Sentences with phrase «at a few of last»

Before we completely submerge ourselves into March; from my daughters favorite breakfast on - the - go, to your favorite look and posts... let's take a look back, at a few of last month's AskSuzanneBell favorites!

Not exact matches

Under the plan, which launched last year, T - Mobile divided its customers into blocks of about 120,000, who are each assigned to a specific group of a few dozen employees at a specific call center.

Most people try to move out of that lane as soon as they can, but a few will cruise past the long line to merge at the last moment.

Or is there something we all can do to wring at least some accomplishment out of these last few weeks of the year?

After threatening to possibly meet North Korea's provocations with «fire and fury» on Tuesday, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told reporters on Wednesday that «Americans should sleep well at night, [and have] have no concerns about this particular rhetoric of the last few days.»

In the last few years, ironically, credit bureaus that handle reports on people refinancing mortgages have become big customers of factors because the banks to which they sell the reports are experts at cash management.

At the moment, he estimates that only 5 percent of his customers order beverages through the app, but it's a number that's been picking up steam over the last few months; if the trend continues, and 5 percent grows to a more substantial slice of the pie, he says he'd push to renegotiate his terms with the company.

That last line is key: «Increased bank reserves held at the Fed don't necessarily translate into more money or cash in circulation, and, indeed, broad measures of the supply of money have not grown especially quickly, on balance, over the past few years.»

When you're early in a startup, a founder or one of the first few people to join, you will at times realize that new information from customers or a smart mentor shows that what you were working on for the last weeks or months is the wrong thing to do.

«This is only a few billion below the figure at a comparable time last year, and above the figures reported for some earlier years (almost 60 % of the full year's refunds are typically received by this point in the year).»

Hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers and economic migrants have reached Italy in the last few years, after rescue at sea when smugglers» boats founder in the Mediterranean.

Like Twitter and dozens of other companies that have gone public in the last couple of years, GrubHub took advantage of a provision in the JOBS Act of 2012, which lets small companies valued at $ 1 billion or less to file for an initial public offering in private, and just a few weeks before it intends to debut.

«Americans should sleep well at night, have no concerns about this particular rhetoric of the last few days,» Tillerson told reporters on his plane after a stop in Southeast Asia.

If you reach the point where you care about the last few percent, you'll be amazed at the power of the 1/99 rule.

Despite the performance of «Guardians of the Galaxy» last weekend, which opened to US$ 94 million at the North American box - office, there have been few other blockbusters in the third quarter.

The service, which had a few thousand users at the beginning of last year, had close to 800,000 at the beginning of this one.

But in fact, Jeff Wald, co-founder of Work Market and one of the smartest people I've met on this subject, says the freelance share of the workforce has remained stuck at about 34 % for the last few years, and is likely to stay there for the indefinite future.

The reviews go back a few years, but there were more than from the last week at the time of writing, which indicates the product is rather popular.

Jurrien Timmer: Yeah, the way that I look at the world, you know, the market cycle has different phases and where we have been for the last few years has really been the Goldilocks, sort of mid-cycle phase.

In essence, at a bifurcation in history, civilizations could be capped at a few thousand years or, alternatively, last for hundreds of thousands — or even millions — of years.

Few people even used the term «social media» at this point, and it wasn't clear whether any of these new social networks would last.

The confrontation that followed lasted just a few minutes, but it was long enough to spark a class - action lawsuit, a criminal investigation spanning at least three states and a major regulatory crackdown in the U.S.. Now, for the first time, Canadian officials have confirmed they too are investigating the issues at the heart of the dispute.

«We, at GM, have had the view for a little while that the world of mobility is going change in the next few years more than it has changed in the last 50 years,» GM president Dan Ammann told Fortune.

After sinking his teeth into a mouthwatering Lockhart Legend at Grub Burger Bar (complete with beer - battered onion rings), Smith relives those first few years of rejection, slow growth and at last a breakthrough!

«It used to be that Silicon Valley had the attitude that Washington was inconvenient,» Vivek Wadhwa, an entrepreneur and researcher of public policy at Stanford Law School, says, but over the last few years Silicon Valley has reached a turning point, and that perspective has changed drastically.

