WAMC's Hudson Valley Bureau Chief Allison Dunne spoke with Omega CEO Robert «Skip» Backus
about the study as well as a proposed water bottling project in the area.
Not exact matches
Also,
as data was only collected over a few months, it's unclear whether this was a one time «pop» in aggressiveness that resulted from
study subjects being worked up
about the election, or whether the change in negotiating tactics will hold steady.
Steven Cook, senior fellow for Middle East and Africa
Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, said higher oil prices lessen all the worries from 2015 and 2016
about the Saudi government's ability to maintain its commitments, but the consolidation of power in the hands of the Crown Prince also is significant for the market and investors
as his reform program is widely regarded
as critical for Saudi Arabia's future prosperity.
In line with the
study about stressful jobs, other research demonstrates that similar forms of expressive writing (writing out your thoughts and feelings like in a diary) helps those coping with stressful situations such
as unemployment.
Having
studied experimental psychology
as an undergraduate at Cambridge, Hinton was enthusiastic
about neural nets, which were software constructs that took their inspiration from the way networks of neurons in the brain were thought to work.
The findings appear to show that public attitudes
about the media are «more complex and nuanced than many traditional
studies indicate,» according to the American Press Institute, which conducted the
study as part of a collaborative effort with the Associated Press - NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
As detailed in a
study by Harvard Business professor Dennis Campbell, TD revolutionized the way it measured the in - bank experience, streamlining its customer satisfaction survey and using a massive pool of customer data to find out not only how customers felt
about their banking experience, but also what specific elements of «satisfaction» mattered most to them.
Rather than relying on high - profile examples that everyone is writing
about, such
as Steve Jobs, consider case
studies of other successful people who may be under the radar.
Nevertheless,
as the
study is the largest and longest
study of its kind, more research is likely needed before we reach any definitive conclusions
about how well it works — or doesn't.
Prioritize customer service: According to a
study of last year's holiday trends, shoppers care
as much
about the shopping experience
as they do
about the gifts they buy.
For more
about millennials» opinions of employee loyalty and long - term goals,
as well
as the importance of health care and working for an ethical company, check out the infographic below and Bentley University's
study.
And
as the number of telecommuters increases (
studies suggest
about 35 % of employees do some telecommuting, up from
about 20 % four years ago), attitudes toward productivity are also changing.
Academic
studies show that retail investors spend
about nine times
as much effort in formulating buy decisions than they do sell decisions.
According to its
study, «
As higher income consumers feel more confident
about the economy, many will choose to dine out or buy fresh food to cook at home.
As a personalized care physician, I believe the Dufouil
study also shows we must change the way we think
about aging.
About 60 percent of Americans listened to over-the-air radio while driving
as of a few years ago, according to an industry
study, a number that has been falling.
As the study points out, this means that brands can easily lose control of the available information about their products as consumers turn to third - party sources to determine how products were mad
As the
study points out, this means that brands can easily lose control of the available information
about their products
as consumers turn to third - party sources to determine how products were mad
as consumers turn to third - party sources to determine how products were made.
About 95 % of managers Jolly has
studied over the past 10 years, both in his MBA classes and his coaching practice, suffer from the ailment, defined
as the constant need to do more, faster, even when there's no objective reason to be in such a rush.
Lots of people are talking
about a
study put out this morning by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
about how the average Canadian CEO will earn
as much by lunchtime today
as the average Canadian does in a year.
As well, several consumer - confidence
studies published in March reported improved confidence numbers —
about 25 % of Canadians believe they will be better off financially a year from now.
Make sure you know everything
about that customer, so you can use it
as a case
study.
As a 2006
study in the American Sociological Review found, the number of close confidantes a typical individual has shrank by a third between 1985 and 2006, to
about two from three.
I thought
about how the gender gap persists in tech despite declining in other STEM fields, how hard we've been working
as an industry to reverse that trend, and how this was yet another discouraging signal to young women who aspire to
study computer science.
