Sentences with phrase «as few works»

«Slaughterhouse - Five moved me as few works of fiction ever have,» says Hugh Howey.

Not exact matches

«We often try to power through the day to get more work finished, which might not be as effective as taking some time to detach for a few minutes,» Rupp said in a release.

Not every group is a fit, so I find it works best for me to find a few I really like and get involved in those as a volunteer, board member, etc. - Michelle Garrett, MichelleGarrett.com

In addition to working full - time as a financial analyst, Sall also honed his personal finance knowledge with the help of a few useful books.

That is the biggest strength of the iPad Pro, and a very notable gap Microsoft is likely not going to close anytime soon, as most of the (still very few) apps in the Microsoft Store are designed to work on the primarily desktop - based Windows 10.

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.

But in the last few weeks, as Slack chatter has seeped into our office conversation, more co-workers have joined, and it's starting to have a real and positive impact on the way we work together.

As a product launch date inched closer, it was common for a few teams working on the same project to realize they were unlikely to make the date, but no one spoke up, under the belief that another team was even farther behind.

Just a few days after Simoes's transgression, a man working for Transcontinental taunted a comedian with sexually explicit remarks as she performed at an annual industry awards gala.

«Total compensation is down, part - time workers aren't getting as many hours, and there are fewer hourly employees who are working full time,» said Susan Woodward, the economist who helped to develop the survey.

As Canadian Business columnist and Ivey School of Business economist Mike Moffatt noted last month, a few widely read economists this year have used their associations with various publications to stridently assert that fiscal stimulus won't work.

«Sarah's taking advantage of a unique confluence of events, building the relationships that start - ups today need to grow as fast as they can,» says Kevin Armitage, senior vice-president at FAC / Equities, the investment - banking division of First Albany Corp., which has worked with Gerdes during the past few years.

Work just as hard on a few other things you can someday look back on with a different sense of pride.

A few weeks later, Kris Duggan stepped down from his role as CEO of BetterWorks following a lawsuit that claimed a hostile work environment.

«You can think of a startup as a way to compress your whole working life into a few years.

That shift came as prime - age men contributed a few more minutes of housework, but not enough to offset the gap, suggesting that the tasks like laundry and cleaning are probably being outsourced, while online shopping is more efficient.As they spent less time on chores, women worked and slept more, the data show.

In a state where there are 600,000 citizens and few jobs with big corporations, starting or working in a small company is not so much a choice as a necessity.

A lot of work and development has gone into building on storage technology over the last few years, and as such, they've gotten a lot better.

However, the cumulative work of team brainstorming adds a few new dimensions — such as idea revision and blending, occasionally referred to as «idea sex» — that compensate for the natural disadvantages of solo idea generation.

Because of my own work these past few years with organizations and individuals who are in some form or fashion working to address inequality, I have come to understand that many of the initiatives that are often described as entitlements or preferential treatment are usually neither.

After attending school on a student visa, my dad received an H - 1B visa to work for the University as a post-doc researcher, and a few years later became an American citizen.

Even as millions of Chinese citizens leave the farm and flock to cities looking for work, there are fewer manufacturing jobs in China than there were 20 years ago.

As sectors become better at what they do, they often require fewer people to get the work done.

The conclusion is stark: «There are very few things, that we know of, that have such a clear effect on gender inequality as being raised by a working mother,» McGinn told Working Knoworking mother,» McGinn told Working KnoWorking Knowledge.

Looks like his creative technique helped him land a few gigs too — Hamilton's worked for companies such as Brave and Virgin Media.

Some reaffirmation of the work ethic, sensibly getting more people contributing and fewer taking, could be incentivized and also sold as the survival issue that it is.

In the span of a few months the company announced that it would acquire both AOL and Yahoo as it works to load its formidable network still the most comprehensive and widespread in the U.S. with content in a bid to keep a highly competitive (and highly lucrative) market from turning into a commodity business.

Try and scare them when you interview them by letting them know how few resources — in terms of money and people — as a way to show them that they'll need to be ready to dig in and do the work themselves.

It was interesting when it was new, but now it's largely seen as annoying, particularly for online visitors who may be stealing a few free moments to shop online while at work or in a meeting, and suddenly there's music blaring from their phone.

If we can really streamline things as much as we think we can, most experts are in agreement that we will end up working fewer hours.

I love Mayweather as an extraordinarily gifted athlete, with a work ethic like few people alive have.

However, if an employee would rather work fewer hours and enjoy more time for other projects, that is his choice as well.

Several media reports quoted a statement from Puzder late on Monday as saying he took action as soon as he learned that his housekeeper, whom he and his wife had employed for a few years, was not legally permitted to work in the US.

Over the past few years, businesses have added 14 million jobs as regional economies have rebounded; their workers have gained access to health insurance, and a new flock of startups has brought economy - altering innovations, some of which have changed the nature of work itself.

Very few companies I work with would list innovation as one of their top five strengths.

The president praised him as «one of the few people who actually understand how many of our defense systems work.»

Back when we were building up our record label, Virgin Records, many of us who worked there travelled to the West Indies together and spent our time trying to find up - and - coming reggae bands, as well as sampling a few of the local delicacies.

A few years later I was working a full - time job as a marketing and brand manager at a toy company where I got a lot of product development experience and realized I had gained enough knowledge to give this idea a shot.

Until just a few years ago, a good disaster recovery plan included insuring your company against flood and disruption, backing up your data and storing it in a different location once a week, as well as developing a contingency plan for your employees to work from home, or some other location.

During a conference call to discuss first - quarter results for his hedge fund firm Pershing Square Capital Management, Ackman described an «intensive» process over the past few weeks as he and a handful of his employees have worked with the embattled drugmaker in its search for a new leader.

Very few people want to work in a cubicle farm, and in many industries open floor plans encourage spontaneous brainstorming sessions as well as camaraderie.

As expected, stronger literacy skills lead to post-secondary education and higher wages, but they also lead to a more easily trained and committed work force, as well as fewer workplace accidentAs expected, stronger literacy skills lead to post-secondary education and higher wages, but they also lead to a more easily trained and committed work force, as well as fewer workplace accidentas well as fewer workplace accidentas fewer workplace accidents.

If working groups» tests are successful, firms could be using it to transact real value as early as the end of this year and we could see widespread industry application within the next few years.

However, few would characterize the prospect of those who want to and need to continue working until 70 or longer as a retirement crisis.

Strike Energy's share price has been on a white knuckle ride over the last few weeks as investors desperately try to work out if it is going to be the next large cap gas producer in Australia, or fail whilst daring to create a new technical frontier in the search for coal seam gas riches.

Although many Boomer entrepreneurs report working up to 60 hours a week, few claim to have the same energy as when they were younger.

Within a few years, Southern was regularly writing and producing online content while she worked as an actress on shows like «New Girl,» «Rules of Engagement,» and «The League.»

With fewer workers, contractors are becoming wary of signing new work contracts, especially as many of them include fines for not completing a job by a designated date.

Lloyd Blankfein's path tothe pinnacle of finance nearly rivals for degree of difficulty that of his legendary predecessor Sidney Weinberg, who was one of eleven children of a Brooklyn bootlegger and started working at Goldman Sachs as a gofer shining spittoons, in 1907, a few years removed from elementary school.

In the last few years, diversity has become somewhat of a buzzword, and having a diverse group of people working together is seen as a boon.