Sentences with phrase «back a lot for»

Area B includes street parking on Mollie and the back lot for the San Diego Humane Society.

Hollywood has been using Kaua`i as a back lot for feature movies since 1933, when the film WHITE HEAT, directed by Lois Weber, was shot on the island.

Not exact matches

«Lots of people have been waiting for this one to pull back to safer levels from much higher levels [where] it was, and that's exactly what's occurred over the last couple weeks,» he said.

If the back - up you are looking for doesn't need to be physically close at hand, you have a whole lot more options to choose from.

Everyone knows that Travis is not coming back; still, Benchmark said a lot of nasty things about TK and is now sitting back and watching other people try to convince them that the best thing to do «for all concerned» would be to sell out.

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

Going back to your resumé for a second, a lot of people don't know that you composed TV theme songs too.

We have a lot of people that bought one not really believing they could get a quality camera for $ 20 and then came back and bought more.

I looked at a lot of data sources for this article and used Cambridge Associates because their data was robust, first - party, went back two decades, and included specific return thresholds.

Back then, I was listening to a lot of amazing Gary Vaynerchuk podcasts, whose message is to stop feeling sorry for yourself, and push and hustle until you make it.

«If you went back 25 years and explained the idea for adding an artistic flair to a bunch of street performers, if you took that to Dragon's Den, you'd get a lot of eye rolls and people saying «no way,»» says Matt Thompson, «And look what they've done with it.

For another, a lot of other firms that had scaled back their hiring plans, from the major consulting shops to smaller boutiques, are expanding their entry pools.

I walked back to the rental car lot and waited - somewhat patiently - for the shuttle.

But anyway, so we talked a lot about whales and we said, «When you go whale watching and a whale breaches, a whale jumps up above the water, everybody oohs and aahs and takes pictures of it and talks about «Oh, look at the whale,» and then the whale goes back under water for like 45 minutes, and it's the most boring thing in the world.

Even though companies like IBM are bringing people back into the office, lots of companies are still looking for people who prefer to commute down the stairs rather than down the interstate.

That means the disc can be small, light enough for its sticky back to adhere to a lot of surfaces, and be powered by a watch - type battery that lasts up to two years without recharging.

That's a lot of processing power required to save the tweets when it is only for future generations to be able to look back and see what you had for lunch.

«It stands to reason the eight schools in the official Ivy League account for 10.7 percent of total capital raised and 7 percent of companies - talking undergrad numbers here - to get at least a first round of venture financing, as pedigree accounts for a lot when it comes to backing a first - time entrepreneur,» he wrote.

Dream Dinners was the perfect solution for us because it allowed us to have an income that allowed us to give back, flexible hours and a lot of community involvement that is vital when giving back.

Lyne: I was actively rebelling against them for a period, but it was also that I just didn't want the life that I saw a lot of people back in my neighborhood leading.

«Lots of folks get cold feet when it comes to taking that needed three - day weekend,» Baer writes before offering common excuses we give ourselves for not taking the time we need to maintain our mental balance — such as fears it will hold back our careers or misguided notions that those with a bit of scheduling flexibility (aka freelancers and entrepreneurs) don't need to take time to themselves in the same way regular employees do.

I think that if Democrats would come out for that, then you would see a lot of rural areas that went for Trump where there's little pickup trucks going to the polls, with guys who have beards and they have ponytails and they have a gun rack in the back, and they would be voting for recreational marijuana because they know it makes sense too.

There was a lot of precedent for actors directing back in early years.

He sold a lot of it back to businessman Kirk Kerkorian a few months later for a fraction what Turner paid.

That's not at all a concern for me since I can't remember the last time I've gone back to play a game from a previous generation, but it is going to make a lot of people frothing mad, which is ironic given that these are the same people who have actually held on to older games and not traded them in.

Speaking following the weekly Liberal caucus meeting today, Carr said he has a lot of confidence that the pipeline expansion his government backs is good for the economy and the future of Canada.

Typically rental companies fasten barcode stickers or identifying decals to windows, maybe both front and back, or maybe on the plate, to provide for entry in and out of parking lots and various scans of the car's status.

