Sentences with phrase «about being at the center»

While nonprofits like To Write Love on Her Arms and Hope for the Day are doing real, measurable good in the area of mental health, there's just something about being at the center of pop culture that turns an issue like mental illness from something we would rather avoid in polite conversation to something that demands to be discussed.

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Under the plan, which launched last year, T - Mobile divided its customers into blocks of about 120,000, who are each assigned to a specific group of a few dozen employees at a specific call center.

When you're planning to exhibit at a show, it's important to know about the city you're visiting, as well as the rules and regulations of the convention center, including the associated unions and contractors.

It's about finding like - mindedness in our differences and placing our unique differences at the center of conversations to be able to grow and build inclusive teams.

The investigation comes just days after the Center for Investigative Reporting's Reveal published a lengthy report about worker safety at Tesla's Fremont factory, where the Model S sedan, Model X SUV, and new mass - market Model 3 is produced.

A spokesperson for the City of Fremont said: «A call was made to the Alameda County Regional Emergency Communications Center by unknown persons about a possible fire at Tesla on Tuesday.

«It's not the run - of - the - mill loss you should be thinking about, but the home run, out - of - the - park catastrophe,» says David Young, a former insurance broker and risk manager now advising at the Small Business Development Center in Seattle.

And hype around the ZenFone 3, which Asus showcased at the event, is largely centered on the fact its battery can last up to 42 days (the iPhone 6 holds a charge for about a day and a half with moderate use), and function as a charger for other devices.

«There have been times when I've had a really busy week and a lot has been going on and I'll sit down on the cushion and then I'll just start crying and I'll realize that I'm so sad about this one thing, but I had no space to grieve, no space to think about it; I was zipping from one thing to the other all week,» says Pennell, who has studied at Insight Meditation Society, one of the top meditation centers in the country.

Analysts said they would watch closely for any comments the BOJ makes about the yen, which has been at the center of talk about a global «currency war.»

He was among several speakers at a conference about the future of the Canada-U.S. border, hosted in Washington by the Wilson Center.

The meals, which were developed internally in about two months at the company's culinary innovation center, have a shelf life of three days.

That moment encapsulates a lot about what is at the center of Cole's belief system about people and about how to do business: Focus on the positive, even across a wide experiential or cultural background.

«It's all about shaping the child's behavior,» says Dr. Andrea Vazzana, clinical assistant professor of child psychiatry at New York University Langone's Child Study Center.

About 9,000 evacuees were staying at Houston's George R. Brown Convention Center and city officials on Tuesday opened the Toyota Center arena to house more storm refugees.

The company's official name is Magic Hat Brewing Co. and Performing Arts Center, and it shows: Each year, Magic Hat sponsors several arts and music festivals in Burlington, as well as about 20 other concerts, mainly at New England venues.

Buildings like 7 World Trade Center and the new Goldman Sachs headquarters, along with the recent decision of Condé Nast to move about 5,000 employees to 1 World Trade Center as its anchor tenant in 2014, are ensuring there will be no ebb in the number of office workers walking the streets at lunch and after work hours, he said.

«Proving that a device is durable is essential to convince people to pay more for a phone,» said Francisco Jeronimo, senior research director for European mobile devices at IDC, which in 2016 surveyed phone makers, retailers and repair centers around the world about smartphone issues.

Cohen is also at the center of a huge debate unfolding right now about raising the minimum wage, and the low pay of service workers in the restaurant industry, where employment has increased 72 percent since 1992, compared to job growth of 22 percent in higher - paying private sector employment over the same time period.

«Most students find this experience very helpful in thinking about whether they'd like to start their own venture at some point, to join an early stage company, or to work at a firm that's further along in it's growth trajectory,» Deb Whitman, director of the Stanford Center for Entrepreneurial Studies explained in an email exchange with Poets & Quants.

Major U.S. companies such as General Motors and Caterpillar were outsourcing aggressively to bring down costs and at the peak of the outsourcing movement, about 30 percent of call center jobs were sent overseas.

As the Presidential campaign takes center stage, here's a look at the issues entrepreneurs care about the most.

But it may be over the coming months - after he is expected to shift from being an accused bomber to a convicted one - that we truly learn about the young man at the inscrutable center of this high - profile trial.

So if higher wages are out of the question at your company, try to first center a discussion about rewards around nonmonetary perks.

At noon, the storm's center was about 200 miles south Nantucket island with a central pressure rivaling a Category 2 or 3 hurricane, Hamrick said.

At CES 2016, 4K and UHD (ultra high definition — another way of saying 4K) sets are very much front and center, but there's also a lot of talk about HDR — high dynamic range — sets.

