Sentences with phrase «mets were in the world»

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Chinese and American officials will be trying to defuse tensions pushing the world's two largest economies toward trade war in meetings in Beijing beginning Thursday.

A high - level U.S. trade delegation will also be in Beijing for meetings later this week, amid lingering worries about a possible trade war between the world's top two economies.

«We both were trying to solve the problem of how do we use technology to get people to meet and connect in the physical world.»

Although individuals in the business world are non-judgemental about premises, I would never advise hosting a client meeting in your family home.

When legendary film director Martin Scorsese expressed interest in executive producing Verdi and Kraft's biopic about world champion boxer Vinny Pazienza, called Bleed for This, Verdi was out of town, but sent the then 22 - year - old Kraft to Scorsese's house to take the meeting.

If you want to know who the real players are in the business world are, try scheduling breakfast meetings with them.

«I meet with them regularly to chat about what's going on in their world, how they think of things, and how we can do things differently in the company to appeal to that generation.

When delivering training sessions or holding a meeting, you might be the best talker in the world — but for many of us, nothing beats a visual aid when it comes to taking in new information.

President Donald Trump said earlier this week that if North Korea continues to threaten the United States, it will be «met with fire and fury like the world has never seen,» a statement that stopped a streaking stock market in its tracks.

Sorrell then referenced a speech given by WPP's third biggest client — and the biggest ad spender in the world — P&G's marketing boss Marc Pritchard, who said Google and Facebook were not doing enough to meet advertiser demands around measurement, brand safety, and viewability (the measure of whether an online ad had the ability to be seen by a human).

At the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland in January, Business Insider CEO Henry Blodget made the case why it's time for a «better capitalism.»

For instance, when Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne emerged from a January meeting with Alberta's Rachel Notley to say warm, fuzzy things about Alberta's new climate strategy and the quest for pipelines, the prime minister quickly praised their efforts from Switzerland, where he was attending the World Economic Forum: «I am very much in the camp of both premiers, Wynne and Notley, who demonstrated that Canada can and should work together on economic issues for all of us.»

«Bitcoin just shows you how much demand for money laundering there is in the world,» Fink, the head of the largest asset management firm in the world, said at an Institute of International Finance meeting.

Comments: «We continue to believe that prospects remain good for economic growth to reassert itself as challenges are persistently met by concerted efforts of country officials and central bankers around the world aided and abetted by secular trends larger than the cyclical hurdles in the immediate path.

Business and political leaders across the world are getting ready for this year's Davos edition, but the political context in which they will be meeting is completely new.

But embassy and provincial officials specializing in economic development are better placed to meet with entrepreneurs and understand their local context than investors half a world away.

John Doerr, by the way, has never been on my board - he's not on my board here at Flipboard and he wasn't on the board at Tellme - but I can still call him up and he would instantly respond and I can ask him for a meeting with basically anyone in the world, and he'd deliver.

He identified three obstacles that could affect any possible recovery in the global employment rate: «Over the fore ¬ seeable future, the world economy will probably grow less than was the case before the global crisis,» complicating «the task of generating the over 42 million jobs that are needed every year in order to meet the growing number of new entrants in the labor market.»

Will the new Harvard dean be able to meet the high expectations he has raised for change at the number one business school in the world?

In an early staff meeting, when we first decided to start this project, I explained to the team that we wanted to build our tribe, because we truly believed that the world of books was falling behind the overall virtualization that publishing and other industries were going through.

President Donald Trump's much - anticipated address to the world VIPs gathered in Davos, Switzerland takes place on Friday, and corporate chiefs at the meeting are eager to know which Trump trade policy is the real one.

Steve Mnuchin came to the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos to deliver one Trump message: the U.S. is open for business.

Kalin has poached executives from the likes of Yahoo, Google, and eBay, and he has been honored as a «Technology Pioneer» by the grandees at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos.

In the end, a magical, dream - world meeting and their hero dads (because, obviously, hero dads) help Martina and Anitram realize there's no reason to fear things just because they're different.

It reports that in Bologna's Eataly World you can do things like watch pasta or olive oil is made, meet cows and pigs that are treated more like pets at the facility than food, and snack on freshly cut prosciutto.

