Sentences with phrase «worst point in»

I didn't realize it at the time, but I was looking to purchase a home during the absolute worst point in a student loan repayment plan — the six - month grace period after graduation.

Decades of drought in central Africa reached their worst point in the 1980s, causing Lake Chad, a shallow lake used to water crops in neighboring countries, to almost dry out completely.

«This is why people didn't figure out that it was the Great Depression until two years after the worst point in the crisis in the 1930s; and why it took decades, not months, quarters or even years, for the complete transition to the next sustainable economic expansion and bull market.

At its worst point in 2009, GWW still earned an ROIC of 13 %.

Every Corvette buff has his or her preferences, and you may be aware of the good points and bad points in the Corvette history.

Not exact matches

But Low points out that, in the type of negotiations she studies at least — ones where failing to reach a consensus means everyone goes home with nothing — more aggressive negotiating meant worse negotiating.

Dick's pointed to sales of hunting gear such as rifles, which chief financial officer Lee Belitsky called «much worse than our expectations» on a conference call, and athletic apparel is key culprits in the shortfall.

But the sudden drop - off in sales in January, which pointed to a deeper dysfunction, was arguably worse than both of those combined.

The researchers pointed out that the methodology isn't perfect because people who remembered a time when they were self - promoting probably thought they managed to do it in a non-annoying way; while those who had to recall a time when they listened to someone shamelessly bragging, probably remembered a particularly bad incident.

It is possible that the situation could deteriorate to the point where Theranos's partners and customers no longer have faith in the company, or, even worse, that the FDA issues a warning letter to the company.

«You've got people forecasting that things are looking even worse in the future,» he points out.

The disintegration of investment in nonresidential structures and machinery and equipment subtracted almost a full percentage point from GDP; only 2009 and 1982 were worse in that regard, and neither of those years stand out as high points in Canada's economic history.

Feldstein especially liked to point out the trucks belonging to ServiceMaster Restore, a multinational company that received bad press after workers with one of its subcontractors in Fort Mac went to the news media with health and safety concerns.

«As well, yesterday's FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) meeting was less dovish than expected as the Fed kept its policy forecasts unchanged despite clear deceleration in inflation and a couple of bad data points yesterday.»

At best, your sales reps are going into their calls with gaps in the story; at worst, they're completely off point and exhausted before making a single call.

There is no point in overwhelming your audience with words they can't possibly read, or worse, reading from the slide yourself.

At this point in a frankly exhausting election cycle, you likely know whether you think a President Trump would be good news or bad news.

«At this point I don't know who they think I am in the thread, who they think they've been texting, but I don't want that guy to look bad,» said Chalifoux.

Not only did he score just 11 points, including none in the fourth quarter, but things got worse after the game when he had a confrontation with a fan and took a shot at a Cleveland radio host for only asking questions after the Cavs lose.

But there is no escapting the fact the country's consumers are not happy campers: Market researcher Nielsen found that consumer confidence in Malaysia fell to 78 points over the July - September period, down 11 percentage points on the quarter, marking a record low since the survey began in 2005, as well as Southeast Asia's worst reading for the quarter.

How to Take Advantage of Online Review and Answer Sites: Make It Easy for Customers to Review You Asking your customers to review you point blank is a bad idea when unsolicited; it is especially unappealing to the under - 30 demographic, although it works better after an in - depth, positive customer service interaction.

The Dow Jones industrial average closed 14.25 points lower at 24,448.69 — notching its first four - day losing streak since March — with Goldman Sachs as the worst - performing stock in the index.

To think about what «Breaking Bad» would have been like without him is almost impossible, as he was such a key point in Gus Fring's criminal organization, as well as a perfect foil for Odenkirk's Goodman to bounce his humor off of.

At that point in the run of «Breaking Bad,» Odenkirk wasn't even sure if the show or his character would make it to season three, given its low ratings and the fact that it wasn't yet at the top of pop culture conversations.

In a recent Compas Inc. poll, Canadian CEOs said the crisis in Japan is bad news for new nuclear energy installations in the short term, until safety reviews are completed, and ranked the statement a 5.6 on a 7 - point scale, where 1 means strongly disagree and 7 means strongly agreIn a recent Compas Inc. poll, Canadian CEOs said the crisis in Japan is bad news for new nuclear energy installations in the short term, until safety reviews are completed, and ranked the statement a 5.6 on a 7 - point scale, where 1 means strongly disagree and 7 means strongly agrein Japan is bad news for new nuclear energy installations in the short term, until safety reviews are completed, and ranked the statement a 5.6 on a 7 - point scale, where 1 means strongly disagree and 7 means strongly agrein the short term, until safety reviews are completed, and ranked the statement a 5.6 on a 7 - point scale, where 1 means strongly disagree and 7 means strongly agree.

