Sentences with phrase «early name for»

Inspired by an early name for the Hudson River, the Muhheakantuck, or «river that flows two ways» — or, as the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation puts it, a «tidal estuary, an arm of the sea where salty sea water meets fresh water running off the land» — members of the Architecture Research Office and dlandstudio proposed using both porous streets that can filter water and extending the lower part of the island to create a new Lower Manhattan that is part «twenty - first - century business district,» part «center of regional ecological renewal»:

(Aus / NZ) Early name for Aus / NZ breed callend Tibetan (not to be confused with European Tibetan breed)- mitted colourpoint polydactyl of Persian / Exotic type cat.

Xbox rallied its troops with Blinx: The Time Sweeper, Ninja Gaiden and Project Ego (the early name for Fable).

Badly chosen names can stigmatize people, as did gay - related immune deficiency, an early name for AIDS.

My clinic took anybody who had gay - related immunodeficiency, or GRID — an early name for AIDS.

One of the earlier names for the sciences was simply «natural philosophy».

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Salim was named to Forbes» 30 Under 30 list earlier this year and has received recognition from the World Policy Institute for her work in sustainability.

From Amazon's earliest days, Jeff Bezos envisioned a company that would profoundly affect retail, saying he named the company for the world's largest river because it would be deep and wide and drain everything.

A way for users to collect and share photos and videos related to an event or a theme, Stories is also similar to a feature launched by Facebook - owned Instagram earlier this year, when co-founder Kevin Systrom admitted it was a virtual carbon copy of Snapchat's feature, right down to the name.

As I mentioned before, previous to receiving this request, I could not even recall the Russian Ambassador's name, and had to ask for the name of the individual I had seen at the Mayflower Hotel almost seven months earlier.

In the early 1990s, Pfizer began clinical trials in Britain for the drug, which by then it had named Viagra.

Lewis points out, for instance, that early baseball stats didn't bother to record the number of walks a batter earned — mostly because one of the early promoters of baseball stats, a journalist named Henry Chadwick, happened to be a fan of cricket, a sport where there's no such thing as a «walk.»

Google searches for the term have significantly spiked since early April, especially when searched with the app's name.

«If a negative search result pops up for your name, it's important you catch it early and start doing the work to mitigate its damage to your reputation.

While it seemed silly at the beginning for three of us to refer to a project by a control code instead of by the client name, this early convention saved us much heartache later, when we were 30 people running 25 projects with five or six of those projects being for the same client.

I learned early on to brush off the misspellings and mispronunciations, but when I'm interviewing for a job, I don't want to be the dolt who doesn't know how to pronounce the boss's name.

Otherwise, there's the nearby and ever - entertaining New York City, a hundred - plus miles of Atlantic Ocean coastline, a smallish mountain range or two, a major amusement park, a half dozen professional sports teams (most of them mediocre at best), small - time skiing, a pretty Ivy League campus by the name of Princeton University, a wealth of black bear in exclusive suburban communities, the early homes of such celebrity types as Martha Stewart, Jack Nicholson and Bruce Springsteen, the site of the Hindenburg disaster, and (for visionary types) the ghosts of Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison, who lived and worked in the state for awhile.

Says Wong, «The earlier challenges were sort of partner buy - in and getting our name out there and things like bonus structures for our sales team, structuring our revenue share model and putting together all the default paperwork for how we would build out our streams of relationships, so to speak.

Big Data While the definitive source of the term big data — which is used describe a collection of analytics that companies use to predict customer behavior — is a little fuzzy, according to some digging done by New York Times reporter Steve Lohr, the person responsible for its popularization is a man named John Mashey, a computer scientists who was VP and chief scientist at company called Silicon Graphics in the early 1990s and 2000s.

A year ago, when Inc. named Slack its Company of the Year for 2015, it was essentially in a category of one, a niche product beloved among early adopters in the tech and media industries but relatively unknown in other parts of the business world.

The Washington Post reported Friday that another name under consideration for the defense post is Senator Kelly Ayotte, a Republican who earlier this year backed the idea of draft registration for women.

Many large organizations have embraced such regulations, including the NFL (where «The Rooney Rule,» is named for early proponent and Pittsburgh Steelers owner Dan Rooney), Pinterest, Facebook and RBC, the latter of which has a goal of granting half of new executive appointments to women and one in five to members of visible minority groups.

