Sentences with phrase «almost kept it for»

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For almost all companies, employees are the engine that drives growth, so you should make sure you keep them happy.

The war secretary kept one print to himself, however — «He did not have the heart to destroy it,» Life magazine reported — and buried it so deep in his files that it was lost to history for almost 90 years.

At a press conference this week, CEO Hisao Tanaka kept his head bowed for almost 30 seconds, an appropriate amount of time to express shame and contrition for overstating profits by $ 1.2 billion and misleading investors since 2008.

Its overflowing storage farms, which can keep the U.S. going for almost five days, fan out across the Oklahoma flatlands like a gigantic checkerboard, and represent the tiny community's reason for being.

Whether people pay $ 500 or $ 300 for their smartphones matters little to the company; the devices are almost loss leaders that keep consumers in its overall ecosystem.

If a subscriber keeps the whole order, he or she gets a 20 % discount, a significant move for a brand that almost never offers deals.

Almost anyone in manufacturing is a producer of hazardous waste and must account for it at each step by keeping careful records: for example, that a hauler picked up x gallons of waste from your factory and that a disposal company received it, and so on.

After congratulating Trump for keeping the government open for «almost one year,» Colin Jost opened the «Weekend Update» segment saying he was excited he could finally Google «Stormy Daniels» on his work computer.

With the almost absurd level of customization you can put on a Facebook ad (age, geography, preferences and more) and the detail with which Facebook can report your results, it's a no - brainer for brands to keep using Facebook and other social media advertising.

In the next column, we'll talk about how to keep almost all of your customers on board for life.

A huge cage, almost shoulder - height, was installed in the corner of the living room to provide plenty of space for the ferrets during the day, and the kitchen had to be child - proofed to keep the animals from getting under the refrigerator or into the dishwasher.

Almost no calls were returned, and those that were produced zero answers to the many questions asked as to what was decided at the three - day meeting, who paid for the meetings, who organized them, and why every attempt was made to keep them secret.

But in our case it was almost the opposite, we didn't mind the money, of course, but what we really wanted was to keep people on our board who had a real passion for the Axiom mission and could share their unique experience building transformational businesses.

They're also less likely to outsource product development, keeping all but almost 6 % for themselves.

To stay so competitive every year in a league that is designed to keep ALL TEAMS in the mix for a shot at the title is almost mind bottling (had to throw in a classic quote there).....

Using daily dividend - adjusted prices for these funds over the period 12/9/08 through 11/4/11 (almost three years), we find that: Keep Reading

While base rates kept at or close to zero for almost seven years and three massive asset - buying programs by the Fed have undoubtedly helped stabilize the US (and world) economy during and after the recession that followed the global financial crisis, the continuation of expansionary monetary policies is now supporting a growing excess of global liquidity that has been distorting the market signals sent by stock and bond prices and thus contributing to the growing volatility seen in recent weeks.

If I can keep this up this would mean an addition of almost $ 40,000 for the entire year.

While Tory stalwarts such as Dave Hancock, Doug Horner, Thomas Lukaszuk, and Doug Griffiths are almost certainly in line to keep a spot at the cabinet table, the retirement and defeat of a number of Tory MLAs and cabinet minister may have opened spots for new faces at the table.

Dugan noted that «Goldman Sachs won almost all auctions for US Treasury bonds from 2007 to about 2011, a remarkable winning streak that came despite safeguards established by the Treasury to keep bidding competitive, sources familiar with the investigation said.»

System - wide increases in demand for liquidity would be handled almost automatically via operations designed to keep the overnight rate at the target.

Because almost every financial action you take is influenced by your credit score — and because it's not uncommon for credit report errors to drag down your score — it's crucial to be aware of your score and do your best to keep it as high as possible.

The gradual starvation of financial heroin coupled with upward trending market interest rates will create headwinds that will need pretty strong earnings reports for equities to keep roaring ahead almost unperturbed like in 2013.

Back in September, Trump released an initial plan that called for eliminating almost all itemized deductions, including state and local tax deductions (SALT), but keeping those for charitable deductions and mortgage interest.

Their names and the money the company keeps spending each year to maintain their standards make it almost impossible for new competitors to enter this market.

 Almost a quarter of that was the auto aid. It was important for preserving jobs, for sure. But does it count as «stimulus,» in the sense of stimulating expenditure? I don't think so. It was more in the realm of a balance sheet transfer that kept an important company going. If the auto aid was «stimulus,» then so too was the much larger line of credit which Ottawa advanced to the banks (they could have tapped $ 200 billion under Mr. Flaherty's EFF mechanism)-- all of which was also repaid. In that case, Ottawa's «stimulus» was more like a quarter - trillion dollars... far outpacing everyone else in the OECD as a share of GDP! Of course that's nonsense. This was just one of many ways that Ottawa inflated the true value of its stimulus effort last year (including counting as «stimulus» the increase in EI payouts that automatically accompanied last year's mass layoffs).