As Eric Reis and Steve Blank of the Lean Start - up movement have pointed out, and as Cindy Padnos of Illuminate Ventures echoes in her column and Bo Burlingham in his, easy access to capital can sometimes be a start - up's worst enemy.

«You can also integrate the technology with a point of sale system to catch financial losses at the register, such as an employee making bad choices or a cashier working in cahoots with another thief,» says Garth Gasse, director of assets protection for the Retail Industry Leaders Association.

The pork shortage, along with the bad weather that afflicted the eastern half of the U.S. this winter, lowered Chipotle's comparable sales growth by about 2 percentage points to 10.4 % in the first quarter, below the 11.8 % analysts were projecting.

It's a threat the President has repeated on multiple occasions, having at various times called NAFTA the «worst trade deal in the history of the world» and «the greatest disaster trade deal in the history of the world» and all terrible points in between.

While not all gossip is bad — one can share secrets about wonderful things like a suspected pregnancy or job promotion — Epstein points out that «useful gossip is, in the minds of most people, not what gossip is really about,» and so the majority of the book focuses on the more naughty kind of tattling, the kind that makes your heart beat faster when the subject of ridicule comes around the corner.

Still, the day had started off worse for Robbins, who had supported Jeb Bush's candidacy for president: At one point Glenview was down as much as $ 100 million, before the healthcare stocks recovered somewhat later in the day.

In fact, and even worse, I will forward all emails longer than three paragraphs to you and ask you to read and summarize them for me into relevant bullet points so that I can digest them.

He admits that the economy would be in worse shape without it but, at this point, it won't boost growth.

After devoting a solid 15 pages of his letter on how the U.S. should slash regulations, Dimon made a point to single out a single area of government oversight that has undeniable value: «Some regulations quite clearly create a common good (e.g., clean air and water),» Dimon noted, in a sentence that went on to catalog the ways regulation is otherwise bad for the economy — making it all the more striking that he chose to highlight environmental issues.

For better or worse, this year's study hands a big talking point to the campaign of Top State Gov. Nathan Deal of Georgia, a Republican touting his economic record in his bid for a second term.

Bhide also points out that Solomon CEO John Gutfreund was «fired just for delays in reporting bad behavior» to the Fed — and that «Skilling is behind bars» for «puffery» and a failure to be forthcoming.

«Lloyds will be broadly doubling up its exposure to credit cards at a particularly benign point in the bad debt cycle and ahead of a potential slow - down... once the terms of the UK's exit from the EU are reached,» Gary Greenwood of Shore Capital said.

More bad news for seniors: Medicare Part B premiums, which are usually deducted from Social Security payments, are expected to increase next year to the point in which they will probably wipe out the entire COLA.

But as software engineering manager Michael Lopp pointed out on his blog Rands in Repose recently, that doesn't mean you don't sometimes feel a bit bad when you discover a great hack.

It was surely the low point in Jobs's life; the fact that he had no one but himself to blame for it only made it worse.

It gives you «a resource to tap» in worst case scenarios, which will ensure you don't panic if the market drops 500 points in a day, she adds.

But no matter how many personal selling points they may offer to their constituents, our findings (along with many others in psychological science) suggest that the human mind gives preferential weight to the bad things.

Thursday night started off about as bad as you could imagine for Niners bettors, with quarterback Brian Hoyer throwing an interception deep in Niners territory seconds into the game to hand the Rams a quick seven - point lead.

As Slashdot points out, the incident comes at a bad time for Microsoft, which has been recently focusing its attention on Azure in an effort to compete with the cloud platforms offered by Amazon, IBM, and Google.

The results revealed an asymmetry in the point at which they tipped: people required about four unethical actions to decide that Barbara had appreciably changed for the worse, but about six equivalently ethical actions to decide that Barbara appreciably changed for the better.

Lemonis says that Twitter can be a powerful tool for leaders, and the president should get in the habit of consistently delivering both good news and bad news over the platform, instead of using it to vent his frustrations or point out other people's mistakes or faults.

But SQC demands that if the plotted points begin to show a trend away from the center, rather than clustering randomly around it — or, worse yet, begin to fall outside the boundaries in either direction — then production must stop.

Many employees report having a bad boss at some point in their career, and poor managers take many different forms.

In fact, eMarketer points out that online ads are often the worst medium for reaching out to millennials simply because they do not trust such ads and will even ignore them.

Another point, perhaps, is that it's no worse for the Treasury to print a trillion - dollar gold coin than it is for the Federal Reserve to buy trillions in mortgage securities to save banks and the bond market.