Sentences with phrase «as other efforts»

The larger idea behind Amazon's program — as well as its other efforts like the shoppable Instagram clone Spark — is that social media drives sales.

Their successes with student engagement and achievement, as well as other efforts that contributed to school spirit, were communicated through bulletin boards, newsletters, e-mail, and the school website.

This is very informative, & I do agree that book reviews are just as important as any other effort given in building exposure.

Marilyn - I agree spay and neuter education is a key — as well as others efforts... more than I can write in my phone!

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While trafficking routes have changed over time, in recent years narco subs and other vessels leaving southwest Colombia or northwest Ecuador laden with drug cargos often head out in the Pacific, even around the Galapagos Islands, before turning north in an effort to skirt law enforcement closer to home — which may include underwater sensors in Colombian waters — as well as US - led interdiction efforts.

As pipeline politics came to dominate the North American energy debate, uncertainty over TransCanada's Keystone XL project gave new urgency to other efforts to expand Canada's oil market, including Enbridge's Northern Gateway project.

I'm not just talking about Square's losses ($ 154 million in 2014, which the company's on track to match this year), its disastrously expensive deal with Starbucks (which cost it $ 28 million in 2014), or Dorsey's other CEO job at Twitter (which, as the Square prospectus drily notes, «may at times adversely affect his ability to devote time, attention, and effort to Square.»

PICI (pronounced «pie - sea»), as it's called by its member scientists, is doing something unprecedented in academic medicine: combining and coordinating the efforts of six of the top cancer immunology centers in the country — MD Anderson Cancer Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering, Penn Medicine, Stanford, UCLA, and UCSF — in order to greatly expand and, more important, to accelerate our understanding of why some immune - based treatments work miraculously in some patients and not at all in others.

When Trump announced the first round of tariffs on China, it was seen as a declaration of a trade war — a progressive effort by the two nations to damage each other economically, mainly through taxes and trade restrictions.

As for that leverage: you can rest assured that DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has long been funding research efforts to replace the rare - earth metals with other materials.

Wang Kao - cheng, the dean of the Tamkang University College of International Studies in Taiwan, said Mr. Trump's comments on the «One China» policy - and other recent changes to the trilateral relationship among Taiwan, the US, and China - might have triggered Beijing's efforts in São Tomé and Príncipe, as The Taipei Times reported.

Uber Canada's general manager Rob Khazzam said the introduction of the feature follows similar moves made by the company in other countries, as part of an effort to curb driver drowsiness and make the platform safer.

A few have made more of an effort and serve as a paradigm for other Bay Area firms.

But other expenses can grow as well; increasing sales usually requires spending more on marketing, labor and efforts to penetrate markets that aren't as likely to be profitable.

At the time of Centra's crowdfunding effort, the Securities and Exchange Commission and other regulators had not clearly signaled that cryptographic tokens would be regulated as securities, but it has since begun prosecutions on that basis.

While that policy was a matter of necessity as much as principle, there were other places where Flaherty clearly let his convictions guide him: there was his elimination of income trusts; his ongoing fight to create a national securities regulator; and his efforts to rein in the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

The reception centre marked the beginning of a number of other similar initiatives in the region this year, such as helping improve search - and - rescue efforts in the waters around the island.

Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.

Nordstrom and other companies faced pressure as part of an effort by some consumers to avoid businesses with connections to the Trump family.

For example, rivalries — particularly between friends — can be a great boost in areas like personal health and fitness, or other activities that require effort and dedication, such as studying for an exam.

As a side note, this does not signal a larger shift for our other hardware efforts.

Then, if you deliver constructive negative feedback at the right place and time, the other person will receive it in the right spirit: as an effort to help.

The partnership is the latest step in Goldman's effort to grow its investment management business, as new regulations and lower trading volume have pressured profits in other businesses the bank has traditionally relied on for growth.

Moog's technology chief George Small said the aerospace industry, like other highly regulated sectors such as the medical and nuclear power industries, was expending considerable effort on tracking parts across the supply chain to keep up with quality and regulatory demands.

