Not exact matches
EBITDA for the Coating Solutions division amounted to $ 66 million, down 10.8 % against a
high basis of comparison ($ 74 million) for first - quarter 2017, particularly in China, where unit margins
reached very high levels in early 2017.
If you set
very ambitious goals to a highly skilled team and ask them to stretch themselves and
reach higher than before, believe me, the impossible is possible.»
The four critical factors are: (a) businesses with recurring revenue bases — like a renewable subscription — are far better than ones dependent on constantly securing new customers; renewals are much easier and less expensive to secure than new sales; (b) customer retention is absolutely critical — all customers are
very costly to acquire and
very easy to lose in a world of almost infinite choices; (c) businesses based on products that require constant replacement or renewal (the «razor blade» model) are much more attractive than durable goods businesses (like selling refrigerators) where the products have
very long repurchase or replacement life cycles and where the market could even fairly quickly
reach saturation points; and (d) businesses that offer products or services that had a predictably
high rate of obsolescence were much more attractive than those where the products had long, useful lives.
There are some industries, however, where the margins are
very good and it could make sense to
reach a
higher frequency first.
On that occasion, mortgage lenders were making
very high returns on new mortgage loans, with the spread between the mortgage rate and the cash rate
reaching around 4 3/4 percentage points.
But, I value international travel especially in premium cabins
higher than domestic travel, but the Companion Pass is a
very good deal if you can
reach the qualifications.
As a result, Australia's terms of trade
reached very high levels.
In part this decline was expected, as registrations had
reached a
very high level in 1998.
«The difference this time,» predicted Byron R. Wein, a former chief investment strategist at Morgan Stanley, who started working on Wall Street in 1965, «is that the
high - water mark that people
reached in 2007 is not going to be exceeded for a
very long time.»
It should be given
very a
high attention that in July 2007, after the debt / US GDP NYSE margin
reached its pre-financial crisis
high, the S&P 500 just three months later had
reached its bull market record monthly close, and after the debt / US GDP NYSE margin in March of 2000 had
reach the dot - com bubble peak, the S&P 500 after just 5 months in August of 2000 had
reached its secular bull market record monthly close.
After
reaching a new low of a little over 0.4 per cent in mid June, yields rose to an intraday
high of 1.4 per cent
very quickly, before falling back to around 0.9 per cent.
Engineering construction has risen by 50 per cent over the past year, to
reach very high levels, and is set to expand further in the near term, driven by a considerable stock of resource and infrastructure work in the pipeline.
The materials sector has recorded
very strong gains,
reaching a new record
high in mid October, buoyed by rising metals prices and increased optimism that demand for exports will increase as the global economy recovers.
But the figures are showing steady growth and there's a hope of them
reaching that
high number again
very soon.
CNN: Philadelphia abuse trial has taken toll on
very Catholic city A Philadelphia sex abuse trial in which a jury
reached a mixed verdict on a church
higher - up accused of protecting sexually abusive priests was closely watched for its national implications.
Broadcasters are considered by their stockholders to be acting in an economically responsible way if they provide programs that are produced
very cheaply — even if the programs contain much unnecessary violence — if, in doing so, they
reach the largest possible audience and make the largest number of sales and
highest possible profits.
As the
highest expression of the word, it
reaches the edge and
very limit of the inexpressible, the ineffable, and the unspeakable, as does the divine tetragrammaton.
If a man has not enough passion to make either the one movement or the other, if he loiters through life, repenting a little, and thinks that the rest will take care of itself, he has once for all renounced the effort to live in the idea — and then he can
very easily
reach and help others to
reach the
highest attainments, i.e. delude himself and others with the notion that in the world of spirit everything goes as in a well - known game of cards where everything depends on haphazard.
But about this people concern themselves
very little in our age which they think has
reached the
highest attainment, whereas in truth no age has so fallen victim to the comic as this has, and it is incomprehensible that this age has not already by a generatio aequivoca given birth to its hero, the demon who would remorselessly produce the dreadful spectacle of making the whole age laugh and making it forget that it was laughing at itself.
If however, the
higher level concepts are clearly defined by effective procedures, they may then be subdivided into component parts, which parts may also then be subdivided until we finally
reach very simple actions that can be described by lines of a Turing machine table.
