Sentences with phrase «which ownership rates»

He had argued that the association between more laws and fewer deaths disappeared when the authors accounted for firearm ownership in a state — meaning that it is impossible to say whether the restrictive gun laws save lives by inhibiting gun ownership or whether laws are simply easier to enact in states in which ownership rates are already low.

Not exact matches

The study compared the compound annual growth rate of a Family Index of 23 companies — in which at least 30 % of voting control belonged to a family with multi-generational involvement in the ownership or management — against 412 widely held firms over a 15 - year period (1998 to 2012).

Within a broader framework — which seeks to protect the full range of interests that antitrust laws were enacted to safeguard — the potential harms include lower income and wages for employees, lower rates of new business creation, lower rates of local ownership, and outsized political and economic control in the hands of a few.407

Important factors that may affect the Company's business and operations and that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to, operating in a highly competitive industry; changes in the retail landscape or the loss of key retail customers; the Company's ability to maintain, extend and expand its reputation and brand image; the impacts of the Company's international operations; the Company's ability to leverage its brand value; the Company's ability to predict, identify and interpret changes in consumer preferences and demand; the Company's ability to drive revenue growth in its key product categories, increase its market share, or add products; an impairment of the carrying value of goodwill or other indefinite - lived intangible assets; volatility in commodity, energy and other input costs; changes in the Company's management team or other key personnel; the Company's ability to realize the anticipated benefits from its cost savings initiatives; changes in relationships with significant customers and suppliers; the execution of the Company's international expansion strategy; tax law changes or interpretations; legal claims or other regulatory enforcement actions; product recalls or product liability claims; unanticipated business disruptions; the Company's ability to complete or realize the benefits from potential and completed acquisitions, alliances, divestitures or joint ventures; economic and political conditions in the United States and in various other nations in which we operate; the volatility of capital markets; increased pension, labor and people - related expenses; volatility in the market value of all or a portion of the derivatives we use; exchange rate fluctuations; risks associated with information technology and systems, including service interruptions, misappropriation of data or breaches of security; the Company's ability to protect intellectual property rights; impacts of natural events in the locations in which we or the Company's customers, suppliers or regulators operate; the Company's indebtedness and ability to pay such indebtedness; the Company's ownership structure; the impact of future sales of its common stock in the public markets; the Company's ability to continue to pay a regular dividend; changes in laws and regulations; restatements of the Company's consolidated financial statements; and other factors.

In the event of an ownership change, utilization of the Company's pre-charge NOLs would be subject to annual limitation under Section 382, which is generally determined by multiplying the value of the Company's stock at the time of the ownership change by the applicable long - term tax - exempt rate (which is 3.50 % for December 2013).

And, despite historically low interest rates, affordability measures such as the RBC Housing Affordability Index, which measures home ownership costs as a percentage of household income, remain stubbornly high.

Updated GSS figures released in June 2015, found that 1.3 % of employees with employee stock ownership, which includes the ESOP model and other forms of employee ownership, said that they were laid off in the last year compared to a 9.5 % rate for employees without employee stock ownership.

The GSS found that 1.3 % of employees with employee stock ownership, which includes the ESOP model and other forms of employee ownership, said that they were laid off in the last year compared to a 9.5 % rate for employees without employee stock ownership.

We are encouraged by Morningstar's report on the positive correlation between success rates and ownership levels; we seek this level of dedication within the companies in which we choose to invest, and elect to hold ourselves to the same standard.

The two provinces have been embroiled in court battles over rates set out in a decades - old deal, which gives Québec 34 per cent ownership and lower costs to purchase the power.

The platform planks for «32 embodied a number of Century concerns: U.S. adherence to the World Court protocol; U.S. entry into the League of Nations, provided that its covenant be amended to eliminate military sanctions; U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union (which was granted a year later); the safeguarding of the rights of conscientious objectors (including those denied citizenship, such as Canadian - born theologian D. C. Macintosh of Yale Divinity School); the abolition of compulsory military training in state - supported educational institutions other than military and naval academies; emergency measures for relief and public - works employment; the securing of constitutional rights for minorities; the reduction of gross inequality of income by steeply progressive rates of taxation on large incomes; «progressive socialization of the ownership and control of natural resources, public utilities and basic industries»; «the nationalization of our entire banking system»; and so on (June 8, 1932).

