Sentences with phrase «best at billing»

Many lawyers I know are not the best at billing and collecting their invoices.

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Bill Gates has a habit of reading for at least one hour each night, so he makes his way through a good number of books.

Since then, the film argues, a variety of measures — from Jim Crow laws to President Richard Nixon's «war on drugs» and President Bill Clinton's «three - strikes - you're - out» legislation — have served to send increasingly large numbers of black men in prison, and several legal scholars and activists interviewed on camera suggest a profit motive at work, as well as racism.

When Fox Sports recently ranked the best and worst front offices in football from No. 1 to No. 32, the Buffalo Bills came in near the bottom of the heap at No. 29.

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.

The report from Nested, a UK startup that helps people sell their house, looks at the cost of renting — per square foot — in 72 cities worldwide, as well as what salary is required to foot the rental bill.

CNBC's Bob Pisani and Bill Griffeth look at the day's market action, including oil up 2 % and tech stocks doing well.

«Small business owners are seeing the number of alternative sources for financing their companies grow at an unprecedented rate, and while this is a good thing in terms of increasing access to capital, borrower protections have not caught up,» Mills said last month while introducing the borrowers rights bill in Washington.

«The proposition that held from the 1950s until recently is that as businesses did well, so would workers,» says Robert Shapiro, a senior policy scholar at Georgetown's Center for Business and Public Policy and former economic adviser to President Bill Clinton.

The bill's main objective — capping future government spending on healthcare at rates that won't gobble up a bigger and bigger share of national income, as well as leaving more resources for investment and entrepreneurship — is exactly what government needs to do.

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.

Well, if you have the cash, you may find hiring a swanky DJ to accompany that all - inclusive buffet dinner party for you, your employees and their significant others at a local hotel not only doable, but good for your tax bill.

«It's pretty good when a production manager at a sales - driven company can win,» notes sales director Bill Litsinger.

Big companies are really good at managing cash flow, which means that you need to be really good at managing yours as well, because they often take anywhere from 30 to 90 days to pay bills.

With mounting energy bills eating into everyone's income and increasing the cost of doing business at home, it's a good time to look into ways to economize your home business.

Apple, Microsoft and Alphabet are best positioned to take advantage of the Republican - backed tax bill, as they're sitting on overseas cash and marketable securities totaling more than $ 500 billion, which can be repatriated at a lower tax rate.

It seems like a trivial distinction between plans that are so similar (and similar as well to the proposals put forward by Sen. John Edwards and New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson) that without the obligatory «Paid for by» ¦» at the bottom of the fact sheet you'd be hard - pressed to say which campaign issued which proposal.

Though See's doesn't officially give public tours of its plants, well - known fans like Cher — who worked at See's before she achieved fame — have come by, and Buffett once brought Bill Gates for a tour.

Fred Vettese and Bill Morneau found in their book The Real Retirement that among recent middle - income retirees the «problem group» who have to tighten their belts substantially is estimated at 7 % of households, whereas 60 % find themselves better off in retirement.

Here's a look at the bills and what needs to happen to consolidate the best ideas into sensible and substantive patent reform:

Bill Stepien, the White House's political director, said relations between the party and the president are as good now as they were in the mid-2000s, when he worked at the RNC while George W. Bush was president.

Feloni: Well, just a few years ago, former President Bill Clinton introduced you at a Clinton Foundation event.

The Georgia tax bill is not the first move by state lawmakers that won't play well at Amazon.

But the cost structure of the business is so much better than when Bill Gates tried it,» said Paul Gallant, analyst at Guggenheim Partners, an investment firm.

Indeed, two of the world's richest men, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, co-founded The Giving Pledge, an organization that encourages the exceptionally well - off to donate at least half of their wealth.

«This is just a bit of a pullback because we've had a good run over the last few days, and there has been some nervousness that the Greece situation may not get resolved soon,» said Bill Schultz, who oversees $ 1.2 billion as chief investment officer at McQueen, Ball & Associates Inc. in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

The best and most reliable stock breakouts are usually preceded by a tightening of price action for at least several days before breaking out of their bases of consolidation, and the price action of $ BITA fit the bill.

