Sentences with phrase «big business effort»

«There is a broader, big business effort to undermine these values and we can rally around the Co-op's efforts to buy local and organic crops.

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But an even bigger concern, and a much greater exposure for our entire economy, relates to the efforts we're making to upskill our existing workforce — especially the folks in their 40s and 50s — who basically lack the digital smarts needed to be valued contributors to their businesses in the next few years.

They see the efforts of big business to get Congress to reform the tax code and cut corporate income - tax rates as a diversion from the Tea Party's fight to lower personal income - tax rates.

Big - business leaders are fed up with the tactics of conservative Republicans, who instigated a partial closure of the Federal government and engaged in brinksmanship over the debt ceiling in a failed effort to stop the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.

Indiegogo has made a big effort in helping entrepreneurs and new businesses with more than just the funding stage and the platform helps the entrepreneur through the whole lifecycle of their project.

At its best, it's a cash - grab by big ISPs while at its worst it's a concerted effort to stifle online services that compete with other parts of their business, like all that unmetered television we watch.

With some effort up front, business travelers will find rewards that can pay big dividends in the end.

Managing time will always be one of the biggest challenges of being a small business owner, but with a concerted, strategic effort, you can take charge of your schedule and allow your passion and actions to drive business success.

A key benefit of hiring a freelancer is that it frees up time for full - time staff to focus on the big picture and efforts that can move the business to the next level.

Facebook's biggest black eye right now is its unpopular Internet connectivity efforts in India, and that's not even directly related to the business.

The effort «represents the biggest investment we have made in the brand since its launch in 2005,» Stuart Kronauge, Coca - Cola's U.S. business president and senior - VP marketing for North America, said in a blog post.

Some more details are coming through on Facebook at Work, the social network's big effort to move into enterprise communication services with a business version of its popular platform.

But while the Ghomeshi affair revealed the craven efforts of CBCâ $ ™ s management to protect one of their stars in the facing of numerous allegations of assaulting women, the Lang affair speaks to the issue of how the CBC has, in effect, increasingly become a mouthpiece for big business and neo-conservative ideologues.

-- The war on organized labor to reverse new deal protections continues to benefit from the 1947 Taft - Hartley act which can stymie efforts to effectively combat the power of big business.

Being an ESOP, we feel these efforts have a tremendous advantage over businesses that are conventionally owned, In short, our employee owners are used to thinking of the big picture.

After the financial crisis, the Wall Street firm overhauled its business practices in an effort to avoid big reputational as well as financial risks.

There will also be a parallel call for benefits, professional development, and compensation that smooths out the rough patches in this on - demand labor life, but such efforts will lag behind the exploitation of said labor because big business has more resources and big tech moves too fast for human - scale responses of accountability and responsibility.

Another way to participate in Small Business Saturday is to take part in it with a group of local businesses and make an even bigger effort.

If you are willing to take that big step from working for someone else, and start bringing in an income that will surpass your current salary for less time and effort, you should look into becoming a business loan broker or commercial finance broker today.

Meanwhile, bigger businesses with deeper pockets also re-allocate resources towards lobbying efforts in hopes of gaining favored regulatory treatment and / or using regulations to limit competition.

Many such big names are building or leasing massive super-regional centers that stock a wide variety of products in close proximity to customers or stores in an effort to compete with the likes of Amazon, said Ravi Srinivasan, assistant professor of information systems and operations management at Loyola University Maryland's Sellinger School of Business & Management.

That's why big business groups like the US Chamber of Commerce are ramping up their lobbying effort against the US negotiators» latest demands.

- Find the «right» partners for an early - stage company - Formulate deals with little to no previous experience - Focus on mutual benefits, rather than just your own goals - Prioritize among various business development opportunities - Focus your sales effort — targeted or big net - Generate pipeline - Manage your sales team and not get surprised - Target / interview salespeople - Measure and pace your investment in sales

This issue becomes vividly evident in the contest between «big business» and «organized labor,» and the effort of both to secure government backing for their interests.