Carter Page, the former adviser to President Donald Trump's campaign who is at the center of the memo controversy, boasted about his Russia contacts in a 2013 letter to an academic journal, TIME reported on Saturday.

While journalists and academics propose Facebook make direct attempts at curbing the spread of false headlines, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and Electronic Privacy Information Center president Marc Rotenberg are concerned about the influence of the company, which has nearly two billion users.

Altify is about altitude, and is our promise to elevate your revenue team to a better - equipped go - to - market approach by helping you put your customers at the center.»

Since day - care centers generally get valued at around 50 % of gross revenues, a fair price for this Southern belle might be about $ 217,000.

The $ 928 million center was slated to start construction late last year at a 500 - acre site in the Derrydonnell Forest near a small town called Athenry, but groundbreaking was delayed after complaints about the building were filed to the local council, reported Business Insider.

A glance at receivables may also remind you that you've been shy about collecting, says Ira Davidson, director of the Small Business Development Center at Pace University in New York City.

What it's about: A war veteran saves horses from being killed and goes at war with the police to save a center for runaways.

«Flynn had been forced to resign the day before, and the controversy around Gen. Flynn at that point in time was centered on whether he had lied to the vice president about the nature of his conversations with the Russians,» Comey said.

The cost of running the program is about $ 5,500 per student, according to Tina Kapral, director of education programs for the Institute for Veterans and Military Families, an educational and reseach center at Syracuse.

Stewart's musings about Shanghai came as she was invited to town as part of a partnership with China's perhaps most famous company, the Alibaba Group (baba), which plunked her front and center at an exposition for kitchen goods Tuesday that it live - streamed on its platforms.

«There is nothing inherent about a portfolio loan that makes it safer,» said Mitria Wilson, a vice president of government affairs at the Center for Responsible Lending.

Several Thai politicians who attended the Boao Forum for Asia, a kind of China - centered version of the World Economic Forum in Davos, noted that, in recent years, some of the discussions at Boao had shifted from a kind of general talk of globalization and its impact in Asia to more specific conversations about some of the failings of Western economic models exposed by the global economic crisis, and whether China's type of development might be less prone to such risks.

Chris Hayes at MSNBC tweeted, «As gross and cynical and hypocritical as the right's «what about Bill Clinton» stuff is, it's also true that Democrats and the center left are overdue for a real reckoning with the allegations against him.»

Facebook has been at the center of a hectic debate about Cambridge Analytica and the company's improper use of Facebook data.

Uber, and more broadly the app - driven labor market it represents, is at the center of what could be a sea change in work, and in how people think about their jobs.

Moderator: William V. Harris, William R. Shepherd Professor of History and Director, Center for the Ancient Mediterranean, Columbia University Speaker 1: L. Randall Wray, Research Director of the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability and Professor of Economics, University of Missouri - Kansas City Speaker 2: Michael Hudson, President, Institute for the Study of Long - Term Economic Trends and Distinguished Research Professor, University of Missouri - Kansas City Tuesday, September 11, 2012 About the Seminar Series: Modern Money and Public Purpose is an eight - part, interdisciplinary seminar series held at Columbia Law School over the 2012 - 2013 academic...

The asking rent is in the low $ 50s, about $ 20 below the asking rent at the World Trade Center, but closer to the asking rents for Brookfield Place.

«We now know that young people who are going into the office for the first time are making decisions about who they work for not based on how much they're getting paid, but on the space design,» ASID president Randy Fiser told members of the design community at the recent Science of Design Conference at Liberty Science Center in New Jersey.

With two advanced technology centers, one at Carnegie Mellon and another at the University of Arizona, the ride - hailing company has been clear about its ambitions to create a network of on - demand self - driving cars.

Sustainability is at the center of what we do, not just because it's good business, but because we care about the people we impact today and for years to come.

Returning to the theme of the DOL fiduciary rule, Perez said «I'm very proud of the Conflict of Interest rule,» because «it touches a subset of people you were talking about [at the Center].

A recent report from the Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center at the George Washington University said 54 % of millennials are concerned about their ability to repay their student loans, and nearly half don't think they could come up with $ 2,000 for an emergency.

CIA Director Mike Pompeo said during an appearance at the Center for Strategic and International Studies this month that it was «time to call out WikiLeaks for what it really is: a non-state, hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors, like Russia,» and he criticized prior administrations as having been «squeamish» about going after publishers of state secrets.

«When we interviewed the insurers for our report, it was in late 2017, so we were not able to fully capture how insurers currently would feel about these market stabilization proposals that are in the news this week,» said Sabrina Corlette, research professor at the Center on Health Insurance Reforms at Georgetown University's Health Policy Institute and one of the authors of the study.