For some businesses, it almost seems that they'll say pretty much anything to get the business and do pretty much nothing to keep it.

like former leader... we too have kept open house and had people live with us long and short term for nearly all our married life... we've had debate, argument, sadness, hilarity... even had someone with a disturbing psychosis... not at one stage have we felt the need to make any rules... that would almost be like copping out of relationship.

It is almost always christians trying to force their beliefs on the rest of us and accuse us of trying to repress their religion when all we want is for you to keep it to yourself and your church.

almost simultaneously, a German scientist was working on the plans for the place to keep it, the «hanger» if you will according to plans & specs also from a completely different part of the bible.

For almost two full seasons, the main characters were striving to make it to the Good Place, but their strivings were rooted in a legalism that kept them in a self - centered mode of thinking: This journey toward goodness is about me and my reward.

It lies close enough to us even though they wish to keep away from any such unfortunate ones and to avoid all sober reminders not alone from the careless judgment of the storyteller's art, but also from the church and from the edifying insight that must certainly know that the Holy Scriptures have almost a predilection for the halt and the lame, the blind and the lepers.

The cause of death was malnutrition and dehydration due to being kept in a semi-starvation state for almost a year while the rites of exorcism were performed.

What is significant for our present discussion is that Sabbath - keeping was so uniform in Israelite life that it became almost the trademark of Jewish faith and practice.

@jf well your information about the New Testament is about as accurate as your Old Testament knowledge, The prophecies of the Old testament concerning Christ could not have been written after the fact because we now have the Dead Sea Scrolls, with an almost complete Old Testament dated 100 - 200 years before the birth of Christ, Your interpretation of God at His worst shows a complete lack of understanding as to what was being communicated.We don't know what the original texts of the New Testament were written in as to date there are no original copies available.Greek was the common language of the day.Most of the gospels were reported written somewhere in the 30 year after Christs resurrection time frame, not the unspecified «long after «you reference and three of the authors knew Jesus personally in His earthly ministry, the other Knew Jesus as his savior and was in the company of many who also knew Jesus.You keep referencing changes, «gazillion «was the word used but you never referenced one change, so it is assumed we are to take your word for it.What may we ask are your credentials?Try reading Job your own self, particularly the section were Job says «My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you.Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes»

As long as there are unspoken conventions that keep members from being friends who can tell one another about life at home and at work, it will be almost impossible for a pastor to convey to them that Christian faith affects all areas of life, all moral and social values.

In America, you hung black Christians from trees for 100 years and today you keep black Christians out of the central economy, so really all this long talk is simply confusing something that's very simple and the hate cited in this article has almost nothing to do with who worships the same God.

It is the spirit of this liberating openness that encourages those of us who are theologians to keep probing ever deeper for the meaning of revelation in terms of our own circumstances almost thirty years later.

In the futuristic Metropolis, (and almost every dystopian future) wealth and privilege are reserved for an upper crust of society, while an enslaved working class allows for excesses and keeps the city running.

In our view, the murders were entirely in keeping with Salvador's ten - year civil war... Those responsible for almost every other instance of egregious abuse against Salvadoran citizens still enjoy absolute immunity.

For a wife to nag her husband to go to AA is an almost foolproof method of keeping him away.

Stricherz does not underscore this point, but I will: The Democrats who ran for president in 2004 and who are running in 2008 have almost all voted to keep even partial - birth abortion legal.

For Caro, the inner hunger of men like Moses and Johnson — who knew how to get power and keep it, even at a very young age — makes them almost inhuman.

He's speaking from the experience of heartache — an ugly secret he kept buried for eight years, dismissing his wife's frequent questions about what was wrong, shoving it all into a sordid place in his heart that he could almost wish away from existence.

It was not a theological, but a racial, issue that split the Methodist Church in 1844 and kept it in sectional units for almost a hundred years, with the breach only partially healed by the formula of union in 1939.

In any case: Subsequent surges by Santorum or Gingrich, which might be, for the sad reason Pete gives, almost inevitable, will be too late to keep Mitt from getting the delegates he needs.

In the Ugaritic tests dew was always associated with the restoration of vitality, and consequently played a part in the Baal myth, for the very good reason that in Palestine the night dew assists in keeping vegetation alive during the almost rainless four months of summer.14 Some also regard the reference to Leviathan, «that twisting sea - serpent» and «monster of the deep», in Isaiah 27:1, as an echo of a Phoenician tradition concerning a demonic monster who guarded the gate of the underworld.

Almost 3,500 people signed a petition to keep the bells ringing, which for the last 238 years, had rung every 15 minutes between 11 pm and 7 am.

I've been going to the gym for the past few months and that has helped me a lot, I can walk normally now and almost do everything easily, and it has also helped with the fatigue that the hypothyroidism causes and also to keep my mind healthier.

One of my favourite things about oats is that they keep you full for hours as they're loaded with fibre and they taste great with almost anything.