Sentences with phrase «than the utility of»

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

It's hard to imagine a more polarizing topic debated in the finance community than the utility of decentralized networks and cryptocurrencies.

«If you look at Durango, people call it the Charger of its segment, because everything else is front - wheel drive, car - based platforms that emphasize more the flexibility of the packaging rather than the utility of the packaging,» he says.

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«If you think of your iPhone, its utility is fundamentally more than just the phone and the camera,» Flannery said.

Having helped build more than a hundred apps from categories ranging from social networking, utility, entertainment and lifestyle, I get asked a lot of questions by entrepreneurs and businesses on the entire process of building and marketing apps.

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.

Canada's utility sector is up 9.5 % in the first 11 months of the year, REITs have risen 7.5 % and several telecoms are up more than 8 %.

Back in 2000, when more than a 100 people died in Ford Explorers, many of them equipped with Firestone tires, there was a national debate over large sport - utility vehicles and whether they were prone to rollover.

Our tester was equipped with all - wheel - drive, and while it was fine for whatever we threw at it in the suburbs and the big city, the proclivity toward a rear - wheel bias means that the Stelvio is more for the «sport» part of SUV than the «utility» part.

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.

We also contacted Allete, a company whose Minnesota Power (MP) utility serves more than 140,000 state residents and «some of the nation's largest industrial customers.»

Western Australia's state - owned electric utility Western Power says it will cut 175 jobs on top of more than 320 positions that were axed in June.

Rossello highlighted how the island's electrical grid, which was severely dilapidated even prior to the storms, was obsolete and working off of a generation system that was 28 years older than the average electric power utility in the United States.

Indeed, nowhere are the barricades being stormed more aggressively than in PG&E's home, California, whose mandate for change is more audacious than any other state's: Its law requires that 50 % of utilities» power be generated by renewable sources by 2030.

Vistra Energy will buy Dynegy in an all - stock deal, the U.S. utilities said on Monday, creating a company with a market value of more than $ 10 billion.

That's why in 2012 they launched New York City - based Temboo, a repository of programming processes that developers can use to connect to code utilities, databases and more than 100 application programming interfaces (APIs) for online services ranging from Amazon Web Services cloud storage to real - estate site Zillow.

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).

It is such an integral part of so many people's social lives and patterns of communication, and it has so few real competitors, that I think it is in some ways more like a public utility than like a private company.

«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.»

Because of obscure utility regulations, you could be billed for more than you use.

Last year, the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada issued a report finding that rooftop solar customers actually give back more to the grid than they cost.

Utilities and manufacturing industries have large infrastructure costs that generally make up a much greater portion of their spending than salaries.

Its hands full with restoring power, Puerto Rico's beleaguered electric utility will not need to defend a contractor's lawsuit seeking damages of more than $ 4.5 million, according to the judge in the island's financial restructuring case.

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.

In some of the locations they have identified, total cost of living can be less than winter utility bills alone back home.

The Dow utility average plunged another 12 points, the Transports dropped by nearly 100, the Industrials failed their recent basing pattern, the number of stocks hitting new lows jumped above new highs on both the NYSE and the Nasdaq, decliners led advancers by more than 2 - to - 1, and the U.S. dollar weakened further, among other ugliness.

For more than 23 years — from 1984 to 2007 — Mr. Bralver was a founder and Vice Chairman of management consultancy Oliver, Wyman & Co. where he specialized in strategy, risk and operational work for leading investment banks, asset managers, exchanges and other market utilities.

Rather than debate their utility, we should focus on how we can minimise the pain of the inevitable adjustment and maximise the benefits of our resource economy for all Canadians.

Along with the 3.5 GW of PURPA projects already online or in the queue, this is expected to allow North Carolina to reach 6.8 GW of utility - scale solar by 2022 — more than double the roughly 3 GW that the state had online by the end of 2016.

In what would normally be an off day for city council members, they gathered for a special council meeting to discuss the situation surrounding Kane Beef's delinquent utility account which swelled to more than $ 2.3 million over the course of a year.

The cost of utilities in Colorado is lower than in more than half of the states.

Its insurance and utility businesses typically account for more than half of the company's net income.

Although every category is cheaper across the board, the biggest drop is in utilities, which cost 13.3 percent less than in the rest of the country.

