Sentences with phrase «water mark means»

A high water mark means that performance fees are only paid on new profits, protecting investors from paying twice for the same performance.

Not exact matches

Another criticism is that Smith assumes the hedge fund always gets its 20 %, whereas in reality there is a high water mark which means in years where it underperforms it would «only» get its 2 % management fee, until the portfolio breached the previous high.

This comic structure is precisely that of a radical descent to the low - water mark; the embrace of even the sick, the weak and the useless; the sudden revaluation of the «meanest creature and flower.»

With each print sale, they'll make $ 2 for Blood: Water Mission, which means if they sell 150 prints, they'll reach their goal of $ 1,000 donated this year — a mark that will provide a rain - water catchment tank in Lwala, KWater Mission, which means if they sell 150 prints, they'll reach their goal of $ 1,000 donated this year — a mark that will provide a rain - water catchment tank in Lwala, Kwater catchment tank in Lwala, Kenya.

Remember, it also means your water bill is going to have a marked change in the price when it's sent through the door each month.

But what it means is that the 62 percent he won against Carl Paladino in 2010 (and Zephyr Teachout in her Democratic primary earlier this year) is the high - water mark for his term in office, and quite possibly for his career as an elected official.

NASA astronauts Randy Bresnik and Mark Vande Hei took another spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Tuesday, this time to grease the robot Johann August Ephraim Goeze originally named the tardigrade kleiner Wasserbär (Bärtierchen today), meaning little water bear in German.

He debates, furiously, with Esperanza about the meaning and significance of the water mark - scenes that are some of the best in the movie.

«Mascots» isn't a revelation or a new high - water mark for Guest — but it is a demonstration of how good he is at this kind of stuff, sometimes as warm and fuzzy as some of the mascots» uniforms and often as twisted as the warped but well - meaning characters who put those uniforms on.

Not having read Roald Dahl's 1982 children's book, I can't say how faithful this adaptation is (though colleagues have suggested that darker aspects have been watered down), but it seems to follow the same basic trajectory: Cute British orphan Sophie (newcomer Ruby Barnhill) gets abducted by the title character (played, or performance - captured, by recent Oscar winner Mark Rylance), who turns out to be the smallest and kindest inhabitant of Giant Country; Sophie winds up enlisting the Queen (Penelope Wilton) in an effort to stop the other, meaner giants (led by a performance - captured Jemaine Clement) from eating England's children.

High Water Marked (meaning you only pay for gains above the previous highest level).

Some of the best scenery here is just a little below the 20 metre mark, meaning it is better for those with Advanced Open Water certification of higher.

Inside Tate Modern, nothing gets as worshipful a display as Robert Smithson's film of Spiral Jetty, Mark Rothko's murals meant for New York's Seagram's Building, or a Bill Viola's five - screen, slow - motion spectacle of fire and of water.

«Just having a green roof may not mean anything in terms of preventing water from reaching the street level, for instance,» said Dr. Mark Simmons, a center ecologist and the lead investigator on the study.

«Unfortunately, we found that great swathes of the world's coastal waters are unprotected, meaning coastal livelihoods, incomes and food supplies are all at risk as fish stocks fall and coastlines erode,» says Mark Spalding, a senior marine scientist at The Nature Conservancy and lead author of the study.

Ownership of coastal land is controlled by the California Civil Code, which reserves land below the mean high water mark to the state:

Experience May 2017 — Dec 2017 K. Hovnanian Companies — Canton, OH Plumber's Assistant • Helped in fitting pipes, valves and couplings • Disassembled and removed spoiled pipes • Dug and mark ditches • Laid and joined pipe for water and sewer service • Measured, cut, thread and assembled new pipes • Cleaned work area and machines by means of solvent and rags • Clean and renew steam traps.

Section 26 (3) of the Native Title Act limits the right to negotiate to acts that relate «to a place that is on the landward side of the mean high - water mark of the sea».