Sentences with phrase «time as a lever»

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Spending more minutes thinking about the levers required to generate actual engagement should fill the gap in marketers» time as they seek to reduce waste and step up interaction with their content and messaging.

His preferred strategy was for the Fed to publish a detailed plan for shrinking its balance sheet, allow some time to gauge the market reaction, and then continue to use short term rates as the primary policy lever.

In times of volatility, do they know these levered products can cause as much loss as they did on February 5?»

We are currently undergoing one of the biggest financial experiments of all time, as central banks have run out of levers to pull.

For anyone looking for a technical signal that the moment had come to unwind a levered VIX trade, that time was as good a time as any.

As it is pried up, say by a lever, from a position in which it lies on surface A, for instance, it will linger for a time unstably halfway up, and if the lever cease to urge it, it will tumble back or «relapse» under the continued poll of gravity.

So here's my tip: if you're using a toaster, slice the sweet potato as thin as possible, because thick pieces will take forever to cook (like, pushing the lever down 4 - 6 times).

This time I am rewarded with a refreshing slap as the album is released and the lever begins its shift toward the first track.

Still, Mr. Howe's testimony on Thursday — and in particular, his account of that 2014 meeting with Mr. Cuomo and the circumstances that preceded it — was one of the first times that the governor has emerged as a major character in one of Mr. Howe's many anecdotes of how he tried to pull Albany's unseen levers.

Assembly Democrats want the law to expire in two years, the same time as rent regulations, so they have a lever to retain rent controls.

Those rodents still pressed the lever just as many times to receive drug, meaning that HDAC5, on its own, was likely not blocking genes that promoted early drug - seeking behavior.

In subsequent experiments conducted by Olds, some rats pressed the lever as many as thousands of times an hour.

During «toe - off,» the foot acts like a lever, putting ankle muscles and ligaments under tremendous tension — as much as seven times the body's weight.

To determine reaction - time impairment researchers programmed a dashboard light to come on periodically; participants were asked to press a button on the turn - signal lever as soon as they noticed.

In Smith's model, as it was refined over time, curriculum standards serve as the fulcrum for educational reform implemented based on state decisions; state policy elites aim to create excellence in the classroom using an array of policy levers and knobs — all aligned back to the standards — including testing, textbook adoption, teacher preparation, teacher certification and evaluation, teacher training, goals and timetables for school test score improvement, and state accountability based on those goals and timetables.

Then we will share reflections from education leaders in Los Angeles, Denver and Rochester regarding how time is being used as a lever for school improvement in their communities.

The LA Times used teachers as a lever to push the school administration to change its teacher evaluation system and fire more teachers.

As the ELT Initiative Update illustrates, ELT Schools are proving that, when combined with quality teaching and a commitment to student achievement, expanded learning time can be a powerful lever for change.

Just as Barnes had told me beforehand, I found myself changing my style when it came time to use the gear lever.

By changing the e-brake and moving the shift lever forward and left toward the driver, engineers were able to open up considerable usable space in the console, for cupholders as well as the myriad phones, eyeglasses and other carry - on items that seem to be growing larger all the time, Wong says.

• Variable vehicle set - up using the new Driving Modes option by means of rotary switch at the base of the gearshift or selector lever; in addition to the standard setting MID mode, the modes SPORT and GREEN can be activated; choice of mode influences the characteristic curve of the accelerator and steering, as well as the shift times of the automatic transmission and the Dynamic Damper Control where these features are fitted; GREEN mode in conjunction with automatic transmission enables coasting with decoupled drivetrain.

As with a standard automatic transmission, or a modern automatic transmission with torque converter, it is possible to change gears manually at any time with the Duonic dual - clutch transmission by briefly pressing the joystick selector lever on the instrument panel.

These are intended as a combined replacement option both for more expensive and less efficient «normal» automatic systems, and for drivers who prefer manual shift but are no longer able to operate a clutch, and users are encouraged to leave the shift lever in fully automatic «drive» most of the time, only engaging manual - sequential mode for sporty driving or when otherwise strictly necessary.

The same 40 mm shift stroke as the 2002 NSX - R contributes to an exceptionally quick shift time, but this would not be possible without at the same time reducing the force required to move the gear lever.

The thing is, there are enough levers here that GM can keep the debt ball in the air for some time, as can many of the financial guarantors, so long as they can make their interest payments.

If a bank has superior risk control, they will earn the results over time; they should not as a result lever up more.

A pile of books reveals that the top tired and well thumbed copy is actually a fictional book by a fictional writer; 5 well worn, aged box files are stacked horizontally on top of one another with such hand - written titles as Time Lines, Tide Lines and provenance; a home made page - per - day calendar, assembled in an ad - hoc manner from a metal lever arch and laser printed A4 paper with notes and images taken from the artist's notebooks including sketches, ideas and general to do lists.

Note that the effect may well be to support the IPCC model of hundreds of years because the flux increase acts as a lever on our emissions wrt residence time.

There's a story I recall about some famous and brilliant mathematician — perhaps Norbert Wiener — who rarely took his nose out of a book and who didn't like to waste time: he would read while walking to and from the classroom (or perhaps his office) but have his arm out such that with a small part of his (very big) brain he could count the doorframes as they were ticked off against his hand; at the right count, his wrist would stiffen, and with his arm as a lever, rotate himself into the room still reading.

In one particular case I was instructed by the Court concerned as a single joint expert to review the equivalent of 5 lever arch files, undertake a site inspection on the South Coast and to then prepare a detailed expert report within a time allocation of 4 hours (albeit based upon a notional sum of money).

Also we need the possibility of all - ontario participation as a lever toacquire a majority interest in your Matrix or to nego a best - poss deal w Stratus (PS if TREB doesn't own a maj stake in that system already... they should have a long time ago) rce