Consistent with this is a later European study of data from 21 nations in which «no significant correlations [of gun ownership levels] with total suicide or homicide rates were found.»

Public charter schools, transit access, and violent crime rates Elementary school neighborhoods with the highest public charter school participation rates are statistically different in all categories aside from home ownership and population change, which is aligned with differences in characteristics for neighborhoods with high and low boundary participation.

Notably, the program also has a 97 percent student satisfaction rating, indicating the extent to which student ownership in the program has contributed to a positive learning environment.

Its major interests include ownership of 15 daily and 38 weekly newspapers, including the Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle and Albany Times Union; as well as interests in an additional 43 daily and 74 non-daily newspapers owned by MediaNews Group, which include the Denver Post and Salt Lake Tribune; nearly 200 magazines around the world, including Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan and O, The Oprah Magazine; 29 television stations, which reach a combined 18 % of U.S. viewers; ownership in leading cable networks, including Lifetime, A&E, History and ESPN; as well as business publishing, including a minority joint venture interest in Fitch Ratings; Internet businesses, television production, newspaper features distribution and real estate.

Yes, but not without blaming Congress and the Executive Branch for pushing homeownership far beyond the natural rate of ownership, which I wager is around 60 % rather than the 72 % that it touched for a brief time.

Transfer of ownership may be deliberately timed to occur in a year in which the investor is subject to a lower marginal tax rate, reducing the applicable capital gains tax rate compared to the tax rate saved by the initial deductions.

The Friends of the Manchester Animal Shelter is sponsoring a program called «Fix - a-Pit» to encourage responsible pit bull ownership and ultimately lower the euthanasia rate of the breed, which is currently facing an epidemic of homelessness.

In second place is Ethereum (ETH), which enjoys an ownership rate of 1.8 percent, or around 5.8 million people.

It is well known that resort properties accelerate in value at rate which exceeds primary home ownership in most locations.

Home ownership isn't likely to budge much, especially if interest rates start to rise, which NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun thinks is likely if the economy stays healthy.

«Government policy is contributing to a falling home ownership rate and younger Canadians are being impacted the hardest» As long as we «welcome» 300,000 new emigrants every year; a portion of which will have the means to purchase and thus decrease the supply side of housing, younger Canadians will continue to suffer.

Its clear momentum and technological advances earned Guaranteed Rate an invitation to the Realogy dance, but it was the company's focus on the agent that fueled the partnership and creation of Guaranteed Rate Affinity, which has a 50.1 percent vs. 49.9 percent ownership stake between Guaranteed Rate and Realogy, respectively.

«The personal value of a house is embedded in Canadian culture, which is clearly seen in our high ownership rate,» says Brian Rushton, executive vice-president, Century 21 Canada.

In the study, HomeUnion compared the cap rate, which is the relationship between an investment property's net operating income in the first year of ownership and its purchase price, of single - family rental homes near military bases with active duty populations of 15,000 or higher.

Specifically for that reason, the full article on which the blog post is based (http://www.nahb.org/generic.aspx?sectionID=734&genericContentID=176691&channelID=311) provides a table with all 384 metro areas listed alphabetically, and for each shows • population • #owner - occupied units • home - ownership rate • homeowner vacancy rate • % single - family detached • median home value • median income of home owners • increase in owner - occupied units • % built recently The table also shows where a metro ranks according to each one of these measures.

Among those forces were the baby boom, in which post-World War II babies matured and entered the housing market; deregulation of the mortgage finance industry, which gave lenders the freedom to offer a wide variety of loans, and a high inflation rate that combined with soaring housing prices to convince consumers that home ownership was safe and sure.

If the government defaulted on its bonds, the government likely would have to raise interest rates dramatically, which in turn would hamper home ownership, analysts say.