork now counts more than 160 locations and 130,000 members in 15 countries — and is increasingly luring blue chips like IBM to its vision of hipster communal coworking nirvana.

Today, there are more than 25,000 Starbucks locations across 75 countries, and more than 300,000 people work at the coffee company.

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings recently announced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that the streaming service is now available in more than 130 countries.

These days the Virgin brand is trusted globally, so if we set up a venture in a new country, progress is swifter than in the days when we had to win over customers one transaction at a time.

In our Global Leadership Forecast 2018 — published by DDI, The Conference Board and EY with support from CNBC — we took a look at more than 25,000 leaders spanning 54 countries and 26 major industry sectors.

The Las Vegas Police Department reported that at least 50 people have died and more than 400 were injured by a gunman with a high - powered assault weapon during country singer Jason Aldean's performance at the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival near the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino on Sunday evening.

Before Yang designed the collection, she spent two years traveling around the country meeting with employees, observing them at work, getting feedback from union groups and reading through responses to more than 5,000 employee surveys.

Grocery shopping shouldn't set you back more than $ 150 a month at one of the country's western style supermarket chains such as Lucky or Thai Huot or well - stocked minimarts like the famously named 7 - Elephants.

Because Bolivia has its own wine country, bottles of locally produced wine start at less than $ 3.

Still, despite what he feels is a weak case against him, he thinks the odds are he'll be found guilty, at least during this first trial; Japan, which has a more than 99 % conviction rate, is also one of a few countries that allows prosecutors to appeal an acquittal twice.

On Oct. 1 we released our fifth annual study, «B2B Content Marketing: 2015 Benchmarks, Budgets and Trends — North America,» looking at more than 5,000 marketers in 109 countries.

Researcher Ruta Aidis, a fellow at George Mason University, gave Canada (and Australia) an overall score of 69 out of a possible 100 — just two points less than the No. 1 - ranked country, the United States — in the 31 - country survey, commissioned by Dell.

In the 2013 investigations, managers used more than 25 stolen identities to employ at least 115 people in the country illegally, knowing they could pay below minimum wage, according to court documents.

At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings announced that the streaming - video provider is now in more than 160 countries worldwide, with more to come.

In other words, it's more than just a figurehead position — it can involve appearing at events, flying to other countries to represent the brand, and meeting with people about potential partnerships.

«That would be the equivalent of adding a country with an output larger than Germany to the global economy,» Lagarde said at a panel in Brussels on Wednesday, according to prepared remarks.

Much the year - end maneuvering noted by the Rockefeller Institute involved the country's millionaires and billionaires rearranging their finances to maximize the portion of their income that would be taxed in 2012, at lower rates, rather than in 2013, at potentially higher rates.

From Vox, citing a study at the University of Texas: «If 10 percent of the vehicles... were self - driving cars, the country could save more than $ 37 billion a year due to fewer deaths, less fuel, more free time, etc..

In Sydney, host of the 2000 Olympics, foreign tourism grew at a slower rate than the rest of the country in the three years following the Games.

Success: She's still out $ 20,000 in savings, but by the end of 2012 the website had nearly 2 million users in more than 160 countries, increasing at a rate of 30 percent every month.

Still, though China has managed not to rely on any single country for more than a small percentage of its oil needs, its imports are still quite concentrated in terms of geographical region and in unstable regions at that, namely the Middle East and Africa.

Starting Thursday at midnight, according to several reports, Brazil will place a 48 - hour block on WhatsApp, the Facebook - owned messaging service that has more than 90 million users in the country, where the total population is slightly above 200 million.

The social media giant also commissioned Ipsos to look at holiday shopping habits and attitudes among more than 21,000 people over the age of 18 in 17 countries.

At its peak, the company had more than 800 stores (including franchises and wholly - owned branch stores) in over 40 countries, and employed upwards of 6,000 people.

This mimicked the English wedding style at the time, according to Country Living, and, since it called for a sit - down lunch, it required more effort than an afternoon wedding, which only needed a casual reception.

The IRS RMD rules can be a bit confusing, and failing to satisfy your annual RMD can be expensive, costing you an excise - tax penalty of up to 50 percent on the amount not distributed as required, warns Manisha Thakor, director of Wealth Strategies for Women at Buckingham and The BAM Alliance, a community of more than 140 independent registered investment advisors throughout the country.

BCG surveyed nearly 450 executives at companies with more than US$ 1 billion in revenue in seven countries about their plans and expectations, and concluded that businesses have not done enough cutting or rethinking to prepare for the slow growth ahead.

«There are certain advantages towards using second citizenship to create residence in countries where tax burdens would be lower than where you are at the current time.»

The company surveyed more than 42,000 employees at tech companies across the country, and divided the list into large and small - to - mid-size winners.

At the time of highest impact — 1:40 EDT (10:30 PDT) when the eclipse is passing through Wyoming — the MDA solar forecasting system predicts solar generation potential across the country will decrease to less than 50 percent of capacity.

The AP reported that during the period the country has taken in at least $ 7.7 billion (# 5.9 billion) and issued more than 40,000 visas to Chinese investors and their families.

Chad was not previously known as a major source of anti-U.S. terror plots, at least no more than several countries that aren't on the list, and is in fact considered an important regional counterterrorism partner of the U.S..

We think of Canada as a kinder, gentler country, but our increase in income inequality has been more rapid of late than at any time in our recorded history.

Ethnic minorities make up 36 percent of the country, and more than 20 percent of Americans speak a language other than English at home.

To help connect technology issuers and Canada's investment community, TSX has arranged a series of events at which more than 50 Canadian companies in the technology and clean technology sectors have met with investment bankers across the country.

Infosys, which employs more than 200,000 workers worldwide, was under the spotlight last year as President Donald Trump targeted the American H - 1B visa program that tech companies have heavily relied upon to temporarily bring in workers from other countries at lower wages.

Spartan Race does not make revenue figures available, but entries to many of the races start at $ 100 and this year more than a million people will enter one of the 200 events in 30 countries the company will host.

Representatives of two gun control advocacy groups, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America and Everytown for Gun Safety, plan to speak at more than 20 pride events around the country this weekend, according to a statement from the groups.

The business is more complex than it may appear, he said: Groupon has salespeople in 47 countries, negotiating deals with a quarter of a million merchants, and «at the same time, [we are] innovating [and] thinking about what Groupon will become in three or five years.

A roundup of gun control and violence studies by writer German Lopez at Vox shows Americans represent less than 5 % of the world population but possess nearly 50 % of the world's civilian - owned guns, police are about three times more likely to be killed in states with high gun ownership, countries with more guns see more gun deaths, and states with tighter gun control laws see fewer gun - related deaths, among other sobering statistics.

Birch ranks Nebraska 49th in the country in two categories: the percentage of people working at companies that are less than 15 years old and the number of jobs lost to layoffs and closings.

«OPEC countries appear to be more interested in defending their market shares at present than stabilizing prices»

Lawmakers created the choice program in 2014 after a massive scandal involving wait time cover - ups at more than 100 VA facilities around the country.

European countries generally have greater respect for privacy than the U.S., says Bart Willemsen, a research director at Gartner and a former chief privacy officer based in the Netherlands.