The bill's proponents say it is an example of bipartisanship at its best.

When opportunities like this present themselves, you need a source of income outside of the stock market to generate cash for you to take advantage of the situation, as well as insulate you from the painful possibility of having to surrender your stock certificates at a fraction of their true worth just to pay the electric bill.

There is only a «New Normal» economy at best and a global recession at worst to look forward to, PIMCO Chairman Bill Gross writes in his monthly commentary for October.

Rod Canion, Jim Harris, and Bill Murto had all been senior managers at Texas Instruments, and they had a well - formulated plan to take on IBM with a technologically superior product.

Republicans argue that 2018 is a better year to look at than 2027, as they argue that, despite writing the bill so that individual cuts expire, they hope to make them permanent in the future.

At that point you'll wish they were better capitalized and had better failure planning, which is exactly what this bill rolls back.»

Bill Jelen, Excel MVP, founder of MrExcel.com and best - selling author, will help you get to the next level in Excel proficiency by pinpointing a certain task (e.g. formulas, functions, pivot tables, or programming) and delivering specific information to help master the subset at hand.

The borrowers would benefit from Lending Club's lower rates compared to the high interest and fees they were paying to banks on their credit card bills; at the same time, investors would earn better interest rates than on CDs from a bank.

The bill looks tenuous at best, beset by criticism from moderate and conservative Republicans alike, but Trump promised a happy ending.

My column this week on the positive aspects of the CRTC's usage based billing decision has generated some sharp disagreement, with some arguing that the pricing set by the Commission is faulty and virtually guaranteed to increase consumer prices (Search Engine covers the issue and arrives at the same conclusion, Peter Nowak does as well).

Check Your Withholding: The government estimates that most taxpayers will see a drop in their tax bill when 2019 rolls around, but because the new law has many twists and turns (especially for those who live in high property and income tax states), your best bet is to assume that your tax liability will be at least the same as this year.

He serves as the executive chairman of Better Finance / SmartBiz, a small business lending marketplace he founded as an entrepreneur - in - residence at Venrock; the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's nominated director of bKash, Bangladesh's leading remittance network; and a director of River City Bank in Sacramento.

Rieder: It was one thing when they were issuing Treasury bills at zero for years, like it's not that, and now, well, gosh, I can get bills at close to 2 % or maybe even a bit behind that.

Elsewhere in asset management, Bill Gross's successors at Pimco are doing better than he is.

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For example, Bill and Melinda Gates — and a consortium of other well - known investors — recently launched the $ 2 billion green energy Breakthrough Energy Ventures fund, whose goal is to invest in technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least half a gigaton.

Another good example of this rare persistence in adverse situation was Bill Ackman who at the same battled mortgage guarantee company MBIA on their role within suprime mortgage business.

The 3 - month Treasury Bill rate reaches its height at the time as well, corresponding with a low and negative yield curve, but this height has varied.

A good example is the performance of health care stocks at the beginning of Bill Clinton's first term.

I know some dividend bloggers are a little worried about HCP at current levels because of some some tenant occupancy issues they are facing as well as a DOJ investigation into questionable billing practices.

This change of behaviour needs to occur at the banks that issue the bank bills, as well as those that buy them including the investment funds and state treasury corporations.

It is notable that the 3 - month Treasury bill yield dropped to 0.11 % from 0.15 %, which is actually a good sign in the sense that it will facilitate the willingness to hold the additional base money the Federal Reserve has created in recent weeks without immediate inflation pressures, though it clearly comes at the expense of individuals on fixed incomes who rely on interest on certificates of deposit and the like.

Best place to find Warren Buffett is during the official Berkshire related events, beginning Friday night at Borsheims, Saturday at the annual meeting and Nebraska Furniture Mart's BBQ dinner and Sunday playing bridge (often with Bill Gates) at Borsheims.