Mr Cassidy: «We do spend a reasonable amount of our time and effort in trying to explain it all to parties generally, be they big businesses, small businesses or consumers.

The No. 8 Marquette Golden Eagles took care of business Saturday afternoon in the Big East regular season finale against the No. 11 Georgetown Hoyas, winning in decisive fashion, 83 - 69, behind a herculean effort from forward Jae Crowder, who punished the Georgetown front line with 26 points, 14 rebounds and five steals.

The school district's efforts to buy better quality ingredients from local businesses fit in well with the city of Austin's Good Food Purchasing program, an initiative to harness the buying power of big institutions to benefit the local economy and support the city's sustainability goals.

The Business Council of New York State's agenda for 2016 also calls for big investments in roads, bridges and other infrastructure and stronger workforce development efforts.

The effort on part of employers» and big business is yet another example of the race to the bottom mentality and how to vilify public employees rather than address the real problems that our local communities face.

It could be a big push in DiNapoli's effort to get major companies that do business with the fund to adopt anti-discrimination measures in providing benefits for gay couples.

«There are many active efforts to combat obesity, but our culture at large is in the business of propagating it for profit, from big food to big media to big pharma.

but I made a big effort to take days where I did nothing but work on my blog and business.

«Our business case is still sitting with our head office and they're very supportive of our efforts to try and drive an engine choice in the bigger models for us.

And some of the big agencies have turned to getting ownership in a writer's work they represent in an effort to stay in the business.

But this effort is running into the merciless force field of big business, which is electrified by the need for profit.

Of course, if you do seek a traditional book contract with a major publisher, you'll learn there are bars to entry, and you'll have to make some business trade - offs — but most publishing pros think the Big Five route is worth the effort if you have what it takes to get there.

Quantitative Easing (QE) raised the price and lowered the yields on intermediate and long term bonds in an effort to spur business investment and encourage consumer spending on big ticket items.

I've seen some token efforts but nothing that can stand up to the power of big business who does not want the return change.

Through the marketing efforts, all businesses (big and small) hope that a promotion or deal can change how you value their offering.

The North Kohala coast's Hawaii Island Retreat in Hawi was one of 13 businesses in Hawaii, and the only one on the Big Island, recently recognized with a 2014 Hawaii Green Business Award for «outstanding and innovative clean energy efforts.»

So if you thought, for example, about a very revved up, intensive effort to work on the electrification of the vehicle fleet and the production of electric cars in the United States, it could be a very good thing for our auto business, for creating jobs, for manufacturing in Ohio and Michigan, for example — all things that could be quite appealing in many ways and could also have a big impact on greenhouse gases, even though it's not kind of presented as that — as the — that's not — it's not framed in that sense.

It would be natural to think that these efforts can't be all that significant, compared, say, to lobbying by «big business» that seems to upset the Democratic Party.

The neoliberal agenda is putting profit before people, big fossil fuel businesses are having overbearing power over politicians, pushing private greed over public interest, and undermining the fundamental principles of democracy with their aggressive lobbying efforts.

Now, in efforts to compromise and to cut big business a break in a tough economy, it's reportedly been cut to as low as 12 %.

Are Walmart's significant efforts to make their product chain more environmentally friendly enough to enable them to be embraced, not just begrudgingly tolerated as the biggest retailer in the world (and therefore a force which has to be acknowledged), by the environmental community, let alone those people working for social justice and local businesses?

And we should fight the efforts of big oil and big agri - business to undermine this emerging industry.

Big businesses try to smear personal injury lawyers as «ambulance chasers» who turn a broken fingernail into a life and death situation in an effort to sue for millions.

However, the overwhelming majority of small businesses believe Congressional failures — partisanship and a lack of effort — are the biggest challenge facing reform, and one - third don't believe tax reform will ever be enacted.»

Starting up your own business is a big undertaking that will require a lot of effort and money so you better be sure it's the right choice.

If you Big Name law firms haven't been paying attention to the efforts of ACC, OnRamp, and others, to transform the method of doing business to something that is modern and effective, you had best be doing so.