Sentences with phrase «you less than half»

So if a person plus their luggage is less than that, taking into account food consumption and life - support, then we think that the cost of moving to Mars could drop below $ 100,000.

Typical hotels had more than 90 percent rooms and less than 10 percent suites.

The changing market dynamics might also suggest that if you're looking for investment capital to fund your business, or if you're hoping to be acquired, you might get less than top dollar.

I spent less than $ 10,000 in marketing to open.

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway raised its per - share book value 14.4 % in 2012, less than the S&P 500's 16 % total return.

In 2015, less than a year after retiring as CEO of convenience store giant Alimentation Couche - Tard, the executive chairman, along with his three co-founders, put forward a resolution to extend their time - limited voting control — the group holds 22 % of the company's equity — to ward off any future takeover attempts.

And that's because Otis's invention didn't just whisk people and freight up and down floors with unprecedented speed, it recast the landscape of civilization: It did nothing less than reinvent the city.

For less than $ 2, you can still buy one your childhood favorite snacks — L unchables.

Contractor OTOC has completed a major restructure by selling its Emerson Stewart Consulting Division less than a year since the two merged.

Though the Harper government has been maligned for paring the CTC's budget to $ 58 million a year — less than that of New York City — it did negotiate Approved Destination Status with China prior to the 2010 Olympics.

Overall, foreign notes are no more appealing, yielding less than 1 % per year, Hallett says.

April 27 - General Motors Cos top executive, Mary Barra, was paid just under $ 22 million in 2017, slightly less than she received the previous year, according to the automakers proxy statement released on Friday.

Those business owners have long complained that the disparity is unfair, especially in view of the fact that many multinationals pay much less than the 35 percent statutory corporate tax rate by exploiting abundant loopholes and tax breaks available to large, global corporations.

By way of pay, while the average worker at a startup earns about 6 percent less than a worker at a more established firm, the youngest workers earn about 3 percent more than they do at older firms.

Generally, however, when combining comprehensive service and technology solutions for on - site HR support, payroll, and retirement benefits, the price can be as low as $ 680 per bi-weekly pay period for 10 employees, far less than hiring a full - time HR person for your small business.»

Less than three years after opening an office in Perth, United States grain giant Gavilon Holdings has decided to exit the Western Australian market.

A report from the National Women's Business Council shows that only 1.8 percent of women - owned businesses earn $ 1 million or more, and 68 percent make less than $ 25,000.

In the election of an African - American president less than a half - century after the end of official racial segregation in much of the country, these Americans see the triumph of the values enshrined in the US Constitution over America's legacy of social, political, and economic prejudice.

Colbert, much like Wolf, mocked Bush's apparent distaste for facts, hammered the administration's actions in Iraq, and described Bush's then - 32 % approval rating as «backwash» — all while the president was sitting less than 10 feet away.

The only two common trends were the loss of direct and social traffic to every one of these sites, some less than others, but all significant amounts.

Finance Minister Bill Morneau's new budget assumes economic growth of 1.9 % in 2017 — a less than spectacular number, but not terrible either.

A pro tip for public policy advocacy groups: If you're looking for attention, it helps if your problem appears massively huge and your solution impossibly cheap — preferably less than a cup of coffee a week.

For $ 10 a month (and for free for anyone with less than $ 10,000 in their accounts), users get help managing their assets.

NORTHERN Star Resources was better placed than most to ride out last month's sharp drop in the gold price to less than $ 1,400 an ounce.

An Amazon representative who works in the same building told me she often buys lunch there because she can get in and out in less than a minute.

The only major exceptions are those where the total initial payment within the first six months is less than $ 500, or where payment is made only for initial inventory sold at bona fide wholesale price.

My goal here is to amass as much bitcoin as possible for less than I can buy it at market price — within my means, of course.

This was the first glimpse of the job market since the release last Friday of a disappointing employment report that showed U.S. job creation coming in at 74,000, far less than the 200,000 that had been expected.

In states lacking non-discrimination policies for LGBT people, gay men tend to be penalized most, Klawitter's research indicates, with gay men in same - sex couples earning about 30 percent less than their counterparts in opposite - sex couples.

The gig also offers pay that's far below what Obama is used to: Cook County jurors earn less than $ 20 per day.

Individuals will formulate an opinion about you and your business in less than 10 seconds, so a graceful greeting goes a long way toward making a great first impression every time.

Over the same period, the proportion of American workers employed by companies less than five years old has dropped, from over 20 percent to less than 11 percent.

The so - called kids» table is for the lower polling candidates, those with support from less than 3 percent of likely Republican voters.

If you find yourself persuading an individual to behave in a manner that is less than mutually beneficial, you are in breach of ethics and leaving yourself open to a surprisingly negative outcome.

Or, like America's Cup - winning skipper Jimmy Spithill says, «Rarely have I seen a situation where doing less than the other guy is a good strategy.»

Businesses with more than 50 employees that do not offer coverage will be taxed based on the size of their payrolls, but the cost will be significantly less than the cost of providing insurance benefits, and the tax is not set to go into effect until the 2014 fiscal year.

And that was after a disappointing auction that raised less than $ 20 billion, half to one - third of what some on Wall Street predicted last year.

The Liberals say that certain taxpayers are using corporations to pay less than their «fair share» of taxes.

Ottawa's intentions are noble, but it is the bombastic tone used as a backdrop to promote the plan to Canadians that has been less than effective.

The CTC halted funding for U.S. - targeted marketing in 2012 on the grounds that existing campaigns were ineffective, U.S. visitors to Canada spent less than overseas visitors and the Commission's limited funds were better allocated elsewhere.

Less than a week later I feel normal.

If you do something awkward some people may notice, but probably fewer than you imagine and they'll care less than you fear.

Oil prices might have bottomed as output in the United States and other non-OPEC producers is beginning to fall quickly and an increase in supply from Iran has been less than dramatic, the International Energy Agency said on Friday.

Driving more than half the growth in drug spending in 2015 were sales of new branded medications that have been available for less than two years.

Also in its second weekend, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword continues to flop miserably with a weekend total of less than $ 7 million.

Less than two weeks after his much - publicized return to Twitter, rapper Kanye West made a series of overtures to Trump on the president's favorite social media platform.

By 2009, the NEB pegged the break - even price for new oilsands projects at a U.S. $ 55 - 70 / bbl WTI price, and the expected quantity had been scaled back largely due to the financial crisis, to less than 3 million barrels per day by 2015.

Typically, companies with low valuations fall less than ones with high ratios.

Likewise, instead of installing plaster walls for a conference room, O+A designed a yurtlike circular meeting space with walls made of industrial - grade freezer curtains — at a cost of less than $ 2,000.

While most employees at least want to take full advantage of those hard - earned days off, less than half take the time to plan out their vacations each year, according to Project: Time Off, which is sponsored by the U.S. Travel Association.