Sentences with phrase «true cost of a point»

Thus, it could be rather difficult to evaluate the true cost of a point or mile of each miles program.

Not exact matches

The cost of being a fiduciary will be passed on to investors: This argument might have been true at one point..

«This dramatically lowers the true cost of ownership to the point where almost anyone could own a Tesla.»

All signs point to this being true, though, especially the fact that the versatile star (most often played at left back) will cost us nothing but the reported annual wages of # 7.5 million.

While the second is technically true, it should be pointed out that defense lawyers have, for years, intentionally run up the cost to the state by presenting multiple appeals, even based on little to no actual legal cause, in order to drive up the cost of death penalty cases.

Whilst it is true that the Labour revival has mostly been at the cost of the Liberal Democrats, with Conservative support remaining fairly steady on 36/37 points, it is likely that some softer Conservative support will also switch to Labour over the coming weeks.

The authors, who also include Jodi Brandt at Boise State University and Kristen Lear at the University of Georgia, point out that what is most certain is the glaring uncertainty of the global sand supply and the true costs of obtaining sand.

«The crisis in Flint brought the true costs of a neglected infrastructure to the nation's attention, but in the finger - pointing there are deeper debates over public and private responsibility and the impact of dysfunctional politics on public health,» said David Rosner, PhD, co-director of the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and author of the commentary, «Entry Point: A Lead Poisoning Crisis Enters Its Second Century,» which is available online in the May issue of the journal, Health Affairs.

It's also important to point out that — NASA pushed CCP into a FAR procurement mode, which raised costs compared to a true commercial purchase of services approach.

Late in the film the head of the Democratic party proclaims that he doesn't understand God's plan - of course he doesn't have the perspective of the true insiders who shape and twist fact and fiction to achieve their desired goal... from the campaign manager's point of view, God's plan is all too obvious and the morality... win at all costs as long as you believe in the cause.

Setting aside any advocacy commentary around these points I think he misses the true economic sources of cost here.

Automotive News reporter Richard Truett points out that it is too early to know the true cost of repairing the new Ford F150 with an aluminum body despite stories out about the cost being higher, in Automotive News here:

In a lower return environment, the true tax deferral benefit of extending the average holding period of an investment from 2 years to 5 years — chopping the portfolio turnover rate from 50 % down to 20 % — is actually less than 5 basis points, which can be made up in the blink of an eye through a lower cost investment change or a mere day's worth of relative returns (not to mention weeks, months, or years)!»

We can gather several points from these tables about the true cost of life insurance.

Investors clearly understand that higher fees can have a negative impact on their net return, as is evident in the price war in mutual fund fees, but a few basis - points difference in visible fees is far less meaningful in performance impact than the often - large hidden costs.14 For example, switching from a low - turnover strategy to a sloppily constructed strategy that spends scores of basis points in incremental trading costs can cost the investor dearly in performance.15 The same holds true for the buyers of opaque high - fee products (hedge funds and illiquid private investments), for which substantial costs may be hidden from sight.

Hopefully the same is true of ThankYou's booking engine, but it would behoove Lauren to compare any bookings she's thinking of making with points with the cash cost found elsewhere so she can determine exactly how much value she's getting per point.

I like to do a little math to figure out the true value of our points and the true cost of our trips.

That still holds true, although now with the addition of «per room» — so, a 3 bedroom condo will cost you 45,000 points — or a cash value of $ 450.

Sure enough the rumor is true, and the company will be releasing the song for the cost of zero dollars, or in Microsoft terms, zero points.

The niggling concern I have is that, based on the statements I've seen from various airlines and governments, the complaints about discrimination to some nations and carriers, about the costs of compliance, while sometimes ringing true mostly seem just like putting off to some indeterminate point in the future financially acknowledging the environmental impact of flying.

It's only when deforestation and other land use changes made a net shift of carbon in the short term carbon cycle from plants back into the atmosphere, that humans began to make a net positive return of CO2 into the atmosphere (although deforestation is essentially reversible in principle), and it's very true to point out that industrial scale animal husbandry with its high cost in fossil - fuel - derived energy does mean that what might otherwise be a relatively closed system of cycling CO2 from the atmosphere through plants and then animals and back to the atmosphere, does become net positive with respect to CO2 emissions.

This dramatically lowers the true cost of ownership to the point where almost anyone could own a Tesla.

As Professor Dame Hazel Genn pointed out, in the context of the Jackson data, caution is required when looking at the true cost of litigation: «using these figures to make assumptions about average costs is rather like generalising about war from the most bloody and hard fought battles».

Yes it is true when represented by a competent attorney 99 % of all individuals charged with a traffic ticket or traffic offense from speeding tickets to suspended license and DUI can walk away with no points and paying only a fraction of the cost of the citation.

But, we are always sure to point out this key fact about the true cost of that money.

In November, NAR's Board of Directors asked us to do four things: Push for loan limit increases for high - cost areas to be extended beyond 2008; make the $ 7,500 tax credit a true credit and not a loan; find ways to push interest rates down by 200 basis points; and help provide solutions to the foreclosure / short sale problem.