The private, Kirkland, Wash. - based company last week announced a new video game console, operating system and game controller that, other than a pure commercial play, could be interpreted as the PC - focused company's effort to arrest ongoing declines in PC gaming generally.

Most so - called variable expenses are really semi variable expenses that fluctuate from month to month in relation to sales and other factors, such as promotional efforts, change of season, and variations in the prices of supplies and services.

The ongoing effort turned particularly hot this week as Democratic senators moved to block two of his circuit court nominations while two of his other nominees to top courts were grilled during a Capitol Hill hearing.

During a Saturday session at the symposium, such a slump in expectations about inflation and about other aspects of the economy was cited as a central problem complicating central banks» efforts to reach inflation targets and dimming prospects in Japan and Europe.

Its coincident move to support liquidity in China nevertheless can be seen as complementary to the efforts of the other central banks.

To compete, other studios could also merge — giving us essentially a movie version of the NBA's super-team syndrome — or they could amp up efforts to infiltrate streaming, leaving their movie studios as an output for major blockbusters that audiences still want to watch in theaters.

As such, the company's efforts in Canada and other countries have been half - hearted at best.

If so, a whole lot of entrepreneurs might be putting in a ton of work only to see very little return on their investment of time as their various efforts cancel each other out.

One of the first references that popped up after the deal was announced — other than the obvious comparison to the disastrous Time Warner - AOL merger — was to Verizon's recent attempt to create its own tech - news site, a short - lived effort known as SugarString.

Show ambition, put some effort into creativity and focus on developing the next big thing, and your company will emerge as the one that others want to copy.

As part of 3M's continuing effort to improve the alignment of its businesses around markets and customers, the Company made the following changes, effective in the first quarter of 2018, and other revisions impacting business segment reporting:

Conservative in almost every sense of the word, the billionaire Singer, now 73, insists on hedging all his investments to reduce the risk of loss, and prizes «manual efforts» — in other words, old - fashioned elbow grease — as the defining characteristic of his investment style.

«I can generate traffic from other sites for much less effort, but the quality of visitors isn't as high»

Last May, Sears announced it was putting Craftsman, along with other iconic brands like Kenmore and DieHard, as well as its Sears Home Services repair business, up for sale, in an effort to sell off other attractive assets to maintain financial liquidity.

Because Facebook is about connecting people, its computer vision efforts have focused on recognizing faces as opposed to cats, cars, or other non-human subjects.

Lululemon's efforts to heal its relationship with some customers will have to be more blatant, he says, or the company risks losing clientele to other brands such as Under Armour and Nike.

«As we reach for moonshots that will have a big impact in the longer term, it's inevitable that there will be course corrections along the way and that some efforts will be more successful than others,» Porat said.

Westergren set out to license the genome to other sites as a recommendation engine, but after more than a year his efforts resulted only in a meager $ 20,000 development fee from Barnes & Noble.com.

An early effort to bring order to the chaos of the Internet, Yahoo served as a sort of Yellow Pages for the web, with human editors selecting links to news stories and other sites.

It also recently expanded its same - day and one - day delivery efforts as other online retailers race to become more convenient for their customers.

Maximizing support for the efforts of those such as Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research and academic medical research centers is key, especially now because other major pharmaceutical companies could follow Pfizer's decision.

Other areas where Target will redouble its efforts this year in offer gifts under $ 15 meant to serve as easy, affordable gifts customers can get for people outside their closest circle, such as a teacher or a second cousin.

In a turnaround plan Boire unveiled to Wall Street analysts barely two months ago, Barnes & Noble announced initiatives such as opening four concept stores in fiscal 2017 that will feature bars offering wine and beer, along with better food, in cafés twice the size of its usual food spots, among other efforts to rejuvenate its business.

«In an effort to continue his memory, this scholarship is being created to help other students experience the joys of music as well as fund increased security at schools.

Google efforts such as the Calico life - extension effort, self - driving cars and Google Fiber broadband, among others, will each be their own separate operations under one big umbrella:

The company has taken steps to rehabilitate its image, but some of these efforts — such as a puppy delivery service and other stunts — have been so over-the-top as to seem laughably desperate.