Sentences with phrase «around us changing at»

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The new regime at the money - losing retailer, backed by a hedge fund, may have had more in mind than just changing the optics around a brand best known for its sexually provocative — some would say sleazy — advertising.

All of this hints at the sweeping way blockchain technology could change how goods move around the world.

«I think Apple looks at it and say this could potentially change the paradigm around content delivery,» Arcuri says.

Even as Apple got people used to the idea of having a supercomputer in their pocket, it significantly changed how businesses interact with consumers around the world, says Brian Blau, research director for consumer technology and markets at research firm Gartner.

Mark Ledwidge, a senior lecturer at Canterbury Christ Church University, agreed that many individuals got swept up in the Obama craze and that this hope for change created «expectations around Barack Obama» that «were highly problematic.»

Not only do credit cards have fraud protections in place in the event of theft, but they also offer some of the best currency exchange rates around — much better than you'd get changing bills at a bank or exchange kiosk.

So far Coady's work at Enbridge has been about conducting outreach around specific areas such as water stewardship and updating climate change policies.

In the past few years, a new technological ecosystem built around Google's dominance in Web search and its decision to offer powerful software tools at no charge, has changed the economics of doing business on the internet.

A U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) report said the Japanese policy change could create a market opportunity for U.S. ethanol producers of 366 million liters, valued at around $ 170 million.

Bank of Japan governor Haruhiko Kuroda said he is in regular talks with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe about opening Japan to more immigration and other politically sensitive changes needed to improve potential growth, currently estimated at only around one percent annually.

«The next thing you know, you have this company built around all of those decisions and you're successful and you have real money, but then it takes a huge revolution to make change,» says Poon Tip, who was at a loss for how to manage the company that had grown beyond his original vision.

«Google made a change today at around 3 pm.

«The people who are at the vanguard of the investment community in and around San Francisco are starting to come to grips with the fact that there's a gaping hole in the strategy that investors are using today, and are now looking at things that are disruptively world - changing, fundamental technologies that will take five to 15 years to develop and are extremely capital intensive,» he says.

At a moment when the world's fourth - largest pharmaceutical company by sales (Pfizer) is eagerly courting the world's ninth - largest (the very same AstraZeneca from which Bristol decoupled)-- offering, in late May, a monumental dowry of around $ 120 billion — one can be forgiven for not noticing the more substantive change that's sweeping the pharmaceutical industry: Big Pharma is getting smaller.

In 2011, at the age of 22, not long after creating a literally powerful, game - changing ball — and while juggling a full course load at Harvard University — Matthews went all in and singlehandedly launched Uncharted Play, her inaugural social enterprise, around the unique toy.

On one morning late this spring, dozens of inmates at Solano State Prison in Northern California scurried around the penitentiary's gym, ready for a life - changing day.

Great leaders are good at adapting to the environment around them, and are good at making changes when they're needed.

«But at least I want to understand your thinking why this problem is the right problem and the way to solve the problem in the market and your flexibility to move things around as the market demand changes and ultimately converges between the product and the market fit.»

When we talked to Farhan Siddiqi a few months ago, he noted that trouble with making big changes at places like McDonald's — restaurants that serve unaccountably large numbers of consumers worldwide daily — is a bit like trying to turn a battleship around.

By Kaz Janowski, editor at SciDev.net I have become aware of a growing weariness with the pessimistic narratives around climate change, migration and other global environmental issues and events.

As Matt Sweetwood eloquently concluded, «If there is one thing I learned from my parents» experience in constantly having to reinvent their store and dramatically revise their business model, it's the transformational concept that the time to reinvent yourself is when you're at the peak, not when the world has changed around you and you're desperately scraping to survive.

Most recently, Mark pioneered the design of the Employee Experience at Airbnb, which was recognized as the # 1 Place to Work in 2016 by Glassdoor, and which has since inspired significant changes in the way organizations around the world are looking to expand the HR function to focus on the entire employee journey.

«Our expectation is for pockets of volatility on an idiosyncratic basis around these events, rather than a wholesale sea change of volatility,» said Ben Robins, portfolio specialist at T. Rowe Price.

At all - hands meetings, Uber would usually start by highlighting the change in ride volume for different markets around the world.