There's this pressure to determine the infamous ROI of social, and yet when you look at other major marketing channels over the last few decades that we've used — billboards in the sky, ads in newspapers, even commercials on television — those extensions of campaigns are traditionally measured in eyeballs or ears.

«The value of the Canadian dollar went up too much, too fast over the last few weeks,» Luc Vallée, chief strategist at Laurentian Bank Securities, said on July 17, when the exchange rate was around 78 U.S. cents.

The exact share exchange ratio will be determined by looking at the volume - weighted average stock price of the companies over the last few months, one of the sources added.

U.S. public pension funds were facing shortfalls of nearly $ 4 trillion at last count, as fewer millennials contribute and more boomers draw benefits.

It's not too hard to understand why workers might like this plan; it offers them the ultimate flexibility: Instead of running out or cramming vacations into the last few weeks of the year, vacation days can be taken at any time.

EdX, one of the few non-profit MOOC providers, launched a pilot program at San Jose State University last fall for students in the Introduction to Circuits Analysis class.

Over the last several years, consumers worldwide have fallen victim to waiting too long to pre-order new Apple hardware, leaving them with two options: wait a few more weeks until it reaches their homes or stand in line on launch day in hopes of getting one at an Apple store, third - party retailer, or carrier.

The club Lee and her peers belong to is a small one: fewer than 6 % of all decision - markers at U.S. venture capital firms were women last year, according to a Fortune analysis.

«I've been spending a fair amount of time in the last few weeks just looking at this and saying, as a small company, how can we hedge more effectively?

At first the shutdown was to last only a few days, but a few days stretched into an unprecedented six weeks at a cost to the company of approximately US$ 171 millioAt first the shutdown was to last only a few days, but a few days stretched into an unprecedented six weeks at a cost to the company of approximately US$ 171 millioat a cost to the company of approximately US$ 171 million.

Over the last few days, I've been digging through all of iOS 11's features, looking at how they work, and wondering what will happen if I use them in different ways.

«The first few minutes at the office can be the most stressful because there's a level of anxiety about what you may face: a sudden onslaught of urgent emails, last minute crises or meetings, a call to stop by the boss's office, a cranky co-worker, and so on.

Last week, Ford spent a few hours at City Hall signing limited edition bobblehead figures of himself, the proceeds of which went to United Way.

A 2009 study found that 66 percent of employees do not max out their allowed vacation days, and today, fewer Americans are taking vacation than at any point in the last four decades.

Last year, sites all over the web included the standard hero image: a high - definition (HD) picture featured prominently at the top of a website that stretched the entire width of a user's browser window with only a few words of text overlaying it.

Given that Donald Trump «wrote» the best - selling «business» book of «all time,» it's surprising that Hillary Clinton in the last few weeks has proven to be the better dealmaker in at least one case: how they have dealt with their main political rivals.

Over the last few years, many people have been alarmed at the job - destroying implications of automation.

While Black Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing film, which features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the movie.

«While everyone is focused on valuation and bubbles (to some degree rightfully so), the fact remains that the last few years have been supported by a low level of net equity issuance that has, all else equal, supported prices,» says Dan Greenhaus, chief global strategist at BTIG.

The move comes as Dorsey works to rebuild employee morale at Twitter after a series of high - level departures over the last few months.

We talked for a few minutes about William's childhood (he dropped out of high school in Amsterdam at 15 to become a DJ), his past work experience (he was a party planner for years), and how he had heard about us (he attended Hustle Con last year).

There is suffering on the last few miles of a marathon, but the sense of accomplishment at the finish line makes it all worthwhile.

More than 25 CEOs have stepped into the top spot at a Fortune 500 company so far this year, plenty of them within the last few months.

Even in just the last few years, the number of hours the average American spends looking at digital screens has increased dramatically.

There are a few interesting companies I've been looking at in the last couple of weeks who have taken old industries and ramped up their functionality rather than change the business model altogether.