That's because none of the world's fleet of almost 500 tankers meets the requirements of the 1920 Jones Act, which mandates that vessels moving between U.S. ports be built and registered in the country, and crewed by Americans.

What you might not know is that one piece of that stellar ensemble was very close to not existing in that universe at all, and if it wasn't for «How I Met Your Mother,» the world might have never known Mike Ehrmantraut.

Luke Harding, a journalist and the author of «Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win,» explains why he believes Vladimir Putin may secretly be one of the richest people in the world.

The world's largest oil producers are also set to meet on the sidelines of an energy conference in Algeria from Monday through Wednesday.

«When we first met, we really started talking about what is was going to be like to connect everyone in the world,» Zuckerberg said.

Anywhere in the world can be an opportunity to find a startup candidate if there are strangers available to meet.

At the recent annual meeting of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) in Beijing, Brewer made the case to an audience of senior executives representing 85 % of the world's airlines that their sales model is broken.

At Business Insider's panel at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, there was a consensus that the majority of investors don't care about much else beyond quarterly earnings.

From the great Sir Jackie Stewart to the current Formula 2 world champion hoping to break through to F1, we meet the people who are at the centre of most exciting sport in the world.

But the movement's biggest strides are increasingly taking place in meetings with CEOs at some of the world's biggest companies.

While not particularly shocking, his comments were seen as non-inclusive and met with a lot of criticism in the golf world.

Faber is one of the most gloomy people you'll meet in the investment world, constantly issuing warnings about where you should live if the war comes (rural farmland), and what will happpen to the dollar (it will be worth less than toilet paper).

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross didn't necessarily allay those fears at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland on Wednesday, stating: «Trade wars are fought every single day, the difference is U.S. troops are now coming to the ramparts.»

He quotes the Getting to Yes definition of a wise agreement — «One that meets the legitimate interests of each side to the extent possible, resolves conflicting interests fairly, is durable, and takes community standards into account» — as something that might work in a perfect world.

Shortly thereafter, in 1992, just as Berners - Lee's World Wide Web had come to fruition, Neal Stephenson was inspired by the recent invention, which led to him publishing Snow Crash, a science - fiction novel that illustrated much of today's online life, including a virtual reality where people meet, do business, and play.

In a world cluttered with the likes of OkCupid, Coffee Meets Bagel, Hinge, Plenty of Fish, and Zoosk, there are more than 200 entries listed under dating apps on iTunes alone.

«We felt like this was a great opportunity to meet our applicants from wherever they might be in the world,» says Kate Smith, Kellogg's assistant dean of admissions and financial aid.»

Truth is, among large companies — and Exxon Mobil is among the largest in the world — Exxon has an uneven track record of meeting analysts» profit estimates.

So forget the one - hour meetings that are standard in much of the rest of the business world.

Investors also kept to the sidelines on an uncertain political outlook in the world's two largest oil consumers thi s month as Americans head to the polls for the presidential elections next week and China's leaders meet to fill top posts.

Earlier this week, reports surfaced noting that Google hardware boss Rick Osterloh had said in a recent meeting with journalists at Mobile World Congress — an annual mobile industry conference held in Barcelona — that the search giant was pumping the brakes on its line of «Pixel» - branded Chromebooks.

In June, Rive shocked the solar world by announcing that SolarCity would acquire Silevo, a California maker of solar panels, for $ 200 million in shares, plus another $ 150 million if cost and volume targets were meIn June, Rive shocked the solar world by announcing that SolarCity would acquire Silevo, a California maker of solar panels, for $ 200 million in shares, plus another $ 150 million if cost and volume targets were mein shares, plus another $ 150 million if cost and volume targets were met.

The company's move to adopt kosher food handling certification opened an important door in the export world: YourBarFactory, says Leblanc, made significant inroads in Israel, where a Unilever subsidiary had been searching for a supplier that could meet local religious requirements.

Policy - makers from around the world are currently meeting in Bonn, Germany, under the auspices of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 23).

In perhaps the most harrowing indignity for the plutocrats who have made the World Economic Forum their favorite winter meeting ground, even the town's helicopter pad was closed because of the snowstorm.