It does not quite
reach the
highs of this bro's cover of the «Chandelier» music video, which was the video of the year, but it's still
very good...
«We're supplying conventional items in as efficient a manner as we can without really expanding those lines
very much, but our organics lines are expanding because we see the consumer demand for that
reaching a much
higher point,» Bill Nightingale Jr. says of the company's current focus.
In a pre-heated boiling hot pan (
very important) add a dollop of butter or oil of choice and pre-heat it until you
reach a
high temperature.
This is someone performing at a
very high level, someone who has
reached one of the top rungs of his profession, and he's been told he needs to go away.
I still have
high hopes of arsenal
reaching the last 8, we have capable players, who can score, even with a
very defensive monaco team we created several opportunities to score, but failed to do so.
I feel this is the only way that this feud will
reach my expectations, and they are
very very high.
If you do not have
high expectations, in life as rqual, ly in football, it is certain thatb you will not
reach the
very top.
We had some [coaches] who were starting to
reach out to some of those
very high - profile guys, and we got beat up.
According to the report, the Arsenal camp have been in talks with Allegri over the course of the past week and are looking to
reach an agreement as quickly as possible, considering that Wenger has been
very coy on his future and the Italian is the only
high - profile manager who seems to be available in the summer.
He's still a potentially great player, he has a
very high ceiling, but he needs to work his socks off to
reach it.
Mohamed Elneny may just have arrived at Arsenal, but the lad has
very high ambitions and is obviously aiming for the
very top, ans where better to
reach those heights than at Arsenal?
Younger kids will have trouble
reaching the included trapeze bar since it sits
very high on the swing set.
If you need a white noise machine that won't annoy you with repetitive sounds, that's easy to carry with you anywhere, and that can
reach very high volumes than the LectroFan — Fan Sound and White Noise Machine is a great option for you.
The
highest position makes transferring newborns in and out of the crib
very easy, as you don't have to bend far to
reach inside.
Even before he's
reached this milestone, it's a good idea to keep a
very close eye on his movements when he's on
high surfaces.
If the items you need to
reach are never
very high up, but still too
high to be safely and easily accessed without a bit of extra leverage, rolling step stools are definitely an excellent option.
All materials used are carefully tested and approved under the strictest European standards and the
REACH regulation, including SVHC (Substances of
Very High Concern).
Another group got a Post-It with this sentence: «I'm giving you these comments because I have
very high expectations and I know that you can
reach them.»
If you need them, store them in
very high, out of
reach places and lock the doors.
On the
very day that figures were published showing repossessions
reaching a 14 - year
high, housing minister John Healey has made the most extraordinary of statements on BBC Radio 5 Live.
The Bronx with the speaker to the City Council, the Bronx with a
very charismatic borough president, the Bronx is ripe to have someone
reach that
highest level office.»
The receiver is
high quality and
very sensitive, featuring HOTFIX technology for improved signal reception in traditionally hard to
reach areas.
For that to be possible, the air must contain even more water vapor than is usually required to form clouds,
reaching a
very high state of supersaturation.
Neuroscientist Ken Mackie of Indiana University, another co-leader of the new study, says that natural cannabinoids can
reach very high concentrations but are secreted by the brain in precise locations.
This set of circumstances
very likely reduces women's chances of
reaching the
highest academic echelons, because «advanced academic rank is often a prerequisite for leadership positions,» the authors note.
HESS's results are remarkable, showing that
very high energy gamma ray astronomy has
reached maturity.
A
very high stability was
reached by a shell structure similar to the structure of honeycombs.
The
high - energy ones are also
very rare, and none of them get
very far once they
reach Earth's atmosphere; they're instantly destroyed in collisions with the air at
high altitude.
«At the
higher latitudes of Great Britain, Scandinavia and the Baltic States, as well as Northern Germany and France,
very little UVB light
reaches the Earth, and it's the key wavelength required by the skin for vitamin D generation,» Elias said.
The gondola
reaches level 27 — the
very bottom — and opens onto a state - of - the - art particle physics lab carved from two
high - ceilinged caves.