Some may argue this comparison is too simplistic and «apples to oranges» but the annual terawatt hour consumption figures persist none the less, and Bitcoin costs roughly 10x more energy than CERN Meanwhile, most, if not all of us will probably find it very difficult to demonstrate a cost / utility argument in support of Bitcoin having 10x more benefit than CERN.

For whatever reason, most investors aren't wired to think of common stocks like they do office buildings or high - quality furniture, which they understand has utility for more than one lifetime.

Graham recommended [in 1970] that an industrial company should have at least $ 100 million of annual sales, and a public utility company should have no less than $ 50 million in total assets.

Currently, 2 ETFs track the S&P Utilities Select Sector Index with more than $ 7.37 B in ETP assets with an average expense ratio of 0.61 %.

Utility workers from more than 30 states and Canada made their way to Florida ahead of Irma's landfall to assist with restoration.

There's more to utilities than the price of power; Reaves Asset Management uses that fact to capture alpha in the space.

Indeed, the technology sector has been one of the biggest beneficiaries of the Trump presidency: The S&P information technology group has risen more than 13 percent this year, more than banks, utilities, health firms, energy companies or consumer brands.

The entire 7 MW / 34 MWh system will provide the public utility with costs savings of more than $ 500,000 per year, and help stabilize demand on the stressed Southern California electrical grid.

Oscar Mayer has long been the largest customer of the Madison Water Utility, typically using 400 million to 450 million gallons of water a year and providing the water utility with more than $ 1 million a year in revenue, or 2.8 percent of its total annual revenue, spokeswoman Amy BarrilleauUtility, typically using 400 million to 450 million gallons of water a year and providing the water utility with more than $ 1 million a year in revenue, or 2.8 percent of its total annual revenue, spokeswoman Amy Barrilleauutility with more than $ 1 million a year in revenue, or 2.8 percent of its total annual revenue, spokeswoman Amy Barrilleaux said.

More than this, the utility and prosperity of Mexico, has many benefits, wealthy neighbors, location economies, etc...

If your track record reflects more current accounts than negative accounts with utilities, business credit cards, banks, suppliers, and other creditors, your profile will look better than if there are a lot of late payments or defaults.

The customer would pay back SolarCity and its financial partners over the course of a 20 - year lease, ideally at a monthly cost that would be lower than their traditional utility bill.

These risks and uncertainties include food safety and food - borne illness concerns; litigation; unfavorable publicity; federal, state and local regulation of our business including health care reform, labor and insurance costs; technology failures; failure to execute a business continuity plan following a disaster; health concerns including virus outbreaks; the intensely competitive nature of the restaurant industry; factors impacting our ability to drive sales growth; the impact of indebtedness we incurred in the RARE acquisition; our plans to expand our newer brands like Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52; our ability to successfully integrate Eddie V's restaurant operations; a lack of suitable new restaurant locations; higher - than - anticipated costs to open, close or remodel restaurants; increased advertising and marketing costs; a failure to develop and recruit effective leaders; the price and availability of key food products and utilities; shortages or interruptions in the delivery of food and other products; volatility in the market value of derivatives; general macroeconomic factors, including unemployment and interest rates; disruptions in the financial markets; risk of doing business with franchisees and vendors in foreign markets; failure to protect our service marks or other intellectual property; a possible impairment in the carrying value of our goodwill or other intangible assets; a failure of our internal controls over financial reporting or changes in accounting standards; and other factors and uncertainties discussed from time to time in reports filed by Darden with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

VantageScore boasts that its 3.0 model can score millions more people than other models by incorporating up to 24 months of past credit activity — including utility and rent payments where available — which could open up more credit options to you.

Will cutting rates really boost the sectors that did much of the damage to April's GDP report like resources (can't influence commodities), utilities (can't influence weather, with utilities output just coming off a large surge in Jan / Feb) and manufacturing (bigger challenges than CAD)?

Total solar capacity in California (including both distributed and utility - scale systems) has grown from less than 1 GW in 2007 to nearly 14 GW by the end of 2016.

In the years leading up to last fall's boom of interest in crypto, Silver says that he used to be heckled at every conference he spoke at, but that now, «rather than being booed off the stage and being told that everything was a utility token, I was wrong, that I was killing innovation, and that I was this horrible person,» people are actually listening.