The storied VC firm, which made a name for itself with early bets on companies like Oracle and Google, has invested millions in two blockchain startups — Orchid Labs and Filecoin — and two cryptocurrency hedge funds, MetaStable and Polychain Capital.

Unlike earlier this year, high - quality names can be had for reasonable prices.

Clinton goes on to lament the plight of a woman standing nearby: «She has to take a brand - name drug, been taking it since the early 1980s,» the candidate says, explaining that the price of the drug has multiplied nearly 82 times in the decades since to $ 14,700 for a refill today.

Fisher previously worked for WR Hambrecht, where he followed Drkoop.com and other early - stage E-health-care companies RATING: 4 «Spock is certainly a great name.

«EdgeRank is a name for one of the early News Feed algorithms, that we occasionally still see used by the press to refer to all the algorithms that power News Feed,» a Facebook spokesperson says.

June, whose given name is Rana June Sobhany, stumbled onto the idea for Lightwave when she was an electronic dance music DJ in her early 20s.

In the early 1990s, British psychologist Michael Eysenck likened this constant starvation for more and more to a treadmill — hence the name.

Back in the early days of video games, companies didn't give individual designers credit for their work — so they took to hiding their names in hard - to - reach corners of their code.

Having spent the bulk of the 2000s working for action sports companies like K2 and Vans, brothers Lyndon and Jamie Cormack named their new brand after the Saskatchewan hamlet where their great - grandfather, a barrel - maker by trade, settled in the early 1900s.

Whichever tool or voice assistant you use, you'll find early on (as the current stats are clearly showing) that it's a pain in the ass to give incremental details like brand names or product sizes to the machine and, as the machine increasingly knows what you've already ordered, you'll be ever more inclined to just ask for «the usual».

In 1977, Bren and his business partners purchased The Irvine Co. — named for one of Orange County's earliest developers — for $ 337 million.

He was named head of strategy in 2014 and then took responsibility for Goldman Sachs Bank earlier this year.

For those unfamiliar with those two names, both Mike Hearn and Gavin Andresen were instrumental in assisting the development of Bitcoin from its earliest stages.

Ask them to release employees for lighter duties at the earliest appropriate time, and to name specific tasks recovering employees are able and unable to perform.

According to one prospective investor, who didn't wish to be named due to confidentiality agreements with Telegram, the deadline for those first - round investors to transfer their funds to Telegram ended just days earlier, on Feb. 9.

It's important to note that Trump's lawyers have repeatedly told him not to mention Mueller by name, and Trump held off for almost a year after Mueller started his investigation in early 2017.

As of early January, 87 percent of the first class of Starbucks students had registered for the spring semester at Arizona State, including every employee named in this story.

Blue Apron is now aiming for an IPO as early as June, sources familiar with the situation said, asking not to be named because the plans are confidential.

Texan regulators have had a lot on their plate: in addition to the filing against Bitconnect in early January by state officials, the state's banking commission also clamped down on AriseBank, for violating the law and using the term «bank» in its name, when it was not registered to do so.

Ponzi schemes were named for Charles Ponzi, a man who raised millions of dollars from investors in a stamp scheme, but in fact was just paying early investors with money raised from later investors.

A legend has emerged from a jumble of facts: Someone using the name Satoshi Nakamoto released the software for Bitcoin in early 2009 and communicated with the nascent currency's users via email — but never by phone or in person.

He owns a 200 - foot yacht, once named April Fool, which he bought earlier this year for around $ 52 million from Sandy Weill, the financier behind the creation of Citigroup.

Naming services that charge as little as $ 50 do exist, but spending a reasonable amount of money early for quality expert advice can save you money in the long term.

Snapchat, which recently changed its corporate name to Snap Inc., is preparing filings for a listing and aims to sell shares in the first quarter of next year, people familiar with the plans said earlier this month.

I had a special opportunity to learn Sales early on from a mentor that practiced many of the non-technology tenets of ABE — accounting for multiple stakeholders, personalizing messages by function and role, coordinating multi-modal follow - up as an integrated account plan, all against a named list of target — ideal — accounts.

The ECJC will seek to raise $ 5 million to capitalize the fund over the coming months; the fund's founding donor may receive naming rights and a seat on the investment committee in exchange for their early support.

Seed and early stage deals have been the name of the game for many investors, but is the tide now turning towards longer - term financing?

Crypto assets not named bitcoin now account for 57.4 % of the total market after reaching a high near 68 % earlier this year.