If both sides, through their eyes and their people's eyes, have concluded that the plaintiff is absolutely going to win this case, and the plaintiff is going to get a lot of money because they're totally on board with everything that has been presented, then that might be a good reason for the defendant to agree to a settlement with the plaintiff for less money than the potential exposure if the jury comes back and finds willful infringement.

«A lot of entrepreneurs don't think about that during the start - up phase, but I was convinced that we needed to plan for the back end of the investment up front.»

He has lots of hard evidence to back it up, too: if you measure prosperity in terms of gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, not only has Canada been lagging the States for years, but lately that «prosperity gap» has grown bigger — reaching about $ 8,900 as of 2010.

If you think that people would judge you for trying something new or that if you created a tribe you'd be surrounded by a lot of bitching — if you let fear hold you back, you will never be able to truly disrupt things and create something better.

Looking back, Cyril has her own recommendations for MBA triple jumpers: «We, in general, have to work harder because there is a lot more to prove,» she says.

That means a lot less «back up» in the physical mail box and a much better chance for your sales piece to get read.

Women who rode a lot on saddles made for men, she adds, could find themselves suffering from a range of health problems, such as lower back pain and bladder disorders.

Dear Mark, i do believe in entrepreneurs as i am one of them.I curently operate a dental laboratory in California, that needs funding.I am in the procces of attracting business from dentists i work with through direct mail and telemarketing.I'm setting up a small offshore office to do the marketing part since the overhead is to expensive here.But the manufacturing of the finished products will be done in the USA creating jobs through production.A lot of manufacturing work is done offshore but through line production i'd like to keep the most in here.As an immigrant to this country i'd like to suport it to get back in shape financialy for the future of my childrens.I am also copying an idea i have seen at a large company i used to work.I'm in the process of setting up 2 other companies that will compete with my existing one but since they will be providing same products at different prices will atract different type of clients (dentists).

The company, which had been around since 1872, started to step away from legal books and began using the internet to publish their legal materials online in the mid-1990s, eventually selling the company for over $ 3 billion (back when a billion was a lot of money).

Which all goes back to my point — since companies change in a lot of unpredictable ways, it makes more sense for passive income to just ride the market by investing in a Total Domestic Stock Market, Total Bond Market, and Total International index funds, with allocations that depend on your goals and time horizon.

It's not a bad start, but a lot of stuff will need to be rolled back for the bill to pass.

«It needs to come back down to 1.15 really to create relief for a lot of these companies,» he said.

«A lot of cash sitting idle is now getting back in,» said Tom Wynn, director of research at Spectrem Group, which conducts the Millionaire Survey for CNBC.

«There's a lot of overflow from downtown firms looking for back - office space at more affordable rents,» he says.

Capital One Spark Cash for Business According to Cardhub, this card offers significant cash back records — perfect for small business owners who expect to ring up a lot of high ticket items.

But when I took a step back, I realized that I was working a lot for very little income whereas other things I love doing brought in much more money.

«We look for a lot of qualities but the two most important are: 1) integrity — without integrity, it doesn't matter how otherwise talented you may be; you won't fit on our sales team, and 2) resiliency — the ability to stick with it even when things get tough; and the fortitude to come back tomorrow to start all over again.»

He's also likely giving lots of public talks, so maybe his biweekly columns have had to be put on the back - burner for who knows how long?

Suzan and I were married in Costa Rica in 1997, and we've gone back there nearly every year since, so we know first - hand a lot of the reasons for Costa Rica's top rank in both the International Living and Happy Planet indexes.

We've lived in the States for 2 years a while back and while 1k in Romania goes a lot further than in US the gap is closing mostly because of the Euro.

It was great for Nexen shareholders, but CNOOC received a lot of negative sentiment from Canadians because it's a State Owned Enterprise, which gives it an unfair market advantage over other energy companies because it's financially and politically backed by one of the richest countries in the world.

One is a world in which our economic problems are largely solved, profits are on the mend, and things will soon be back to normal, except for a lot of unemployed people whose fate is, let's face it, of no concern to Wall Street.

«There are a lot of very fine financial advisors out there, but there [are] also financial advisors who receive back - door payments or hidden fees for steering people into bad retirement investments that have high fees and low returns,» Obama said in his push for a uniform fiduciary rule.