The
study was sponsored by the global insurer and health services company Cigna, which is concerned
about loneliness
as a societal problem but also because it's not just making us sad: It can literally make us sick.
The
study that Trump was mentioning, which he repeatedly referred to late during the campaign, said 24 million voter registrations were no longer valid or were significantly inaccurate, more than 1.8 million dead people were listed
as voters, and
about 2.8 million people were registered in more than one state.
A British
study found that women with visible tattoos were perceived
as less attractive, heavier drinkers, and more promiscuous than females without any ink — which owes to stereotypes
about women with tattoos.
In the U.S., those who work at companies where the technology is «ahead of the curve» love their work
about twice
as much
as those who work at tech - lagging companies, according to the
study.
Update your partners
about product milestones, such
as awards, high usage rates, or remarkable case
studies.
«We are now talking significantly
about engagement issues from the design perspective,» says Janice Barnes, who
studies organizational behavior in her role
as a principal at the New York City office of architects Perkins + Will.
The
study's authors say the humorous banter prompted important problem - solving behaviours, such
as colleagues asking more questions and talking
about new ideas.
Before I start investing I'd like to thoroughly
study as much
as possible
about investment.»
Much of what we think of
as simple good fortune can be explained if we look hard, so forget
about a lucky horseshoe and
study what «luckier» people do.
As a 2013
study led by Susan Sprecher at Illinois State University suggests, simply sharing details
about your hobbies and your favorite childhood memories can make you seem warmer and more likable.
While Twitter testified before Congress that
about 5 % of its accounts are run by bots, some
studies have shown that number to be
as high
as 15 %.
This is unsurprising, both because executive compensation has become one of the hot topics of the day (or rather, of the post-Occupy era) and because the
study highlights the fact that if you look at the Top 100 Canadian CEOs (in terms of salary), the average Top 100 CEO earns
as much in four hours
as the average Canadian makes in an entire year (i.e.,
about $ 46,000).
A 1998 University of Maryland
study on «student attitudes and beliefs
about university physics and how those attitudes and beliefs change
as a result of physics instruction» found
The
study showed that not only are most Americans excited
about wearable technology, they think it's on the rise, with 60 percent of respondents indicating they think wearable tech will be
as common
as smartphones in just six years.
However,
as a recent
study by ADP Canada has found, many Canadians are still kept up at night worrying
about their retirement.
The
study authors suggest that the prime takeaway is that cutting yourself some slack
about, well, slacking off is good for you (at least if you're tightly wound), or,
as BPS puts it, «the people who could most benefit from the restorative effects of lounge - based downtime... are the least likely to do so.»
A 2013
study ranked Denver
as the best place to work for a small business — not surprising, since
about 97 percent of employers in Colorado are classified
as small businesses.
On average, renters earn
about half
as much
as homeowners, and the percentage of families with children that rent rather than buy has increased sharply in the past decade, the
study said.
He detests vague spin - doctor phrases like «
studies say» and «scientists disagree,» and he refuses to advertise for Tesla, something most startup car companies wouldn't think twice
about — because he sees advertising
as manipulative and dishonest.
Humor That Works at Work Depends on the Type of Humor You Use A
study led by Adam Miklosi found that, yet again, dogs can teach us a little something
about the effectiveness of humor
as a stress - buster.
His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving
as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the
study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books
about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned
about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.
«This
as a case
study for how we think
about antitrust policy,» he said.
The results, which mirror those of similar, small - scale
studies of the illegal drug in recent years, come
as MDMA is
about to enter larger, Phase 3 trials this summer.
In addition, it seems that less graduates had debt in the Class of 2015
as compared to the Class of 2014, which was
about 7 out of 10 graduates, according to multiple
studies.
But just
as clearly, we must also optimize the talents of our existing workforce and that is what this
study is
about.
There are many
studies about risks in forex market such
as volatility risk and leverage risks.
That may come
as a surprise amid hand - wringing
about the spiraling cost of health care, but two new
studies, one from research company IMS Health and one from pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts, show that the amount of...