«Human - induced climate change likely increased Harvey's total rainfall around Houston by at least 19 percent, with a best estimate of 37 percent,» Michael Wehner, a co-author on an attribution study recently published in Geophysical Research Letters, said at the American Geophysical Union conference in December.

As crowdfunding accelerates at an unprecedented rate, it's impacting government policy, informing enterprise innovation and changing the role of financial institutions around the world.

A U.S. Department of Agriculture report said the Japanese policy change could create a market opportunity for U.S. ethanol producers of 366 million liters, valued at around $ 170 million.

The number one digital currency's spot price was little changed at around $ 9,100 on Tuesday, while futures, which have ended lower for five consecutive sessions, according to FactSet data, appeared ready to book modest gains.

«Cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology pose a dramatic change to the existing regulatory landscape; they have the potential to reform the global financial system around peer - to - peer transactions, without traditional financial intermediation,» Neha Narula, Director of the Digital Currency Initiative at the MIT Media Lab, said.

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We must remember that Saudi Arabia breakeven price is around $ 5... And we could easily go at breakeven, this change in correlation with $ is another sign of weakness.

There can be changes around the edges, or changes at the core, but I expect with certainty that there will be uncertainty for a while.

The Wage Cost Index continues to record wages growth at an annual rate of around 3 1/4 per cent, and there has been little change in the wage increases being negotiated under enterprise bargaining, which continue to yield average annualised increases in the 3 1/2 to 4 per cent range.

In the chart above, you'll notice how the size of the monthly payments stays the same over time (at around $ 1,400), even though the interest - versus - principal composition changes.

Kevin Grandia, a noted climate - change blogger, observes that this time around, Canada has adopted a passive, do - nothing strategy: before, it had actively blocked attempts at real progress.

Even as Mr. Harper pledged Tuesday to steer clear of radical change, investors and businesses in Canada and around the world are waiting to see how his government handles a number of hot files, now that the Conservatives won't face voters for at least four years.

During her time at KPMG, Jennifer advised some of Australia's major corporations on climate change and sustainability matters, and provided advice to governments around Australia on major reform priorities.

There are several great campaigns starting up around Employment Insurance changes — on Facebook check out: https://www.facebook.com/Scrapthechange and there is a great petition for fixing EI at the Good Jobs for All website: http://goodjobsforall.ca/fix-employment-insurance/

Companies can change their dividend policy at any time; although there is a stigma around such a corporate action.

Today, around 2:15 when the Fed's policy statement is released, and the guy on CNBC at the Fed talks into the mike that sounds like it is a coffee can, many will focus on the change in the Fed funds target rate.

What they're saying and what they argue is that the issue is that the demographics which are changing dramatically... You know the baby boomers aren't buying as much, the Millennial's don't have as much money, at least in the United States, but around the world even in China where we've had a dramatic reduction in the growth in population, we don't have the youth that's coming on in relationship with the accumulation of wealth that the previous generations have had.

The same shortage of assets that so vexes Warren Buffett is putting enormous downward pressure on bank loan yields and even relatively inaccessible assets such as GNMA MSRs, which are changing hands around a 9 % unlevered yield according to our friends at Mountain View.

At times, being an expert can actually be a limitation if it blinds you to the fact that things are changing all around you.

As well, the world economic order is changing around us at lightning speed, driven by the BRIC economies that are aggressively investing and competing to increase their own living standards.

It is Monday morning, 11 am at Hubud, a co-working space completely built of bamboo in Ubud, Bali, which has a raw food café and people walking around with t - shirts emblazoned with the phrase «Work is Changing.»

By letting god in on their issues, feelings, whatever, now they feel like they're not alone in whatever «it» is anymore (of course, I think nothings changed at all, accept their perception of the world around them).

At any rate if you change the magnetic field around someone's temporal lobe it produces religious experiences, so when someone is having an experience, what is causing it?

Whether you're a seasoned host looking for renewed inspiration or a nervous newbie not sure where to begin, these personal stories, practical ideas, and poignant insights will give you the confidence you need to see your home as the most likely location for changing the world around you, one open door at a time.

You don't like Christians having to change their belief system to fit into the current worldview around them; to you it seems like they are trying to please those same people (make them feel comfortable) and at the same time dis - honoring God (changing His word).

Web denizens are a savvy bunch, and memes have a way of evolving around regulations (just look at how the infamous This Is Fine Dog continued to morph to meet the demands of a changing political ecosystem here in the U.S.).